# Theia Institute Founding Members In 2023, experts from across the technology, information security, and business sectors joined together to form the Theia Institute, a nonprofit think tank with a global focus on emerging technologies and their impact on people, organizations, and societies around the world. This unique approach enables Theia to provide strategic advice, practical solutions, and actionable insights that drive innovative educational and policy programs that empower people with with the necessary skills to continuously adapt to continuously-evolving changes in the nature of work and social values that new technologies often create as unintended side effects. ## An Exclusive, Limited-Edition Badge The Theia Institute Founder's Badge is only issued to those who were part of the institute's founding, and who materially contributed to its current success. Such marks of distinction can't be bought or sold; they were each earned the hard way by the right person in the right place at the right time. If you see someone with a verified Theia Institute Founder's Badge, you can be confident that you are talking to someone whose unique contributions to our think tank will never be repeated and can never be forgotten. Each Founder's Badge, much like those who earned them, is one of a kind and will never be reissued. Founder's Badge credential holders each earned the respect of their industry peers and colleagues entirely on their own long before they joined the Theia Institute. However, by providing this well-deserved mark of distinction the institute is formally acknowledging that it stands on the shoulders of giants. ## A Message to Founder's Badge Credential Holders You were *always* giants, but with the Founder's Badge we publicly acknowledge it. Thank you for your service, your support, and your expertise. On behalf of every member of the Theia Institute and every person the foundation helps, you will always have our gratitude.