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This list showcases the top United States based CEO’ operating in the Industrial Automation 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.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Cory Baldwin
Chief Executive Officer of sensemetrics
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About sensemetrics: sensemetrics is the IIoT company transforming sensor data into real-time business intelligence to enable productivity and safety solutions
Cory Baldwin
Chief Executive Officer of sensemetrics
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About sensemetrics: sensemetrics is the IIoT company transforming sensor data into real-time business intelligence to enable productivity and safety solutions
Karan Talati
Co-Founder & CEO of First Resonance
Karan Talati is the CEO and Co-Founder of First Resonance, which has raised $20 million in capital since its founding in 2018. First Resonance builds a Factory OS for the aerospace, automotive, and robotics industries and now powers over 40 leading manufacturers. These companies are leaders in cutting-edge products like eVTOLs (air taxis), rockets, electric boats, and robotic construction products. Karan built his company in collaboration with the world’s best engineers from companies like SpaceX, Tesla, and Apple, and he is saving his clients countless hours and dollars with their innovative, flexible, and data-driven approach to modern manufacturing.
Karan created First Resonance after gaining valuable insight on the future from working at SpaceX. With his team at First Resonance, Karan has created the ION Factory OS, which optimizes manufacturing efficiency by 30% with the ability to build, iterate, and track processes throughout a dynamic factory workflow. Karan strives to make technology faster and more accessible, while revolutionizing the current systems at play. Beyond work, he maintains a witty Twitter presence with thousands of followers and a viral tweet with 12K retweets and 90K likes.
Accomplishments:
- Raising 20 million dollars in venture capital
- Worked at SpaceX to transform technology systems
- Creating a product now in use at over 40 manufacturing companies around the world
- Designing one product with the benefits of many to set the standard in production software
Features:
- PODCAST | Entrepreneur: Action & Ambition: Karan Talati Co-Founder, and CEO of First Resonance, is Transforming The Manufacturing World With The Next-Generation Software Platform ION
- PODCAST | The Roller Coaster Podcast: Karan Talati – CEO of First Resonance
- PODCAST | Agile Hardware Manufacturing: Meeting this Century’s Toughest Challenges with Karan Talati
- PODCAST | Venture Stories: Karan Talati and Keenan Johnson on the Future of Manufacturing
- ARTICLE | Cision: First Resonance Raises $14M Series A to Fuel Development of Factory Operating System to Help Manufacturers Navigate Unprecedented Supply Chain Challenges
- ARTICLE | dot.LA: Former SpaceX Engineer’s Platform for Makers of EV, Rockets and Air Taxis Raises $14M
- ARTICLE | Built In LA: First Resonance Raises $14M Series A, Plans to Triple Its Headcount
- ARTICLE | LA TechWatch: First Resonance $14M for its Operating System for Factories That’s Helping Ease Supple Chain Woes
- ARTICLE | TechCrunch: First Resonance brings its space-scale manufacturing OS to hardware makers with $14M A round
- ARTICLE | VentureBeat: First Resonance snags $14M for an operating system designed for factories
- ARTICLE | LA TechWatch: First Resonance Raises $3.5M to be the Operating System for Factories
- ARTICLE | LA Startups: First Resonance Raises Fresh Round Of Funding To Meet Growing Demand For Factory Operating System
- ARTICLE | Crunchbase News: First Resonance Raises New Round To Make Hardware Manufacturing Easier
- ARTICLE | dot.LA: First Resonance Lands $3.5M as Aerospace and EV Manufacturing Expand
- ARTICLE | LA TechWatch: First Resonance Helps Manufacturing Move to an Operating System Rather Than an Assemble Line
- ARTICLE | Aviation Week: Manufacturing System Aims To Help Hardware Startups Move Faster
- ARTICLE | LA Startups: First Resonance Launches Next-Generation Manufacturing Software Platform For Aerospace, Robotics, And Automotive Industries
- ARTICLE | TechCrunch: Founded by former SpaceX engineers, First Resonance pitches tools to make things the SpaceX way
- ARTICLE | Built In LA: What’s Changed? 6 LA Companies Share How Their Tech Stacks Have Evolved
- ARTICLE | Built In LA: Built In LA’s 50 Startups to Watch
Contact Info:
Email – [email protected]
Website – https://www.firstresonance.io/
LinkedIn – linkedin.com/in/karan-talati/
Twitter – @karantalati
Facebook – facebook.com/firstresonance.io/
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About First Resonance: First Resonance builds ION, the Factory Operating System that manufacturers trust for speed, collaboration, and visibility.
Erik Palitsch
Co-Founder & CEO of Freeform
Erik Palitsch is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Freeform Future.
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About Freeform: Stealth-mode additive manufacturing company.
Shaun Cooley
President & CEO of Mapped
Shaun Cooley is the Founder and CEO of a Mapped, a Los Angeles based startup in the Internet of Things (IoT) space. In his prior role as VP.CTO for Cisco’s Internet of Things (IoT) Business, he was responsible for Cisco’s long-term IoT technology strategy. This included shaping product architecture, security, privacy, and technology partnerships, as implemented by Cisco’s IoT business, advising governments on IoT regulation, driving Cisco’s participation in IoT related standards bodies and consortia, and championing innovation to solve existing or anticipated industry needs. Before taking on the role of CTO for IoT, Shaun was a Distinguished Engineer, responsible for the security of Cisco’s collaboration infrastructure, cloud, and endpoint technologies. Shaun is particularly focused on ensuring security is either transparent or extremely usable – something that is typically overlooked in enterprise products. Prior to joining Cisco, Shaun was a Distinguished Engineer for Norton, by Symantec, where he was a driving force in Norton’s shift from utilities to security. Over his 18-year tenure, Shaun contributed to the creation and advancement of offerings in the Norton portfolio, including Norton Internet Security, Norton 360, Norton One, Norton Antispam, Norton’s cloud management platform, and Norton Home, a consumer IoT security offering – a product portfolio that produces over $2 Billion in annual revenue. Shaun has over 25 years of industry experience, holds a master’s degree in computer science from University of Illinois, and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP). He is named inventor on 120 issued United States patents with over 100 more pending. He is an active angel investor and a start-up mentor through Acceleprise SF and advisor for Deep Angels. Shaun was previously a director of the Open Connectivity Foundation and former board member of Attivo Networks.
