Sandor Schoichet said that he is excited about a new technology called controlled environment agriculture, or CEA, which, he explained, is poised to revolutionize key elements of farming. This is the focus of the VLAB panel “Indoor AgTech: Planting the Seeds of a Better Food Supply” on May 27. An alum of MIT and University [...]
Scientists agree that global warming, also called climate change which has become the climate crisis, is a problem that deserves attention. One San Francisco Bay Area woman is doing something to bring attention to the problem and solve it. “Humans need to figure out how to decouple population growth from habitat destruction to live in [...]
Artificial Intelligence Startup Founder Jason Velez, Esq., is chairing VLAB panel “Automated Attorneys: Will AI Kill All the Lawyers?,” taking place October 24 at the Stanford Faculty Club. As background, a February Forbes article says that law firms use artificial intelligence to better conduct research, efficiently perform due diligence and track and invoice hours. Some [...]
In 2019 augmented reality remains one of the top technology trends to watch. Peter Rojas a panelist on VLAB’s panel “Outdoor AR: Who Wants to Come Out and Play” — June 5th at Stanford — says augmented reality or AR has almost unlimited potential to transform how we interact with each other and the world around us. [...]
According to CSO.com “Zero Trust is a security concept centered on the belief that organizations should not automatically trust anything inside or outside its perimeters and instead must verify anything and everything trying to connect to its systems before granting access.” It goes on to say that the 2017 Annual Cybercrime Report from Cybersecurity Ventures [...]
Dr. Sara Fernandez, PhD, is chairing the VLAB panel Breakthroughs in Diabetes on Tuesday, Feb. 26 at the Stanford Faculty Club. I was lucky enough to spend a few minutes with this prominent Silicon Valley “woman in STEM” (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) to get her take on the artificial pancreas — which she describes as almost [...]
Mathlete and Supply Chain Expert Ksenia (pronounced “Senia”) Zvyagintseva is chairing VLAB’s Jan. 22, 2019 evening panel called Young Entrepreneurs: Meet the New Generation of World-Changers at the Stanford Faculty Club. She is quite the impressive woman in STEM (science technology engineering and mathematics): Ms. Zvyagintseva, 24, holds a combination degree in mathematics and computer [...]
While perusing the results of an internet search of “2019 tech trends” it was hard to miss the multitudinous quantum computing mentions. Upon further research, I learned that it will mean massive advances in molecular biology, financial modeling, weather forecasting, artificial intelligence and more: it just may create the most prodigious fundamental change in the [...]
Avery P. Hamm, a graduate of Santa Clara University Leavey School of Business, recently volunteered as a VLAB Event Chair for the panel titled “The Impact of Technology on Clinical Trials: Will AI and Mobile Create Cures Faster?” which is taking place at Stanford Faculty Club on October 15. It was a smart move on [...]
I recently sat down and had an “open” conversation with Arun Iyengar, The Semiconductor Guy, to get his views on the impact of open-source processors, and explore what motivated him to take on the VLAB role of Program Co-Chair and lead of the September panel. The growing number of projects in the internet of things [...]
