Ben Jones is the founder of Sundogs, who are using data and AI in service of creative excellence. Their clients include Disney, L'Oreal, Apple and Google itself.

He spent the last 10 years as Google’s Global Creative Director, looking at the billion-and-a-half hours a day of watchtime on YouTube to identify patterns in culture and storytelling through AI and human review. His team helped generate the creative guidance across all of Google products and service offerings, and feeds their AI at scale.

Prior to that, he was a creative director at agencies including Hill Holliday and Digitas, working on clients like Holiday Inn, Major League Baseball, SAP and many others, including providing the voice of the Aflac Duck in social media.

He’s also been a venture capitalist, a high school teacher, and the author of the highly regarded novel The Rope Eater, published by Doubleday. His new novel, Abide with Hunger, is forthcoming, well, when it is.