Chris Sumner

IT Director

Chris Sumner

Joining the Institute in 1998 Chris Sumner directs the IFTF's MIS/IT dept. and leads our technology direction and implementation strategies providing new innovative collaboration systems and platforms. Prior to joining IFTF, Mr. Sumner was developing new technology systems for Department of Defense applications and has extensive experience as both a technologist and systems integration consultant. He currently holds several technology certificates in Linux, Cisco, OSX, Microsoft, and is fluent in several programming languages.

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In the News

Research Director Mani Pande is quoted in the Global Finance story "A wide open world"
Marina Gorbis and David Pescovitz are quoted in the Times Online story "Hurtling to a scary future"
Executive Director, Marina Gorbis, is quoted in the AP article "Our devices will spin denser webs of data in 2010s"
Research Director, Anthony Townsend, testifies before a Senate Committee on Research Parks and Transportation
IFTF's Executive Director, Marina Gorbis, launches her new blog From Odessa to the Future
Signtific's FreeSpace game at SigntificLab is featured in a Good Morning Silicon Valley post, "Play your cards right and you, too, can be a futurist"