Jeff Bier is co-founder and president of BDTI, a widely respected consulting firm focused on embedded processing and AI. For over 25 years, BDTI has helped hundreds of companies select the right technologies and develop optimized, custom algorithms and software for demanding applications in audio, video, machine learning and computer vision. Jeff also leads the Edge AI and Vision Alliance (formerly the Embedded Vision Alliance), a partnership of 100+ technology companies that works to enable the widespread use of practical computer vision and edge AI, and to help companies find their best opportunities in this burgeoning space.