New business models in an autonomous world

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Autonomy and new forms of mobility will enable a whole new type of businesses and services that we did imagine before. Privacy, safety, commerce, infrastructure and productivity will be impacted.

Speakers:

• Qasar Younis: Serial Entrepreneur (ex-COO @ Y Combinator)

• Yu Fang: Head of Mobile Engineering @ Nauto

Detailed bios:

Qasar Younis @Qasar (https://twitter.com/Qasar)

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Younis was born in Pakistan, and emigrated to the United States in 1988. He grew up in the Detroit area. After graduating from Kettering University, he went on to complete his MBA at Harvard Business School.

His first job out of Harvard Business School was at Sears Holdings headquarters in Chicago, but he then moved to San Francisco to start TalkBin, a platform for customers to give feedback to small and medium-sized businesses. The company graduated from Y Combinator's 2011 class, and was acquired by Google that year.

After the TalkBin acquisition, Qasar joined Google as a Group Product Manager for business facing products. He continued advising other startups, particularly through Y-Combinator. In July 2014, he became a part-time partner, and was promoted to COO in August 2015. He recently left YC working on something new.

Yu Fang

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Yu Fang is currently the Head of Mobile Engineering at autonomous driving startup Nauto, which most recently received $149M in Series B funding from leading investors such as Softbank and Greylock, in addition to strategic investors such as BMW, Toyota, and GM. Nauto, based in Palo Alto, focuses on retrofitting existing vehicle fleets with networked safety camera-equipped devices that serve to generate a highly valuable dataset for autonomous driving at a massive scale.

Yu Fang has over twenty years of engineering and executive experiences in the Silicon Valley, having worked at numerous established technology companies over the years including Sun Microsystems, Senera Systems, Brocade and Cisco. Prior to joining Nauto, Yu held executive engineering positions at startups Cardfree and Tanjarine. Yu has an MBA from the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, a MS from the University of Rochester, and a BS from China's Tsinghua University.

Dinner and soft drinks will be provided.