Vision Tank Start-Up Competition


Date:  Wednesday, May 18 (Main Conference Day 2)

Start Time: 4:50 pm

End Time: 5:55 pm

The judges have reviewed the pitch videos of ten semi-finalists and narrowed it down to just five finalists! These five start-ups will battle it out in the Vision Tank final round on May 18 at the Embedded Vision Summit by pitching their company and product to a panel of judges in front of you, the live audience, in hopes of winning either the coveted Judges’ Choice Award or the Audience Choice Award.

Track

Session Speakers

  • Nima Schei is the founder and CEO at Hummingbirds AI, an award-winning computer vision innovation hub and the home of Guacamole solutions, including GuacamoleID, the first "FaceID for enterprise computers". GuacamoleID is an on-device authentication tool for verifying enterprises' workforce or customers, enabling them to transact with trust on scale.

  • Dr. Charbel Rizk is Founder & CEO of Oculi, a spin-out from Johns Hopkins University, a fabless semiconductor startup commercializing technology to address the high power and latency challenges of vision technology. Dr. Rizk recognized these as barriers to effective AI in his years of experience as a Principal Systems Engineer, Lead Innovator, and Professor at Rockwell Aerospace, McDonnell Douglas, Boeing, JHUAPL and Johns Hopkins University. He has been recognized as a top innovator and had numerous intellectual property filings and received 12 achievement/recognition awards.

  • Mohamed is a computer system engineer, specialized in machine learning and image processing. His professional experience has been focused on cognitive automation, specifically in human body movement. Since founding linedanceAI, Mohamed has led the early innovation team in the design and development of linedanceAI’s novel machine-learning approach to movement as time-series data. He is also well-versed in database architecture, back-end software, and API deployment. Mohamed’s strong business acumen has been honed through executing linedanceAI’s technical and business strategies and was reinforced from the learnings of prior entrepreneurial endeavors.

  • Wassim El Ahmar is a Ph.D. candidate and part-time professor at the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at uOttawa. Wassim conducts research in machine vision and deep learning. He has several years of experience developing software machine vision solutions in different fields (broadcasting, thermal imaging, 3D sensors, autonomous vehicles, manufacturing quality inspection, etc.)

  • Faris is the CEO and co-founder of Qlairvoyance, an AI company on a mission to improve lives by making x-ray visual intelligence accessible and scalable. Qlairvoyance enables the sensing, detection and classification of people, concealed objects, human gestures and activity behind walls with applications ranging from smart cities and security to the Metaverse. Faris has been in the field of Machine Learning for over 15 year and was previously the co-founder and CEO of QM Scientific which was acquired by Ulta Beauty (NASDAQ: ULTA). Prior to QM Scientific he was a Senior Data Scientist at PayPal / eBay and holds a PhD in Machine Learning from the University of Cincinnati and Post-Doc fellowship from Johns Hopkins University.

  • Forrest Iandola completed a PhD in EECS at UC Berkeley, and his thesis work focused on squeezing deep neural networks onto mobile devices. His advances in deep learning led to the founding of DeepScale, where he served as CEO until it was acquired by Tesla in 2019. He recently founded Brazzle, which is tackling climate-change by developing a new type of heat pump for heating and cooling homes. The Brazzle heat pump will use AI on the edge to achieve state-of-the-art energy-efficiency.

  • Vin Ratford is currently the CEO of Piera Systems. Piera makes Air Quality Measurement simple, inexpensive, and accurate improving human health. Our Canāree Air Quality Monitors utilize breakthrough technology measuring the count and size of particles with a custom IC and proprietary IP. Particle Data drives our business model and using AI/ML we identify likely sources of air pollution answering the question What’s in your Air? He has been an Executive Director for the Edge AI and Vision Alliance since 2012 and a Vision Tank judge. Vin has held various positions at Auviz Systems, Xilinx, AccelChip, Virage Logic, Mentor Graphics, Teradyne, Data General, Raytheon.

  • 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

  • John is the award-winning founder and CEO of Argus Insights, a new type of market intelligence company, founded by tech industry veterans seeking to connect the dots between technology innovation and consumer adoption. Argus Insights sits between traditional research firms and social analytics companies to provide focused and actionable analysis on where consumers are taking the market, who is winning and why. John holds an S.B. in Mechanical Engineering from MIT, an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University, and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University. An expert in consumer response to technology, John is a frequent speaker and is quoted in major publications such as Forbes, WSJ, San Francisco Chronicle and industry trade publications.


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