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This list showcases the top San Francisco based CEO’ operating in the Robotics space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
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Jiajun Zhu
Co-Founder and CEO of Nuro
Jiajun Zhu is a co-founder of Nuro. he used to be the principal software engineer of Google. He eraned his master’s degree ta University of Virginia and his bachelor’s degree at Fudan University.
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About Nuro: Nuro develops and operates a fleet of electric self-driving vehicles that are built to deliver assorted local goods.
Jordan Kretchmer
Co-Founder and CEO of Rapid Robotics
Jordan Kretchmer is the Founder and CEO of Livefyre. Livefyre brings the social web right to any publisher or brand site to drive real-time conversations and community engagement. The company’s suite of real-time products include LiveComments, LiveBlogs, and social content curation, and Livefyre’s customers include FOX News, CBS, Dow Jones, AOL, TIME Magazine, and thousands of others. Kretchmer founded the San Francisco based startup in December 2009, and has overseen its growth to the 7th largest site network on the web, delivering 1 billion live content streams every month. Before launching Livefyre, Kretchmer was the Vice President of Brand at Current TV where he led brand redevelopment for the media company. Previously, he was the Digital Creative Director at Butler Shine Stern and Partners, and Vice President/Associate Creative Director at Mullen Advertising. Kretchmer lives in San Francisco.
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About Livefyre, Rapid Robotics: Rapid Robotics provides out-of-the-box automation for manufacturers.
Kai Yu
Founder & CEO of Horizon Robotics
Dr. Kai YU is the founder and CEO of Horizon Robotics Inc. He is a recognized pioneer and leader in deep learning and artificial intelligence. He was the founder and Head of Baidu Institute of Deep Learning (IDL), the first and most established artificial intelligence R&D center in China industry. Dr. Yu is elected to China “Top 1000 Talents”, a prestigious group of technology leaders of the country.
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About Horizon Robotics: Horizon Robotics focuses on artificial intelligence computing for smart mobility.
Jorge Heraud
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Blue River Technology
Jorge is the co-founder and CEO of Blue River Technology Inc. (www.bluerivert.com), a start-up company that intends to revolutionize weeding and dramatically reduce chemical use.
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About Blue River Technology: Blue River Technology employs computer vision and robotics technologies to build intelligent solutions for the agricultural industries.
Sasan Amini
Co-Founder and CEO of Clear Labs
Sasan combined his academic expertise and passion for healthy living when he co-founded Clear Labs with a mission to set a new paradigm for food safety and quality. Prior to serving as the CEO of Clear Labs, he worked in the Advanced Research department at Illumina. Sasan earned his PhD in Genomics from Princeton and holds multiple patents and publications in the field.
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About Clear Labs: Clear Labs is a provider of a fully-automated sequencing platform for turnkey diagnostics.
Vikas Gupta
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Wonder Workshop
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About Wonder Workshop: Wonder Workshop provides a platform that makes programming fun and accessible for children while they play.
Adam Bry
Chief Executive Officer of Skydio
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About Skydio: Skydio uses artificial intelligence to create flying drones that are used by consumer, enterprise, and government customers.
Scott Phoenix
Co-founder & CEO of Vicarious
Scott Phoenix is the co-founder and CEO of Vicarious, an AI company that is building artificial general intelligence for robots. Vicarious has raised over $135 million in funding from luminaries including Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and Jeff Bezos. Prior to co-founding Vicarious, Mr. Phoenix was entrepreneur-in-residence at Founders Fund, and a CXO at OnlySecure (acquired byNetShops) and at MarchingOrder (Ben Franklin Partners). He is an advisor to Base10 Partners, Felicis Ventures, and 8VC in the areas of AI and hard technology investments, and a global advocate for the development of safe AI. He earned his BAS in Computer Science and Entrepreneurship from the University of Pennsylvania.
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About MarchingOrder, Vicarious: Vicarious is an artificial intelligence company that uses the computational principles of the brain to develop general intelligence.
Phillip Walker
CEO, Co-Founder, Board Member of Transcend Robotics
A serial entrepreneur who values hitting milestones for investors and producing scalable results.
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About Transcend Robotics: Transcend Robotics is a startup that develops ground-based mobile robots.
Melonee Wise
CEO of Fetch Robotics
Melonee Wise is the CEO of Fetch Robotics, which is delivering collaborative robotic solutions robots for the logistics industry. Melonee was the second employee at Willow Garage, a research and development laboratory extremely influential in the advancement of robotics. While there, she led a team of engineers developing next-generation robot hardware and software, including ROS, the PR2 and TurtleBot. Melonee is a recipient of MIT Technology Review’s TR 35 award for technology innovators under the age of 35, and has been named to the Silicon Valley Business Journal’s Women of Influence and 40 under 40 lists. Under her leadership, the company won the MODEX Innovation award for the materials handling industry, as well as being named to RBR 50, a listing of the 50 most innovative robotics companies in the world.
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About Fetch Robotics: Fetch Robotics provides the market’s only cloud-driven Autonomous Mobile Robot (AMR) solution for warehousing intralogistics environments.
Bill Huang
Founder & CEO of CloudMinds
Bill Huang is the Founder and CEO of CloudMinds, the world’s first intelligent cloud robot operator. Mr. Huang has been a new technology advocate for the telecom industry with near 30 years of work experience in the development of key technologies. He has in-depth experience and insightful thoughts in the areas of next generation mobile switching systems (3G/4G/5G), IP media streaming (IPTV/OTT), EPON/GPON, Multi-service mobile Softswitch, Operation Support System (OSS/BSS), Mobile Internet and mobile communication industry.
