Joshua Adler
Joshua Adler is the Founding Chief Executive of Sourcewater (www.sourcewater.com), the technology leader in holistic energy intelligence. Sourcewater gathers, analyzes and visualizes omnichannel data to show upstream energy and water activity earlier, more completely and more accurately than other sources. Its data science innovations combining satellite imagery, mobile GPS, geoscience and regulatory big data analytics have earned 11 U.S. patents with 12 more pending. Sourcewater has been honored by IHS CERAWeek as an Energy Innovation Pioneer, by Frost & Sullivan as Supply Chain Enabling Technology of the Year, by the Oil & Gas Awards as New Technology of the Year, and by TPH as an Energy Disruptor. Clients include some of the largest U.S. E&P, infrastructure and service companies.
Josh previously served as Chief Speechwriter to the U.S. Treasury Secretary under President George W. Bush and co-founded medical device company iLife Systems, robotics company MegaBots, LaKritz Adler Development and Amour.com, the first online matchmaking company. He sits on advisory boards of several AI companies including ZyloTech and Cortex Automation. He is a graduate of Yale and MIT, where he was a Sloan Fellow for Innovation and Global Leadership in Energy Ventures. He has been published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Economist and Wired. He is the sole inventor on nine U.S. patents covering AI, machine learning and computer vision methods in satellite imagery analytics. Josh lives in Houston, Texas.