join us after 24 hours of building! teams have spent their weekend applying the latest machine learning models to different hardware to solve spatial challenges.
each team will showcase their project as well as pitch to win best build.
teams will be pitching to four judges:
ashley is former tech lead at google alphabet's x, the moonshot factory. with a background as a research engineer and pm in robotics, she works across electromechanical systems to solve some of the world's hardest problems.
robert is a product lead at waymo, a self-driving company within Alphabet. he's worked in academia, big tech, and startups across sensing, health, semiconductors/photonics, and of course, robotics wearing both technical and product hats.
santhi is founder, angel investor, and venture fellow at designer fund. her previous company moxxly launched a discreet breast pump system and she has a phd in mechanical engineering from stanford.
vince is a 7x entrepreneur and silicon valley impact tech investor, inventor of the "seven second startup & scaleup value impact pitch," and serves as a mentor and startup judge at mit, stanford, techstars, alchemist, google, sxsw, and nasa.
agenda
12:00p-12:30p - welcome and walk around showcase
12:30p-1:45p - final pitches
2:00 - winners announced
thank you to our partners for helping make it happen
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community partners
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