Vision Summit 2019: Competitions
There are three phases to our competitions.
1. Open call for competitors.
2. Sub-finalists receive remote pitch coaching by experts.
3. A selection of finalists are invited to compete on stage in front the audience and judges.
Past competitors share why you should apply:
ECVC: Jesse Adams/Flatcam, Timnit Gebru/Stanford, Divyaa Ravichandran/CMU, Sean Bell/Cornell, Alessio Dore/Wirewax, Serena Yeung/Stanford
Startups: Jameson Detweiler/Fantasmo, Rosanna Myers/Carbon Robotics, Steve Callanan/Wirewax, Alexandre Alahi/Visiosafe
Entrepreneurial Computer
Vision Challenge [ECVC]
Face off against your fellow Computer Vision and Machine Learning colleagues for a chance to present your solutions to ~600 top industry VCs, media executives and companies recruiting.
We are excited to showcase students, hackers, PhD's or professors who are working on computer vision, machine learning and artificial intelligence projects analyzing any type of visual data.
About 20 sub-finalists will receive coaching from Evan Nisselson. Sub-finalists will have in person judging/mentoring before the Summit. Finalists will be invited to have the opportunity to present on stage at the LDV Summit in front of the audience and judges.
Judges:
- Nabeel Hyatt, Spark Capital
- Hadley Harris, ENIAC Ventures
- Zavain Dar, Lux Capital
- Johannes Kopf, Facebook
- Andrew Rabinovich, Magic Leap
- Gaile Gordon, LDV Capital
- Lourdes Agapito, UCL & Synthesia
- Frances Schwiep, Two Sigma Ventures
Application Deadline: March 24, 2019
[23:59 EST]
Startup Competition
Are you one of the most promising visual technology companies with less than $2M in funding?
Examples: businesses empowering photography, videography, medical imaging, analytics, robotics, satellite imaging, augmented reality, virtual reality, autonomous cars, media and entertainment, gesture recognition, search, advertising, cameras, e-commerce, sentiment analysis, and much more.
Compete for limited presentation slots in front of ~600 attendees including media/brand/tech execs, startups and investors.
About 20 sub-finalists will receive coaching from Evan Nisselson along with other experts. Sub-finalists will have in person judging/mentoring before the Summit. Finalists will be invited to present on stage at the LDV Vision Summit in front of the audience and judges.
Judges:
- Gillian Munson, Union Square Ventures
- Matt Turck, FirstMark Capital
- Rachel Lam, Imagination Ventures
- Chang Xu, Upfront Ventures
- Jeremiah Robison, CIONIC
- Tom Phillips, Section4
- Meghan Cross Breeden, Amplifyher Ventures
- Lucy Wang, 11.2 Capital
- Sujatha Ramanujan, Luminate Accelerator
- Laura Smoliar, Berkley Catalyst Fund
- Avantika Daing, Plum Alley Investments
- Michael Dempsey, Compound
Application Deadline: March 24, 2019
[23:59 EST]
Our 2019 LDV Vision Summit competitions are in partnership with Google Cloud for Startups.
Winners receive over $100K in prizes from:
“I’ve never seen a conference like this - you have pure computer vision conferences like CVPR or ICCV or you have GTC-type conferences that are based on one company’s resources. This is an interesting mix of something computer vision and entrepreneurial - it is very unique in that sense, I have never seen anything like it before. It is a lot of fun.”
“The most valuable part of the Vision Summit was connecting with three different companies potentially interested in building on our technology, and with four different potential investors/advisors.”
“LDV is a really interesting intersection of technologists, researchers, large tech companies, investors and entrepreneurs. There is nothing else like this out there. People are very open to sharing and helping the community advance together.”
“Presenting at the ECVC last year gave me visibility...it was how I came into contact with my current team at Facebook.”
“I found a great job at Clarifai from meeting the Founder at the last Vision Summit - very happy!”
“If you work in visual tech, you simply can’t afford to miss the LDV Summit – it’s a two-day power punch of engaging talks and wicked smart attendees.”
“You do not disappoint. It was truly an honor to participate in the startup competition and to receive the mentoring. I’m sure this will be just a first of a long run of annual LDV Summits.”
“It was a pleasure judging at the summit, really innovative companies.”
“Very happy I competed in the LDV Vision Summit Computer Vision Challenges. I am actually collaborating with one contact from the Summit on a Shoe Recognition App. I am speaking with another person from the Summit to collaborate on new business leveraging image processing!”