John Mills, CEO/Founder of the Watch Duty app
John has changed the way we live with fire through his 501(c)(3) non-profit organization Watch Duty. John spent many years in Silicon Valley focusing on underserved markets that had been overlooked by technologists.
In 2012 he founded Zenput as CTO, focused on retail food services operations which was acquired in 2022. After living in San Francisco for 16 years, he moved off-the-grid to Sonoma County in 2020 where he was faced with the terrifying reality of life in the wildlands without the information needed to make informed decisions. Having developed software for over 30 years beginning at age 8, John found himself with a life or death problem he had to solve not only for himself, but for his community. Today Watch Duty has a team of over 200 active and retired wildland firefighters, dispatchers, first responders, and reporters supporting tens of millions of citizens and first responders who rely on the Watch Duty App across the American West to stay safe.
We'll be in the Randall Room on the upper level of the Randall Museum. There will be a security officer at the entrance who can guide folks where to go. There is access to front entrance from the parking lot and surrounding streets. There is ADA and elevator access. Here's a walkable tour from the parking lot to the front entrance (click ahead in map to "walk"):
https://maps.app.goo.gl/GxVv1PPxXQGkGJVL9
Google Meet Video call link: https://meet.google.com/uko-uspw-yqi
John has changed the way we live with fire through his 501(c)(3) non-profit organization Watch Duty. John spent many years in Silicon Valley focusing on underserved markets that had been overlooked by technologists.
In 2012 he founded Zenput as CTO, focused on retail food services operations which was acquired in 2022. After living in San Francisco for 16 years, he moved off-the-grid to Sonoma County in 2020 where he was faced with the terrifying reality of life in the wildlands without the information needed to make informed decisions. Having developed software for over 30 years beginning at age 8, John found himself with a life or death problem he had to solve not only for himself, but for his community. Today Watch Duty has a team of over 200 active and retired wildland firefighters, dispatchers, first responders, and reporters supporting tens of millions of citizens and first responders who rely on the Watch Duty App across the American West to stay safe.
We'll be in the Randall Room on the upper level of the Randall Museum. There will be a security officer at the entrance who can guide folks where to go. There is access to front entrance from the parking lot and surrounding streets. There is ADA and elevator access. Here's a walkable tour from the parking lot to the front entrance (click ahead in map to "walk"):
https://maps.app.goo.gl/GxVv1PPxXQGkGJVL9
Google Meet Video call link: https://meet.google.com/uko-uspw-yqi