Eric Landau

Eric Landau describes how his work in particle physics and quantitative trading shaped his view that AI progress comes from scaling data and compute. He explains how Encord’s product and the market gradually converged, and why the company now focuses on data infrastructure for physical AI across robotics, autonomous vehicles, logistics, and manufacturing. The talk covers collecting, curating, annotating, and evaluating multimodal data at scale, along with Encord’s growth, customers, and competition. Landau closes with advice for founders: talk to customers and peers, learn from mistakes, and accept the emotional ups and downs of building a company.