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About CloudMinds: As the First Cloud Robots services company, CloudMinds is developing an end-to-end ecosystem to support cloud connected smart machines
Michael Winn
CEO and Co-Founder of DroneDeploy
Michael Winn is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of DroneDeploy, a cloud-based drone platform that provides automated flight safety checks, workflows, real-time mapping, and data processing.
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About DroneDeploy: DroneDeploy is a cloud-based drone mapping and analytics platform to help businesses get things done.
Stefan Seltz-Axmacher
Founder & CEO of Starsky Robotics
Stefan Seltz-Axmacher is CEO and Founder of Starsky Robotics, a driverless truck startup launched in August 2016, which aims to make roads safer and allow truck drivers to work closer to home. Starsky Robotics began moving freight on the highway in February 2017, and in February 2018 drove a truck fully unmanned for seven miles on the highway. Starsky raised a $16.5 million Series A round led by Shasta Ventures, with substantial contributions from previous investors like Y Combinator, Trucks.vc, 50 Years, 9Point Ventures, and many others. Prior to founding Starsky Robotics, Stefan worked with a number of Silicon Valley startups, partnering with innovators in logistics and engineering fields. He holds a degree in International Business from Drexel University.
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About Starsky Robotics: Starsky Robotics is a San Francisco-based autonomous trucking company.
Bradley Bogolea
Co-Founder & CEO of Simbe Robotics
Bradley Bogolea, also known as Brad, is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Simbe Robotics.
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About Simbe Robotics: Simbe Robotics builds automation solutions for shelf auditing and analytics.
Jack Wu
Co-Founder & CEO of Nightingale Security
Jack Wu joined Nightingale Security as Co-Founder & CEO in 2014.
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About Nightingale Security: Nightingale Security is a autonomous drone solution in aerial robotic security.
Brandon Alexander
Co-Founder & CEO of Iron Ox
Brandon Alexander is the CEO and cofounder of Iron Ox, a company building robotic greenhouses to make premium produce accessible to everyone. Inspired by his family farm and his career in robotics, Brandon sought to find a sustainable approach to feeding the world’s growing population in an industry that’s challenged with a declining labor force and extreme weather conditions. With his cofounder Jon Binney, he traveled all across California to talk with local farmers about the challenges facing the industry and how robotics can provide modern solutions. Brandon has a track record of laying the groundwork for successful robotic deployment. He previously played a key role in Google[x]’s drone delivery program, Project Wing, where he developed the flight mission control software. He has also worked at the robotics think tank Willow Garage.
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About Iron Ox: Iron Ox operates autonomous robotic greenhouses that grow every plant at its best from seed to harvest.
Ryan McKenna
CEO of New Entity Operations
CEO of New Entity Operations Inc.
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About New Entity Operations: New Entity Operations Inc. builds and organizes software projects to bring entity-centric computer systems to market.
Don Burnette
Co-Founder & CEO of Kodiak Robotics
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About Kodiak Robotics: Kodiak Robotics develops autonomous technology for long-haul trucking.
Hugo de Gentile
Co-Founder & CEO of Willo
Hugo de Gentile is the Co-Founder and CEO at Willo
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About Willo: Willo develops technology in oral health that automatically empowers everyone to achieve the best at-home clean possible.
Paul Mikesell
Founder / CEO of Carbon Robotics
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About Carbon Robotics: Carbon Robotics develops robots for agriculture-related applications.
Victor Darolfi
Founder & CEO of RoboTire
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About RoboTire: RoboTire automates vehicle maintenance by combining robots and computer vision.
Noah Ready-Campbell
Founder, CEO & Engineer of Built Robotics
Noah is the founder and CEO of Built Robotics, a company building automated guidance systems for heavy equipment. He founded the company in 2016, and has raised over $48 million from leading Silicon Valley investors including Founders Fund, NEA and Next47. Previously, Noah founded an ecommerce startup called Twice, which raised $23 million from Andreessen Horowitz before eBay acquired it in 2015. Noah began his career at Google, and he studied business and engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, but his first job was working as a carpenter’s helper for his dad, helping to renovate old houses in rural New England.
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About Built Robotics: Built Robotics transforms heavy equipment into autonomous robots for the $1 trillion earthmoving industry.
Kim Abrams
CEO & Co-Founder of Petra
Kim Abrams is the CEO and Co-Founder at Petra.
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About Petra: Petra is a Robotics company that focuses solely on underground utilities.
Felipe Chávez Cortés
CEO & Co-Founder of Kiwibot
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About Kiwibot: Kiwibot offers food delivery with robots for campus colleges.
Kelsey Mellard
CEO & Co-Founder of Sitka
Kelsey Mellard is the CEO and Founder of Sitka, a first-of-its-kind medical vConsults platform and specialty provider network. She launched Sitka in 2018 to help improve access to and delivery of specialty care across the nation. Prior to founding Sitka, Kelsey led Health System Integration at Honor, a comprehensive technology-backed home care company. Before joining the Honor, Kelsey led the development of the Post-Acute Care Center for Research (PACCR), which she served as its Executive Director. Kelsey also served in VP roles at naviHealth, UnitedHealth Group, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), and held positions at Advisory Board Company, Children’s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics, and Kaiser Family Foundation. Kelsey holds a Bachelor’s of Science Degree in Community Health from Winona State University and a Master’s degree in Public Administration from the University of Kansas. She also currently serves as an adjunct faculty member at Winona State University in the College of Nursing and Health Services.
