Interview with Jeremy Howard fast.ai
Channel: Robotics Australia Group
Date: 2021-03-08

~~~ A friendly chat with a serial entrepreneur ~~~

Why is it so ‘hard’ for Australian companies seeking capital investment in robotics to secure support? Why won’t venture capital in Australia that has a particular interesting robotics & robotics related technologies fund the world leading technologies emerging right here? Why don’t we invest more into our home grown excellence?

Robotics Australia is committed to unpacking & challenging this for our Network of members over a series of casual chats with key players to gauge the realness of the claim that funds & appetite to invest into homegrown technologies exist, & to get direct feedback into how we can make Australian robotics opportunities more investable!

In this chat we talk to Jeremey Howard; a data scientist, researcher, developer, educator, and entrepreneur. Jeremy is a founding researcher at fast.ai, a research institute dedicated to making deep learning more accessible. He is also a Distinguished Research Scientist at the University of San Francisco, the chair of WAMRI, and is Chief Scientist at platform.ai. Jeremy has very kindly given us some of his time to provide insights into the landscape from a very successful again-local serial entrepreneur’s perspective - click below to listen & remember to leave comments!