{"id":9088,"date":"2019-09-13T08:39:44","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T08:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.myspeaker.fi\/profiles\/sterling-anderson\/"},"modified":"2024-06-04T07:33:27","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T07:33:27","slug":"sterling-anderson","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/myspeaker.fi\/en\/keynote-speakers\/sterling-anderson\/","title":{"rendered":"Sterling Anderson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div id=\"text-block_00ae11c7a3665b5981fae5ea7d597ca0\" class=\"block-text block-text--columns-one lg:my-20 my-10\">\n      <div class=\"block-text__body\">\n      <p>Sterling Anderson is a world expert in autonomous vehicle technology.<\/p>\n<p>Sterling led Tesla\u2019s Model X program from its first development build through launch and served as the Director of Tesla Autopilot from its release on the first generation platform through design, development, and launch of the second.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAutomating the driving task &#8212; even in phases &#8212; is an imperative too urgent to wait for perfection\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In 2016, Sterling left Tesla to co-found Aurora with Chris Urmson and Drew Bagnell \u2013 fellow self-driving pioneers and creators of Google\u2019s and Uber\u2019s respective self-driving programs.<\/p>\n<p>In the late 2000\u2019s, his work in shared autonomy paved the way for broad advances in cooperative control of human-machine systems.<\/p>\n<p>Sterling received his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Sterling Anderson has both breadth and depth with his experiences in technology, innovation and future trends. 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He entertains, informs and motivates global corporate audiences.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Theme: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;What, Then, How&#8221; Realizing the Power of Right-to-Left Innovation<\/li>\n<li>Delivering on the Promise of Autonomous Vehicles<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n    <\/div>\n  \n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3201,"menu_order":1465,"template":"","profile_category":[312,145,143,111],"profile_tag":[171,289,125],"profile_language":[],"class_list":["post-9088","profile","type-profile","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","profile_category-digitalisation-technology-keynote-speakers","profile_category-leadership","profile_category-creativity-innovation","profile_category-keynote-speakers","profile_tag-creativity-innovation","profile_tag-digitalisation-technology","profile_tag-leadership"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sterling Anderson - Keynote Speaker - MySpeaker Finland<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Sterling Anderson, ex-Tesla Autopilot director, co-founded Aurora. 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