Waymo’s Anca Dragan and Ike Robotics CTO Jur van den Berg are coming to TC Sessions: Robotics+AI

The road to “solving” self-driving cars is riddled with challenges from perception and decision making to figuring out the interaction between human and robots.

Today we’re announcing that joining us at

TC Sessions: Robotics+AI

on March 3 at UC Berkeley are two experts who play important roles in the development and deployment of autonomous vehicle technology: Anca Dragan and Jur van den Berg .

Dragan is assistant professor at UC Berkeley’s electrical engineering and computer sciences department as well as a senior research scientist and consultant for

Waymo,

the former Google

self-driving project that is now a business under Alphabet. She runs the InterACT Lab at UC-Berkeley, which focuses on on algorithms for human-robot interaction. Dragan also helped found and serve on the steering committee for the Berkeley AI Research Lab, and is co-PI of the Center for Human-Compatible AI.

Last year, Dragan was awarded the

Presidential Early Career Award

for Scientists and Engineers.

Van den Berg is the co-founder and CTO of Ike Robotics, a self-driving truck startup that last year raised $52 million in a Series A funding round led by

Bain Capital

Ventures. Van den Berg has been part of the most important, secretive and even controversial companies in the autonomous vehicle technology industry. He was a senior researcher and developer in Apple’s special projects group, before jumping to self-driving trucks startup Otto. He became a senior autonomy engineer at Uber after the ride-hailing company acquired Otto

.

All of this led to Ike, which was founded in 2018 with Nancy Sun and Alden Woodrow, who were also veterans of

Apple,

Google and Uber

Advanced Technologies Group’s self-driving truck program

TC Sessions: Robotics+AI

returns to Berkeley on March 3. Make sure to grab your early-bird tickets today for $275

before prices go up by $100. Students, grab your tickets for just $50 here

.

Startups, book a demo table

right here

and get in front of 1,000+ of Robotics/AI’s best and brightest — each table comes with four attendee tickets.