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About Sitka, Winona State University: Sitka is a customizable video software platform that connects primary care providers to the virtual specialty provider network.
Tyler Shultz
Co-Founder & CEO of Flux Bioscience
Tyler Shultz is an entrepreneur fostering innovation in healthcare.
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About Ethics in Entrepreneurship, Flux Bioscience: Flux Biosciences is a company spun out of Stanford University, where the technology used to read and write computer hard drives .
Ankit Jain
Founder & CEO of Infinitus Systems
Ankit is a serial entrepreneur and Founder & CEO of Infinitus Systems, Inc. Most recently, Ankit was a Founding Partner at Gradient Ventures and a Director of Engineering at Google. Previously, he was the Vice President of Product at SimilarWeb, which he joined via the acquisition of mobile intelligence startup Quettra that he founded and led as CEO. Prior to Quettra, Ankit was the Head of Search, Discovery and Infrastructure for Google Play, which he joined through the acquisition of Cuil. At Cuil, he helped build several parts of web, real time and social search engines from scratch. Ankit has co-authored the leading chapter in the book Next Generation Search Engines: Advanced Models for Information Retrieval as well as one of the most defining blog posts about mobile app retention. Ankit received his BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley (Cal) and his MS in Computer Science with a focus on Parallel and Distributed Computing also from Cal. He received a Certificate in Management of Technology from the Walter A. Haas School of Business at Cal.
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About Infinitus Systems: Infinitus is a startup company that develops voice robotic process automation tools for the health care industry.
Greg Castle
Managing Partner, Founder & CEO of Anorak Ventures
Greg is the Managing Partner of Anorak Ventures, a seed-stage venture capital firm focused on emerging technology. Based in Silicon Valley, the firm focuses on VR/AR, robotics, autonomous vehicles, blockchain, deep learning and artificial intelligence. Portfolio companies include Against Gravity, Catalog, Lightform and 6d.ai. Prior to Anorak, Greg was an active angel investor with 26 investments counting Flexport and two exits including Oculus, which was acquired by Facebook for $2bln. With strong ties to the VR/AR community, Greg focuses much of his time investing in, and mentoring startups in this sector. Previously, Greg led marketing for the popular game development company Scaleform (acq. 2011) and for Autodesk’s Game Technology Group.
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About Anorak Ventures: Investing at the earliest stages in transformational people and technology
Aicha Evans
CEO of Zoox
Aicha Evans, Chief Executive Officer at Zoox, is reimagining mobility in dense urban environments and redefining the customer experience through the creation of the first purpose-built, fully autonomous, electric vehicle. Prior to joining Zoox, Aicha served as Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer at Intel Corporation, driving the company’s strategy to transform from a PC-centric to a data-centric company. She is a member of the Supervisory Board of SAP and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from The George Washington University.
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About Intel, Zoox: Zoox is an AI robotics company that provides mobility as-a-service and self-driving car services.
Keller Rinaudo
Co-Founder and CEO of Zipline
Keller Rinaudo is CEO and co-founder of Zipline, the world’s first drone delivery service whose focus is delivering life saving medicine even to the most difficult to reach places on earth. Prior to Zipline, he was a software engineer and a professional rock climber. A graduate of Harvard University, he built computers out of RNA and DNA that can operate in human cells as molecular doctors. Mr. Rinaudo published this research in Nature Biotechnology, becoming one of the youngest first authors in the publication’s history.
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About Zipline: Zipline designs, manufactures, and operates drones to deliver vital medical products to everyone, no matter where they live.
Naganand Murty
Founder & CEO of Electric Sheep Robotics
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About Electric Sheep Robotics: Electric Sheep Robotics provides robotics and machinery solutions to industries needing mechanized solutions.
Jason Devitt
CEO of Compound Eye
Jason Devitt is CEO and co-founder of Mr. Number, a company that helps consumers to control who can call their mobile phone and when. An advocate for open networks, open devices, and open development platforms, Jason has testified on these issues before Congress and the FCC. Previously, Jason co-founded Skydeck, a company that enabled consumers to back up and manage all of their cell phone data online. Jason developed the idea for Skydeck while an entrepreneur-in-residence at iHatch, a venture capital firm that focuses on the mobile market. Prior to Skydeck, Jason co-founded Vindigo, one of the first companies to publish content and applications for mobile phones in the US. Products included Mapquest Mobile, MovieGoer, and the Vindigo City Guide. Jason led the company from inception to over $10 million in revenue and profitability in 2005. Jason spent four years working for the technology-driven investment firm D. E. Shaw & Co. in London and New York, where he structured OTC equity derivatives. He grew up in Ireland and has a Master’s Degree in Electronic Engineering and a Diploma in Law from UCD and the King’s Inns in his hometown of Dublin.
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About Compound Eye: Compound Eye develops 3D vision systems for autonomous machines.
Sébastien Boyer
Co-founder & CEO of FarmWise
Before co-founding FarmWise, Sebastien worked as a mathematician for IBM Research and a data scientist for Facebook. He holds a Master’s in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from MIT, where he studied machine learning and recent advances in computer vision. While at MIT, he won the Machine Learning for the Digital Economy competition. He is passionate about developing technologies that address long-term environmental sustainability problems. He was one of the winners of Innovators Under 35 Europe 2018 from MIT Technology Review and named to the 2019 Forbes 30 Under 30 list.
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About FarmWise: Feeding our World, and our Future.
Eric Sanchez
Co-Founder, CEO of Revl
Eric Sanchez is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Revl.
