Ron Bronson studies how technology changes markets, organizations, and public power, drawing on economic sociology, critical urbanism, and more than two decades of experience building and directing digital systems.
He is an assistant professor of practice in Urban Technology at the University of Michigan and founder of Vloora, where his work on AI agents extends a wider interest in who makes decisions, who bears their consequences, and how systems can be changed.
Urban Technology at Michigan’s Taubman College, since 2024. All three courses come back to public mechanics: how a service behaves for the person on the receiving end.
I build the institutions I want to exist. Portland Digital Corps put a hundred volunteers on six nonprofit rebuilds in 2025; before that, two design weeks and an unconference.
Digression Inexplicably, a Green Bay Packers shareholder.
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