Ross is a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts and blogger. Author of The Practical Guide to Defect Prevention and holds seven software patents. He is a PhD scholar at University College Dublin’s SMARTLab program, focused on AI, automation, worker displacement, and the future of work. He has worked at Microsoft for over 30 years. He is a board member at Spreeha. He is a co-founder of the Seattle Women in Tech Consortium and co-founder of the Future World Alliance