Futurist, Robotics and AI Speaker; CEO at VAIRC
Peter Haas Biography
Peter Haas is the CEO at VAIRC. Formerly the Director of the Department of Robotics at MassTech, where he was responsible for building out the MA robotics ecosystem -- one of the largest clusters of robotics companies in the United States -- he was also the CEO of Avendly a bar and restaurant robotics company.
Haas was formerly the Associate Director of the Brown University Humanity Centered Robotics Initiative where he helped in research on automation-based job displacement, AR, VR and MR interfaces for robots, MR shared mental models with robots, social robotics for the elderly, UAV autonomy, Moral norms in AI, and some peripheral pick and place and motion planning work. He was also faculty in the Brown University school of engineering.
He ran the Computer Vision practice at IDC as Research Director in Computer Vision AI Software. He was the Co-Founder and COO of XactSense, a UAV manufacturer working on LIDAR mapping and autonomous navigation. Prior to XactSense, Haas founded AIDG – a small hardware enterprise accelerator in Haiti and Guatemala. AIDG did design for extreme affordability work and provided seed funding to local entrepreneurs.
Haas received both TED and Echoing Green fellowships. He has been a speaker at TED Global, The World Bank, DHL Robotics Days, The Economist World Gala, Harvard University and other venues. He speaks on AI, Robotics, automation-based job displacement, design for extreme affordability, disaster response and international development. He holds a Philosophy BA from Yale.
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Peter Haas Speaking Topics
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Outpaced
Humans are on the verge of being outpaced by AI systems. Recently massive changes in processing power have enabled old and previously unsuccessful techniques in AI to flourish resulting in robust systems like Deep Learning. This trend will continue as processing power increases and AI techniques that are stymied now will see realization as useful tools for planning and perception. The result of this will be an acceleration in the pace of production and pace of society.
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Demographics and AI Automation
Western countries are entering a demographic shift where large numbers of people in traditionally blue collar jobs will be aging out of the workforce, truck drivers, slaughterhouse workers etc. Many of these jobs are complex tasks that will be difficult to fully automate. There will be room for robotic teleoperation of jobs to perform the work, but also room for higher tech jobs to manage these systems, that are more managerial level. Savvy workers can advance their careers to management with the right domain expertise. To prepare for this they need to start understanding how these systems will be deployed and what new skills they will need to master to be in line for those systems management jobs.
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Peter Haas is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as Outpaced, Demographics and AI Automation, AI Globalization, AI Trust and AI Cybersecurity. The estimated speaking fee range to book Peter Haas for your event is $10,000 - $20,000. Peter Haas generally travels from and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Mutale Nkonde, Alex Salkever, Karen Palmer, Hava Siegelmann and Dr. Roman V. Yampolskiy. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Peter Haas for an upcoming live or virtual event.
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