Speaker bio:
Sonny is the CEO of Arevo, an advanced manufacturing tech company automating design and production of carbon fiber composites; demonstration products include the Superstrata bike and the Scotsman e-scooter. Previously, he founded: Alabaster (deeptech investments), Impact Biosystems (smart muscle recovery), Elemental Machines (IoT for labs), Misfit (wearables; acquired by Fossil), AgaMatrix (biosensors for diabetes), and FireSpout (NLP; acquired by Ask.com). Before startups, he worked at Microsoft Research (NLP), worked on a linguistics PhD at MIT under Noam Chomsky, and studied math at UIUC. When not playing with his kids, he enjoys dreaming about the future, doing math, and learning languages.
Keynote name:
Breaking the Mold
Keynote description:
Breaking the Mold: The world will not tolerate the delays that have been plaguing our industry. There are just too many forces driving innovations that will transform this this industry. The one we will focus on is the emergence of additive manufacturing (“AM”) at scale. This will enable on-demand production (so no inventory costs), mass customization, ultra-rapid iteration and new product introduction. We will present a case study for this.
