COMMA_CON

comma

Music Box

Want to understand the true future of self driving cars? Come to COMMA_CON (a real world event, not a zoom call). A never before seen, in depth look, into the top rated most advanced driver assistance system you can buy. And a peek ahead.Meet the team and understand how autonomy will really play out. Just $99, includes lunch and dinner. Only in beautiful San Diego, CA, only on July 31st.<h3>Schedule (PDT)</h3>10:00AM-10:05: Opening remarksAlex (COO) and Chris (Head of Production &amp; Communications) welcome you to COMMA_CONTalks include 10 minutes of Q&amp;A at the end. There is such a thing as a bad question. 10:05AM: Robbe Derks + Hardware TeamBuilding a car is hard. Working with car companies is impossible. We chose the third option. Working with existing cars. comma did this so casually you’d think it was easy. It wasn’t.We interface with over 100 different cars. Want to understand how we’ve managed to do that without ballooning complexity? Come to this talk.11:00AM: Harald Schäfer -- CTOGet the data, train the models. Easy, right?Not even close. From the world’s most sophisticated automatic ground truthing stack, to an agent trained in our “Small Offset Simulator”, you’ll learn where the magic comes from, and how the magic will continue all the way through to level 5. Fun and easy!12:00PM-1:00: Lunch: Burgers1:00PM-2:10: George Hotz -- Presidentcomma is a profitable company that provides value to 1000s of users. How do you keep focused and build something like that in a world with clown valuations, fake demos, and phony products?Our mission is “solve self driving cars while delivering shippable intermediaries,” we aren’t stopping at highway autopilot. Come to this talk to learn about what’s next, and how the clowning will continue until the end. You won’t want to miss this.2:10PM: Willem Melching -- Head of openpilotopenpilot has evolved from a hobby project to legit some of the best software in the automotive world. In the process we’ve written a whole set of robotics software (messaging, kalman filters, localizer) that outperform everything available today.Come to this talk to learn how openpilot works. It’s quite sophisticated, yet still approachable. Learn the Android of self driving before everyone else. 3:00PM: Adeeb Shihadeh-- openpilot EngineerCome to this talk to see a secret new feature be revealed!3:30PM: Greg Hogan -- Head of InfrastructureWe have a 50 kW on premise datacenter with 2,000 cores, 80 GPUs, and 3 PB of storage. Learn how it came together in this talk.4:10: Weixing Zhang-- Research EngineerCamera based driver monitoring (DM) is a key part of the magic of openpilot. It’s so good that Tesla copied it 2 years later!Come learn how it was built into the best DM on the market by one engineer part time. Understand the power of the comma research stack, crowdsourcing, and big data.4:40PM: Group Chat / QAGeorge will get on stage and lead a group conversation about comma and openpilot’s journey from hobby quality crap to the top rated ADAS system.5:30PM-6:30: Happy Hour + Community Lightning talks (apply to alex@comma.ai)Drew Hintz: CAN bus analysis of Chrysler PacificaMitchell Goff; Research engineer, comma6:30PM-8:00: Dinner: Flatbreads6:30PM-8:00: VIP DinnerSit-down dinner with the comma team (3rd floor)8:00PM-10:00: comma JeopardyThree teams of four people will compete in two rounds of comma themed questions. Test your knowledge of comma, cars, and computers while drinking free pitchers of beer on stage. VIP tickets get first dibs on teams, the rest of the players will be selected randomly. Score the most points and win a “prize!”<h3>General Admission </h3>Includes lunch, dinner, snacks, and soft drinks. Cash bar all day.<h3>VIP </h3>Includes:<ul><li>Sit-down, multi-course dinner with the comma team</li><li>Open bar Happy Hour with the comma team</li><li>Lunch, snacks, and soft drinks</li><li>Reserved booth seating on the VIP floor</li><li>A spot on a comma Jeopardy team (if you&#x27;d like)</li><li>Merch and more!</li></ul><h3>Parking</h3>No parking at the venue. If you are driving, we recommend parking at one of the many lots around the Music Box. <h3>Venue</h3>The Music box is pretty cool. It&#x27;s three floors with an outdoor area on the top and bottom floors. There&#x27;s relaxing lounge areas, booth seating, outdoor patios, and great views of the stage throughout. Tickets are FINAL SALE.

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