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About Mapped: Data infrastructure for IoT
Grant Canary
Founder & CEO of DroneSeed
Grant Canary is CEO of DroneSeed, a Techstars Seattle 2016 company which is paid by Timber companies per acre to plant tree seeds, spray to protect them, and monitor growth–by drone swarm. This year DroneSeed received the FAA’s first approval for up to five aircraft to be flown by a single pilot each carrying a 57lb payload. DroneSeed works for 3 of the 5 largest timber companies and recently signed a contract with The Nature Conservancy to restore post wildfire burn sites. They are backed by Social Capital and Spero Ventures. This is Grant’s second venture. His first was acquired. Under the acquirer the team raised $10M and built a 60k square foot factory to produce industrial insect protein from food waste for sustainable salmon feed. The company is still going strong. Grant’s spent his entire carrier working within for-profit companies to benefit the environment including Vestas Wind Energy and the US Green Building Council. Grant loves meeting and championing awesome people working on cool things and sometimes hires them.
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About DroneSeed: DroneSeed is paid per acre to plant tree seed vessels after a wildfire — using heavy-lift Drone Swarms
Paul Dabrowski
CEO of Synthego
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About Synthego: Synthego is a genome engineering company that enables access to CRISPR to accelerate life science research and development.
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.
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.
Raunak Bhinge
CEO, Managing Director & Founder of Infinite Uptime
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About Infinite Uptime: Infinite Uptime is an industrial IoT solution provider for improved quality and productivity in the engineering and processing industries.
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.
Bassem Hamdy
CEO & Co-Founder of Briq
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About Briq: Briq is a financial forecasting and data intelligence platform for the construction industry.
Michael Young
Founder & CEO of Photon Commerce
Michael Young is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and the founder & CEO of Photon Commerce. Photon’s payments AI accelerates customer experiences for fintech leaders using document AI. After leaving a Stanford PhD, Michael was an engineer at IBM, led advanced R&D programs funded by the Department of Defense, created hundreds of jobs, raised $50M across his venture-backed startups, and took some to acquisitions.
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About Photon Commerce: Photon Commerce’s AI digitizes and captures any document with nearly 100% accuracy. It is optimized for bills, invoices, bills of lading, statements, contracts, and other PDFs in the fintech industry. Photon powers Fortune 500, businesses around the world, and fintech unicorns with instant experiences, document AI, OCR, and instant payments. Having processed $23B volumes, Photon is supported by the Nasdaq Center and Village Global, a venture firm funded by Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates.
Rick Faulk
CEO of Locus Robotics
With more than 20 years of experience in executive management, sales, and marketing for some of the most successful companies in the high-tech industry, Rick is a nationally recognized high technology executive. Immediately prior to Mzinga, Rick was Chief Marketing Officer of WebEx Communications and President of WebEx Small Business, where he was responsible for the company’s worldwide go-to-market and customer acquisition strategies. Previously, Rick served as president and CEO of Intranets.com, which was acquired by WebEx in 2005. Under his leadership, Intranets.com secured more than 300,000 users and was named to the Inc. 500 list of the fastest growing technology companies for two consecutive years. Before joining Intranets.com, Rick was Vice President of Corporate Marketing at PictureTel, where he was responsible for all aspects of corporate marketing. Prior to joining PictureTel, Rick was Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing at Shiva Corporation. He was instrumental in growing Shiva’s worldwide revenues by more than 50 percent, expanding distribution channels and effectively positioning Shiva as the market leader in the remote networking market. Rick also spent four years as Vice President of Corporate Marketing at Lotus Development Corporation, where he was responsible for all marketing communication functions, VAR development, database marketing, channel marketing, and OEM marketing. Before that, Rick founded First Software, a software distribution company, which grew to more than $175 million in revenue in less than four years. In 1985, First Software was ranked second in Inc. Magazine’s list of fastest-growing companies. Rick holds a BS in Business Administration from Bowling Green State University.
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About CampaignerCRM, Intronis, Locus Robotics: Locus Robotics is a warehouse robotics company that manufactures autonomous mobile robots to support e-commerce.
Mark Blinn
President & CEO of Flowserve
President and chief executive officer, director, of Flowserve Corporation, 2009-present; chief financial officer, 2004-2009. Chief financial officer of FedEx Kinko’s Office and Print Services Inc., 2003-2004. Vice president and controller of Centex Corporation, 2000-2002.
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About Flowserve: Flowserve specializes in supplying pumps, valves, seals, automation, and services to the power, oil, gas, chemical, and other industries.
Blake Moret
President & Chief Executive Officer of Rockwell Automation
Blake Moret Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Rockwell Automation
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About Rockwell Automation, Rockwell Automation: Rockwell Automation specializes in industrial automation and information, makes its customers more productive.
Madan Kalakuntla
Founder, Chairman & CEO of USM Business Systems
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About USM Business Systems: USM Business Systems is a global IT services and staffing company.
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.
Jim Keravala
CEO & Cofounder of OffWorld
Jim is co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of OffWorld, building an industrial robotic workforce to undertake mining, manufacturing and construction on planetary surfaces and in space. The robotic workforce forms a solar system platform that will enable the construction of space based solar power stations, propellant depots and entire settlements. He brings 30 years of experience and visionary leadership in innovation in multidisciplinary areas such as aerospace engineering, space systems, robotics and machine intelligence, manufacturing and construction, computer science, synthetic biology and molecularly precise control systems. Jim is a prolific technologist and an accomplished entrepreneur able to constantly identify new acceleration ramps in the technological landscape. Jim started his career in the space launch industry managing launch programs overseeing over a dozen successful orbital launches on Russian, European and US launch vehicles. Modular satellite design, integration engineering and program management were part of this process.
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About OffWorld: OffWorld is developing a learning robotic workforce for heavy industrial jobs on Earth, Moon, asteroids & Mars.
