Gill Pratt — CEO, Toyota Research Institute

**Gill Pratt** is the CEO of the **Toyota Research Institute (TRI)**, Toyota's $1 billion AI and robotics research organization based in Silicon Valley. TRI is focused on three areas: automated driving, robotics for the home, and AI-accelerated scientific discovery. Before TRI, Pratt was a program manager at **DARPA**, where he created and led the **DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC)** — the most high-profile robotics competition in history, which challenged teams to build humanoid robots that could navigate disaster scenarios.