Thinking Through Autonomy with Ken Dunlap
Technology Podcasts
Understand the promise and impact of autonomous vehicles on our world through the stories and expertise of the visionaries delivering this revolution. Each episode features an in-depth dive into a key aspect of how driverless cars and drones operate, touch our lives and the environment. Hosted by the fully autonomous, Ken Dunlap, who is also known for leading global security tech initiatives featured in the pages of the New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times.
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United States
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Technology Podcasts
Description:
Understand the promise and impact of autonomous vehicles on our world through the stories and expertise of the visionaries delivering this revolution. Each episode features an in-depth dive into a key aspect of how driverless cars and drones operate, touch our lives and the environment. Hosted by the fully autonomous, Ken Dunlap, who is also known for leading global security tech initiatives featured in the pages of the New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times.
Twitter:
@catalystgo
Language:
English
Contact:
2028037200
Episodes
Flying the Mars Helicopter w/ Dr. Jeff Delaune of JPL
5/3/2021
The inside story of how a dedicated team of engineers and explorers developed cutting-edge autonomous navigation technology to use on Mars, as shared by Dr. Jeff Delaune of Ingenuity’s Navigation Team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Our conversation details how the helicopter finds its way around Mars and the navigation technologies the Ingenuity helicopter team invented to accomplish one of the greatest engineering feats in aviation history. All our show notes can be found here:...
Duration:00:36:18
The Real Story Behind AI In Aviation with Mark Roboff
4/15/2021
The unfolding AI revolution in commercial aviation is far broader than the envisioned pilotless airplane flown by a HAL9000. Learn about how airplanes, airlines, and airports will never be the same because of AI. Joining me is Mark Roboff, most recently General Manager of Transformation for Aerospace at DXC Technology. Mark’s an industry visionary, consensus builder, and standards maven for using AI in commercial aviation. He has an expansive career at the epicenter of AI including a gig...
Duration:01:33:57
Position Your Company for Success post-COVID w/ Israel Stol
2/2/2021
How do you position your business for success in a post-COVID world? How do you inject your organization with more creativity and innovation? You must design an environment where team members have the freedom and support to take a chance. Israel Stol is a leading inventor, author, lecturer, and corporate business process consultant. He is also a professional welding development engineer with numerous patents for advanced torpedo propulsion and welding processes. Israel has worked at SpaceX...
Duration:00:45:52
Uber Bridging The Gap
11/5/2020
Uber’s ground breaking Elevate program is single handily responsible for ushering in the age of on demand quiet electric aircraft (eVTOL)that fly above the grid and across cities. It presents an entirely new mode of transportation. Joining us is Danielle Rinsler, Head of Aviation Policy and John Illson, Head of Aviation Safety for Uber.
Duration:00:39:06
Stella Weidner Bridging The Gap
10/9/2020
Stella Weidner is Director Regulatory Affairs-Autonomous Systems Engineering at Boeing. In this episode, she shares her unique perspectives that span safety and engineering at Boeing and the UAS industry. We’ll build pictures of both the range of UAS programs/aircraft Boeing is advancing and the many challenges associated with aircraft and production certification.
Duration:00:44:06
Andy Cebula Bridging The Gap
9/22/2020
Andy Cebula is Vice-President, NextGen and New Entrants at Airlines for America. In this segment Ken taps Andy’s unique perspective of how the civil aviation safely system operates and interconnects. We'll focus on the key questions facing the aviation industry, especially what does the unmanned community need to understand about sharing the airspace with commercial aviation?
Duration:00:23:56
Paul Lewis Bridging The Gap
9/22/2020
We’re kicking off this 6 episode podcast series with Paul Lewis, Vice President, Policy and Finance from the Eno Center for Transportation. He's coauthor of Bridging the Gap: Sustaining UAS Progress While Pursuing a Regulatory Framework. We’ll be leveraging Paul’s and the Eno Center’s perspectives that spans across all transportation sectors. In this segment will focus on comparing and contrasting the challenges facing the nascent unmanned industry against similar ones faced by other sectors...
Duration:00:21:37
Steve Jangelis Bridging The Gap
9/22/2020
Steve Jangelis is the Aviation Safety Chairman for the Air Line Pilots Association and oversees all of ALPA's safety efforts for the airline industry. Ken and Steve compare and contrast the challenges ALPA faces in commercial aviation safety against those facing the unmanned industry and place these within context. What should an airline pilot really think when she sees a drone outside the window?
Duration:00:26:09
Paul Snyder Bridging The Gap
9/22/2020
Paul Snyder is the Assistant Chair and Director of UAS at the University of North Dakota. The New York Times calls the campus "the silicon valley of unmanned aircraft systems." Paul and Ken build for you a picture of what the unmanned industry looks like from flight test to small users to the military and compare and contrast the challenges in each segment.
Duration:00:21:05
July 2020 Special Edition
7/22/2020
Ken updates the audience on what's been going on since the last episode, the effects of COVID on the business of the UAS industry, and previews the 3rd season.
