Worlds and Time Colliding: Combining an Old-School Approach to Information Displays with Cloud, Mobile and AI

Dorrian Porter, Founder and CEO of Vestaboard, Inc.

Presentation Abstract

Vestaboard is a beautiful, mechanical display that combines a physical and tactile design to display key information from an infinite amount of sources by leveraging cloud, mobile and AI. You will get a demo of the hardware and software, and hear about the long journey of a start-up getting this hardware to market. You’ll also hear why Dorrian thinks cloud, mobile and AI will accelerate even more novel approaches to how consumers and businesses consume and convey information in the future.

Dorrian Porter, Founder and CEO of Vestaboard, Inc.

Dorrian Porter is the founder and CEO of Vestaboard, which Fast Company named in 2023 as one of the ten most innovative consumer electronic companies in the world alongside Apple, Samsung and LG. He began his career as an attorney at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in Palo Alto, California before his time as a pioneering entrepreneur in areas of cloud software, mobile and now hardware. He was the founder of HigherMarkets in 2000 (now part of Jaegger) and Mozes in 2005 (now part of Merkle).