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All Tech is Human

David founded All Tech Is Human in 2018, seeing an immense need to strengthen the nascent Responsible Tech movement and ecosystem to tackle wicked tech & society issues and co-create a tech future aligned with the public interest. The organization has become synonymous with the Responsible Tech movement, uniting thousands of individuals across the globe.

While there were ample organizations focused on building awareness around complex tech & society problems and understanding root causes, David felt there was a strong need to develop a conducive environment for knowledge-sharing and collaboration and build a strong ecosystem that welcomed more perspectives, disciplines, and lived experiences. This has since evolved in All Tech Is Human’s unique grassroots-power model to rapidly distribute power and ideas across an interconnected multistakeholder, multidisciplinary network. Read About it Here

His Work

The three major issues that David saw were:

1. We move too slowly, with the speed of innovation greatly outpacing the slowness of consideration. There is a need for an approach that can move at the speed of tech.

2. We don’t leverage the intelligence from the hundreds of civil society organizations, key researchers, academics, industry, and thousands of individuals from a broad range of backgrounds that have valuable insight and perspectives. There is a need to leverage collective intelligence, not just rely on select thought leaders.

3. We don’t have the right mix of people involved in the process. Complex tech & society issues require a diverse range of participants to understand values, best practices, tensions, and trade-offs. There is a need to greatly diversify the traditional tech pipeline.

David’s work building a large and diverse community of individuals coming together to tackle thorny tech & society issues problems has been covered in the MIT Technology Review, was a chapter in Greg Epstein’s book, Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World’s Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation, and was recently covered by NYU’s Alliance for Public Interest Technology.

David is also an international speaker and regular commentator on increasing ethical considerations regarding emerging technology, improving social media platforms, and the need for a collaborative, multi-stakeholder, and multidisciplinary approach to building a tech future that is aligned with the public interest. His commentary has been featured in The Guardian, TODAY show, BBC World News, MSNBC, Fast Company, Associated Press, LA Times, USA Today, and many more. He has been on stage at Harvard Business School, Yale School of Management, Princeton University, NATO’s Stratcom Summit (Istanbul), TechChill (Latvia), The Next Web (Amsterdam), FutureNow (Slovakia), Infoshare (Poland), and more.

His work with All Tech Is Human is focused on creating a better approach to tackling the thorniest issues in tech and society. This approach involves leveraging the collective intelligence of the community, diversifying the underlying tech pipeline, and being able to move at the speed of tech. Outside of All Tech Is Human, David sits on TikTok’s Content Advisory Council (US) and is also a member of Teleperformance’s Trust & Safety Advisory Council. He appears in the recently-released documentary, TikTok, Boom.

The main throughline throughout David’s work throughout the past decade is that we need a collaborative, multi-stakeholder, and multidisciplinary approach to build a tech future that is aligned with the public interest.

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Contact

Email: David@AllTechIsHuman.org, https://www.davidpolgar.com/contact

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Videos

David Ryan Polgar: Our Tech Future is About Us:

July 31, 2026 (07:20)
By: All Tech Is Human

David. Ryan Polgar (Founder & President, All Tech Is Human) delivers a call for people to co-create a better tech future at All Tech Is Human’s Community Celebration & Responsible Tech Mixer on Monday, July 22, 2024, at Haswell Green’s in New York City.

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Website: https://www.alltechishuman.org

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Substack: https://www.alltechishuman.substack.com

All Tech Is Human is a non-profit committed to strengthening the Responsible Tech ecosystem so we can tackle wicked tech & society issues and co-create a tech future aligned with the public interest. Join our Slack community of over 9,500 members across 93 countries, attend our regular summits & mixers, take part in an open working group or our mentorship program, participate in our Responsible Tech University Network, and read our Responsible Tech Guide, reports, and wide range of resources.

See all of our projects: https://linktr.ee/AllTechIsHuman

Our organization is based in NYC with a global lens and audience. After interacting with thousands of individuals since our founding in 2018, we have centered our work around three key needs: accelerating society’s ability to consider the impacts of technology, growing a multistakeholder network and knowledge hub, and diversifying the traditional tech pipeline with more backgrounds, disciplines, and perspectives.

Together, we work to solve tech and society’s thorniest issues.