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About Revl: AI Powered Video Souvenirs as a Service. Full end to end solution for roller coasters, skydive drop zones, race tracks, and zip lines.
Manal Habib
CEO & Cofounder of MightyFly
Manal Habib is co-founder and CEO at MightyFly. A graduate from both MIT and Stanford, Manal has developed a strong technical background in aerospace engineering. She previously led flight controls at Zipline and developed the first robust commercial flight controller. She is a private pilot and in the process of building her own airplane. Her passion for aerospace, vision for a better world, and determination make her a motivated and unstoppable entrepreneur and leader.
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About MightyFly: Remaking the future of logistics
Tyler Hayes
Co-Founder and CEO of Atom Limbs
Tyler Hayes is the Co-Founder and CEO at Atom Limbs.
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About Atom Limbs: Atom builds mind-controlled artificial limbs, to enable a better human body.
Ali Ahmed
Founder & CEO of Robomart
Serial entrepreneur voted one of the ‘Top 100 Asian Stars in UK Tech’ by KPMG and endorsed by TechCity UK and the UK Government as an exceptional talent in technology, with over a decade of experience in on-demand delivery, communications and retail tech. Previously founded on-demand delivery startup Dispatch, and Lutebox, and worked at Groupon, Unilever, GSK.
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About GlaxoSmithKline, Groupon, Robomart, RSM International: On-Demand Mobile Stores
Mengqiu Wang
Founder & CEO of Zero Zero Robotics
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About Zero Zero Robotics: Zero Zero Robotics is working to develop an innovative new device called the Hover Camera.
Jeremy O’Sullivan
CEO of Frobot
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About Frobot: Frobot manufactures robots that produce frozen confections made to order.
Christian Sanz
CEO and Founder of Skycatch
Christian Sanz is the CEO and founder of Skycatch and has over 20 years of experience in software, hardware, and technical leadership.
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About Skycatch: Skycatch builds technology to autonomously capture, process, and analyze 3D drone data.
Igino Cafiero
Founder, CEO of Bear Flag Robotics
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About Bear Flag Robotics: Bear Flag Robotics is an AgTech company developing autonomous technology for farm tractors to increase productivity and improve safety.
Kevin Primat
Founder & CEO of Primed Technologies
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About Primed Technologies: Primed is redefining Conversational AI with the development of a fuzzy, friendly and talkative toy for children.
Will Patrick
Co-Founder & CEO of Culture Biosciences
Will Patrick is a co-founder and Chief Executive Officer at Culture Robotics.
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About Culture Biosciences: Culture Biosciences develops automated bio-reactors that help companies optimize their manufacturing processes.
Joe Augenbraun
CEO of Peanut Robotics
Joe Augenbraun is the CEO of Peanut Robotics. Before that, he was the CEO of Neato Robotics.
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About Bizzy Robots, Inc. (dba Martian Robots), Peanut Robotics, Stanford University: Peanut Robotics offers a robot that cleans commercial spaces such as restaurants, hotels, airports, and offices.
Jeff Linnell
Founder & CEO of Formant
Jeff Linnell is the Founder & CEO at Formant.
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About Formant: Formant is a monitoring and operations software that connects people, processes, sensors, and robots through a robotic approach platform.
Henry Hu
CEO & Co-founder of Cafe X Technologies
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About Cafe X Technologies: Cafe X Technologies is focused on increasing productivity in the service industry through automation.
Mike Miskovsky
Founder & CEO of Tiveni
Mike Miskovsky is the CEO at Tiveni
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About Ojjo, Powerhouse, Tiveni: Tiveni provides battery technology for automobile companies throughout the State of California.
Khaled Hassounah
CEO & Founder of Ample
A visionary technologist, Khaled has recruited and built technical teams across multiple early-stage startups and managed them through rapid growth to deliver successful and innovative products. Khaled has proven experience in building and deploying scalable software that has been used and continues to be used by tens of millions of enterprise and online users across multiple verticals. He has also set up and managed teams across India, China and the Middle East. Prior to MedHelp, he was a founding member of IMlogic, an instant messaging security software company acquired by Symantec, where he built the tech team and managed the delivery of three successful product offerings. Khaled was also the a founding member of One World Software Solutions, a technical consulting company that grew to span three continents, and was part of the NetDocs team at Microsoft. Khaled holds a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Jordan.
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About Ample, MedHelp, NetDocs: Ample utilizes autonomous robotics and smart-battery technology to solve the energy delivery challenge for electric transportation.
Jon Sobel
CEO & Co-Founder of Sight Machine
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About Sight Machine, University of Michigan: Sight Machine provides analytics platform that helps address critical challenges in quality and productivity throughout the enterprise.
Timothy Harris
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Swift Navigation
Timothy Harris, co-founder and CEO of Swift Navigation, is focused on building a world-class organization that will power the next generation of GPS-enabled robots and autonomous vehicles. A proven leader in the high-accuracy GPS industry, Tim leads teams that are excited to drive innovation and challenge each other to achieve visionary change. Prior to Swift, he worked in supply chain consulting for OR Soft Jaenicke GmbH in Halle, Germany, and in corporate finance for Emerge Digital Group, where he oversaw M&A and strategic partnerships for a digital media holding company. Tim holds a JD degree from Boston University and a BA degree from the University of California at Berkeley.
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About Swift Navigation: Swift Navigation offers hardware and software that makes GPS positioning technology available for autonomous vehicle and device guidance.
Aaron Nathan
Founder & CEO of Point One Navigation
A hands on technical leader with over a decade of experience in cutting edge robotics work and mission critical development in both software and hardware. Designed, built and deployed complex systems in financial tech, defense, research, and enterprise. A firm believer tightly coupled hardware and software solutions with a focus on the end user experience.
