Jim Brazell is a technology forecaster, public speaker and strategist focusing on innovation systems. Since 2003, Jim has authored several emerging technology forecasts and briefs in addition to consulting on international technology innovation strategies in Portugal and the U.S. In October of 2009, Jim’s comments related to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) were heard by the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
Jim is known as a boundary spanner connecting topics related to education, workforce, economic development, arts, and science and technology. Between 2007 and 2010, Jim delivered over 100 speeches to audiences ranging from the 2009 inaugural NSF High Impact Technology Exchange Conference -- Educating America’s Technical Workforce -- to the International Conference on Technology Policy and Innovation on energy policy in Norway in 2008 and solutions to the financial crisis in Portugal in 2009.
Jim’s mentor and collaborator is Dr. (Col.) Francis X. “Duke” Kane who was recognized in March of 2010 as a catalyst of the global positioning system (GPS) among other achievements. Jim and Duke are the co-founders of spaceTEAMS in San Antonio, Texas, targeting the first person to walk on Mars to be from San Antonio.
In the past decade, Jim has served as a volunteer to the Defense Learning Strategies Consortium, Automotive Manufacturing Technical Education Collaborative, Texas STEM Action Committee (TBEC), Information technology and Security Academy and the San Antonio-Austin Nano-Bio-Tech Summit. Today he is a volunteer to the "Cyber Security Action Team" Greater San Antonio Chamber of Commerce and the Society for Design and Process Science STEM initiative.
Jim Brazell is a 1995 graduate of Bradley University, Bachelors of Science in Sociology, Summa Cum Laude. He is a 1995 George Gilder Fellow in High Technology, Entrepreneurship and Public Policy. At Bradley, Jim was the co-principal investigator of Interlabs, the sociology of cyberspace course and the social informatics minor. Jim resides in San Antonio, Texas, with his wife, Lisa Cervantes and daughter Ava Brazell.
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