Deploying Vision Systems with AI Capabilities

Michael Liou is VP of Strategy and Growth at Chooch AI where he brings a unique blend of strategy, marketing, investing, venture capital, and product development skills. MIchael brings an extensive background in venture capital where he has been an active early stage investor investing in over 100 tech startups, including notable unicorns such as Robinhood, Zapier, Planet and Didi Chuxing. Michael worked Citi Private Bank serving ultra high net worth family offices in the Bay Area. Prior to his role at Citi, Michael founded Anvil Capital Advisors. He also spent 18 years at Goldman Sachs as a managing director overseeing several business units both in NY and SF. He holds a Master of Business Administration from NYU’s Stern School of Business, a Master of Science from Columbia University’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and a Bachelor of Science from Brown University. Mr. Liou recently served on the Board of the San Mateo Public Library Foundation.

Raymond Lo is the software evangelist at Intel focusing on the OpenVINO toolkit. Previously, Raymond was the founder and CTO of Y Combinator-backed augmented reality company Meta, the technology evangelist for Samsung NEXT, and Technical Solutions Consultant for Google Cloud AI. During his PhD, Raymond worked with Prof Steve Mann, who is widely recognized as the father of wearable computing from MIT Media Lab. Together they published numerous of research papers on the topic of GPGPUs, open-source HDR videos, and open-source wearable computing projects in the University of Toronto. In 2013, Raymond took his augmented reality (AR) eyeglasses invention and functional prototype from Toronto and co-founded Meta that raised over $80 million for their pioneering development of augmented reality eyeglasses. As the CTO of Meta, he successfully developed and shipped Meta 1 and Meta 2 with a team of over 150+ people. As the executive and Evangelist, he had the opportunity to speak at conferences such as TED talk, SIGGRAPH, Tencent WE Summit, and Hello Tomorrow. His unique combination of startup entrepreneurship and enterprise experiences helped Raymond to create connections to hundreds of startups and thousands of developers around the world.

Dean Westman is the General Manager, North America at Hailo.ai. Previously, he was the Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at Deep Vision, and Senior Director, Strategic Accounts at Socionext US. Dean has over 20 years of experience in sales, engineering, marketing, and business development in the semiconductor industry. He holds BSEE and BMath degrees from the University of Minnesota.

Joining Advantech since 2000, Charlie is a veteran in industrial computing solutions and managed system solution group which focus on wide variety of computing product in different vertical markets. He’s currently focusing on expand expertise in intelligent edge and AIoT implementation to various sector which includes industrial HMI, vision AI implementation and robotic markets