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About Point One Navigation: Point One Navigation is building a centimeter accurate localization service for the future of transportation.
David Merrill
CEO and Co-Founder of Elroy Air
Dave Merrill is the co-founder and CEO of Elroy Air, a company dedicated to expanding the reach of express logistics with advanced vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) cargo aircraft systems. The company’s first aircraft – the Chaparral – is designed for fully-automated flight and cargo-handling with lightweight modular containers, and will carry 250+ lbs of payload with a 300 mi range. Dave is a technology executive and startup founder with a background in computer science and robotic+interactive systems. Alumnus of MIT (Ph.D.) and Stanford Computer Science / Symbolic Systems (BS, MS), TED speaker, and experienced startup-builder. His work and companies have been featured by the Discovery Channel, Popular Science, Wired, TechCrunch, the New York Times, Forbes and Aviation Week.
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About Elroy Air, Lemnos VC: Elroy Air is a logistics company that specializes in the fields of logistics, robotics, and air transportation.
Satoshi Sugie
Representative Director, CEO, and Founder of WHILL
After working at the NISSAN Technical Center, He co-founded the WHILL Project in 2011.World Economic Forum Davas Meeting and a GSC Japan member.
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About WHILL: WHILL designs and creates personal mobility products for indoor and outdoor applications.
Marco Mascorro
Founder, CEO of Fellow AI
Marco is an entrepreneur, roboticist, passionate about technology and innovation. He likes programming, robotics, Internet of things, virtual reality, artificial Intelligence, disruptive technologies, 3D printing, product design and startups. He loves starting new things, creating new stuff, exploring new cultures, has lived in 6 countries and is a passionate doer.
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About Fellow AI: Cloud-based Inventory Management and Supply Chain Solutions
Pree Walia
CEO & Founder of Preemadonna
Founder at Preemadonna
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About Preemadonna: Preemadonna is the maker of Nailbot, a patented nail robot and intelligent manicure product line disrupting the $15B nail care industry.
Scott Kim
CEO of Neofect
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About Neofect: Neofect develops innovative home exercise device and software for stroke survivors’ fast recovery and rehabilitation.
Cory Kidd
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Catalia Health
Cory Kidd is the founder and CEO of Catalia Health.
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About Catalia Health, Fresco Capital, Wikistrat: We create the Mabu personal healthcare companion to help patients with chronic disease and collect data to healthcare providers.
Angus Pacala
Co-Founder/CEO of Ouster
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About Ouster: Ouster builds high-resolution lidar sensors for autonomous vehicles, robotics, and many other applications.
Fred Parietti
Co-Founder & CEO of Multiply Labs
Fred (Federico) Parietti is the Co-Founder & CEO at Multiply Labs.
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About Multiply Labs: Multiply Labs deploys advanced robotics technology to manufacture personalized pharmaceutical capsules.
Derik Pridmore
Co-Founder & CEO of Osaro
Derik Pridmore is an entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of Osaro, a San Francisco based AI company building machine learning software for industrial automation. Derik was previously a venture capitalist, hedge fund manager, and angel investor, and has over a decade of investment and operational experience. Derik was a Principal at Founders Fund, a Silicon Valley venture fund led by PayPal founder Peter Thiel. At Founders Fund, Derik drove investments in a variety of companies including DeepMind, where he worked closely with the founding team. Derik is also an investor in New York based deep learning startup Clarifai. Prior to Osaro, Derik founded and managed Arda Capital Management, a quantitative equity hedge fund. Derik holds B.S. degrees in Physics and Computer Science (2001) and an M.Eng. degree in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering (2004) from MIT.
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About Osaro: Osaro is an artificial intelligence company developing products based on proprietary deep reinforcement learning technology.
Teo Borschberg
CEO & Co-founder of OTO Systems
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About OTO Systems: OTO Systems develops a next-generation language processing voice technology to unlock valuable data from voice interactions.
Pat Calhoun
Founder & CEO of Espressive
IT leaders universally recognize the importance of self-service capabilities and are making a significant investment in self-help portals and tools. Yet, they find that employee adoption rates remain low. This remains true even after education campaigns and other similar measures are put into place to drive adoption. As a result, IT continues to be faced with high help desk call rates, escalating costs, and increasingly frustrated employees. Why is it that we can get dinner delivered or grab a ride anywhere from our mobile device in minutes in our personal lives—but engaging IT, HR, Sales, and Finance at work is anything but simple? During this session, Pat will show that it doesn’t need to be that way. He will walk through practical applications of forward-looking AI, virtual agents, visual workflows, mobile technologies, and consumerized experiences that are enabling companies to achieve employee adoption rates as high as 60%. Pat will also show how this can be accomplished without extensive and costly professional services or overhauling existing IT infrastructure.
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About Espressive: Espressive specializes in providing companies with artificial intelligence support for employees.
Linda Pouliot
Co-Founder & CEO of Dishcraft Robotics
Linda is a serial entrepreneur with deep expertise in robotics, product management, operations, and manufacturing. She is the CEO and Founder of Dishcraft Robotics. In 2004, Linda co-founded Neato Robotics and was VP Product Management and Operations. She led the design, development and manufacturing of Neato’s revolutionary laser guided vacuum cleaner. The company is now the number two player globally in consumer robotic vacuums. After Neato, Linda became the Chief Operating Officer of Adiri (acquired by ReliaBrand), where she oversaw the redesign and manufacturing of the international award winning Adiri bottle. She then co-founded the game advertising platform Mahoot.
