Sustainable Future Tech is led by Founder and Chief Innovation Officer John M. Willis, author of Runtime Governance Engineering: Foundations and Architecture—From Governance Intent to Controlled Execution. His work spans cybersecurity architecture, AI governance, autonomous systems, enterprise architecture, advanced computing, systems engineering, and sustainability.

His current research and architecture work includes Runtime Governance Engineering, Runtime Governance Architecture, AGCP, PBSAI, hybrid quantum-classical systems, lifecycle interpretability, and related approaches to securing and governing increasingly autonomous technology.

SFT’s founder-led model provides a common architectural thread across programs while drawing on specialized researchers, collaborators, reviewers, advisors, and institutional partners where additional expertise or independent validation is needed.

James Duncan is a Senior Product Manager at Google Cloud, focused on Cloud Networking and Agent Infrastructure. He leads product strategy for agent networking, agent Platform infrastructure, and agent governance, with a focus on zero-trust network architectures.

His work centers on Agent Gateway and Layer 7 egress networking, to provide secure routing, observability, and policy enforcement for AI agents. He also leads core governance, spanning cryptographic identity, least-privilege delegation, and runtime guardrails that block lateral movement and data exfiltration.

Previously, James was a Solutions Architect at Google Cloud, designing large-scale compute and trading infrastructure for investment banks and hedge funds. Before Google, he was a Manager in PwC’s Technology Consulting practice and worked in IT strategy and architecture at Westpac New Zealand. He holds degrees in Computer Science and Information Systems from the University of Auckland.

Nico Vibert is a Principal Engineer at Isovalent, the company behind the open-source cloud-native solution Cilium. Prior to joining Isovalent, Nico held many different roles (operations and support, design and architecture, technical pre-sales) at companies such as HashiCorp, VMware, and Cisco. In his current role, Nico focuses primarily on creating content to make networking a more approachable field and regularly speaks at events like KubeCon and Cisco Live. Nico has held over 15 networking certifications, including the Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert CCIE (# 22990). Nico is the co-author of the Cilium: Up and Running O’Reilly book and is the Lead Subject Matter Expert on the Cilium Certified Associate (CCA) certification.

Bruce Pinsky is a Sr Network Specialist Solutions Architect for Strategic Accounts at Amazon Web Services (AWS), where he helps customers develop cloud-based and hybrid network architectures and modernization strategies for complex enterprise environments. With more than 25 years of experience, Bruce has worked across public cloud, enterprise/SaaS, Internet service provider, and networking vendor environments, including Distinguished Engineer roles at Intuit and Cisco Systems.

Bruce holds the AWS Advanced Networking – Specialty certification and is a Cisco Certified Architect (CCAr), CCDE, and CCIE. He is a published AWS technical author, co-author of Cisco Router Configuration: A Practical Introduction to Cisco IOS Configuration, and co-inventor of five U.S. networking patents. He is an Emeritus Member of the ONUG Board of Directors.

John Willis is an experienced IT management professional with over 40 years of experience. He is currently conducting research on DevOps, DevSecOps, IT risk, modern governance, and audit compliance, as well as Generative AI. In the past, he has held various positions such as Senior Director at RedHat, VP at Docker Inc., Founder of Socketplane (which was later sold to Docker) and Enstratius (which was later sold to Dell), and VP at Opscode. He also founded Gulf Breeze Software, an award-winning IBM business partner specializing in Tivoli technology deployment.

John Willis is also an accomplished author, having written six IBM Redbooks on enterprise systems management and four books for IT Revolution, including the DevOps Handbook and Deming’s Journey to Profound Knowledge. He is working on his latest book, The Operational History of Generative AI.