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VLAB’s Sandor Schoichet Explains Why CEA Innovation Promises a Better Food Supply
Sandor Schoichet said that he is excited about a new technology called controlled environment agriculture, or CEA, which, he explained, is poised to revolutionize key elements of farming. This is the focus of the VLAB panel “Indoor AgTech: Planting the Seeds of a...
Female Scientist Explains an Aggressive Combo of Solutions Can Reverse Climate Change
Scientists agree that global warming, also called climate change which has become the climate crisis, is a problem that deserves attention. One San Francisco Bay Area woman is doing something to bring attention to the problem and solve it. “Humans need to figure out...
A Look at AI, the Legal Profession, and Closing the Justice Gap
Artificial Intelligence Startup Founder Jason Velez, Esq., is chairing VLAB panel “Automated Attorneys: Will AI Kill All the Lawyers?,” taking place October 24 at the Stanford Faculty Club. As background, a February Forbes article says that law firms use artificial...
VLAB Panelists Discuss the Expanding Potential of Augmented Reality
In 2019 augmented reality remains one of the top technology trends to watch. Peter Rojas a panelist on VLAB’s panel “Outdoor AR: Who Wants to Come Out and Play” — June 5th at Stanford — says augmented reality or AR has almost unlimited potential to transform how we...
David Fudenberg’s Take On A White-Hot Cybersecurity Trend and Stepping up as a VLAB Leader
According to CSO.com “Zero Trust is a security concept centered on the belief that organizations should not automatically trust anything inside or outside its perimeters and instead must verify anything and everything trying to connect to its systems before granting...
VLAB’s Sara Fernandez on Living to 100, Robots in Healthcare and the Artificial Pancreas
Dr. Sara Fernandez, PhD, is chairing the VLAB panel Breakthroughs in Diabetes on Tuesday, Feb. 26 at the Stanford Faculty Club. I was lucky enough to spend a few minutes with this prominent Silicon Valley “woman in STEM” (science, technology, engineering and...
VLAB Panel Chair Ksenia Zvyagintseva On Her Job in Supply Chain Management and Going the Extra Mile
Mathlete and Supply Chain Expert Ksenia (pronounced “Senia”) Zvyagintseva is chairing VLAB’s Jan. 22, 2019 evening panel called Young Entrepreneurs: Meet the New Generation of World-Changers at the Stanford Faculty Club. She is quite the impressive woman in STEM...
VLAB’s Rajesh Kanungo discusses prospects and security implications of quantum computing
While perusing the results of an internet search of “2019 tech trends” it was hard to miss the multitudinous quantum computing mentions. Upon further research, I learned that it will mean massive advances in molecular biology, financial modeling, weather forecasting,...
VLAB’s Avery Hamm Offers Words of Wisdom on Digital Transformation in Clinical Trials & More
Avery P. Hamm, a graduate of Santa Clara University Leavey School of Business, recently volunteered as a VLAB Event Chair for the panel titled “The Impact of Technology on Clinical Trials: Will AI and Mobile Create Cures Faster?” which is taking place at Stanford...
An “Open” Conversation with the Semiconductor Guy Arun Iyengar
I recently sat down and had an “open” conversation with Arun Iyengar, The Semiconductor Guy, to get his views on the impact of open-source processors, and explore what motivated him to take on the VLAB role of Program Co-Chair and lead of the September panel. The...
VLAB’s Sandeep Verma Describes Artificial Intelligence in One Word
Did you ever wonder what it’s like to put together a Silicon Valley panel event on a white-hot tech topic? You’re about to find out. Sandeep Verma is the co-chair of the June 19 VLAB panel event, “The Proliferation of Artificial Intelligence: Will AI Be the Biggest...
VLAB’s Mache Creeger Shares His Candid Viewpoint on Fully Autonomous Vehicles
Autonomous vehicles (AVs) represent a new surge of progress and opportunity for the automotive industry and may redefine how ground transportation is designed and used. Market Research Future projects the autonomous vehicles market will expand at a CAGR of 26.2% in...
Three Minutes with Robotic Dexterity Panel Chair Stefano Foresti
From warehouse operations to surgical operations, robots are lending a helping hand like never before. But just how nimble are they, and how far does the technology have to go for them to be fully useful in the industry? To explore this topic further, VLAB Executive...
A Get-to-Know with VLABer Michelle Tsing, Founder of Robotics for Good
Long-time VLAB Volunteer Michelle Tsing recently chaired a panel on the entrepreneurial community’s favorite cocktail party conversation topic, the meteoric rise and rocky life of Initial Coin Offerings or ICOs. The panel “ICOs and the Token Economy: Disruption or...
Meet Sangam Sangameswara, Event Chair and Company Founder
Sangam Sangameswara, founder of several companies and event chair of the upcoming “Young Immigrant Entrepreneurs: Living The American Dream” event on January 30 was recently interviewed by VLAB blogger Michelle McIntyre. During their lively chat, they discussed his...