Jay Saul Silver is the Founder/Director of JoyLabz and a Maker Research Scientist at Intel Labs. He made many creative platforms such as Drawdio (Time's Top 15 Toys for Young Geniuses) and MaKey MaKey (Kickstarted for $568,106). Jay has been a speaker at many TEDx events and PopTech. He has exhibited internationally at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Exploratorium, Ars Electronica, etc. He also runs digital prototyping workshops for many companies such as IDEO and youth centers such as Computer Clubhouses.

Jay studied electrical engineering at Georgia Tech where he was named Engineer of the Year. He was awarded a Gates Scholarship to earn a master’s in Internet Technology from Cambridge University. He also holds a master’s in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT Media Lab where he was an NSF Fellow. He is currently a last year PhD student at MIT Media Lab's Lifelong Kindergarten where he won a Lemelson Student Prize.

Jay has faith that being a romantic is of the utmost importance. Some other names for romance are: spontaneity, silliness, civil disobedience, oneness, empathy…