Jon Ramer

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I am a technology entrepreneur, civic leader, inventor, and movement builder working at the intersection of artificial intelligence, cooperation, peacebuilding, and human flourishing. Early in my career, I co-founded ELF Technologies, where we developed agent-based collaboration software to help organizations work across boundaries. That work led to Serengeti Law, acquired by Thomson Reuters, and to my patent for Electronic Organizational Actors—an early approach to coordinating complex organizational activity through software agents. I helped initiate the International Campaign for Compassionate Cities and co-founded Compassion Games: Survival of the Kindest, the SINE Network, and One World. These initiatives have connected technologists, civic leaders, peacebuilders, Indigenous leaders, artists, and communities worldwide. In 2025, I initiated and served as principal organizer of the Global Powwow in Central Park, presented in partnership with Global Citizen. It brought Indigenous leaders, culture, ceremony, and a call for global unity onto a highly visible public stage—demonstrating my commitment to turning ambitious ideas into collaborative action. Today, I am helping lead AI fo

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