Saikat Dey
CEO & Co Founder of Guardhat Technologies
Saikat Dey is a co-founder of Guardhat, Inc., a start up based in Detroit aiming to create an industrial IoT and wearables platform for workers in heavy manufacturing industries like steel, oil and gas and mining. Every year, over 4600 people lose their lives on the jobs in these industries due to unsafe work conditions. Guardhat, aims to change that by creating a wearable IIOT platform that provides real time situational awareness and connectivity to frontline workers in such industries. Previously, Saikat served as the CEO of Severstal NA, which was the fourth largest flat steelmaker in the US competing against the likes of Nucor, US Steel and Arcelor Mittal. Severstal is considered one of the best examples of heavy manufacturing revival in the United States, with flagship locations in Michigan and Mississippi. Saikat led the successful turnaround and divestiture of these assets in September 2014 to two of its rivals. He joined Severstal from McKinsey & Co. where he worked in the Global Energy and Materials practice. He is widely recognized as a global thought leader on investment strategies, commercial optimization and operational improvement within commodity industries, and has recently authored the book “Uncommoditized” which serves as a quick read on the DNA of successful players. He holds an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and an undergraduate degree in Mining Engineering from the National Institute of Technology in India.
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About Guardhat Technologies: Guardhat is a multi-product, feature-packed intelligent safety system that integrates cutting edge wearable technology.
Saurav Agarwal
Co-Founder, CEO of SIERA.AI
Saurav has worked at Qualcomm Research developing multiple patents for autonomous drones. He has won the prestigious Qualcomm Padovani Fellowship for his work along with National Innovation Awards and NSF I-Corps.
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About SIERA.AI: SIERA.AI is a mobility tech company that helps warehouses and factories increase safety and efficiency of their industrial vehicle fleets.
Shane Fox
Co-Founder and CEO of LINK3D
Shane is a technology evangelist and entrepreneur at the forefront of the Industrial 3D Printing revolution. While working at Within Technologies, a software company that developed and designed software tools for additive manufacturing, Shane’s technology innovation reached over 35 countries. Specializing in topological optimization, he helped create the product known today as Within Medical. In May 2014, Autodesk acquired Within and Shane went on to lead product architecture and business development for the Additive Manufacturing division. Having left Autodesk, Shane co-founded LINK3D. The company’s focus: to automate and optimize the entire additive manufacturing workflow. LINK3D was selected as a ‘FiReStarter Company,’ which previously featured Elon Musk (Tesla, SpaceX) and Michael Dell (Dell), among others. Shane holds a deep understanding of advanced manufacturing, automation, topological optimization and machine learning. He received his B.S in Management Information Systems from California University.
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About LINK3D: Link3D is a SaaS-based solutions to help organizations scale and optimize their additive manufacturing ecosystems.
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.
Jerome Dubois
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of 6 River Systems
Jerome is a founder and co-CEO of 6 River Systems, Inc. (6RS). Prior to founding 6RS, Jerome was on the leadership team at Kiva (now Amazon Robotics) and ran the commercial business unit responsible for over 25 customers and 35 sites globally. He has over 20 years supply chain technology experience, including leadership positions at Yantra (now IBM Smarter Commerce) and Amazon Services. Jerome graduated with a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of New Hampshire and an MBA from Northeastern University.
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About 6 River Systems: 6 River Systems mission is to redefine fulfillment automation for e-commerce and retail operations.
Rylan Hamilton
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of 6 River Systems
Rylan is one of three co-founders at 6 River Systems. He was formerly part of the leadership team at Kiva Systems, now Amazon Robotics, where he led the design and deployment organizations. He’s also a former U.S. Navy engineering officer.
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About 6 River Systems: 6 River Systems mission is to redefine fulfillment automation for e-commerce and retail operations.
Patrick Sobalvarro
President, CEO & Co-Founder of Veo Robotics
Patrick Sobalvarro is the co-founder and CEO of Veo Robotics, a company that brings advanced computer vision, 3D sensing, and AI to industrial robots, allowing them to work side-by-side with humans in manufacturing processes. Patrick has more than twenty-five years of experience in computer vision, robotics, and industrial automation. Prior to founding Veo Robotics, Patrick was the first Entrepreneur in Residence at Siemens Venture Capital, focusing on the creation of the vision behind Veo. He also served as the VP of New Growth Platforms for Avery Dennison, building a new business line in RFID-based IoT products, was President of Rethink Robotics, creators of collaborative manufacturing robots, and founded and led the computer vision startup IntelliVid to its acquisition by Tyco International. Originally trained as a computer scientist, Patrick holds a Ph.D., M.S., and B.S. in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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About Veo Robotics: Veo Robotics develops smart device solutions to enable high performance collaborative industrial robotics.
Maxwell Reynolds
Co-Founder & CEO of Symbio Robotics
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About Symbio Robotics: Symbio Robotics is developing robotic systems and software for advanced manufacturing.
Ikenna Nzewi
Co-founder & CEO of Releaf
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About Releaf: Releaf is an agriculture company that develops novel industrial processing technology in Africa’s sustainable oil palm sector.
Mark E. Jagiela
Chief Executive Officer and President of Teradyne
Mr. Jagiela became CEO of Teradyne in February of 2014. He has been President of Teradyne since January 2013 and the President of the Semiconductor Test Division since 2003. He is also on the Board of Directors. Prior to these roles, he was the worldwide marketing manager of Teradyne’s semiconductor test products from 2001 to 2003. Mark joined Teradyne in 1982 as a design engineer, developing image sensor test systems. From 1989 to 1999 he served as general manager of Teradyne’s Japan Division. He returned to the U.S. in 1999 as the engineering manager for the company’s VLSI Test Division in Agoura Hills, California. Mark holds a BSEE from the University of Michigan. Mr. Jagiela has been a director of Teradyne, Inc. since 2014.
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About Nextest Systems, Teradyne: Teradyne is a supplier of automatic test equipment used to test complex electronics used in consumer electronics.
Robert Frederick
CEO, President & Co-Founder of Sirqul
Robert Frederick, founder and CEO of Sirqul, has been focused on connected communities of devices, people, and businesses since 1993. He was inspired by the boundless future potential of smart connected devices and leveraged this passion to attend MIT, to work on projects in the MIT Media Lab, and to join one of the first startups focused on standards that would later be called BlueTooth in the late nineties. The startup’s licensed product, DeviceTalk.com, was a central server running Intelligent Agents that used event-based logic to complete actions on behalf of its users via simple commands and conditional triggers. Identity and Presence was important then and still tends to be important now. Amazon acquired the company in 1999, and Robert led the internal team, Amazon Anywhere, that focused on making it possible to interact with Amazon Anywhere, Anytime, on Any device. After becoming the technical co-founder of Amazon Web Services and setting the stage for Amazon to become profitable leveraging the Cloud, Rob started Sirqul to create an Intelligence of Things (IoT) ecosystem on top of the cloud that also works at the edge. Sirqul has numerous partners that span Retail, Smart Buildings, Autonomous Vehicles, and Robotics.
