Broadband in the u. S. And, ultimately, globally. We think its a really great big opportunity to do that. Host its been described as a disrupter. [laughter] guest no. And its not just but really the next frontier in wireless communication is [inaudible] and what that really means is youre looking at ten times, fifteen times the frequent i of cellular operator. The big advantage of that, it gives you a [inaudible] you can pump about a thousand times more data. And one of the first use of that makes sense in wireline broadband replacement. So theres a huge trend were looking at, you know, what are the opportunities of using [inaudible] now, these things have other limitations as well. For example, they dont go as far as cellular signals do, they dont penetrate buildings, they have difficulty of operating at these frequencies, but if you can figure your way around those things, theres a lot of fun to be had. Host have you figured out a way around that . Guest we think so, yeah. Host okay. Can you give us just a thumbnail of what the technology does or what you put in there . Guest the basic idea is that weve built whats known as an active base rate which is historically a technology thats been used in re daughter systems to be able to Radar Systems to be able to send long, High Frequency signals. What were doing is using the same strategy for Communications Technology which is very novel and new. But a lot of new systems are beginning to look at these things, because as you go up in frequency, how you deliver power in the airwaves becomes an expensive and interesting challenges. And the Radar Systems have been ever sho to solving them for a long time. So we got our inspiration from Radar Systems. So thats one. And the second thing is cta members, in particular wifi, is a really, really Exciting Technology because theres a lot of innovation in wifi at the radio level. So weve adopted a lot of those approaches and created a system that allows us to overcome typical challenges that exist [inaudible] host well, chet kanojia, wifi is almost an Old Technology today, isnt it . Guest really, its so advanced. In fact, a lot of the innovations that have happened [inaudible] and now the new standard that has to be worked on is are by far the best. And the beauty of that is that theyre consumer grid technologies. So the cost curves of those technologies is just incredible that you can get for 5 or 10 a radio that is so sophisticated that it takes billions and billions of dollars to develop. Its just, there are two really interesting things that have been developed, the next innovations in wifi and in 5g. And i think theyre all coming together for really a common approach of what the next, the really sophisticated of delivering wifi wireless is going to be. Host when do you see 5g being a norm . Guest well, 5g is an interesting feat because this whole idea of [inaudible] but high distributed in iot. On the other hand, its got this notion of high [inaudible] to devices and on the third side its got the use of millimeter waves, largely driven by, i think, the lack of spectrum on the lower end band. So i think its a very interesting speed. The conventional wisdom is the standard will be developed maybe by 2020, and after that i think youre look at silicon development, so i i think its not that far away. And i we think it goes in tenyear cycles, so lte is going to be ten years old soon, another five years, four years, i think youre going to see the next wave of innovation. Host all right. Whats in this box . Guest ing this is your Smart Home Wifi station. And its basically how you experience our services. Our Service Starts with our [inaudible] 12 inches by 10 inches. Really powerful devices. The idea is theyre selfcontained stations is so you could deploy them on rooftops, building tops, houses, whatever you choose to. They send a signal to devices like these which are mounted on top of buildings which can be used in Single Family homes like an extra antenna. And then this device allows you to access that allpowerful signal inside your home. Host does this technology in any way relate to your technology that you developed for aereo . Guest no, 100x different. Were talking about millimeter theres nothing related to aereo. Host now, viewers may remember the Supreme Court case. Is there, could this be enough of a disrupter to take it to the Supreme Court case guest oh, no. No, no. This was an aereo, there was a question of law involved. In this case, theres not. Host chet kanojia, the founder of starry. Starry. Com. Guest thank you. Host the next display we want to show you on the communicators this week is invidia. What are we looking at . Guest its an automotive supercomputer to enable cars to drive themselves. We plugging in all the different senators, cameras, radars, lidars, which is a laser camera [inaudible] on this display here, were showing our vehicle. It has cameras and the laser scanners added. Now, that data comes in, and what we can show is how that data would appear within the brain of the system. Were actually building a threedimensional model of what the cars can see. Laser information, the camera information. We can now use Artificial Intelligence to identify what the car [inaudible] so we would