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Anthony Levandowski is the Co-Founder and CEO of Pronto, an autonomous driving company focused on delivering safe, simplified solutions for the mining and trucking industries. Levandowski is widely regarded as a pioneer and leading innovator in the autonomous vehicle industry. His teams have achieved numerous technological advancements and industry "firsts," including the first unmanned autonomous drive on California roads, the first commercial delivery by an autonomous truck, and the first disengage-free cross-country drive. Anthony Levandowski's mission is to commercialize and deliver the safety benefits of self-driving technology to industries that need it today, starting with the mining industry.

Levandowski's prior experiences include overseeing Uber’s autonomous vehicle program, a role he assumed when his start-up, Otto, was acquired in 2016. Anthony spent almost nine years at Google, where he created the foundation for the autonomous vehicle program (now Waymo) through the sale of two of his other businesses. He began his career while at the University of California, Berkeley, when he led a team of classmates in building Ghostrider, an autonomous motorcycle that competed in the DARPA Grand Challenge, which now resides in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. Anthony's entrepreneurial streak extends beyond the development of autonomous vehicles and includes the key enabling technology behind Google Street View as well as the creation and launch of Uber Freight.

Anthony is frequently featured in media including Wired, The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg and has spoken at numerous leading technology, business and industry events over the past decade.