Award-Winning AI & Public-Sector Innovation Speaker; Former CDC Chief AI Officer, Former White House AI R&D Leader & Co-Creator of The Pile

Washington, DC, USA
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Travis Hoppe Biography

Dr. Travis Hoppe is an award-winning scientist and public-sector AI leader working across artificial intelligence, data science, public health, and research policy. He served as Chief AI Officer at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and as Assistant Director for AI Research and Development at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, helping shape federal AI research, governance, and adoption. He previously led data science at CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics and conducted research at the National Institutes of Health. He holds a Ph.D. in physics from Drexel University.

Hoppe’s publications span AI, bibliometrics, biomedical science, biophysics, and graph theory. He helped create The Pile, one of the first open-source datasets for training large language models, and co-authored the NIH Open Citation Collection and Science Advances research on disparities in NIH funding. His honors include the 2025 Federal 100, Apolitical’s 2026 Government AI 100, and MeriTalk’s 2026 America 250 Powering Progress Award for AI innovation. He is currently Chief AI Officer and co-founder of GroundVue and has appeared at Aspen Ideas: Health.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 08/06/2026.

Travis Hoppe Speaking Topics

  • The Statistical Imagination in the Age of AI

    AI is changing not only how we analyze data, but how people discover, interpret, and act on evidence. In this keynote, Dr. Travis Hoppe explores the shift from static reports, dashboards, and databases to AI systems that retrieve information, combine sources, call tools, and recommend actions.

    Drawing on his experience at the White House, CDC, NIH, and the forefront of AI research, Hoppe explains why the next generation of data infrastructure must preserve provenance, context, uncertainty, and human judgment. Audiences will learn how to distinguish information that is merely available from evidence that is genuinely usable and trustworthy.

    Attendees will leave with a practical framework for evaluating AI-enabled evidence systems and preparing their organizations for a world in which data is increasingly accessed through intelligent agents.

  • From Chatbots to Agents: Building AI Systems We Can Trust

    The next wave of AI will do more than answer questions. Agentic systems will connect to organizational data, use tools, coordinate workflows, and take action. This creates significant opportunities, but also introduces new questions about security, accountability, privacy, reliability, and control.

    Dr. Travis Hoppe demystifies agentic AI and Model Context Protocols, or MCPs, explaining how these technologies can connect AI assistants to data and operational systems while preserving institutional safeguards. Using examples from government, public health, research, and enterprise environments, he examines what responsible deployment looks like in practice.

    Attendees will gain a clear understanding of how AI agents work, where they can create value, and what governance and technical foundations must be in place before organizations allow them to act.

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Travis Hoppe Videos

From White House to AI Entrepreneur for Democracy - with Dr. Travis Hoppe founder of GroundVue

From White House to AI Entrepreneur for Democracy - with Dr. Travis Hoppe founder of GroundVue

In this episode of Building Great Tech, Simon and Anastasija are in conversation with Dr.Travis Hoppe, Chief AI Officer at GroundVue and Former White...

Powering Public Health Through Data

Powering Public Health Through Data

Uploaded by The Aspen Institute on 2026-06-26.

Former CDC AI Chief’s Advice for Navigating Careers Beyond Government | Fed Snacks with Travis Hoppe

Former CDC AI Chief’s Advice for Navigating Careers Beyond Government | Fed Snacks with Travis Hoppe

After 15 years in federal service, Travis Hoppe has spent his career at the intersection of science, data and artificial intelligence. He began as a...

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Travis Hoppe is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as The Statistical Imagination in the Age of AI, From Chatbots to Agents: Building AI Systems We Can Trust, The Pile, Open Data, and the Foundations of Modern AI, AI for Public Health: From Fragmented Data to Faster Decisions and Governing AI: How Public Institutions Can Innovate Without Losing Trust. The estimated speaking fee range to book Travis Hoppe for your event is $10,000 - $20,000. Travis Hoppe generally travels from Washington, DC, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Jo Aggarwal, Rani Yadav-Ranjan, Rocky Scopelliti, Douwe Kiela and Rhett Alden. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Travis Hoppe for an upcoming live or virtual event.

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