Oliver Cameron keynote speaker

Oliver is the co-founder and CEO of Odyssey. Odyssey is an AI lab pioneering general-purpose world models: causal, multimodal systems that learn to predict and interact with the world over long horizons. This foundational technology promises to revolutionize robotics, science, healthcare, education, gaming, defense, and beyond.

Odyssey was founded in late 2023 by Oliver Cameron (Cruise VP, Voyage CEO, Y Combinator alum) and Jeff Hawke (Wayve VP, Oxford AI PhD), with deep roots in experts in world models, autonomous systems, RL, and frontier AI. They’ve since recruited a world-class research team from DeepMind, Tesla, Waymo, Meta, Apple, and Wayve.

Odyssey has raised significant venture capital from GV and EQT, with additional backing from NVIDIA, Elad Gil, Jeff Dean, Guillermo Rauch, Garry Tan, Kyle Vogt, and researchers at OpenAI, DeepMind, and Midjourney.

Prior to Odyssey, Oliver spent 8 years building and scaling fully driverless cars. Oliver served as VP of Product at Cruise—a leader in self-driving cars—after the acquisition of his own autonomous driving startup, Voyage. At Cruise, Oliver focused on AI, products, tooling, and services to scale the fleet, AV driving behaviors, next-generation vehicles, and more. He led the launch of the world’s first fully driverless service in San Francisco, and scaled it to 3 major US cities, generating substantial revenue and over 100,000 5-star ratings from customers.

Before being acquired by Cruise, Oliver was co-founder and CEO of Voyage, a 70-person startup that developed and deployed state-of-the-art self-driving cars. In March 2021, Cruise acquired Voyage to supercharge their technology efforts.

Prior to Voyage, Oliver was the VP of Product & Engineering at the online education startup Udacity. Oliver worked closely with AI pioneer Sebastian Thrun to deliver world-class online education to millions of people. At Udacity, Oliver led a 200-strong research, product, engineering, and content team, launching and growing online classes in AI, autonomous vehicles, robotics, and more.