Chief Communications Officer, onAir Networks

Public Policy for Digital Technology, Internet & Telecommunications, Innovation and Technological Emergence

My goal is to help shape policies and strategies around information technologies that empower people throughout the world. My interests include information and communications technologies, Internet & telecommunications policy, technology innovation policy and technology forecasting. I am also interested in spiritual development, electronic art and music, and video games. Technology can bring both great promise and peril, and I thrive in expanding the former and minimizing the latte

Hello everyone! My name is Matthew Kovacev, and I am Hub Management Director for onAir Networks. I am responsible for moderating, curating, and administering several hubs, including, but not limited to the following hubs:

• • Data Engineering
  • Better Future
  • AI Top Hub
  • AI Policy
  • People’s Internet
  • AI2 Nexus

My mission is to get humanity to the next level of technological progress. I am a firm believer in the use of AI for social good, and I have faith that humanity will use it to achieve feats once thought impossible. Inspiration is my creed, and I will do everything I can to elevate humanity towards the stars and above!

Have any burning questions? Feel free to contact me!

I am a Public Relations Professional who loves to do outreach and public speaking. I am a creative thinker and I love to come up with new ideas and content. I love helping others and making a difference in every way I can.

I am an onAir Networks Engagement Director. I am also part of the onAir Communications Team where I focus on coordinating aircasts and hosting.

Chair, onAir Tech Corporation
Curation Director,  onAir Networks
Chair, Future onAir Advisory Board

Interests:  Knowledge Networks, Catalyzing Innovation, Tech Entrepreneurship, Healthy and Sustainable Communities

Pioneer in identifying, developing, and applying new information and communication technologies:

• The first consumer applications of the microprocessor (4bit & LSIs) … for the toy and game industry and for education
• The first internet cafe with online news, games, and computer conferencing
• The first prototype smartphone working with the developers of the Amiga computer, the first graphical computer

My current focus has been on developing the onAir Knowledge Network System, a knowledge sharing software platform with many unique features such as enabling authors to own and share their content across multiple public and custom Hubs.

The 2-minute video  gives an overview of many of the capabilities of the onAir platform and the US onAir network of 50 state hubs and national hub at us.onair.cc.  The nonpartisan nonprofit onAir Networks, a 501c3, oversees the public onAir networks and hubs licensing the onAir software from onAir Tech corporation (formerly AIR Networks, LLC).

Todd Gillette currently serves as a Staff Software Engineer at Northrop Grumman Corporation’s Mission Systems as well as Director of onAir Tech, a startup building an innovative open knowledge network platform. Todd earned his PhD in Neuroscience in 2015 from George Mason University, having researched informatics and data analytics methods applied to neuronal morphology and function. He holds a BS in Engineering and BA in Computer Science from Swarthmore College.

Along with his many years working with software, Todd’s experience includes mission engineering and systems engineering, determining and documenting the key problems to be solved, deriving requirements, architecting and evaluating candidate solutions, and verifying designs and implementations. He has worked with cyber systems and software engineers to address anti-tamper and unintended emissions concerns and to integrate defensive and offensive cyber capabilities. Todd has also studied and applied artificial intelligence, including machine learning and logical ontology-based techniques. The intersections of AI and biological brains, and how to leverage them to enhance human capabilities in an ethical and human-centered manner, continue to be one of Todd’s primary interests.