Summary
Mark Pesce is an executive advisor, entrepreneur and award-winning broadcaster who has spent more than five decades shaping how people think about emerging media, from co-inventing VRML—the original Metaverse standard that informed MPEG-4—to founding postgraduate programs in digital media at USC and AFTRS. He co-founded Wisely AI to guide organisations in the safe, practical adoption of generative AI and currently advises enterprise and government leaders at ADAPT on AI, cloud, cybersecurity and digitisation. A prolific communicator, he hosts the podcast The Next Billion Seconds, produces This Week in Startups Australia, and writes regular columns for The Register and IEEE Spectrum, winning multiple journalism awards. His career blends deep technical inventiveness (including patented sensor work and early network engineering) with public-facing storytelling and policy influence, from G20 VASP summits to university honorary roles. Clients and audiences value his ability to translate technical complexity into strategic, operationally useful guidance across fintech, education, government, real estate, media and crypto.
56 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Massachusetts Institute of Technology