Jaime Fitzgibbon is a Program Manager in the Defense Innovation Unit’s Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Portfolio and founder of Ren.ai.sance Insights, an AI-focused advisory network based in Vienna, VA. She has more than 18 years of strategic advisory, program management, product development and digital transformation experience. Ten of those years tackled bringing emerging technologies such as AI into the National Security and Intelligence problem space.

With a Master’s Degree in International Public Policy, Ms. Fitzgibbon served as a presidential appointee in the Department of State’s Bureau for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, worked international democracy promotion programs at a DC-based NGO and helped pass the African Growth and Opportunity Act while working in the U.S. Senate.  She continues to apply her skills of sound policy development and project execution to bridging the national security and cutting -edge commercial technology divide.