Innovation Endeavors + Google: what's next in robotics, perception and foundation models

​Join as at Google's SF offices to learn from luminaries in the field of robotics, perception, machine learning and foundation models. We'll discuss the state of company-building in the space, and the most exciting and emergent research, from reinforcement learning to LLMs to generalist agents.

​Schedule: 5:30 - 6: happy hour | 6 - 7: panel presentations | 7 onward: Q&A and moderated discussion

​Panel will include:

• ​Johnny Lee - Senior engineering leader in robotics at Google, has run multiple programs across AR, perception, teleoperation and geospatial

• ​Ryan Hickman - Senior product leader in 3D scanning, AR mapping, and NeRFs at NVIDIA, previously at Google Research

• ​Karol Hausman - Staff Research Scientist at Google Brain and an Adjunct Professor at Stanford working on robotics and AI 

• ​Frank Dellaert - CTO of Verdant, formerly Chief Scientist at Skydio, professor famous for inventing modern methods of SLAM & related algorithms

• ​Travis Deyle - CEO of Cobalt Robotics, which has raised $100M investment; formerly sr. hardware engineer at Google

• ​Jim Fan - Nvidia AI Research Scientist and thought leader, particular focus on the intersection of LLMs, machine vision and robotics