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Our 12th Annual LDV Vision Summit brought together deep tech entrepreneurs, technologists, academics, researchers and investors for engaging discussions on innovations in cutting-edge visual tech and AI. We continue to be excited by the accelerating convergence of visual tech and AI across both the digital and physical worlds.

We were thrilled to welcome speakers from Insight Partners, Mayo Clinic, Harvard Medical School, Bek Ventures, 01 Advisors, University of Oxford, The Pioneer Centre for Artificial Intelligence, and LocalGlobe among others.

A special thank you goes to our speakers and attendees!

Explore the "Internet of Eyes" (IoEyes) concept: a network of visual sensors and cameras that will give inanimate objects the ability to "see," exponentially impacting businesses and humanity through computer vision and AI. Written by Evan Nisselson, Founder and General Partner at LDV Capital, this article was originally published on The Next Web on May 13, 2016, and is being reposted without changes.

Every robot, drone, self-driving car, delivery bot, and surgical assistant that claims “intelligence” is fundamentally a product of visual and/or electromagnetic perception systems. The success of Physical AI doesn’t start with neural networks or GPUs – it starts with cameras, sensors, and spectral scanners that give machines their first sense of reality.

Physical AI will not succeed until machines can truly see.

Our 11th Annual LDV Vision Summit was our most attended event to date, bringing together deep tech entrepreneurs, technologists, academics, researchers and investors for engaging discussions on cutting-edge visual tech and AI innovations. We were thrilled to welcome speakers from Sequoia Capital, NVIDIA, IBM, Kleiner Perkins, Phare Bio, IVP, Mitra Chem, BAM Corner Point, Duke University, Fortune, Argonne National Laboratory, Princeton University, The Pioneer Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Fieldstone Bio. Three of our LDV Capital portfolio companies also presented: Synthesia, DANNCE AI and ResiQuant.

As we approach the 10th Annual LDV Vision Summit, we thought it fitting to pose a few burning questions to Serge Belongie, a professor of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen, the head of the Danish Pioneer Centre for Artificial Intelligence and LDV Capital Expert in Residence. We delved into his experiences as a prominent figure in AI and sought his insights on the present landscape of visual technologies. Additionally, we explored his thoughts on the prospects available to researchers aiming to bring their work to market and impact humanity at large.

Our Annual General Meetings are invite-only exclusive gatherings that bring together our investors, experts, special guests and portfolio companies. For the first time, we have made the decision to share a few photographs from our most recent Annual General Meeting hosted in New York City to give you a glimpse into what it is like to be a part of our LDV Capital Inner Circle.

Which sectors over the next 10 years will have the most societal impact from research advancements leveraging visual technologies and artificial intelligence? In the lead-up to our 9th Annual LDV Vision Summit – the premier global gathering in visual tech – hosted virtually on March 28, we addressed this and 4 other burning questions to 11 brilliant professors & researchers.

We at LDV Capital have been investing in AI for over 10 years to date, and have made 7 investments in teams building businesses leveraging Generative AI since 2018. We believe that this technology has significant commercial value as a utility that will empower SaaS businesses to disrupt legacy enterprises. Check out this article to learn more and see some examples of exponentially growing commercial applications in content creation, biotech and more.

Our sixth annual LDV Vision Summit was fantastic, a giant thank you to everyone who came and participated in making it another spectacular gathering. We are honored that you fly in from around the world each year to share insights, inspire, do deals, recruit, raise capital, and help each other succeed!

At the LDV Vision Summit 2018, Joshua Brustein of Bloomberg Businessweek spoke with Serge Belongie (Cornell Tech), Ryan Measel (Fantasmo), Mandy Mandelstein (Luxloop), and Jeff McConathy (6D.ai) about how the digital and physical world will converge in order to deliver the future of augmented reality.

Our fifth annual LDV Vision Summit was fantastic, a giant thank you to everyone who came and participated in making it another spectacular gathering.

We couldn’t do it without you, YOU are why our annual LDV Vision Summit is special and a success every year. Thank you!

We are very excited to announce the close of our second fund for investing in people building visual technology businesses at the pre-seed or seed stage. You can read more about it on the Wall Street Journal.

We are honored to announce that computer vision and machine learning expert Serge Belongie has joined LDV Capital’s team as our first Expert in Residence [ER]. Serge is a professor of Computer Science at Cornell University and Cornell Tech and a technical leader in our field of visual technologies.

YOU are why our annual LDV Vision Summit gathering is special and a success every year. Thank You! We are honored that you fly in from around the world each year to share insights, inspire, do deals, recruit, raise capital and help each other succeed!

Our next LDV Vision Summit will included over 80 international speakers with the purpose of exploring, understanding, and shaping the future of imaging and video in human communication. We will showcase the best startups and computer vision experts who compete in one of the following two competitions.

Wow - what a fantastic Summit with all of you brilliant people!

Thank you for helping us make our LDV Vision Summit a huge success!

We greatly appreciate all the insights and wisdom from the speakers, competitors, judges and the attendees throughout the Summit.

YOU all helped us make the two days inspiring and special.

"Every year the LDV Vision Summit assembles the foremost thinkers, builders, and business leaders in the visual field. It's always illuminating and inspiring." Erick Schonfeld, Executive Producer, DEMO & Co-Founder, TouchCast

Thank you!