In San Diego at the @Qualcomm IoT Dragonwing invite-only event. Really inspiring to see whats possible with the latest Qualcomm tech and the solutions that partners are creating with it. Lots of cameras, vision, drones, robotics, Physical AI, Edge AI, etc. Running into a lot of familiar faces (many from the Texagon!) as well as partner colleagues from Qualcomm, @arduino, @EdgeImpulse, and others.
These are my people! 🤓🤖😆
If you’re here, reach out.
@Softeq
Excited to be speaking on a panel at the Things Conference today in Amsterdam, on “Real World Edge AI”.
Thanks to Pete Bernard and the EDGE AI FOUNDATION for the invite!
I just registered for #CES2027 (it may even be my 27th time to go...time flies). I hope to see you there! invt.io/1txbp2zs4vk
I'll be at @SensorsConverge next week. Oddly the first time I've been at this show. Anyone else going to be there?
And always great to be in Silicon Valley, I'm happy to meet for coffee, lunch or dinner. Let's connect!
@Softeq #ontheroad
It was an honor to be one of the first guests on the We Are UH podcast celebrating UH’s upcoming Centennial. My interview starts about 30min in.
youtu.be/77SnZgqy8Ow?feature…
The University of Houston has had a fundamental impact on my career.
I graduated High School in Florida in the top 2% of my class out of 900 students. But my family didn’t have the ability to send me to college. My Aunt lived in Houston and she suggested I apply to UH and stay with her and her family. And lo and behold UH took a chance on me by giving me a full ride Honors Scholarship in Electrical Engineering. I moved to Houston in 1981.
🏀 It was the days of Phi Slamma Jamma but I digress.
Two years later I got married and couldn’t attend full time, but UH had something called the Co-Op program. I could work while going to college and gain experience. First I worked for the Light Company (now Centerpoint) and then for IBM down at NASA during the Space Shuttle days. It was the beginning of the IBM PC era and was fantastic experience. I was at IBM for 2.5 years learning everything about the PC and teaching myself programming languages from Basic to ADA to C to Assembly, while attending UH at night.
From that foundation I kicked off my entrepreneurial journey, and none of it would have happened without the opportunities that UH gave me.
Now it’s so exciting to see UH lean into entrepreneurship with Wolff Center for Entrepreneurship, TechBridge, and more. Bauer Wolff Center for Entrepreneurship at UH recently ranked No. 1 for the Seventh Consecutive Year.
Thank you UH. Go Coogs!
On July 20th, we landed on the moon…an amazing feat that hasn’t been duplicated for over 50 years now. That’s today! Neil Armstrong made the first footprint on another planet. Buzz Aldrin was the second man on the moon. 🌖 My wife Jill and I got to meet Buzz and two other astronauts, Charlie Duke and Walt Cunningham, at the 50th anniversary of the moon landing. 🧑🚀 It was held at the Reagan Presidential Library in California. It was an honor.
Happy World UFO Day! We took the grandkids to Space Center Houston today (Jill’s pics to follow! 🥰). Coincidentally our NASA visit and my shirt were on point for today. 🤓👽🛸🧑🚀🚀🪐
Wow, ONE HUNDRED EPISODES. 🤯
One Hundred 💯 conversations with really interesting people who are actively forging the future.
I’ve been really looking forward to this conversation with Rod Canion, Houston legend, co-founder and first CEO of Compaq, for a long time. It didn’t disappoint.
So much great inside info and advice for founders, especially those on a high-growth trajectory, or if you’re David taking on Goliath. And he’s still out there innovating.
Give my 100th Forging the Future podcast episode with Rod a listen. Let me know what you think! Link in comments.
