{"id":5317,"date":"2019-12-09T11:24:14","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T10:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myspeaker.se\/profiles\/sterling-anderson\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T15:16:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T13:16:46","slug":"sterling-anderson","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/myspeaker.se\/en\/international-speakers\/sterling-anderson\/","title":{"rendered":"Sterling Anderson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div id=\"text-block_e69c870cacb08c6bddef651a11e1437f\" class=\"block-text block-text--columns-one lg:my-20 my-10\">\n      <div class=\"block-text__body\">\n      <p>In 2016, Sterling left Tesla to co-found Aurora with Chris Urmson and Drew Bagnell \u2013 fellow self-driving pioneers and creators of Google&#8217;s and Uber&#8217;s respective self-driving programs. In the late 2000&#8217;s, his work in shared autonomy paved the way for broad advances in cooperative control of human-machine systems.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAutomating the driving task &#8212; even in phases &#8212; is an imperative too urgent to wait for perfection\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sterling received his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2012. Sterling Anderson has both breadth and depth with his experiences in technology, innovation and future trends. He can speak to leading-edge developments across the spectrum and to various verticals over a wide range of categories. Sterling Anderson is a popular Speaker, with a captivating style and wisdom. He entertains, informs and motivates global corporate audiences.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Popular topics: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;What, Then, How&#8221; Realizing the Power of Right-to-Left Innovation<\/li>\n<li>Delivering on the Promise of Autonomous Vehicles<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n    <\/div>\n  \n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sterling Anderson is a world expert in autonomous vehicle technology. 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