START: Andrey Gizdov, CEO & Co-Founder, OpenVector: "Vision Language Action Systems for the Physical World"

There are over a billion cameras in the world. They can all see. Almost none of them can tell you what they saw.

Andrey Gizdov has been in computer vision since 2016, when CNNs were all the rage, researching real-time vision models.

He met his co-founder Vishal Urlam at a hackathon. His co-founder had deployed cameras and IoT devices across India's power grid to monitor it.

Then they went to conferences on cameras and intelligence and found the state of affairs grim.

From that point, they knew this was a company that was going to exist.

OpenVector connects what cameras see to what businesses do.

Connect an existing camera and describe a workflow in plain English:

Track a misplaced item.

Check that an SOP was followed.

Detect an unscanned item.

Turn an empty shelf into a restocking task.

When something needs attention, OpenVector can take the next step inside the software a business already uses - creating records, sending requests, updating tasks, or notifying someone to act.