Pete Warden

Pete Warden currently serves as CEO of Useful Sensors Inc., following his influential tenure as Staff Research Engineer and Technical Lead of TensorFlow Mobile at Google from 2014 to 2022. His journey began with creating innovative video processing filters that caught Apple's attention in 2003, leading to his work on Apple's imaging products. As founder and CTO of Jetpac, he developed groundbreaking photo analysis technology that processed over 140 million Instagram images before Google's acquisition in 2014. At Google, he spearheaded the development of TensorFlow Lite and TensorFlow Micro, revolutionizing machine learning on mobile and embedded devices. His contributions include creating frameworks that can run on devices with less than 100KB of memory and developing speech recognition models under 20KB. Beyond his technical achievements, he has authored multiple O'Reilly books including "Public Data Sources," "Big Data Glossary," and "TinyML," while maintaining an influential blog and speaking presence in the embedded AI community. Currently pursuing a PhD at Stanford University, he continues to innovate in the field of embedded machine learning through his work at Useful Sensors, focusing on bringing privacy-preserving ML capabilities to everyday devices.