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About GripWire, Sirqul: Sirqul enables startups and ecosystems to leverage application templates, platform, & APIs to create solutions and ecosystems rapidly.
Swapnil Shah
CEO of CIMCON Lighting
Swapnil Shah was the CEO and Co-Founder of FirstFuel Software. He is currently the CEO of CIMCON.
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About CIMCON Lighting, New England Clean Energy Council: CIMCON Lighting provides software-powered lighting controllers and IoT-enabled city lighting management solutions.
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.
Amit Mahajan
Founder and CEO of Griffyn Robotech
Amit Mahajan is an inventor, a serial entrepreneur and a visionary. Amit is the founder of Phoenix Innovations, Griffyn Robotech and Xcaliber Infotech. He is the CEO and chairman of the board for all 3 companies. Prior to this, Amit was the founder and CEO of Xcaliber Technologies based out of Atlanta. Xcaliber technologies was acquired in 2016 by Blancco Technology Group. Amit has 1 patent and multiple pending patents in his name. He is also the inventor and the brain behind the Deepsight Grading platform and SmartChk Diagnostics solution.
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About Griffyn Robotech, Phoenix Innovations, Xcaliber Infotech: Griffyn Robotech specializes in manufacturing Grading Robots, Testing Robots, Industrial IoT AI Edge Gateways, Smart Cameras, Automation
Palaniswamy ‘Raj’ Rajan
Chairman & CEO of SoftWear Automation
Managing Partner at CTW Venture Partners.
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About Atlanta CEO Council, Bio/Med Investor Network, Carbon Clean Solutions, CTW Venture Partners, SoftWear Automation, TiE Atlanta, TiE Atlanta, Virima Technologies, YPO: Your On-Demand Local T-shirt Supply Chain Powered by revolutionary Sewbots technology.
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.
Chris Nicholson
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Pathmind
Chris Nicholson is the CEO of Skymind and co-creator of Deeplearning4j, the most popular open-source deep-learning framework on the JVM. In a prior life, Chris led communications and recruiting for FutureAdvisor, a Sequoia-backed YCombinator startup which was acquired by BlackRock in 2015. He also spent a decade reporting on tech and finance for The New York Times, Businessweek and Bloomberg, among others.
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About Pathmind: Pathmind helps simulation modelers optimize industrial operations and supply chains with deep reinforcement learning.
Samuel Reeves
Founder and CEO of FORT Robotics
Samuel Reeves is Co-Founder and President of Humanistic Robotics, Inc. Samuel’s main responsibilities at HRI include understanding customer requirements and the completion of customer deliverables, the ongoing maintenance of the HRI’s human capital and developing customer relationships and partnerships. Samuel got his start in the landmine clearance field as a researcher for the Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining, a multilateral think-tank that is a leading innovator on the global landmine issue. Previously, Samuel has helped to build and lead the Wharton Small Business Development Center (SBDC) of the University of Pennsylvania, consulting organization funded by the Federal Government, Commonwealth of PA, and the University that assists over 600 businesses each year on matters of critical strategic, operational and financial matters. Samuel has also held positions at financial firms Apex Capital Corp and Texas Pacific Group (now TPG Capital). Samuel Reeves earned a B.S. in Economics with concentrations in Finance and Management from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
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About FORT Robotics: FORT Robotics is a safety and security platform designed to secure autonomous machines from cybersecurity attacks.
Samuel Bertram
CEO and Co-Founder of OnePointOne
Robotics Engineer
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About OnePointOne: OPO has developed a fully automated vertical farming system to improve the health of humanity through plant-based foods and medicines.
Sanjay Sehgal
Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of MSys Technologies
Sanjay has over two decades of executive management and entrepreneurial experience in industries comprising enterprise software, system sales, marketing, and operations. He hails from the capital city of India, New Delhi, and holds a BE in electronics from the University of Delhi. During his career, Sanjay founded and cofounded several tech companies, including AMI (which was sold to LSI Logic for over $220 million), iVivity (acquired by Emulex), and Scentric (acquired by Brocade). Sanjay made these companies lead in their respective domains. Over the years, he built successful engineering, sales, and marketing organizations; raised venture and strategic funding; involved in product development and launches; established and managed partner relationships with several industry leaders; and oversaw multiple company acquisitions.
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About MSys Technologies: MSys Technologies is a reliable partner for product engineering & digital transformation projects for its ISV & Enterprise clientele.
Chris Prucha
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Origin
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About Origin: Origin is an additive manufacturing platform designed for mass production
Lior Elazary
Founder / CEO of inVia Robotics
Lior is a serial entrepreneur with several companies under his belt, all with very successful exits. Along with his partners Alex Kazarani and Marc Afsharieh, Lior co-founded HostPro (now Web.com) which grew into a leading hosting provider in the industry with over 70,000 customers. After HostPro, Lior co-founded KnowledgeBase, and EdgeCast with Alex Kazarani, Phil Goldsmith, James Segil and Jay Sakata. At all three companies he has been the chief architect responsible for designing and implementing key patented technologies that are now critical to the backbone of the Internet and are used by many Fortune 500 customers. With more than twenty years of leadership and business experience bringing to market many of the systems that power the Internet, Lior has directed and guided teams developing everything from back-office systems to the core technologies of the business. While working on his Ph.D. at the University of Southern California, Lior closely worked with inVia Robotics co-founders Dan and Rand on various robotics and neuroscience projects. These DARPA funded projects ranged from object recognition for drones, implementing the star-wars binoculars used to help soldiers in field, to the latest DARPA Robotic Challenge. Working on strict metrics and deadlines from DARPA, the projects often included implementations of massive parallel grid computing which were used to achieve the required results in real time. The development of these projects led to the Neuromorphic Robotics Toolkit (NRT) which has been designed to outperform the Robotic Operating System (ROS). Currently on a leave of absence from the Ph.D., Lior holds a Masters in Robotics from the University of Southern California and has several publications ranging from neuroscience to robotics.
