David Levine
Official Role
Founder & CEO at Kiduna Club.
Official Bio
David Levine is a technology entrepreneur, systems engineer, and founder who has spent more than three decades building companies at the frontier of major technology shifts, from the early Web and cloud computing to big data, geomatics, blockchain and agentic AI. He is Founder & CEO of Kiduna Club and Founder & President of the Kinship Intelligence Institute, where he is developing technologies, governance frameworks, and legal infrastructure that enable creative people and intelligent agents to collaborate, create value, and coordinate at scale.
Previously, Levine founded multiple venture-backed technology companies, including Geostellar, a patented big-data geomatic platform for solar energy, Butterfly.net (later Gamebryo), an early massively-multiplayer gaming platform, and Ultraprise, a B2B whole loan exchange for the secondary market. He has held leadership roles with Solana Labs, Nightwing, and Sewall, and served as the executive director of the National Technology Transfer Center.
A graduate of Yale University, Levine has been featured in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Forbes, Fox Business News, and other major media. His current work focuses on digital identity, decentralized governance, and building the legal and technical foundations for the emerging agentic economy.
Scheduled Sessions
- 2026 07 01 david levine beyond the lethal trifecta agentic commerce on the open internet at machine speed — Beyond the Lethal Trifecta: Agentic Commerce on the Open Internet at Machine Speed (2026-07-01, 3:45pm-4:05pm)