About the event

6:30 PM – Networking with light bites
7:00 PM – Program

David Reid, CMO & CTO of NOV, joins the Global Young Professionals in discussing the omnipresent issue of human trafficking. With well over 300,000 victims in Texas alone, Houston, is set as a major center on the front of human trafficking. From labor trafficking to sex trafficking, the exploitation of vulnerable populations is a global issue but one that happens in our own backyard. David Reid, founder of redM, an organization dedicated to providing professionals pathways to fighting trafficking, will provide us an understanding of the issues at hand as well as different signals and ways to identify and address the issues. Along with David will be a survivor of trafficking, Kathy Givens, co-founder of Twelve11 Partners.

About the speaker

David’s life and career has focused on the development of people, business, technology and culture. He has been a pioneer and champion of strategic growth in technology, business models, machine design, and industrial digitization. He is a global public speaker on innovation, change, and leadership, as well as being an advocate in addressing modern slavery. David serves on the boards of the Society of Petroleum Engineers, the National Ocean Industries Association, and Redeemed, a trauma informed recovery program for sex trafficking survivors.

David has written many published technical papers and magazine articles, with patents in drilling systems and automation. He has founded industry groups in technology, diversity and inclusion, a startup village, and redM, a pro-bono crowdsourcing organization. A winning team member of the first Rockets and Rigs hackathon with a NASA patent-based start-up company, Permittivity, also serving as an advisor to their board.