Warren Greving is the Director of Contextual Design and Sustainable Business Ecologies at HP Labs India. This department focuses on the questions of sustainability of business opportunities in emerging markets. He has been part of the team that has been planning and organizing that lab.
He joined Hewlett-Packard in 1986 and for the last sixteen years has worked primarily in software product research and development. He was a principal engineer and architect of HP's Softbench software development environment, that in the 1980s, was one of the first integrated software development toolsets on UNIX workstations. In the early 90s, he was a software architect and consultant on HP's Distributed Smalltalk, one of the first software environments to implement distributed systems on object request broker standards. From 1995 till 2000, he was the chief architect and technical officer for HP's Chai Appliance Platform based on embedded virtual machine technology.
He holds a degree in Computer Science from the University of Iowa, a degree in Mathematics from Northwestern College, Iowa and a degree in Cross-Cultural Studies from Fuller Seminary, California.
His interests include virtual machines, dynamic languages, internationalization of software, software intellectual property rights, and ethnographic design, as well as photography, culture and travel. He speaks Mandarin Chinese as a second language