Ryan Panchadsaram

Systems innovator

Ryan Panchadsaram is an engineer and investor focused on solving systemic societal challenges.

Why you should listen

At the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins, Ryan Panchadsaram serves as technical advisor to John Doerr, where he invests in founders and technologies that aim to change the world. He and Doerr coauthored Speed & Scale: An Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now and collaborated on the number one bestseller Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs. Under President Obama, Panchadsaram was Deputy Chief Technology Officer of the United States, where he championed entrepreneurship, innovation and open data.

Ryan Panchadsaram’s TED talks

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John Doerr and Ryan Panchadsaram

An action plan for solving the climate crisis

Posted Nov 2021

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Ryan Panchadsaram, Anjali Grover and David Biello

An updated action plan for solving the climate crisis — and a look at progress to date

Posted Apr 2024

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Countdown

Reducing: Notes from Session 4 of Countdown Summit

October 14, 2021

Follow Countdown on Twitter and Instagram • Subscribe to the Countdown newsletter How will we get the 55 gigatons of global greenhouse emissions produced each year down to zero? By rapidly scaling up proven green technologies, finding innovative and brilliant ways to trap carbon and ending destructive practices. In Session 4 of Countdown Summit, 10 […]