Duration:00:23:13
Keeping the Skies Secure w/ Luke Fox
2/24/2020
Security is one of the greatest challenges caused by the proliferation of drones. Luckily, Luke Fox is on the case. Luke Fox is CEO & founder of WhiteFox, a global leader in drone airspace security. WhiteFox’s products focus on the secure management of drones in sensitive airspace worldwide. Prior to founding WhiteFox, Luke ledcyber-forensics and high-performance drone manufacturing companies. Those experiences inform Luke’s vision for establishing an effective market solution to ensure...
Duration:00:53:11
UAS, Airports, and Innovation w/ Chris Runde
2/10/2020
Chris Runde is the Senior Director of Strategic Development at CGH Technologies. CGH is an aviation innovation firm providing management consulting and solutions to public and private customers. Prior to his current role, Chris held numerous executive, aviation-related positions in the public and private sectors. He’s lead initiatives in airport biometric credentialing, the first deployment of TSA PreCheck as a core member of the Risk-based Security team, and worked on a venture-backed...
Duration:00:53:08
Corporate Investment, UAM, and Luge w/ Bonny Simi
1/26/2020
Bonny Simi is the President of JetBlue Technology Ventures, where she is responsible for investing in and partnering with early-stage startups focusing on technology and travel. Before leading these efforts, Bonny was an Olympian, television broadcaster, and airline pilot. These diverse experiences have prepared her to lead a team that takes JetBlue’s original mission to bring humanity back to travel and expands it to a wide range of technologies. This episode includes conversation about how...
Duration:00:48:52
Envisioning a Hopeful Future at the COE Student Grand Challenge
12/23/2019
The Department of Homeland Security pursues tech and innovation in a number of ways. One of the most inspiring is their Center of Excellence Student Grand Challenge. The DHS-sponsored hackathon challenges students to come up with novel methods of answering difficult security questions. This year, they focused on how to better protect ourselves from drones The competition took place in July 2019 and featured a 36-hour sprint for developing the new ideas. In this episode, you’ll hear a...
Duration:01:04:34
How to Nurture “Smart Communities” w/ David Ihrie
12/5/2019
David Ihrie is the Chief Technology Officer at Virginia's Center for Innovative Technology. He focuses on driving economic welfare for the state of Virginia by evaluating technologies and their ability to play a role in the future. David has more than 35 years of experience innovating in the fields of satellite and terrestrial communication, computing, and information science. He has been a principal in seven different startup companies across a number of industries. Now, as CTO, David...
Duration:00:47:24
IoT for Autonomous Vehicles w/ Bob Leigh
11/18/2019
Bob Leigh is Senior Market Development Director, Autonomous Systems at Real-Time Innovations (RTI), headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA. RTI lives at the intersection of functional artificial intelligence and pervasive networking. RTI is the largest vendor of products based on the Object Management Group (OMG) Data Distribution Service™ (DDS) standard. Throughout his career, Bob has facilitated transformative technology implementations. He understands the costs, opportunities, and pitfalls that...
Duration:00:46:00
Investing in Drones, Machine Learning, and the Future w/ Kaitlyn Henry
11/7/2019
Kaitlyn is an associate at OpenView Venture Partners, an expansion stage venture capital firm. She is responsible for identifying, evaluating and executing on investment opportunities. Prior to OpenView, Kaitlyn worked at Amazon as a senior financial analyst for Amazon’s machine learning group, where she worked on machine learning projects in Amazon’s worldwide consumer engagement team. Ken and Kaitlyn discuss her investing philosophy, why “artificial intelligence” is synonymous with hype,...
Duration:00:57:28
What Happens when Blockchain meets Transportation w/ Dr. Karl Wunderlich
10/22/2019
Dr. Karl Wunderlich is a Fellow for Transportation Analysis in Washington, DC, serving as a task leader or senior advisor on numerous research and development tasks related to surface transportation. Dr. Wunderlich is a recognized expert in the use of simulation and modeling techniques to evaluate emerging technologies or system policies intended to improve traveler mobility or system productivity. He is also a thought leader in the facilitation of collaborative transportation research...
Duration:01:02:43
How Does the FAA Regulate Drones? w/ Jim Williams
9/26/2019
Jim Williams served as one of the world’s top unmanned aircraft regulators. He created and ran the FAA’s UAS Integration Office, where he was the executive lead. He is now director of U.S. regulatory affairs at Drone Delivery Canada. Jim shares with the audience best practices on when to engage with a government agency and how to avoid wasting time. This conversation explores regulatory perspectives on UAS systems, what to focus on regarding UTM, and complying with regulations of the present...
Duration:00:55:01
Why Ethical A.I. Needs a Focus on the Fundamentals w/ David Danks
9/6/2019
Show Notes: Why Ethical A.I. Needs a Focus on the Fundamentals w/ David Danks Dr. David Danks is one of the world’s premier ethicists in the area of artificial intelligence and the Department Head & L.L. Thurston Professor of Philosophy and Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University. David has examined the relations of trust and identity as they are affected by technologies like self driving vehicles, autonomous weapon systems, and autonomous cyber-systems. This interview covers the key...
Duration:00:53:40