Dr. Timothy Chou - Founder at Pediatric Moonshot

Dr. Timothy Chou  began his commercial career at one of Silicon Valley's first startups, Tandem Computers. He retired as the first President of Oracle's cloud computing business, pioneering the software-as-a-service model that would reshape the technology landscape. Following his retirement from Oracle, Dr. Chou has served on several public and private company boards including serving as the Chairman of the Alchemist Accelerator focused on B2B startups.

For over forty years, Dr. Chou has also been a dedicated educator at Stanford University. He taught core computer science for fifteen years with such commitment that he once flew to Bali for a sales kickoff meeting and returned within 36 hours to make it back to class. After retiring from Oracle, he returned to Stanford to create and teach the world's first course on cloud computing—a field he helped define commercially.

It was a student in that cloud computing class who inspired Dr. Chou to come out of retirement with a bold new mission: the Pediatric Moonshot. This initiative aims to reduce healthcare inequity, lower costs, and improve outcomes for children everywhere—rural, local, and global—by creating privacy-preserving, real-time AI agents based on access to data from all 1,000,000 healthcare machines across all 500 children's hospitals worldwide. The executive director at Scientific American commented “the project starts with children’s diseases but can be scaled to include all diseases and all patients in the world, providing knowledge and expertise beyond the ability of a single individual. This may be the greatest innovation in the history of medicine”.