never display that to the driver, but this is what we use in our Development Driver because everything thats going on around the car. So if we go back one slide, we can show you how were able to detect all the different types of objects in the scene, whats a car, whats a truck, we can identify people, bicycles. And usually all this massive amount of information is coming in all at once, that is really overwhelming to a driver. We can do this at 360 degrees around the car and understand where the car can drive and where there are potential obstacles or hazards. Now, this last thing is showing potentially how it would appear to the driver. Heres the windshield at the top, and in the instrument cluster we could show whats coming up behind our car before it even enters our field of view. So this is the rearview camera here . Guest this is your instrument cluster so as youre driving, you can see cars coming up in your blind spot before they even pass you. So this is also giving you the confidence of the selfdriving car which understands whats going on around it and also will indicate the path that its going to drive. Host well, weve heard about google selfdriving cars and other larger companies. How is this technology right here, this box different from what theyve been doing . Guest were working with over 80 different car companies, tier i manufacturers, Internet Companies as well as startups that are using our car computer and building their selfdriving cars on this technology. Were not developing the cars, but we develop the brain going into all this. Host now this box here, whats contained in here . Guest a lot of Processing Power in this system. [inaudible] we want to go back in time ten years to do this level of performance which is 24 trillion operations per second. It would require a massive supercomputer that would fill up this entire room. This is designed for an automotive application. You can notice [inaudible] for radar, for lidar, for all those sensors that you have on your car all come in here. We process that information and then make a map of where the car can drive safely. Host mr. Shapiro, is an after market part that anyone can add to their car . Guest absolutely not. Were adopting with automakers developing with automakers, and there will be regulation. Thats what were doing, were adopting this product in conjunction with automakers, but we want Government Entities to insure theres uniform legislation. Not state by state, but at the federal level to unsure that vehicles all have the same standards. Host and thats why youre up here on capitol hill . Guest absolutely. We already have a lot of programs going on in other countries, and wed love to see the same level of response from Government Agencies on the hill. Host so when you show this to members of congress, whats been their reaction . Guest people love it. The reality here is there are so many people that are injured or killed in traffic accidents every year. A big problem we have. This technology has the ability to dramatically reduce the number of accidents, injuries and fatalityies. The technology is coming very fast. Host all right. How long has this technology been worked on, and whats your role . Whats your background . Guest ive been working with automaker ors for over a decade. Our technology is actually used to design cars, to engineer the car, to manufacture the cars. Nvidia creates simulator ors to help figure out how to make safer cars with virtual crash tests and virtual wind tunnel simulations. And our technologys also used to [inaudible] showrooms, even using virtual reality. Taking all of that graphics and computing horsepower and brought it into the cars to make the cars safer. Host , again, your role working with nvidia, youre the ceo and founder . Guest no. My title is senior director of our automotive business unit. Were actually a small part of nvidia, but its the fast best growing part thats bringing this technology to the industry. We have over ten million cars on the road today with our technology inside. Were using it for the infotainment, the big screen in the model s or audis, bmws and hondas, and this is the next wave thats really enabled selfdriving technology and driver assistance to dramatically make this system on the road a lot safer. Host and weve been talking on the communicators with Danny Shapiro of nvidia. [inaudible conversations] host 1776. Guest yes, sir. Host what is it, brandon pollack . Guest a Global Startup inventer right here in washington, d. C. And San Francisco and [inaudible] we focus on world changing startups that are tackling major challenges like health care, energy, transportation. These are company that are disrupting all these sectors, and our focus on 1776 is to really help them build, giving them the right connections whether its to capital, mentorship, policymakers here at ce sexer on the hill to ces on the hill, all the things they need to grow the company. Host when you use the word incubator, do you mean youre a fundinger . Guest thats the second part of our business, but we provide a mix of services for these company. We work with a number of great institution, and certainly we invest host so, brandon, if somebody had an idea, they googled, you know, help