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About inVia Robotics, Verizon Digital Media Services: InVia Robotics provides next-generation robotics warehouse automation solutions for e-commerce distribution centers and supply chains.
Vatsal Shah
Founder & CEO of Litmus Automation
Vatsal Shah is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Litmus Automation since July 2013, a startup with a vision of enabling things connectivity to business applications through an IoT platform ‘Loop’, a totally unexplored arena. Along with staying on toes with all tech movements in the valley, Vatsal plays several roles as a leader, engineer, strategist and always a learner. Previously, Vatsal has worked with Rockwell Automation as a Design Engineer, which became the cradle for this startup. Being a social enthusiast, Vatsal makes a point to attend events and meetups relating to opensource, M2M, connected solutions or Internet of Things. Vatsal earned his M.S. in Global Entrepreneurship from Em-Lyon (France), Zhejiang University (China) and Purdue University (USA) jointly and his B.S. in Electronics Engineering from Nirma University, India.
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About Litmus Automation: Litmus provides the solution to transform critical edge data into actionable intelligence that can power maintenance.
Riana Lynn
Founder and CEO of Journey Foods
Riana Lynn is a leader in food innovation, technology, and venture strategy. As a serial entrepreneur, she develops high-growth, nationally recognized technology and food businesses. Scaling a family juice company inspired her to develop FoodTrace, supply chain software that impacts thousands of food businesses across the US and beyond. Riana’s development strategies are pivotal to some of the world’s most innovative food and agriculture startups. She also works with Fortune 500 companies on new innovations. Her accomplishments have been featured on CNBC, Forbes, USA Today, Wired, TechCrunch, INC, Entrepreneur Magazine, Crain’s “20 in their 20s”, among others.
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About Journey Foods: Journey Foods solves food science and supply chain inefficiencies with enterprise software to help companies feed 8 billion people better.
Masahiro Ogawa
Chief Executive Officer of YASKAWA Electric
Masahiro Ogawa serves as Corporate Vice President and General Manager of Robotics Division at Yaskawa Electric Corp. Masahiro Ogawa serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Yaskawa America, Inc.
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About YASKAWA Electric: The Yaskawa Electric Corporation is a Japanese manufacturer of servos.
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.
DJ Kleinbaum
Co-founder & Co-CEO of Emerald Cloud Lab
D.J. Kleinbaum is the Co-founder and Co-CEO of Emerald Therapeutics. D.J. received his B.S. in Biological Sciences from Carnegie Mellon University and his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Stanford University. While at Stanford, he designed and synthesized new architectures for DNA-templated reactions that can be used to detect RNA in living cells under the direction of Professor Eric Kool. He is an inventor on five patents and has been published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, Bioconjugate Chemistry, and Chemical Communications.
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About Emerald Cloud Lab: Emerald Cloud Lab is building technology platforms to drive the future of biotechnology innovation.
Brian Frezza
Co-founder & Co-CEO of Emerald Cloud Lab
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About Emerald Cloud Lab: Emerald Cloud Lab is building technology platforms to drive the future of biotechnology innovation.
Amin J Khoury
Chief Executive Officer of KLX, Inc.
Amin J. Khoury has been our Chief Executive Officer and the Chairman of our Board since October 2014. Mr. Khoury has also been a director since our incorporation in July 2014. Mr. Khoury co-founded B/E Aerospace in July 1987 and has served as its Chairman of the Board since that time. Mr. Khoury served as Chief Executive Officer of B/E Aerospace from December 31, 2005 through December 31, 2013. Mr. Khoury also served as the Co-Chief Executive Officer of B/E Aerospace from January 1, 2014 to December 16, 2014, when he joined KLX. Following the spin-off, Mr. Khoury has served as the Executive Chairman of B/E Aerospace. From 1986 until April 2012, Mr. Khoury was a director of Synthes, Inc. Mr. Khoury was a Trustee of the Scripps Research Institute from May 2008 until his retirement in July 2014. Mr. Khoury holds an Executive Masters Professional Director Certification, the highest level, from the American College of Corporate Directors and an Advanced Director Certification from the Corporate Directors Group.
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About KLX, Inc.: KLX Inc. provides mission critical products and complex logistical solutions to support its customers’ high value assets.
Gal Garniek
President & CEO of GEMBO
Gal Garniek is the president and CEO at GEM.
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About GEMBO: GEM provides customized agents and machine models that enable streaming, analysis, and processing from any machine.
Biren Gandhi
Founder & CEO of Speak To IoT
Biren Gandhi is an executive leader focused on identifying key technology trends and accelerating their adoption through acquisitions, development or partnering. He has built a successful track record of bringing innovation to life through strategic collaborations with startups, venture capital firms, universities and partner ecosystems. Recently, Biren spearheaded strategy & incubation for some highly disruptive technologies at Cisco. Few of them included the Internet of Things (IoT), Fog Computing, Drones/UAVs, Blockchain, Deep Learning, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence. He combines his business and technology acumen to drive the co-creation of breakthrough business models using various external and internal innovation catalysts. Biren has nearly 20 years of leadership, strategic and tactical technology experience in diverse verticals like social networking, cloud, big data, mobile, telecom, social gaming and enterprise collaboration. Before joining Cisco in 2011, Biren was divisional CTO of a few gaming studios at Zynga and before that a Senior Architect at Facebook. He also co-founded AdMunity, a startup providing a collaborative social platform for the advertising community. While focusing on disruptive new frontier technologies, Biren actively engages as a keynote speaker, panel judge, mentor, investor or advisor with venture capital firms, startups, accelerators, and incubators. He regularly supports quite a few global and local non-profit organizations. You can discover his passions, interests, and insights at these blog platforms: http://thoughts.birengandhi.com/ or http://lnkd.in/biren.
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About Speak To IoT: A Simple, Secure, Software Platform to Connect Smart IoT Devices to All Intelligent Voice Assistants.
Peter Howard
President & CEO of Realtime Robotics
Peter Howard is CEO of Realtime Robotics. He has a particular passion and interest in business formation and the process of creating order and value out of formative chaos. His roles have included entrepreneur-CEO, investor, and board director. As CEO, Peter has founded and successfully grown five companies, leading two to IPOs, one to strategic sale, and another to major technology license. In its first year of operations, Peter led Realtime Robotics in raising $2m in seed funding, landing several important contracts with global 100 firms, and launching its initial product. He has also been integral in the creation and launch of hundreds of innovative products as an industry leader in outsourced R&D and manufacturing services businesses based in the US, Japan, France, the Netherlands, Singapore, and China. Peter holds an MS degree from MIT in Management, and a Professional Director Certification from the American College of Corporate Directors.
