# LDV Blog

At our 11th Annual LDV Vision Summit earlier this year, a panel of distinguished experts explored the future of materials science powered by visual tech and AI. Click the link below to hear from **Dr. David Smith**, Associate Chair and James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of ECE at Duke University; **Dr. Kristin Schmidt**, Strategy Assistant for Accelerated Discovery and Vice Chair of the Physical Sciences Council at IBM; **Dr. Chirranjeevi Gopal**, Co-Founder and CTO at Mitra Chem, the first lithium-ion battery materials manufacturer; **Dr. Amanda Petford-Long**, Director of the Materials Science Division at Argonne National Lab; and **Ash Cleary**, Associate at LDV Capital.

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Matt Uyttendaele is the director of the AI for Chemistry group at Meta. His group applies machine learning to material discovery for several applications: clean hydrogen, sorbents for direct air capture, and next-generation displays. In 2024, we were honored to have him speak at our Annual General Meeting about a new application of AI that he has been working on for the last few years and how it relates to his career in visual technologies.

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We believe that visual technologies will continue to be the crux of advancements in materials science, across nanomaterials and metamaterials, resulting in the transformation of various industrial, medical and consumer applications. Embedded AI will enable materials to reconfigure themselves autonomously in response to their environment. As sensing abilities and algorithms improve, the full potential of navigating the compositional and configurational possibilities of materials will catalyze widespread transformation for optics, biomarker diagnostics, robotics, 3D printing and more.

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