30 March 2026
A walk around the lake with... Chris Mairs
How is the future made? What is the relationship between physical sight and insight?
In episode #3 of our video interview series, The Ditchley Foundation’s director, James Arroyo, walks and talks with Chris Mairs CBE. Chris co-founded Metaswitch Networks, a leader in cloud-native communications software (later acquired by Microsoft), and he now serves as Venture Partner at Entrepreneurs First, as a board member at Raspberry Pi, and as the Board Chair at peace.com. Through his weekly blog, The Open Eyed Man, he reflects on what AI might enable, and what it might disrupt, from the vantage point of a technologist who happens to be blind.
Blog: The Open Eyed Man
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