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About Realtime Robotics: Realtime Robotics develops a platform for robots to function seamlessly across deployments with minimal programming.
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
Andrew Scheuermann
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Arch Systems
Andrew Scheuermann is the Co-Founder of Arch Systems Inc. and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Andrew Scheuermann is an industrious and impassioned entrepreneur with 10 years of experience in energy and power devices. He is passionate for empowering hardware innovation and collectively making planetary ecology possible, quantifying, understanding and acting for a more sustainable earth. He earned a PhD from Stanford.
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About Arch Systems: Industry 4.0 machine data and AI platform for electronics manufacturers
Graham Hooper
President & Chief Executive Officer of Ellison Technologies
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About Ellison Technologies: Ellison Technologies has been a provider of advanced manufacturing solutions to its clients.
Jeremy Goodwin
Founder & CEO of SyncFab
Jeremy is an international fintech executive fluent in Chinese and French and social impact entrepreneur passionate about technologies improving on the human condition including Additive and Advanced Manufacturing, AI (artificial intelligence), Bitcoin, Blockchain, Cleantech, Crypto, Decentralization, DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology), Ethereum and ML (Machine Learning). Currently, Jeremy is CEO of SyncFab an IIoT Industry 4.0 Blockchain Manufacturing Industry Partner to the $140MM US D.O.E. & D.O.C. Clean Energy Smart Manufacturing Innovation Initiative (CESMII) appointed by the White House and US Departments of Energy and Commerce National Network for Manufacturing Innovation (NNMI). SyncFab is also the San Francisco Mayors Office of Civic Innovation – 2016 Startup in Residence (STIR) in partnership with the Cities of San Leandro, Oakland and West Sacramento. From 2008 to 2012, Jeremy served as Executive President and CFO of China Advanced Construction Materials Company leading it to peak performance of 2,000 employees and NASDAQ IPO. As the only bilingual member of the company board of directors, he was responsible for negotiating large international contracts, implementing SOX 404 compliance, managing international accounting audits, SEC and shareholder communications. Jeremy successfully clinched a $100M Private Equity investment offer in support of company expansion plans and NASDAQ listing before board decision to privatize.
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About Forbes Business Council, SyncFab: OEM Parts Supply Chain Blockchain Procurement Platform and ERP Add-On for Aerospace, Automotive and Medical
John Lert
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Alert Innovation
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About Alert Innovation: Alert Innovation is a start-up, with a mission to re-invent retailing through robotics.
Greg Kahn
CEO & President of Emerging Tech Exchange
Greg is President & CEO, Emerging Tech Exchange, which is comprised of leading hardware, software and analytics companies – in areas including home automation, wearables, virtual/augmented reality, connected cars, smart cities and 3D printing – dedicated to the growth and sustainability of the IoT marketplace. Greg is also founder and CEO of IoT strategic advisory firm GK Digital Ventures. A 20-year media industry veteran at companies such as Meredith, Viacom, Publicis Groupe, and Omnicom, Greg has been honored with both Advertising Age’s Media Maven and Mediaweek’s All-Star awards. He earned his MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management and his Bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He lives in Montclair, NJ with his wife and two children.
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About Emerging Tech Exchange: Premier IoT trade association connecting a global ecosystem of leading companies building the Internet of Things
Joe Raver
President & CEO of Hillenbrand
Joe was named President and Chief Executive Officer in 2013. He previously served as president of Hillenbrand’s Process Equipment Group Platform. Prior to these roles, he spent 18-years in various key positions with Hillenbrand. He also served as president of Batesville for three years. Before that, Raver held the position of vice president and general manager of the Respiratory Care Division at Hill-Rom, a leading global provider of medical technologies. From 1994 until 2004, Raver held leadership roles with Batesville in the areas of merchandising, strategy, and logistics.
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About Hillenbrand: Hillenbrand, Inc. is a global diversified industrial company that makes and sells premium business-to-business products.
Andre Wegner
Founder & CEO of Authentise
Andre Wegner is founder and CEO of Authentise. Andre is a frequent speaker on emerging intellectual property issues in 3D Printing and opportunities of distributed manufacturing at events such as Singularity University, Rapid, Designer of Things, Inside 3D Printing, 3D Print Show, Pacific Crest & WIRED. He has been quoted in publications such as BBC News, MIT Tech Review, Chicago Tribune, and Bloomberg. He is an expert in greenfield value chain creation, leading the development of a $300m low income gas distribution business for West Africa’s leading Oil and Gas company. Prior to founding Authentise Andre also managed a venture capital fund in Nigeria and advisory services in India. Andre is a graduate of St. Andrews University (M.A. – UK), ESSEC (M.Sc. – France) and Singularity University (California).
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About Authentise, Singularity University: Process Automation Software for Additive Manufacturing
Tony Hemmelgarn
President and CEO of Siemens Digital Industries Software
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About Siemens Digital Industries Software: Siemens Digital Industries is a world-leading provider of product lifecycle management and manufacturing operations management software.
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.
Edward Miller
Founder & CEO of LumenVox
Edward Miller is the Founder and CEO of LumenVox and is responsible for developing the company’s strategic vision, technology and business strategies. Ed founded LumenVox after more than 20 years of experience designing and implementing multi-lingual and multi-currency accounting systems for worldwide corporations; including founding Progressive Computing LLC., where he oversees a telephony hosting facility with a carrier grade, state of the art voice over IP infrastructure to offer speech based applications in the cloud to service providers. Throughout his career, Ed has developed a comprehensive knowledge of human computer interaction, machine learning, networking, data handling theories and natural language processing. Ed holds a Bachelor of Science from Hillsdale College and holds 5 U.S. Speech Recognition patents.
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About LumenVox: LumenVox is a leading provider of speech enabling software.
Berk Birand
Chief Executive Officer of Fero Labs
Berk holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science from Columbia University. His academic research focused on optimizing wireless and optical networks with efficient cross-layer algorithms. He developed scheduling algorithms for LTE-A and fiber-optic networks. He holds a patent in IoT systems for resilient fiber-optic networks.
