We're happy to invite you to a new NYC European Tech Meetup, hosted at Betaworks.
The event will start with a panel discussion followed by an open Q&A. The speakers will be:
Alice Lloyd George.Alice is an emerging technologiesinvestor at RRE where she covers blockchain, machine intelligence & computer vision, robotics, virtual & augmentedrealityand NewSpace. She appears regularly on Fox Business, was Forbes 30 under 30 (2016) & Marc Andreessen called her "one of the unknownrockstarsin tech". Alice hostsFlux, the podcastabout pioneers building companies at the frontier of technology.
Dennis Mortensen.Dennis is the CEO & Founder ofx.ai. Hes a pioneer & expert in leveraging data & a serial entrepreneur who has successfully delivered a number of company exits on that theme. Denniss long-term vision of killing the inbox triggered the formation ofx.aiand the creation of an artificial intelligence personal assistant to schedule meetings. Hes an accredited Associate Analytics Instructor at the University of British Columbia, the Author of Data Driven Insights from Wiley & a frequent speaker on the subject of AI, intelligent agents, & the future of work. A native of Denmark, Mortensen currently calls New York his home.
Alex Winter.Alex is currently leading the Artificial Intelligence team at Netgear/Arlo. Alex was the CEO & founder of Placemeter, a New-York based startup that quantifies human activity in cities using computer vision & video feeds. Placemeter raised $8m of venture capital & was sold to Netgear in December 2016. Prior to Placemeter, Alex co-founded LTU Technologies, a venture backed startup, a pioneer in large scale image search by content, successfully acquired by a Japanese company listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Prior to LTU, Alex was a researcher in Computer Vision at INRIA & helped to build vision based missile guidance systems at Airbus. Alex holds an MSc & a Ph.D. in Image Recognition & holds 10 patents in the field.
Feel free to send us questions in advance using the hashtag #NYETM on Twitter.