me type things, and 1776 would pop up . Is that how it works . Guest well, we have this were very unique in the fact we focus on highly regulated is sectors. These are companies that are disrupting and touching government in some sort of fashion, right . You have starts literally all over the world that were working with. Not only here in washington, d. C. , buttal i over the but all over the globe. We run a global pitch competition to identify these most promising startups. Weve had the fortune of traveling around the world to find these very best companies from africa to israel to silicon valley. We brought two of our companies here today. Lets meet a couple of our companies. This is Kathleen Hale with rebel desk. Host what is rebel desk . Guest we provide desks so you can move while working. All theme have been doing is sitting in chairs in their office. As the rise of computers and television in homes and then commuting in cars, the sitting time has been tripled since 1900. So we used to have the phrase be sit down, take a load off because you were running around all day, on your feet, moving around. Now, no, we have to build in time for exercise because all we cois sit. The word disrupting, the way the technology has caused us to be inactive. But then lets build in some activity into your work day. Host so is rebel desk on the market . Guest yes, rebel desk is a product thats for sale at our own web site. We sell both the individual tread mill itself and the desk that goes up and down so you can make it the perfect height for you while you walk. We sell the products together or separately. Its designed just for walking and just for an office. So it doesnt go any faster than two miles an hour. Very safe. You can walk in your work clothes without working up a sweat or needing to change into your gym outfit. Host so what, whats the benefit . I mean, how many you probably used it. How many steps have you gotten in a day . Guest you can easily walk, i easily walk four to five miles a day on the rebel desk even going at whats considered a leisurely pavements we have customers who are doing as many as eight and nine miles a day on their rebel desks. So you can use it however you like. Stand a little, walk a little. If you need to, the desk goes to sitting height so you can sit down and take a break. Host Kathleen Hale with rebel desk, brandon pollak, what else does 1776 guest we have one other company here. Host and this is deb necessary weppner with crossdeck. What is crossdeck . Guest so crossdeck is a Productive Software suite geared towards distributive work forbes mainly now the don and the navy. You can see right here host what does it dosome. Guest were aiming to take a lot of the navys current paper product systems and put them digital. Be so tomorrow morning, right, hundreds of thousands of sailors are goingto wake up and start their day by printing out their schedule on a sheet of paper and putting it in their pocket. Crossdeck solves that problem by keeping it in their pocket but allowing that to be updated as the everchanging needs of our military and armed forces happens. So another feature we have is personal qualification systems. Todays military, a lot of their training is peer peertopeer. So, you know, i might have a qualification that you need, you might have a qualification that i need. And in order for us to both get qualified, we train each other. And the navy says they carry around these big 3ring binders with hundreds of pieces of paper and thousands of signatures, and thats how they get qualified. Theres no way to track it other than i hand you this binder. Its at 0 . You hand it back to me, it is now at 100 . We allow them to sign digitally so we can track in realtime and make sure that on naval ships, marine corps units, what have you, people are qualified in the places that they need to be qualified when they need to be qualified. [inaudible] guest so the idea came from our three founders are all Naval Service worker officers. They met each oh at the naval other at the naval academy, and they all saw this need as, they served on naval ships. I came on in september. Im a marine corpsenlisted guy, and i obviously saw the same need, and i thought, yeah, this is a nobrainer idea. Im going to join up and help you guys up. Host Dennis Weppner of crossdeck, and these are a couple of the companies that 1776 has put on the board. Host and now joining us on the communicators is democratic congressman bobby rush from illinois. Congressman rush, why are you down here at the Technology Display . What are you looking at . Guest well, you know, technology is one of my interests. Ing. [inaudible] i sit on the subcommittee on technology and the internet, and so im always amazed at american innovation. Is and weve seen it can help us save money and also help us to really make our life a lot easier. And so im really excited about the display on your home in terms of your heating [inaudible] administered and controlled by your cell phone. So that best buy display was amazing to me. As a matter of fact, im just is so excited, i cant wait to get back to my local best buy store so i can invest some more of my money in best buy to buy these home improvements. Host so youre down here more