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Our mission
To become trusted advisors and partners to our clients and stakeholders.
Our approach
We lead with an immersive approach to fully understand client environment and develop sustainable solutions.
Our objective
To add deep value through sustained innovation, scalable impact, and systematization.
Our founder
Radia Funna is the founder and principal of Build n Blaze. She is an internationally recognized futurist, theorist, strategist and humanist whose xHuman theory explores the impact of advanced digital technologies on people, institutions and societal structures. Her work focuses where information and communication technology (ICT) disrupts safety, security, trust and confidence.
She has held leadership positions at global SDOs (standards developing organizations), most recently in metaverse related standardization at the United Nations' ICT agency, ITU's first Focus Group on metaverse, where she recently proposed and chaired the UN's first Virtual Worlds Day and served as co-chair of the general working group and vice chair of the working group on security, data and PII (Personally Identifiable Information) protection.
Radia has authored several technical specifications, reports, and papers; recently developing 12 novel definitions in the immersive technology space including drafting and leading the global adoption of ITU’s definition of metaverse. She has also developed novel frameworks including a framework to promote a shared global understanding of immersive spaces.
With a corporate career that included roles leading the State of New Jersey's Medicaid contract at Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield, East Coast operations at Nike, and the World Economic Forum partnership at Heidrick & Struggles; she has over 25 years of combined experience in digital transformation, change management, cultural transformation, and public private partnerships.
Radia is a multi-agency advisor to the UN and an advocate of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. She is a member of Stimson Center’s Alfred Lee Loomis Innovation Council; the Trust and Safety Teaching Consortium at Stanford University’s Internet Observatory; and Working Group P2834.1: Standard for Digital Forensics on Trusted Learning Systems at IEEE Education Society.
She has held leadership positions at global SDOs (standards developing organizations), most recently in metaverse related standardization at the United Nations' ICT agency, ITU's first Focus Group on metaverse, where she recently proposed and chaired the UN's first Virtual Worlds Day and served as co-chair of the general working group and vice chair of the working group on security, data and PII (Personally Identifiable Information) protection.
Radia has authored several technical specifications, reports, and papers; recently developing 12 novel definitions in the immersive technology space including drafting and leading the global adoption of ITU’s definition of metaverse. She has also developed novel frameworks including a framework to promote a shared global understanding of immersive spaces.
With a corporate career that included roles leading the State of New Jersey's Medicaid contract at Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield, East Coast operations at Nike, and the World Economic Forum partnership at Heidrick & Struggles; she has over 25 years of combined experience in digital transformation, change management, cultural transformation, and public private partnerships.
Radia is a multi-agency advisor to the UN and an advocate of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. She is a member of Stimson Center’s Alfred Lee Loomis Innovation Council; the Trust and Safety Teaching Consortium at Stanford University’s Internet Observatory; and Working Group P2834.1: Standard for Digital Forensics on Trusted Learning Systems at IEEE Education Society.
Impact
We believe in impact and are proud of our thought leadership in the future of work, education and gender parity. Through our various initiatives and partnerships, we support breakthrough innovation and equity in work, life, and play. Contact us to learn more about our programs and how we can work with yours.
