James Ehrlich is Director of Compassionate Sustainability at the Stanford University School of Medicine CCARE Institute (Center for Compassion, Altruism Research and Education, under Dr. James R. Doty). Additionally, James is appointed Faculty at Singularity University, Senior Fellow at NASA Ames Research Center, and an OSTP Appointee to a joint taskforce on Regenerative Infrastructure. James is also the Founder of ReGen Villages Holding, B.V. a Stanford University spin-off formed in the EU as a Netherlands impact-for-profit company, using machine learning software to design and operate climate-adaptable and resilient residential infrastructure around the world. Mr. Ehrlich's vision behind ReGen Villages is developing its VillageOS™ software to apply generative design for the integration of clean water, renewable energy micro-grids, high-yield organic food production, and circular nutritional flows at the neighborhood scale. Helping landowners, residential developers, municipal and regional governments fast-track planning of climate/resource resilient housing townships. Mr. Ehrlich has won several awards for sustainable design and is a researcher and global lecturer on the topic of regenerative neighborhood development. He has co-authored two (2) U.N. Sustainable Development Goal Platform Briefs (2015/2018) with Prof. Larry Leifer and Chris Ford, PhD, AIA from the Center for Design Research at Stanford University. James Ehrlich has been featured in the New York Times, BBC, Guardian, Reuters, South China Morning Post, San Francisco Chronicle, World Economic Forum, and countless other major news and media outlets. James is a featured keynote speaker, presenter, panelist, moderator, and workshop leader invited to top conferences, symposia, forums, and universities around the world.