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About Fero Labs: Fero Labs is an actionable machine learning software for improving processes and increasing the quality of manufacturing facilities.
Mehdi Bentanfous
CEO North America and CRO Industries of KINEXON
Mehdi Bentanfous is the CEO North America and CRO Industries at KINEXON.
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About KINEXON: Real-time location intelligence for the Internet of Things.
Alok Gautam
CEO of OLBRAIN
Building Olbrain – The Machine Brain for the Space Robots of the Future Alok is a serial entrepreneur with an extensive understanding of Statistical Learning, Cognitive Science, Philosophy, Physics & Gamification. He spent four years in the Himalayas observing the human brain in action, before pursuing his MBA from IIM-Ahmedabad. The last startup which he cofounded, hotify.ai, has recently been acquired by Sonasoft Corp. He regularly speaks at public forums on Artificial Intelligence & Robotics and has been covered by various print/web mediums like Forbes.
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About Chillycon, OLBRAIN: The AGI Brain for Cognitive Automation
Ed Hallen
Co-Founder and CEO of Team Engine
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About Klaviyo, Team Engine: Team Engine is a team management software platform that helps blue-collar work more efficiently.
Mike Muench
CEO of Seek Thermal
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About Seek Thermal: Seek Thermal engineers, designs, manufactures, and markets thermal imaging products and sensors.
James Gentes
CEO of Tend.ai
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About StartupBend, Tend.ai, Tend.ai: Tend.ai is a smart cloud robotics software platform for industrial devices and robots.
Moataz Rashad
Founder & CEO of DeepVu
Moataz is an AI/deep-learning entrepreneur. He’s currently the founder & CEO of DeepVu. Moataz was a PhD Student at Stanford’s Information Systems Lab, and dropped out in 1996. He earned an MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford, MS in Computer Science from University of Oregon, and a BS with Distinction & Honors in Computer Science and Control Systems from Alexandria University. Moataz is a named inventor on 21 issued patents.
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About DeepVu: DeepVu is the autonomous supply chain planning solution for optimizing efficiencies, sustainability and margins for manufacturers
Craig Powell
Director, President and CEO of Motus
Craig Powell is Director, President and CEO at Motus.
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About Motus: Motus is the most accurate vehicle management and reimbursement platform available.
Alex Chandy
Co-Founder & CEO of 2DA Analytics
Energy Executive with experience in Supply and Trading Optimization for Oil and Natural Gas value chains.
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About 2DA Analytics: Introducing BAYZYEN. The world’s first cloud-based optimization and planning app built specifically and solely for commodity value chains.
Mykle Gaynor
Chief Executive Officer of Clickbio
Mykle founded Clickbio in 2015. He brings a deep background in team building and Automation. Mykle works to build the Clickbio team and empowers them to serve our customers.
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About Clickbio: Clickbio conceptualizes, designs, engineers, and manufactures laboratory ware and plastic ware for laboratory automation.
Andrew Bruce
CEO of Data Gumbo
Andrew Bruce is the founder and CEO at Data Gumbo, a Houston-based technology company creating an interconnected blockchain network to streamline smart contracts management for industrial companies, such as oil and gas.
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About Data Gumbo: The smart contract network company trusted by global industrial enterprises
Stuart Feffer
Co-Founder and CEO of Reality AI
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About Reality AI: Reality AI offers a complete engineering environment for Edge AI / Tiny ML product development using sensors.
Jeanine Sinanan-Singh
Co-Founder & CEO of Vitae Industries
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About Vitae Industries: Vitae Industries offers affordable pharmacy automation solutions.
Olga Lanova
CEO of Orangry of Nimble Aircraft
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About : We solve the industry problems when plane and helicopters can’t. Nimble Aircraft is manufacturer and service provider of commercial drones.
Robert Willett
CEO of Cognex
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About Cognex: Cognex Corporation provides vision systems, vision software, vision sensors and surface inspection systems.
Richard Clinton
President & CEO of Vericor Power Systems
Rick Clinton was part of the original executive team that started Vericor in 1999 and has held various positions including Director of Engineering, Vice President of Operations and Aftermarket and Vice President of Sales and Aftermarket during his tenure at Vericor. Prior to the formation of Vericor, Rick was Project Manager for Honeywell’s industrial and marine product portfolios. He joined Honeywell in 1995 after 12 years at Textron Lycoming where he held various engineering positions including mechanical design, test and project engineering. Rick has a Bachelor of Science degree in Manufacturing Engineering from Boston University and a Master of Science degree in Corporate Finance from Fairfield University.
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About Vericor Power Systems: Vericor Power Systems manufactures, sells, and supports aero-derivative gas turbines.
Sean De La Pena
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of M-Form
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About M-Form: AFFORDABLE, HIGH RESOLUTION, SUSTAINABLE, CURVED ARCHITECTURAL PANELS
Thomas Pace
Co-founder & CEO of NetRise Inc.
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About Cloud Security Alliance, Evo Security, NetRise Inc.: NetRise Inc. is an automated, cloud-based platform providing computer & network security services.
Reese Mozer
CEO & Co-Founder of American Robotics
Reese Mozer is the CEO and Co-Founder of American Robotics.
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About American Robotics: American Robotics is a Robot-as-a-Service company that develops FAA-approved pilotless, AI-powered drones for industrial purposes.
John Cowan
Co-Founder & CEO of EDJX
John is a 6fusion founder and co-inventor of 6fusion’s WAC algorithm. He is regarded as the company’s business model visionary. In addition to 6fusion’s day-to-day management responsibilities, John is responsible for the overall strategic vision and commercial direction of 6fusion. A 12-year veteran of business and product development within the IT and Telecommunications sectors, his tenure includes success creating new business during the period of telecommunications deregulation as well as developing and launching new technology products and services.
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About 6fusion, EDJX: EDJX is an edge computing platform powering real-time applications.
Riley Knox
Co-Founder & CEO of Accelerate3D
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About Accelerate3D: Accelerate3D manufacture 3D printers for plastic products or components 10x faster than the market standard.
Jim Rock
CEO of Seegrid
Jim Rock is the CEO of Seegrid.
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About Seegrid: The leading provider of autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) and enterprise software for material handling.
