Graham Dodge

The Pod of DC

Graham Dodge is a serial entrepreneur, patented inventor, and technology leader whose career has spanned the industries of entertainment, healthcare, and information technology over the last two decades. Always gracious and generous with his time, Graham shares his journey to entrepreneurship starting with music and playing in bands around LA, to creating the first data map of crime with producers of the show Cops, to stints as Art Director on sets from MTV to Nickelodeon. After getting sick traveling between Baltimore and LA, Graham set in motion the co-founding of Sickweather, the very first "doppler radar for sickness" using his prior data aggregation experience but now incorporating social media and social listening tools. Fast forward to today and it is Sickweather's foundation that began and accelerated the tracking and notification of sickness including pandemic-related data, and Graham discusses the impact this data will have moving forward on the OTC market, presenteeism in the workplace, and what our public social health contract looks like moving forward. Graham currently serves as Executive Director of MAGIC, Inc. a 501c3 dedicated to creating a premier technology hub in Westminster, Maryland as well as President of Pathcheck Foundation, another 501c3 creating pandemic response notification applications. On top of running those organizations, Graham serves as an advisor to future tech leaders in the development of novel technology solutions at Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures. Graham's story is truly one of professional reinvention, ingenuity, and inspiration.