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Sravan Puttagunta is the co-founder and CEO of Civil Maps, a software company that develops cognition for autonomous vehicles so they can crowdsource dynamic, high definition, 3D semantic maps. In his previous work, he invented video fingerprinting for linear broadcast TV to track viewing habits and contributed to software that runs in more than 160 million TVs. He has written substantial portions of artificial intelligence algorithms for cars which map the world in 3D. Civil Maps has mapped the San Francisco Bay Area in 3D using AI and SLAM (simultaneous localization and mapping) algorithms.
Tim Bradshaw is the digital media correspondent at the Financial Times in London. As a journalist, he covers all sorts of media, technology and marketing stories for the newspaper and the FT TechHub. He writes about trends in the tech industry, media company news and new innovations from the UK and Europe.