Alvelda, Phillip

Alvelda, Phillip

CEO & Chairman at Infinite Entertainment

Dr. Alvelda is an experienced AI technology innovator and entrepreneur whose career started at NASA in 1986, designing spacecraft sensors.

 

Dr. Alvelda currently leads Infinite Entertainment, a company revolutionizing media production by offering creative professionals AI superpowers.  With Infinite’s new Ai-enhanced production workflows, actors, writers, producers, and directors can create feature films and television productions themselves, without giant movie studios or VFX houses backing them.

Prior to Infinite, Dr. Alvelda was the founding CEO and Chairman of the next-gen clinical diagnostics company Medio Labs, which applied the latest AI technologies to address the pandemic. The diagnostic company was spun out of Dr. Alvelda’s incubator for AI-forward company creation, the Brainworks Foundry that grew out of Dr. Alvelda’s stint in the Obama Administration as a Program Manager at DARPA's Biological Technologies Office where he developed national-scale R&D programs and technologies at the intersection of artificial intelligence and the biology of the human cortex and nervous system. 

Prior to Medio Labs, Brainworks, and DARPA, Dr. Alvelda was the founding CEO of MobiTV, which launched the world's first live television experience over mobile networks. For this work, Dr. Alvelda was awarded an Emmy, selected by Fast Company as the US's 15th most influential high-tech entrepreneur, and has received numerous other industry awards from AlwaysOn, CNET, Mobile Entertainment (One of the top 20 most influential New Media Executives), and Red Herring for innovation and market leadership. He is a regular invited speaker at media, telecom, and education industry events including the World Economic Forum where he was chosen as a "Technology Pioneer" in 2007.

Prior to MobiTV, Dr. Alvelda founded The MicroDisplay Corporation, a manufacturer of miniature displays for low cost HDTVs and VR headsets. Prior to MicroDisplay, Dr. Alvelda was a developer of spacecraft hardware and new computing architectures at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory where he designed and built ai-enhanced sensors that flew on the Space Shuttle as well as the Galileo and Magellan interplanetary spacecraft, and developed two new generations of brain-inspired AI systems for spacecraft sensing and control. Dr. Alvelda holds over 30 patents and patents-pending on a wide range of technologies, a technical Emmy Award, a Bachelor's degree in Physics from Cornell University, and Masters and PhD degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

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