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About Dishcraft Robotics: Dishcraft is a robotics company focused on solving the labor and sustainability challenges facing foodservice operators.
Gregg Ratanaphanyarat
Co-Founder & CEO of ViaBot
Gregg has 7 years of experience in the robotics industry. He’s received multiple awards in robotics competitions, including the Delphis Engineering Excellence Award.
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About ViaBot: ViaBot develops outdoor maintenance robots for commercial properties.
Stefan Safko
CEO of Civil Maps
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About Civil Maps: Civil Maps Provides a Sensor-agnostic Cognition Platform and Pipeline that Enables City Scale HD 3D Mapping, Edge Mapping and Localization.
Michael Norcia
Co-Founder & CEO of Pyka
Michael Norcia is CEO of Pyka, an autonomous electric aircraft company. Michael has a deep technical background in autonomous flight, having contributed to a wide variety of manned/unmanned electric aviation projects at Joby, Cora, and Kittyhawk. In 2017, Michael founded Pyka with the goal of combining two of his lifelong passions: electric aviation and business. His relentless enthusiasm and continual push for a happy and hyper-productive team has helped make Pyka the first and only certified autonomous electric aviation company in the world.
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About Pyka: Pyka makes technologies that make aviation safer, more affordable, and more accessible than has ever been possible in human history.
Leo Ryzhenko
CEO of SMP Robotics
Throughout my whole career in the IT, Semiconductor, Contract Manufacturing, Pharmaceutical, and other industries, I’ve been working on optimizing business models and processes, offering my expertise in developing unique and innovative solutions, while building advanced technological products and services that change the way people live their daily lives for the better. These days, my business development experience encompasses various segments of autonomous robot technology such as Artificial Intelligence, Robotic Autonomy in extreme conditions, Deep Learning, IoT, MESH networks, as well as constant research and learning demanded by rapidly changing technology.
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About SMP Robotics: SMP Robotics is a leading global developer of autonomous robot technologies.
Drew Payne
Cofounder and CEO of UpMetrics
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About UpMetrics: UpMetrics provides tools and services for operators and funders to analyze, interpret, and learn from data to make informed decisions.
Yaroslav Azhnyuk
CEO & co-founder of Petcube
Yaroslav is a co-founder and CEO of Petcube, a gadget for pet owners allowing to watch, talk and play with their pets from anywhere using the smartphone. In 2008, Yaroslav founded SM Digital – the first Ukrainian agency, specialized on social media. It later became a part of Prodigi – the largest internet marketing agency in Ukraine. At Prodigi Yaroslav developed SMM strategies for some of the largest Ukrainian and International brands, built a scalable SMM department and developed internal agency processes. He is interested in how technology changes society and in the potential of small communities collaborating via social media. His primary fields of interest in internet business currently are “the internet of things”, e-commerce and online education. Specialties: Business Development, Fundraising, Internet Marketing, Social Media, User Experience, Event Management, Web Development
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About Petcube: Petcube is a worldwide leader in pet cameras & software, connecting pets to the internet and giving them a voice.
Alex Pachikov
Founder & CEO of Sunflower Labs
Alex is a specialist in emerging trends in the computer, web, and mobile industries. He brings a decade’s experience in technology evangelism with the goal of promoting partnerships and integration for complementary products and services. He maintains an in-depth understanding of the mobile market and manages relationships with most major mobile device manufactures and carriers. Alex has been involved with Evernote from the very beginning – holding positions ranging from web-developer, IT manager, project manager and director of business development. Starting his career at Silicon Graphics Inc., he prepared product presentations and participated in major industry events to showcase the latest technology and software to the industry’s top firms, including Sun, Intel, Apple and Microsoft. Alex holds a BA degree in Astronomy and Sociology from University of Colorado, Boulder.
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About Sunflower Labs: Sunflower Labs builds consumer products to design insightful home security.
Vipin Jain
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of 6d bytes
Vipin Jain is co-founder and Chief Executive Officer at 6D Bytes.
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About 6d bytes, Blendid: 6d bytes is a robotics startup that builds robotics systems to revolutionize the way of preparing and serving meals.
Alexandros Vardakostas
CEO of Creator
Alex Vardakostas is the CEO at Creator.
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About Creator: Creator is a collective of food lovers and engineers with decades of robotics and restaurant experience.
Jotham Ty
Co-founder & CEO of Gappify
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About Gappify: Gappify is a cloud-based provider of process automation solutions for corporate accounting teams.
Austin Oehlerking
Co-Founder & CEO of Boxbot
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About Boxbot: Boxbot is a startup that was founded in twenty sixteen and is located in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Tobin Fisher
Co-Founder & CEO of Vantage Robotics
Tobin Fisher is the Co-Founder & CEO at Vantage Robotics.
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About Vantage Robotics: Vantage Robotics is a technology company that makes amazing aerial videos easy for commercial operations over people.
Jaz Banga
Founder & CEO of Airspace Systems
Jaz founded Airspace in San Francisco in 2015. Over the past two decades, he has built groundbreaking technologies and grown several successful Silicon Valley companies. Prior to Airspace, Jaz cofounded Connected Patents, a consulting firm to help entrepreneurs protect their intellectual property, map out a patent strategy, and create a defensible patent portfolio. He established Connected Patents after three years as the founder and CEO of ProximityWare, which he worked on at the Founders Den in San Francisco. Prior to that, Jaz was the founder, president, and CTO of Feeva Technology, which handled the San Francisco Wi-Fi project, an initiative that delivered Google WiFi for free to the city. Jaz holds 55 patents ranging from Internet connectivity to drone guidance systems.
