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Allison Thackston, senior supervisor of robotics at Blue River Expertise, beforehand labored on autonomous autos, area robots, robotic teleoperation, and extra. | Supply: Allison Thackston
With 10-plus of expertise within the robotics business, Allison Thackston will convey her wide-ranging experience to RoboBusiness for the present’s inaugural Ladies in Robotics Luncheon. Attendees can have the chance to study from Thackston’s business expertise and get to know different ladies within the business.
Produced by The Robotic Report, RoboBusiness takes place Oct. 16-17 in Santa Clara, Calif. and is the main occasion targeted on creating business robots and robotics companies. The luncheon will happen on Oct. 17 at 12:45 PM. The speak will likely be moderated by Joyce Sidopoulos, co-founder and chief of operations at MassRobotics.
Right this moment, ladies make up 48% of the entire workforce, and simply 34% of the STEM workforce, in response to the National Girls Collaborative Project. Relating to engineering and robotics roles, the quantity is even smaller, with ladies solely making up about 16% of the workforce.
Ladies working inside the business usually discover they is perhaps one of many solely ones on their workforce and even at their firm. This may be an isolating expertise, making it troublesome for ladies in robotics to discover a neighborhood to help them.
Throughout her expansive profession, Thackston has held roles at Oceaneering, Toyota USA, Toyota Analysis Institute, Nuro, and Waymo. At Waymo, she labored as a senior employees supervisor, main a number of groups engaged on automobile conduct. She is now a senior supervisor of robotics at Blue River Expertise, main a workforce to resolve among the hardest issues in agtonomy. She has levels in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering.
RoboBusiness will characteristic greater than 60 audio system, over 100 exhibitors and demos on the expo ground, 10+ hours of devoted networking time, the Pitchfire Robotics Startup Competition, and extra. Hundreds of robotics consultants from all over the world will convene on the occasion. Along with enabling tech and robotics innovation, RoboBusiness 2024 focuses on investments and enterprise matters associated to working a robotics firm.
Keynote talks on the occasion embody Rodney Brooks, the co-founder and chief know-how officer at Sturdy AI, Sergey Levine, co-founder of Bodily Intelligence and an affiliate professor at UC Berkeley, Claire Delaunay, the CTO at farm-ng, and Torrey Smith, the co-founder and CEO of Endiatx. The present may even embody a keynote panel “Driving the Way forward for Robotics Innovation,” that includes Amit Goel, head of robotics at edge AI ecosystem at NVIDIA, John Bubnikovich, president of ABB Robotics US, Eric Truebenbach, managing director of Teradyne Robotics Ventures, and Joan-Wilhelm Schwarze, a senior world innovation supervisor at DHL.
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