JOHN CORDIER is the CEO and a Co-Founder of Epistemix Inc. He and his team have spun out a University-based software application from the University of Pittsburgh that has been supported for nearly a decade from the NIH, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and others. The company is positioned to be a global SaaS platform to improve population health and the understanding of social dynamics to enhance policy decision making for smart city, energy, insurance, climate, and additional public good applications.