Entrepreneurship

Datacast Episode 80: Creating The Sense of Sight with Alberto Rizzoli

Datacast Episode 80: Creating The Sense of Sight with Alberto Rizzoli

Alberto Rizzoli is co-Founder of V7, a platform for deep learning teams to manage training data workflows and create image recognition AI. V7 is used by AI-first companies and enterprises, including Honeywell, Merck, General Electrics, and MIT.

Alberto founded his first startup at age 19 and made the MakerFaire’s 20 under 20 list. In 2015, he began working on AI with Simon Edwardson while studying under Ray Kurzweil, leading to the creation of the first engine capable of running large deep neural networks on smartphone CPUs. Later, this project became Aipoly, a startup that helped the blind identify over 3 billion objects to date using their phones.

Alberto's work on AI granted him an award and personal audience by Italian President Sergio Mattarella and Italy’s Premio Gentile for Science and Innovation. V7's underlying technology won the CES Best of Innovation in 2017 and 2018.

Technological Trends in 2019 That I Learned from Ascent Conference

Technological Trends in 2019 That I Learned from Ascent Conference

Last week, I attended the Ascent Conference in the Sheraton Hotel New York at Times Square, which is a 2-day conference focused on bringing together senior leaders in the East Coast tech community to learn, collaborate, and build the relationships needed to spearhead meaningful change. I took some detailed notes of the talks/panels that I attended and decided to use this post to share my major takeaways.