Tom Soderstrom

Tom Soderstrom is the IT Chief Technology and Innovation Officer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.  He is responsible for looking into the future to see what game changing technologies are on the horizon and then testing and evaluating the ones that look the most promising for JPL and NASA. If they make sense,  he brings them in to be tested at JPL and  later NASA. He talks frequently with innovators across the globe, and works with NASA, the government, universities, and commercial companies. He has worked at small startups and global companies and has been at  JPL for a total of 25 years.