Ghost Autonomy and Pure Storage to Host Joint Session on Accelerating AI Development Data Pipelines for Autonomous Vehicles at Automotive USA 2023
November 01 2023 - 2:39PM
Business Wire
Session to Explore Software’s Critical Role in
Modernizing Data Infrastructure and Services for the Automotive
Industry
Ghost Autonomy, a pioneer in scalable autonomy software for
consumer cars, today announced that the company’s founder and CEO
John Hayes will be speaking on a joint panel at Automotive USA 2023
with Michael Cornwell, Field CTO, Americas at Pure Storage, on how
automotive organizations are modernizing data infrastructure and
data services to enable high-velocity software development. The
event commences on November 8, 2023.
What: Automotive USA is a Reuters event where the
industry meets to hear from trailblazing OEMs, cutting-edge
solution providers and government agencies to solve various
challenges facing the automotive industry today. This year’s event
will focus on the new and disruptive technologies that are defining
automotive for 2023 including software-defined vehicles, vehicle
safety, electrification, and manufacturing and supply chain.
In the workshop titled, “Collect, Label, Train, Simulate,
Validate, and Drive: Accelerating the AI Development Data Pipeline
for Autonomous, Software-Defined Vehicles,” Pure Storage and Ghost
Autonomy will explore how the pace of evolution of AI is
challenging automotive software development teams to re-think their
infrastructure and processes to move faster. Attendees will learn
how AI is built, including the various stages of the development
pipeline; how to optimize the infrastructure and processes behind
AI development; and how to train AI models for a competitive
advantage.
When: Wednesday, November 8, at 1:05pm EST
Where: Huntington Place, Detroit, USA
Who: John Hayes is CEO and founder of autonomous vehicle
software innovator Ghost Autonomy. Prior to Ghost, John founded
Pure Storage, taking the company public (PSTG, $11 billion market
cap) in 2015. As Pure’s chief architect, he harnessed the consumer
industry’s transition to flash storage (including the iPhone and
MacBook Air) to reimagine the enterprise data center, inventing
blazing fast flash storage solutions now run by the world’s largest
cloud and ecommerce providers, financial and healthcare
institutions, science and research organizations, and governments.
Like Pure, Ghost uses software to achieve near-perfect reliability
and re-defines simplicity and efficiency with commodity consumer
hardware.
Michael Cornwell serves as the Field CTO of the Americas
at Pure Storage. He is a founding engineer of the company and has
served in key management roles in the company's growth. Previously
at Microsoft as the general manager of storage technologies for
Azure Infrastructure, Michael led the innovation and adoption of
new memory and storage technologies across the Azure platform and
services. He also led pioneering storage product development at Sun
Microsystems and Apple, where he was instrumental in adopting new
technologies in Apple products. Michael holds a bachelor's degree
in computer science from the University of California at Santa Cruz
and has been awarded 68 U.S. patents.
To learn more about Ghost Autonomy, visit
https://www.ghostautonomy.com and sign up for Ghost’s mailing list
to stay up to date.
About Pure Storage
Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG) uncomplicates data storage, forever.
Pure delivers a cloud experience that empowers every organization
to get the most from their data while reducing the complexity and
expense of managing the infrastructure behind it. Pure's commitment
to providing true storage as-a-service gives customers the agility
to meet changing data needs at speed and scale, whether they are
deploying traditional workloads, modern applications, containers,
or more. Pure believes it can make a significant impact in reducing
data center emissions worldwide through its environmental
sustainability efforts, including designing products and solutions
that enable customers to reduce their carbon and energy footprint.
And with the highest Net Promoter Score in the industry, Pure's
ever-expanding list of customers are among the happiest in the
world. For more information, visit www.purestorage.com.
About Ghost Autonomy
Ghost makes autonomous driving software for the next generation
of consumer cars. It is a software partner to automakers,
accelerating new applications of artificial intelligence to help
realize the software-defined vehicle. Ghost is pioneering the use
of multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) in autonomy. This new
software architecture applies the powerful human-like reasoning of
large models to the driving task, enabling autonomous vehicles to
understand and navigate the long tail of complex driving scenarios,
even those never seen before. Ghost was founded in 2017 by John
Hayes, who previously co-founded Pure Storage, taking the company
public in 2015. Ghost is based in Mountain View, CA with additional
offices in Detroit, Dallas and Sydney.
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