INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
What next for robotics At at Disrupt SF, we&ll be joined by four experts to discuss how new technologies are changing the field.
Those
experts include Peter Barrett, founder and CTO and Playground, a venture fund and design studio focused on hardware startups
Barrett is a 30-year veteran of the tech industry, whose accomplishments include developing Cinepak (video compression software that was
included as part of Apple QuickTime) and working at WebTV — which was acquired by Microsoft, where he led Internet TV efforts for more
than a decade.
We&ll also be joined by Helen Boniske, a partner at early stage hardware investor Lemnos
Before joining Lemnos, Boniske was a front office executive for the Arizona Diamondbacks.
The panel will also include Claire Delaunay,
Nvidia vice president of engineering
Delaunay was previously robotics program lead at Google, co-founder of autonomous vehicle startup Otto and director of engineering at Uber
At Nvidia, she leads the Isaac robotics initiative.
The final panelist will be Cyril Ebersweiler
Ebersweiler is founder and managing director of Hax, a hardware accelerator with offices in both Shenzhen and San Francisco
He also a general partner at global venture capital firm SOSV
And somehow, he pulls off describing himself as a &visionary punk& on his LinkedIn profile.
Disrupt SF will take place in San Francisco
Moscone Center West from September 5 to 7
(The robotics panel will be at 1:15pm on the 5th.) You can still buy ticketsright here.