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About Airspace Systems, Drone Advisory Committee (DAC): Airspace Systems is a Silicon Valley-based company leading the development of aerial security systems for enterprise.
Keith McMillen
Founder and CEO of BeBop Sensors
Founder CEO at BeBop Sensors.
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About BeBop Sensors, Keith McMillen Instruments: BeBop Sensors develops sensor solutions for OEMs to incorporate into their products.
Joshua Ouellette
Co-founder, CEO of Raven[Ops]
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About Raven[Ops]: Raven[Ops] is a startup that focuses on building DevOps for robotics.
Xianqiao Tong
Co-Founder and CEO of Roadstar.ai
Xianqiao Tong is the Cofounder & CEO at Roadstar.ai
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About Roadstar.ai: Roadstar.ai empowers cars and trucks with artificial intelligence, so as to make transportation safer, more enjoyable, more efficient.
Nathan Schuett
Founder & CEO of PreNav
Nathan Schuett is Founder and CEO of PRENAV, a startup developing intelligent drones that are guided by computer vision. PRENAV’s commercial drone systems are used for automated inspection of cell phone towers, wind turbines, buildings and oil/gas infrastructure. Previously, Nathan managed robotics projects at The Society for Creative Research, performing work for Google and others. He also spent several years in the gaming industry, working in Product and Marketing for EA and Lolapps. Nathan has spoken frequently on commercial drone industry topics like sense & avoid, lost link, and collaborative robotics. Nathan graduated from Stanford University with a degree in computer music.
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About PreNav: PreNav develops precision drone system for industrial inspection.
Nathan Schuett
Founder & CEO of PreNav
Nathan Schuett is Founder and CEO of PRENAV, a startup developing intelligent drones that are guided by computer vision. PRENAV’s commercial drone systems are used for automated inspection of cell phone towers, wind turbines, buildings and oil/gas infrastructure. Previously, Nathan managed robotics projects at The Society for Creative Research, performing work for Google and others. He also spent several years in the gaming industry, working in Product and Marketing for EA and Lolapps. Nathan has spoken frequently on commercial drone industry topics like sense & avoid, lost link, and collaborative robotics. Nathan graduated from Stanford University with a degree in computer music.
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About PreNav: PreNav develops precision drone system for industrial inspection.
Matt Oehrlein
CEO & Co-Founder of MegaBots
Builder of giant robots, Entrepreneur, DIY community leader
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About GOGUN, MegaBots: MegaBots is building the future of fantasy sports entertainment by building 7-ton, 15-foot-tall, human-piloted, humanoid robots.
Eric Law
CEO & Co-Founder of Urban Machine
Eric Law is the Co-founder and CEO of Urban Machine.
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About Urban Machine: Salvaging the past to build the future- Stealth Startup
Raja Jasti
Founder & CEO of ZeroUI
Raja Jasti is the Founder & CEO at ZeroUI.
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About ZeroUI: ZeroUI offers an e-learning platform that delivers immersive experiential learning anytime anywhere using the IoT Robotics system.
Munir Usman
CEO & Co-Founder of RemoteInterview
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About RemoteInterview: RemoteInterview is a virtual interview tool for conducting online coding tests and interviews with software developers and more.
Scott Sambucci
Founder, CEO & Sales Coach of SalesQualia
Scott is the Founder & CEO at SalesQualia, a sales coaching company that helps B2B Startups to grow sales faster. He is a sales coach, author and keynote speaker. He’s formerly the Head of Sales at Blend. He has extensive experience in sales, customer development, and company management in both startups and public-traded companies. Prior to Blend, Scott’s has been a, executive, COO, VP of Sales and Product manager with CoreLogic, Altos Research, Aplia and Pearson Education, respectively.
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About Hult International Business School, SalesQualia: Improve Sales Performance. Sell More Stuff.
Anil Cheriyadat
Founder & CEO of Sturfee
Anil Cheriyadat is the Founder & CEO at Sturfee.
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About Sturfee: Building Largest Spatial Content Delivery Platform to overlay Digital Contents directly over Physical Environments and Products.
Ashod Donikian
Founder & CEO of Navisens
Founder & CEO, Navisens Ashod received his B. Eng and PhD degrees from the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) in 2003 and 2010, respectively. Ashod has worked on several projects specializing in sensors, autonomous vehicles, and UAVs/drones. In 2007, as a researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, Ashod worked on the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge, a highly regarded robotics challenge sponsored by the US government, spurring on research in autonomous vehicles. Ashod has spent several years working as a research engineer on various robotics projects at UTS, and as an academic teaching within the UTS Faculty of Engineering.
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About Navisens: Navisens is a mapping service platform locates mobile devices indoors, underground, and outdoors.
Tim Swift
Founder / CEO of ROAM
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About ROAM: ROAM is a San Francisco-based robotics company that is developing mobility through is powered orthotics, known as exoskeletons.
Liane Thompson
Chief Executive Officer of Aquaai
Founder of Aquaai.
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About Aquaai, Aquaai: Aquaai provides risk management to blue economy industries that seek affordable tools to grow and operate sustainable.
Elad Inbar
CEO of RobotLAB
Elad Inbar is the CEO, RobotLAB.com Founder RobotAppStore.
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About Robot App Store, RobotLAB, The Israeli Robotics Association: RobotLAB builds and develop solutions to create Smart, Useful Robots for business and education.
