James Bryan Graves is a computer scientist, lecturer and community organiser. James moved to the Netherlands from the United States in 2009. He founded Hackers & Founders Amsterdam in 2011, a community of entrepreneurs and programmers with more than 7000 members nationwide. Hackers & Founders opened a start-up incubator in the Herengracht in Amsterdam which houses nearly 100 community members in 2013 and has enjoyed 40+ million euro deal flow. In 2013, James co-founded Hackers & Designers a non-profit focused on bringing technology, art and design closer together. James Co-Founded THE EMBASSIES OF GOOD LIVING AG in December 2018. James teaches software design at Royal Academy of Art in The Hague.