All our invited speakers are female executives, engineers, policy makers, and academics who help solve the unique challenges facing autonomous technology development.
Seaport Autonomy: The Next Frontier in Logistics Transport (Virtual)
Speakers Include:
Seaport Autonomy: The Next Frontier in Logistics Transport (Virtual)
Speakers Include:
Lisa Partch Betlem.
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Lisa Partch Betlem is a Senior Delivery Partner at Blue Yonder. With over 30 years experience working in the supply chain industry and over 12 years of 300+ days a year international travel under her belt, Lisa specializes in collaboration, demand planning, logistics, supply planning and channel management. Originally from the east coast, she received a Bachelors in Industrial Engineering and Industrial Distribution from Clarkson University, and holds an MBA and Masters minor in Supply Chain from Rochester Institute of Technology. Lisa is a 22-year certified California volunteer fire fighter and EMT. |
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Carolyn Jones is the Market President of the Boston Business Journal – the website bostonbusinessjournal.com as well as the weekly edition. In this capacity, she is responsible for overall operations, including advertising, audience development, news, internet activities, programs and events and achieving revenue and profit goals.
The BBJ is Boston’s primary source for local business news, information and data, reaching over 40,000 users daily via its website and weekly edition. Additionally, the BBJ is a convener for business leaders via its programs and events – both in person and now virtually. The BBJ is owned by American City Business Journals, which owns 43 business journals across the country. |
Carolyn M. Jones.
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Dr. Heidi Wyle.
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Dr. Heidi Wyle is the Founder & CEO of Venti Technologies, the global leader in Safe Speed autonomous mobility targeting the logistics hubs market – factories, warehouses, ports and airports - with $175 billion in driver costs. The company’s technology benchmarked #1 in the world in March, 2020. Venti is partnering with Singapore’s port operator PSA to build the port of the future with autonomous vehicles and full automation. She has founded three companies including Computational Biology Corporation which was acquired by Agilent and worked in venture capital with Bessemer Venture Partners. Her distinguished career includes 20 years of business leadership in biotech and technology. Dr. Wyle holds a B.S. from Brown, a Ph.D. from MIT, and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School as a Baker Scholar. Her Board service includes MIT, Harvard Medical School, Brown Medical School, the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Massachusetts Women’s Forum. She is a mountaineer and a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. She is a contributor to North American media and speaks globally. Dr. Wyle is the 2021 BGSA Shark Tank winner and was named one of Forbes 50 Women Crushing Tech 2019, the top US 50 women tech CEO’s. |
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Daniela Rus is the Andrew (1956) and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT, and Deputy Dean of Research in the Schwarzman College of Computing at MIT. Rus' research interests are in robotics and artificial intelligence. The key focus of her research is to develop the science and engineering of autonomy. Rus is a MacArthur Fellow, a fellow of ACM, AAAI and IEEE, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is a senior visiting fellow at MITRE Corporation. She is the recipient of the Engelberger Award for robotics and the IEEE RAS Pioneer award. She earned her PhD in Computer Science from Cornell University.
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Daniela Rus.
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