Category: IoT

34. CES 2024: The Inside Scoop

34. CES 2024: The Inside Scoop

A summary for executives, capital allocators, technologists, geeks and generally enthusiastic people.  A behind-the-curtains view of trends in M&A, financing, AI, autos, autonomy, electric vehicles, and the Internet of Things.

A raw transcript is here.  More information on your host Ali Tabibian and GTK Partners.

Links to mentioned companies: Torc and Daimler Trucks; Indy Autonomous Challenge; Mercedes Benz in-vehicle NFT (no joke); L’Oreal’s generative AI; Foretellix’s ADAS development platform; wireless charging:  WiTricity and Ossia; accessibility tech: Gryogear hand stabilizer and Xander audio captioning glasses.

14. Alysia Green, CIO, Exploration Business, Chevron

14. Alysia Green, CIO, Exploration Business, Chevron

Listen to Alysia Green, Chief Information Officer of Chevron’s upstream energy exploration business, describe the interaction of Information Technology and Operational Technology.  She discusses what’s shared and what’s different,

13. Behrooz Abdi, CEO, TDK InvenSense

13. Behrooz Abdi, CEO, TDK InvenSense

Listen to Behrooz Abdi, Chief Executive Officer of TDK InvenSense, describe the genesis of the microelectromechanical or MEMS sensor.   Behrooz explains why he thinks many years of growth and innovation is ahead for the industry, how sensor fusion can provide smart answers at the network edge without needing to access the cloud, and why smartphone sensors are encroaching on industrial applications.  Behrooz describes why the acquisition of public company InvenSense by TDK was the right decision from a technology and manufacturing perspective.

Learn more about TDK InvesSense and Behrooz.  More about GTK, your host Ali Tabibian, our conferences, publications and subscriptions thereto. If links aren’t active in your app, please go to www.techcarsmachines.com.

A raw transcript is here.

09. Y Combinator: Beanstalk

09. Y Combinator: Beanstalk

Listen to Y Combinator 2018 Winter Event graduates Mike and Jack Ross, co-founders of Beanstalk, describe their objectives, challenges, and solutions for indoor farming.

Understand how Beanstalk uses spin-offs of technologies outside of agriculture to make its approach successful.

Visit  Mike Ross and Jack Ross.  More about GTK, your host Ali Tabibian, our conferences, publications, and subscriptions thereto. If links aren’t active in your app, please go to www.techcarsmachines.com.

A raw transcript is here.

07. William Santana Li, CEO & Founder, Knightscope

07. William Santana Li, CEO & Founder, Knightscope

Listen to William Santana Li, Founder and CEO of Knightscope, and a Ford Motor Company veteran, describe how he’s raised $40MM without venture capital to build the leading security robot company.

Understand how Knightscope focuses on the near-term-possible in autonomy to achieve commercial deployments today.

Visit William Santana Li and Knightscope.  More about GTK, your host, our conferences, publications and subscriptions thereto. If links aren’t active in your app, please go to www.techcarsmachines.com.

A raw transcript is here.