Brian Platz co-founder, co-chairman and co-CEO of Fluree PBC, an open-source platform for data ecosystems. The company is an immutable, temporal, ledger-backed semantic graph database that has a cloud-native architecture. Prior to starting Fluree, Brian co-founded SilkRoad technology, which grew to over 2,000 customers and 500 employees in 12 global offices. Brian serves on the board of directors for Fuel 50, one of the highest growth HR technology startups. He is also the co-founder of A List Apart, a web publication, 22 book series and global conference for the web development community to expand their knowledge.