Jon Pittman retired as a licensed architect, commercial pilot, and Vice President of Strategic Foresight for Autodesk. With ~40 years of experience in the computer-aided design and computer graphics industries, Jon held a variety of product development, business development, and strategy positions at Autodesk, SDRC, Alias|Wavefront, and HOK Architects. Jon has held faculty positions at Cornell University, Art Center College of Design, Singularity University, and the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. He has wide-ranging interests and insatiable curiosity - now with more time to explore those interests and follow where his curiosity leads him.
He earned a Bachelor of Architecture and MBA from the University of Cincinnati, as well as an M.S. in Computer Graphics from Cornell University. He has published numerous articles and is a frequent public speaker
Jon lives in Marin County, California with his wife Care and two Siberian Huskies - Buggi and Lyra. In his free time he likes to hike, bike, swim, play tennis and pickleball, read, and travel.
In March 2017, Jon had a bilateral total knee replacement to treat osteoarthritis at UC San Francisco. He has fully recovered.
