Martin Rauchbauer is the he Co-Founder of the Tech Diplomacy Network and Executive Director at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program. His interests are at the intersection of diplomacy, arts, technology, and the environment.

Martin served for two years as Austria's first Tech Ambassador in Silicon Valley. During more than five years as Head of Open Austria and Austrian Consul in San Francisco, he shaped the emerging field of tech diplomacy, engaged in transatlantic digital diplomacy and digital human rights. He also developed digital humanism as a strategic focus of Austrian foreign policy. He initiated Open Austria's "Art + Tech Lab", and co-founded the European art + tech + policy initiative "The Grid".