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Ken Goldberg at the Executive Leadership Conference on Robots in Consumer Packaged Goods

07 May, 2018

Ken Goldberg at the Executive Leadership Conference on Robots in Consumer Packaged Goods

The Executive Leadership Conference 2018, "Charting Your Strategic Course," took place over the weekend of April 27-30 2019 at the Hyatt Regency in Palm Spring, CA.

Ken Goldberg was a guest speakers at the conference, discussing how emerging AI and robotics technologies will shape our future, and how we can prepare for this now.

The rest of the conference agenda can be found here.

Ken Goldberg is an artist, inventor and UC Berkeley professor. He is chair of the Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Department, with secondary appointments in EECS, Art Practice, the School of Information and Radiation Oncology at the UCSF Medical School. Goldberg is director of the CITRIS "People and Robots" Initiative and the UC Berkeley AUTOLAB where he and his students pursue research in geometric algorithms and machine learning for robotics and automation in surgery, manufacturing and other applications.

Goldberg developed the first provably complete algorithms for part feeding and part fixturing and the first robot on the internet. He has over 250 peer-reviewed publications and eight U.S. patents. He co-founded and served as editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering. Goldberg was awarded the NSF PECASE (Presidential Faculty Fellowship) from President Bill Clinton in 1995, elected IEEE Fellow in 2005 and selected by the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society for the George Saridis Leadership Award in 2016.