Dr. Patrick Deegan is the founder of DAC Technologies, a leading professional services consultancy that provides technical architecture design and implementation services utilizing Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), artificial intelligence, and hardware trusted computing platforms.

Patrick earned a M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts where he also designed and implemented several humanoid robots including the uBot-5 and uBot-6. He also co-founded digitROBOTICS, a start-up that developed mobile manipulation software in partnership with the NASA Johnson Space Center.

Patrick was previously the CTO of the Institute of Data Driven Design (ID3), a research non-profit in collaboration with the Human Dynamics Group at MIT’s Media Lab. He continues as the Chief Architect of the Open Mustard Seed (OMS) Project, an open-source Trust Framework for developing and deploying secure and cloud-based and mobile applications.