Vision Tank Start-Up Competition

Shweta Shrivastava is a seasoned product executive focusing on machine learning and computer vision. She is currently a senior product leader at Waymo (Alphabet's autonomous driving unit) leading product management for self-driving behavior technologies. Before Waymo, Shweta was Chief Product Officer at Nauto, an AI startup focusing on driver and automotive safety, where she led Product Management, Design, Strategy and Marketing. Prior to Nauto, she was the Head of Product Management at Amazon Web Services for their database and analytics services. Shweta holds M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Pennsylvania State University and M.B.A. from INSEAD.

Oliver Gunasekara’s career encompasses three of the major technology trends that emerged over the past two decades: mobile computing, cloud computing, and multimedia technologies. Two of his major team achievements were ARM’s IPO and the acquisition of NGCodec. He is the inventor of two video-related patents. In 1994 he joined ARM, at the time a 60-person startup in the UK. Initially, he pioneered the segment marketing activity by leading the mobile marketing team, which resulted in growing its market share from 0% to over 90%. He lived and worked in Japan for two and half years. In his last role at ARM as VP of Corporate Business Development and M&A, Oliver championed the acquisition of Falanx in 2006, whose technology (Mali) went on to become the number one shipping GPU in the world. In 2016 Softbank acquired ARM for $32 billion. In 2012, Oliver founded NGCodec, a start-up focused on next-generation cloud video acceleration, leveraging programmable hardware. As CEO he raised over $15M, grew the team to ~40 people and won SaaS business with Amazon/Twitch. In 2019 the company was acquired by Xilinx data center group, returning over 5x to his investors. Oliver holds a Bachelor's degree with honors in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Greenwich London, UK, and a Mini-MBA from the AeA/Executive Institute, Stanford University Graduate School of Business, Palo Alto, CA, USA.

Simon Morris is a serial tech entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience including leading 3 tech start-ups. For the last 10 years, his teams have developed innovative image and computer vision processing technologies focused on automotive applications. Currently, Simon divides his time providing entrepreneurial coaching and tech strategy advice to multiple tech entrepreneurs in autonomous trucking, embedded neural networks, lidar technology and 3D event sensors. Most recently he was co-founder CEO for IRYStec Software, Jan 2016, and raised both seed and Series-A financing and bringing Mercedes-Benz to production before being acquired in March 2020 by Faurecia. Simon was also CEO of CogniVue Corporation, launched in 2010, which developed a patented low power computer vision processor core with embedded software used in production in automotive driver assistance systems and consumer smart camera products. CogniVue was acquired by Freescale Semiconductor (later NXP Semiconductor) in Sept 2015 delivering one of the highest ROI for CogniVue’s shareholders. Prior to launching CogniVue, Simon was Director at BDC Venture Capital and was VP Product Development and COO at Atsana Semiconductor which developed media processors for Samsung’s first Mpixel camera phone before being acquired. He also held senior business and product development positions at Texas Instruments (TI) in Dallas, Texas and Nice, France where he was responsible for building from the ground up TI’s wireless infrastructure DSP chipset business and later managing the Mobile Broadcast business. Simon holds an M.Eng and a B.Eng in Electrical Engineering from the Royal Military College of Canada, is a member of the Professional Engineers of Ontario, E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year finalist in 2014 and was awarded Canadian Forces Decoration while serving in the Royal Canadian Navy.