page_title: Kevin Surace
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context_page_description: Kevin Surace is an American technology innovator, speaker and entrepreneur. He is the CTO of Appvance, creator of an AI-based software QA platform. He was Inc. Magazine’s 2009 entrepreneur of the Year. He is known as the inventor of QuietRock Soundproof Drywall
  Planet Forward, CNBC and the World Economic Forum have recognized Surace as an innovator and a technology pioneer. He has been awarded 84 patents worldwide.
  Surace is a speaker on AI, robotics, automation and the future of jobs and has given hundreds of talks on the topic including TEDx.
context_section_description: Kevin Surace (born July 12, 1962) is an American technology innovator, speaker and entrepreneur. He is the CTO of Appvance, creator of an AI-based software QA platform. He was Inc. Magazine’s 2009 entrepreneur of the Year. He is known as the inventor of QuietRock Soundproof Drywall
  Planet Forward, CNBC and the World Economic Forum have recognized Surace as an innovator and a technology pioneer.   He has been awarded 84 patents worldwide.
  Surace is a speaker on AI, robotics, automation and the future of jobs and has given hundreds of talks on the topic including TEDx.
caption: Kevin Surace, 2016
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