Douglas Robinow
Chief Executive Officer of GeoScout
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About GeoScout: GeoScout is an industrial automation platform that helps several sectors such as infrastructure, agriculture, transportation, and more.
Lior Akavia
Co-Founder, CEO of Seebo
Co-Founder, CEO at Seebo
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About Seebo: The Predictive Quality and Yield solution – leading global manufacturers use Seebo to predict and prevent quality, yield and waste losses.
Ali Hasan Raza
CEO of ThroughPut.ai
Eliminating bottlenecks for over a decade.
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About RigBasket, ThroughPut.ai: Grow your bottom line with supply chain data orchestration
John Dogru
CEO / Chief Architect of 3DPrinterOS
Co-Founder of 3DPrinterOS
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About 3DPrinterOS, Secured 3d: 3DPrinterOS is the world’s first operating system for 3D printers.
Benjamin Gibbs
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of READY Robotics
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About READY Robotics: READY Robotics seeks to empower manufacturers to be more competitive through industrial robots.
Andrew Ashur
CEO and Co-Founder of Lucid Drone Technologies, Inc.
Andrew Ashur is the CEO and Co-Founder of Lucid Drone Technologies.
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About Lucid Drone Technologies, Inc.: We build autonomous drones for labor-intensive tasks.
Barbara Timm-Brock
CEO of eTrack Tech
Barbara Timm-Brock is the CEO of eTrack Tech.
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About eTrack Tech: eTrack Tech eliminates downtime, reduce repair costs, and get actionable BI for lift trucks and commercial equipment.
Anubhav Dwivedi
Founder & CEO of Saviant Consulting
Anubhav is passionate about building Connected Enterprises and helping them grow faster using modern technologies. He is a seasoned Technology Advisor for growth-hungry Enterprises, helping them exploit the power of Internet-of-Things, Cloud, Enterprise Mobility & Big data Analytics. He is known for his acumen of harnessing technology to achieve rapid & transformational business results. In his past assignments, he’s delivered several Technology Strategy & Product consulting engagements with some of the world’s largest Enterprises, like United Airlines, Delta, ADP, TUI, Pitney Bowes, Qantas, as well as with numerous small-medium Enterprises. Specialties: Internet of Things, IoT, Big data Analytics, Cloud PaaS development, Enterprise Mobility, Machine Learning, Productized Services, SaaS Products
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About Saviant Consulting: At Saviant, we are on a mission to simplify the industrial world around us, using technology, design, data engineering & systems integration
Gregg Baumbaugh
CEO of FlexForm Technologies
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About FlexForm Technologies: FlexForm Technologies manufactures non-woven natural fiber composite mats and panel products.
Charles Grinnell
CEO of Harvest Automation
Charlie has led numerous teams and companies. He was previously GM of DEKA R&D, a 200-person technology and IP incubator. He has also founded an international consulting business and served as Lead Engineer of a $300 million particle detector at CERN, Europe’s international physics research center.
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About CERN, Harvest Automation: Harvest Automation is a material handling company that provides robots to resolve manual labor problems across multiple industries.
Neal Keating
Chairman, President & CEO of Kaman Corporation
Neal Keating is Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, as well as a member of the Board of Directors, having joined the Company in September 2007. In this role, Neal provides leadership for the combined businesses which serve U.S. industrial markets, as well as the global defense and commercial aerospace markets. Prior to Kaman, Keating has served as Chief Operating Officer at Hughes Supply, a $5.4 billion industrial distributor, as Chief Executive Officer of GKN Aerospace, a $1 billion aerospace subsidiary of GKN, Plc, serving also as Executive Director on the Board of Directors of GKN Plc and as a member of the Board of Directors of Agusta-Westland Helicopter. From 1978 to 2002, he served in increasingly senior positions at Rockwell International with his final assignment being Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Rockwell Collins, Commercial Systems. Keating also serves on the Board of Directors of Hubbell, Inc., as Vice Chairman of the MAPI Board of Trustees, on the Board of Governors of the Aerospace Industry Association (AIA), and as a member of the Renbrook School Board of Trustees. Keating holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois and earned his MBA from The University of Chicago. Neal and his family reside in Farmington, CT. He also actively competes in triathlons and marathons and is a three time finisher of the Boston Marathon. Since 2001 he has used his participation in these events to raise money in support of the families of our fallen hero’s through Injured Marine Semper Fi Fund, the Marine Corp/Law Enforcement Foundation and the Navy SEAL Foundation.
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About Kaman Corporation: Kaman Corporation conducts business in the aerospace and distribution markets.
Will Montague
CEO, Co-Founder of Guerrilla Gravity
Will Montague is the CEO and Co-Founder of Revved Industries.
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About Guerrilla Gravity, Guerrilla Gravity: Guerrilla Gravity is a manufacturer of mountain bikes intended to make mountain biking safe.
Jonathan Brossard
CEO of Moabi
Jonathan Brossard (endrazine) is a well known security expert based in San Francisco. For his first conference at DEF CON 16, he hacked Microsoft Bitlocker, McAffee Endpoint and a fair number of BIOS Firmwares. During his second presentation at DEF CON 20, he presented Rakshasa, a BIOS malware based on open source software, the MIT Technology review labeled “incurable and undetectable”. For his third DEFCON, he released at DEF CON 24 the Witchcraft Compiler Collection, a framework facilitating reverse engineering that has made its way into the arsenal of many Capture the Flag teams as well as mainstream distributions like Debian or Arch Linux. Prior to his role as Managing Director of the binary analysis firm Moabi, Jonathan held a number of Technical and Executive positions around the world, including Director of Offensive Security and Principal Engineer of Product Security at Salesforce, Director of Security at Change.org where he managed the security of the largest online platform for social change in the world, as well as Senior Security Expert in Australia and India among others. Jonathan holds a Master’s Degree in Engineering, a Master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence and is a PhD Candidate in Computer Science (CNAM/France).
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About Moabi: Moabi specializes in the fields of information security, IoT security, connected cars, and reverse engineering.
Nikolaus Correll
Founder and CEO of Optio
Nikolaus is a roboticist and Associate Professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Nikolaus is the Founder and CEO at Robotic Materials .
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About Optio, University of Colorado: Optio provides solutions to improve efficiency in manufacturing and e-commerce by leveraging robotic AI.
