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303: Presenter (Michael Wagner)
Date and Time: Wednesday, July 20: 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM Location: Grand Ballroom
Michael Wagner
CEO and Co-founder, Edge Case Research
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY
Michael Wagner has been at the forefront of the autonomy industry for over twenty years. Michael’s career began at Carnegie Mellon University where he developed planetary rovers for NASA, then expanding his focus to defense applications. During this time he witnessed autonomy commercializing rapidly, but realized that safety engineering techniques weren’t keeping up. As a result, today developers can demonstrate cars navigating highways comfortably without human intervention, but few can say whether their self-driving technology is safe enough for wide scale deployment.
Solving this problem has been the focus of Michael’s career since 2006. He began major R&D efforts at Carnegie Mellon to understand how validation techniques could be applied to autonomy. Seizing developing commercial opportunities in self-driving cars, he founded Edge Case Research in 2014 to provide scalable safety engineering products to customers in automotive, defense, logistics, mining, and other industries. Under Michael’s leadership the company has grown substantially, building the global base of customers and partnerships needed to deliver the promise of autonomy.
