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Tessa Lau
Tessa Lau is the founder and CEO of Dusty Robotics, a Mountain View-based company that builds autonomous mobile robots for the construction industry. Her FieldPrinter robot uses building information model (BIM) data to print layout lines directly onto jobsite floors with 1/16-inch accuracy, replacing manual chalk-line methods that have dominated construction for centuries. Lau holds a PhD in machine learning from the University of Washington and spent 11 years at IBM Research before pivoting to robotics at Willow Garage and co-founding hotel-delivery-robot company Savioke. She launched Dusty Robotics in 2018, has raised $69.5 million including a $45 million Series B, and has helped contractors print over 100 million square feet of layout across thousands of buildings.
Alok Aggarwal
Dr. Alok Aggarwal is the CEO and Chief Data Scientist of Scry AI, a San Jose-based enterprise AI company he founded in 2014. A Johns Hopkins PhD with deep roots at IBM Research and as co-founder of Evalueserve - where he coined the term 'Knowledge Process Outsourcing' - Aggarwal has spent four decades building AI systems that actually work in regulated industries. His 2023 book 'The Fourth Industrial Revolution & 100 Years of AI (1950-2050)' topped Amazon bestseller charts in multiple categories. Scry AI serves banking, insurance, manufacturing, and government clients with explainable, audit-ready AI deployed on 60+ proprietary models.