Angel Fest 2025 - Spotlight Chats: Joe Toscano

Joe Toscano, technologist, author, and featured voice in The Social Dilemma, challenged attendees to look beyond the product and into the systems behind them. His talk confronted the darker side of innovation, issues of data privacy, and digital responsibility. Joe urged the audience to recognize that data isn’t just numbers or code, it represents real people, and the consequences of how that data is handled can be immense. He warned that the digital world is not a neutral space. Founders and investors are shaping infrastructure that deeply impacts society and privacy.