Jesse Levinson is the cofounder and CTO of Zoox, a venture-backed startup creating ground-up, fully autonomous electric vehicles for point-to-point mobility in cities. Jesse is responsible for overseeing the company’s software, artificial intelligence, computing, and sensing platforms. Prior to Zoox, Jesse graduated summa cum laude from Princeton and then completed a computer science Ph.D. and postdoc under Sebastian Thrun at Stanford. There, he developed algorithms for Stanford’s $1M-winning entry in the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge, and went on to lead the self-driving car team’s research efforts.
Jesse also co-created a popular mobile photography app, Pro HDR, that has been purchased by more than a million people.
Peter Wouda is the Design Director at Volkswagen Group Future Center Europe. He studied design in Pforzheim, Germany, and London. Since he graduated from the Royal College of Art in London in 1996, he has been working as a designer for the Volkswagen Group.
Peter started his career in Volkswagen Headquarters in Wolfsburg before joining Skoda, where he was leading the Exterior Design. In 2006 Peter moved to the Volkswagen Group Design Studio in Potsdam, near Berlin, heading the Exterior Design.
Together with his international team, he has been responsible for creating many showcars and concepts for production designs for Volkswagen and other group brands. The vehicles that were presented to the public include the Volkswagen XL1 (the “one-liter car”).
Today Peter Wouda is responsible as Design Director for all vehicle concepts that are under development in the Volkswagen Future Center Europe.
