Speaker: Vincent Vanhoucke, Distinguished Engineer, Waymo

Abstract: Waymo’s mission is to “Be the world’s most trusted driver.” In order to accomplish this mission, we combine unique sensing capabilities with real-time perception, prediction and planning architectures that leverage data at scale, and enable us to safely deliver millions of autonomous rides in a variety of urban areas and driving conditions. In this talk, I’ll describe some of the key components of this stack, how model scaling laws inform improving driving performance, and how we build the foundations for efficiently scaling our approach to autonomy.

Speaker's website: https://vincent.vanhoucke.com/ Waymo: http://www.waymo.com