Nathan Rockhold
Founder & CEO of RockSolid Labs
Nathan Rockhold founded RockSolid Labs and has served as CEO since the beginning. Before RockSolid Labs Nathan was Co-Founder and CTO of NodePrime, which was sold to Ericsson. Nathan worked at Dell in the Enterprise Solutions Group covering the largest Cloud, SaaS, and gaming companies. Before Dell, Nathan held various technical and software development roles for HP, Perot Systems, SAIC and the Department of Defense. Previously, Nathan co-founded R-Cubed Technologies, a multi-million dollar provider of integrated Linux solutions for laptops, desktops and servers. Nathan is a graduate of Western Illinois University with a BS in Computer Science and Mathematics.
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About Intwine, RockSolid Labs: Developing tools to empower customers to go from new hardware to distributed workloads in less than 30 minutes.
Jon Hegranes
CEO & Co-Founder of Aloft (formerly Kittyhawk)
CEO, App Developer, Drone Enthusiast, and Dad.
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About Aloft (formerly Kittyhawk): Aloft is the market leader for UTM and airspace services, serving recreational, enterprise, and government customers.
Wei-Min Lu
Founder & CEO of MoPaaS
Lu is the founder and CEO of Anchora (MoPaaS), which is the leading cloud platform solution provider in China that builds the converged platform solution that enables both the first public open cloud platform service (MoPaaS: http://www.mopaas.com) and an enterprise-class PaaS cloud platform solution (MoPaaS enterprise); in particular, MoPaaS provide cloud platform for industrial Internet for manufacturing, communication and energy industries, artificial intelligence solution for education market, and SRE solution for cloud service operation. Dr. Lu has over 15 year experiences in product development and marketing. Before he founded Anchora in 2008, he served in key engineering and management positions at IBM and NASA-JPL etc. He has solid background in cloud computing, cybernetics, machine learning, information retrieval, and storage technologies. He received the Ph.D. degree (EE/Math) from CalTech and the B.Sc. degree from Tsinghua University, China.
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About MoPaaS: Anchora is a cloud platform solution provider in China dedicated to deliver cutting-edge cloud technologies
Troy Mestler
CEO of Skyfront
CEO at Skyfront.
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About Skyfront: Skyfront builds extreme endurance, fully autonomous aircraft for public safety and commercial applications.
Lawrence Chen
Founder & CEO of SpeakIn
In 2015, Chen Haoliang founded SpeakIn. The Shenzhen-based company develops voiceprint recognition technologies, which use an algorithm to analyze people’s sound and mood. The company claims to have a 99.5% accuracy rate — higher than the industry standard of 95%. Chen envisions a future where users can have their identities verified through their voices, which can serve as a complement to current security systems at banks and social services. Its backers include China’s IDG and Hongzhi Capital.
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About SpeakIn: Speakin is a voiceprint recognition and identity security solutions AI company.
James Peverill
CEO of GreenSight
James is an experience executive, program manager and engineer. His technical specialty is rapid prototyping of robotic and sensor systems, initially for military applications and more recently for commercial agriculture!
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About GreenSight: GreenSight is building the scaleable, enterprise platform for low altitude aerial intelligence.
Shaoshan Liu
Founder, CEO and Chairman of PerceptIn
Shaoshan Liu is the co-founder, President, and Chairman of Board of PerceptIn, working on developing the next-generation robotics platform. Before founding PerceptIn, he was working on Autonomous Driving and Deep Learning Infrastructure at Baidu USA. Liu has a PhD in Computer Engineering from University of California, Irvine.
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About Alluxio, PerceptIn: PerceptIn provides the all-in-one perception, insight, and intelligence solutions for robots and autonomous driving
Marek Sadowski
CEO of Robotics Inventions
The founder of the Robotics Inventions; at RI Marek is responsible for business development and overall leadership; he manages investor relationships, answers RFIs and RFPs and supervises RI offerings; previously Marek worked at NASA Ames (Virtual Reality systems to control robots) and at NTT Tokyo Software Laboratories as a research engineer, for more than ten years he has worked at IBM, HP, AMS, and TPSA as an IT architect, Project Manager and salesman; graduated from The International Space University. In the free time Marek is a scuba diver, a snowboarder, a martial arts instructor, and finally a father and a husband.
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About Robotics Inventions: Cutting edge of the emerging automation industry, with leading R&D in artificial intelligence (AI), edge compute and robotic systems.
Kelle O’Neal
Founder & CEO of First San Francisco Partners
Having worked with the software and systems providers key to the formulation of Master Data Management (MDM), Kelle O’Neal has played important roles in many of the groundbreaking initiatives that confirm the value of MDM to the enterprise. Recognizing an unmet need for clear guidance on the intricacies of implementing data solutions, she founded First San Francisco Partners. Under her leadership, FSFP immediately established a reputation as the first-call resource for companies looking to tap the value of Enterprise Information Management (EIM), MDM and Data Governance (DG). Kelle developed her ability to work through organizational complexity, build consensus and drive results in senior roles at companies such as Siperian, GoldenGate Software, Siebel Systems and Oracle. Kelle’s strong background enables her to provide expert counsel to organizations seeking to execute an EIM, MDM or DG project. Kelle holds degrees from Duke Univ and the University of Chicago Booth School of Business
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About First San Francisco Partners: First San Francisco Partners is a specialized professional services and IT consulting company focused on helping organizations
Cecile Schmollgruber
Co-Founder & CEO of Stereolabs
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About Stereolabs: Stereolabs mission is to turn the world into a massive playground, using advanced sensing technology that reproduces human vision.
