The conversation this week is with Robert Parker. Robert has engineered some of today's biggest life-changing innovations from Amazon Alexa to Fire TV and Prime music. Robert has disrupted everyday consumer life with voice assistance, and entertainment technology. After serving as a Director of Engineering at Amazon for five years, Robert became the CTO of SmartThings, leading the company's product and engineering teams while building the proprietary platform. From SmartThings Robert teamed up with Alex to develop the newest transformative platform bright AI. As a co-founder, Robert develops the technology that makes industry disruption and extraordinary growth opportunities possible. Prior to creating groundbreaking technologies, Robert spent 18 years as a general manager at Microsoft, as an industry award winner and recognized technical leader, he holds more than 20 patents of his own.

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Resources and Topics Mentioned in this Episode

• SmartThings
• BrightAI
• Kevin Ashton
• CSC
• MIT AI Course
• Khan Academy Machine Learning Course
• Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
• AI for Everyone by Andrew Ng

Enjoy!

Your host,
Justin Grammens