# 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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