Todd Huffman

Todd Huffman is an American technology entrepreneur, transhumanist and photographer. and an M.S. in Computational Biosciences at Arizona State University in 2006. After starting graduate school Huffman left his full-time position at Alcor, but continued to consult for the organization as well as another cryonics company, Suspended Animation, Inc. of the BIL Conference, an "unconference" organized and observed by the participants as an unaffiliated counterpart to TED’s structured, ‘invite-only’ paid conference.

Timothy Leary Archives Huffman has served as a board member for the Timothy Leary Archives.

Humanity+ In January 2009, Huffman was elected to the board of directors of Humanity+, an organization dedicated to the promotion of transhumanism, an ideology that promotes enhance longevity, cognition, physical performance, and well-being of humans through technology.

At the 2012 conference for Humanity+, Huffman gave a presentation on the microscopey technology being developed by his company 3Scan.

Disaster Response Starting in 2007, Huffman has worked with a variety of organizations on technologies for use in response to disasters or in conflict. He was a member of the disaster aid group Synergy Strike Force, a volunteer for the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, and a researcher for DARPA.

Huffman was a regular visitor to Jalalabad, in Afghanistan, where he worked with other technology workers affiliated with an informal group known as the Synergy Strike Force, using technology to help improve the quality of life for Afghan civilians and training them in the use of peaceful technologies such as computers and wireless internet, including the FabFi network. and Haiti after the 2010 earthquake. He coordinated large scale data imports of aerial imagery provided by the US State Department and Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, coordinated licensing updates to existing road databases, and led on-the-ground training sessions for local users to update OpenStreetMap.

Sharon Weinberger, author of a book about DARPA entitled The Imagineers of War, described Huffman influencing DARPA decision-makers on the use of technology in conflict.

IST Research Huffman is cofounder of defense contractor IST Research.

Writing

In 2015, Huffman contributed a passage to disinformation researcher Renée DiResta's book The Hardware Startup on how to secure DARPA grants.

3Scan In 2011, Huffman co-founded 3Scan, a firm that develops new techniques for biomedical imaging.

In January 2015, Forbes magazine interviewed Huffman, asking him to explain the approach to technology his firm was taking.

MobileCoin

In 2017, Huffman joined the cryptocurrency firm MobileCoin as an advisor. In July 2020, the company was announced that Renee DiResta whose book Huffman contributed a passage to would be joining the board of the MobileCoin foundation.