Mark Johnson, CEO and co-founder of Descartes Labs, is an executive and entrepreneur, who has spent his career transforming complex technologies into valuable products that help to solve some of the world’s most pressing problems. Descartes Labs, spun-out of Los Alamos National Labs, is building a data-refinery on cloud-based supercomputers for the application of machine intelligence to massive data sets. These include complex global systems, such as agriculture and water cycles, critical to understand not only for industry but also for humanity. Previously, Mark served as CEO of the AI-driven news service Zite, which he sold to CNN five months after the company launched. He has spent the past decade working in Machine Learning and Big Data, taking three search startups to successful exits: SideStep (acquired by Kayak for $180M in December 2007), Kosmix (acquired by Walmart in April 2011), and Powerset (acquired by Microsoft in July 2008).  Powerset became Bing after the Microsoft acquisition.