How AI will transform transportation and logistics

“No Pain, No Gain” is a periodic event that will highlight China-based entrepreneurs with roots at Stanford University. Entrepreneurs will discuss the challenges they faced and how they overcame them. Using the Graduate School of Business’ state-of-the-art distance learning technology, there will be audiences at Stanford and at the Stanford Center at Peking University (SCPKU).

The discussion will take the form of a structured conversation between the entrepreneur and a moderator, either a professor from the GSB or a subject matter expert selected for his or her familiarity with the entrepreneur and/or the sector.

On the Stanford side the audience will consist of current Stanford students and GSB alumni with an interest in entrepreneurship in China. In Beijing the audience will consist of Stanford alumni, current students at Peking University and Tsinghua University also local entrepreneurs.

【Event Details】

Topic：How AI will transform transportation and logistics

Date：17:30-19:40, March 6 (Wednesday）

Venue：E103, Knight Management Center

【Event Schedule】

 17:30-18:00: Registration & Dinner

 18:00-18:10: Opening Remarks and introduction

 18:10-18:30: GSR Ventures in China

18:30-19:00: How AI will transform transportation and logistics

19:00-19:20: Panel Discussion

19:20-19:40: Q&A

【Speakers】

David Liu | CEO, Plus.ai

David is an entrepreneur passionate about creating technology-driven products. Previously, David has built three successful companies in RedAtoms, RMG Networks, and InformLink. He started his career at Hewlett-Packard, Silicon Graphics, and later McKinsey. David holds a PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

Haim Mendelson | Professor of Electronic Business and Commerce, and Management, Stanford Graduate School of Business

 Professor Mendelson leads the School’s efforts in studying electronic business and its interaction with organizations, markets and value chains, and incorporating their implications into the School’s curriculum and research. His research interests include electronic business, electronic platforms, supply chain management, and market microstructure. He has introduced the "Organizational IQ" concept which quantifies an organization’s ability to use information to make quick and effective decisions. He has been elected Distinguished Fellow of the Information Systems Society in recognition of outstanding intellectual contributions to the Information Systems discipline. He has published more than a hundred papers in leading journals in the areas of information systems, management science, finance, economics and statistics.

Richard Lim | Co-founder and Managing Director, GSR Ventures.

Richard is a founding Managing Director of GSR Ventures, investing in early-stage technology companies. He currently focuses on companies applying Artificial Intelligence to high impact sectors. Richard serves on the boards of Plus.ai, Datavisor, Kinsa, Rulai, Xiaohongshu, and Zingbox. His previous investments include Qunar (NASDAQ: QUNR), LightinTheBox (NYSE: LITB), Baixing (NEEQ: 836012), Baihe (NEEQ: 834214), and Funplus. Prior to GSR, he was a serial entrepreneur and was an executive at Lotus Development and National University Hospital of Singapore. He earned a bachelor’s degree from National University of Singapore and an MBA from Stanford University.

Frank Hawke | China Director, Stanford Graduate School of Business

Mr. Hawke received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and his Master of Arts degree in Political Science from Stanford University. As part of his PhD program in Political Science at Stanford, Frank was in the first group of U.S. scholars to work in China after the U.S. and China re-established diplomatic relations in 1979. In his 40 years of working in and around China, Frank has held senior management as well as board positions as a banker (Citibank, Salomon Brothers, Everbright Group), a CEO (IMC Global), a consultant (Kroll & Associates and his own firm). Frank has taught widely about China at Stanford and elsewhere.

【About Plus.ai】

Plus.ai was founded in 2016 by David Liu and Hao Zheng, who were classmates at Stanford twenty years ago. After two years of rapid growth, Plus.ai now is a multinational technology company with R&D centers in Silicon Valley and China, backed by leading investors including GSR Ventures, Sequoia, Lightspeed, etc.

Plus.ai specializes in developing full-stack self-driving technology to enable large scale autonomous commercial fleets. We began conducting daily tests on both urban and highway public roads early on, and became one of the leading companies in autonomously driven miles in California. We are also focused on building strong strategic partnerships with large truck OEMs (no.1 OEM in China and a top OEM in the US) and transportation providers, since we believe these partnerships are critical for successfully deploying self-driving technology at scale. 

To build an autonomous truck that is safer than a human driver requires the very best minds. Working towards that goal, we have assembled a team of world class technologists from top companies and universities, and empowered them to create innovative products. We believe through hard work, tenacity, and a lot of creativity, we will build an autonomous truck fleet that changes the world.