We're excited to announce Clint Brauer and Steven Gentner of Greenfield Robotics as the next guests in our ongoing speaker series on Thursday, October 15, at 4:30 p.m. Greenfield Robotics develops robots that enable farmers to implement carbon farming on a global scale, and without agrichemicals. Brauer, co-founder and CEO, and Gentner, Vice President of Software, will discuss their mission to drive chemicals out of the food process by using low-cost, autonomous robotics.
This the third in a series of discussions hosted by Groover Labs featuring technology experts in the Midwest. The event will take place in-person at Groover Labs and stream on YouTube Live.
Brauer spent 13 years in Los Angeles working in the technology and entertainment industry for Universal Music Group, Sony, and Fox Interactive Media. He moved back to Wichita to create an organic alternative farm process without chemicals. Brauer is the founder of MGHonor Farms, a local farm in Cheney, Kansas, that serves as a laboratory for testing production methods and marketing for both the farm label and Canidae Pet Foods.
Gentner is the founder of RoboRealm, the company responsible for the popular machine vision software. He began his technical career at USC, where he worked on the groundbreaking Mercury Project and Robotic Telegarden system that connected online users with the real world by deploying robotic arms that interacted with the environment. Gertner then developed some of the first Internet-controlled mobile robots that led to the founding of RoboRealm, a powerful vision software application for use in machine vision, image analysis, and image processing.
After the presentation, Jason Toevs, co-founder and CTO of video caption service Quicc, will talk with Brauer and Gentner about the challenges they face as they use autonomous robotics to disrupt a $200 billion industry.
This is a hybrid YouTube Live and in-person event. Event venue doors open at 4 p.m. for attendees who would like to network beforehand, and the live stream starts at 4:30 p.m. Tickets are available here free for Groover Labs members and $10 for non-members. Be advised, both formats are limited, so sign up now.
We will ask all in-person attendees to follow our Covid-19 safety protocols, which include mandatory face masks and social distancing. Seats in the event venue have been spaced six feet apart. Read more about our safety precautions here.
We are monitoring conditions, and if warranted the event may transition to virtual-only based on new data or recommendations from local officials.