on a personal level than a congressional level. Guest i am here look, im a consumer. Were all consumers, first and foremost. So im here first as a consumer, then im here to see what im just excited about as a member of congress, about the advancements in the technologies. The advancement in telecommunications, how the smartphone and allied instruments are really linking the american peoples lives a lot simpler and easier. [inaudible] now, ill tell you one thing that amazed me, when i look at the lights we have there and you can change the color of the lightbulbs just by running your finger around the surface, it reminded me of the disco. You know, im old school. I like it. It reminded me of a discotheque. You know i had a lot of fun playing with that. [laughter] with that device. But this is amazing. Im glad that you are filming or [inaudible] we dont have a chance to visit and actually have our handson interaction. So we can actually play with the toys and touch the instruments and utilize the instruments and imagine how they can fit into our lives. Thats whats host all right. You said youre a consumer first and a congressman second. When you look at some of this technology through a congressional eye, is there anything that you think congress can do to support the technology and the advancement of technology . To maybe regulate it . Guest i dont know whether regulation is called for right now. I am, i do believe that we need another, you know, we havent had a Technology Bill since 1996. You know . And its about time. You can imagine what the world was like in 1996 with the Telecommunications Act of 1996. These things were a figment of somebodys imagination back then. So we need to, Congress Needs to catch up with some of the new innovations. We need to make sure that [inaudible] in terms of regulationing that provides a level playing field, make sure our american innovators have the best that we can give them in terms of keeping some of the regulations away from them and looking at whole [inaudible] this whole sector. Looking at it from a different perspective. I was in college i was on the committee that wrote the 1996 Telecommunications Act, and i know its old and obsolete. So we need to really bring it uptodate in order to really be of service in america. Those are some of the things that i think about as i walk a around to the different booths of interest here. Host and weve been talking on the communicators with consumer and congressman bobby rush. Thank you, sir. Guest all right. Im glad i didnt bring my wife down, because shed be buying stuff already. [laughter] thank you so much. All right, byebye. Host and now joining us on the communicators is tom simon of a Company Called source3. Tom simon, what do you do for a living . Guest we are enabling creators and commerce through light [inaudible] developing databases and data structures, allow creators and marketplaces to license created content in the right way and be able to sell and monetize to scale. Host now, if you were talking with somebody, a member of congress and you said that, would they understand what you were saying . Guest no. Host so say it again. Guest what i would say is were trying to help, for example, an example like this, were trying to help bring together licensed products that creators can make that can then be [inaudible] for Rights Management, administration purposes, right . So licensing in itself is a really ubiquitous process and challenging. Were making a platform, were making it scaleable to monetize, to profit from the marketplace side and the creator side. Host okay. So this is, whoever created this guest yes. Host this is their intellectual property, correct . Guest this could be the intellectual property of journey, right . Licensed, copyrighted. They know they have a right to sell this as an item instead of having to worry about somebody taking it [inaudible] they do that, the Rights Management process behind it. So we help make it easier for them. The creators can focus on making and marketplaces can focus on selling without keeling with the headache of host when you talk about ip recognition, what does that mean . Guest a combination of both image and texting where you can run products through our image and text recognition, and it will return a series of day points back that weve either collected or pulled from trademark database saying for a special license, you have to apply for a license. Doesnt have a license. So it provides feedback and information so that the creator or the marketplace knows what they can or cant do with that particular object and what steps they can take to be able to make it so that it can become monetized. Host where did the concept come from . Guest our founders started a company, right flow, back in the early 2000s, and they ended up selling that to google, and that became the Rights Management engine that helped drive youtube. So they were able to [inaudible] therefore, you could put your content up that youtube [inaudible] or sell ad space. They created this nice monetized for youtube. So a lot of ways [inaudible] these other marketplaces that are becoming amazon. To applying similar principles that are more difficult finding that process and trying to grow it out. