About

Ron Bronson has spent more than two decades building things online and in public. He currently works with a startup building governance infrastructure for AI, organizes public events through his studio Thinking Weapons, and is an Assistant Professor of Practice in Urban Technology at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning.

Previously, he was Head of Design at 18F, the pioneering federal digital services agency, where he built its service design practice and hired its first service designers. His other federal roles included advising the Federal Trade Commission’s chief of staff and GSA’s Office of Customer Experience, and serving as Chief of Staff for a federal technology modernization unit.

His work spans front-end web development, interaction design, service delivery, institutional strategy, and public programming. He launched Portland Digital Corps and is President Emeritus of AIGA Portland, where he helped launch Portland Design Month.

He is a global speaker on consequence design, public mechanics, AI, civic trust, web governance, and the future of institutions.

He is based in the Pacific Northwest and Ann Arbor.