Brian Sletten is a liberal arts-educated software engineer with a focus on forward-leaning technologies. His experience has spanned many industries including retail, banking, publishing, online games, defense, finance, hospitality and health care. His career has been a mix of applying next generation solutions and practical problem solving. This positions him well to understand both the real-world benefits of WebAssembly and the potential that it has to revolutionize our industry. It is the centerpiece of a new vision for building portable, scalable, safe software that provides robust business value for longer timeframes. Brian has been teaching and speaking about WebAssembly for the last three years. He has a B.S. in Computer Science from the College of William and Mary and lives in Auburn, CA.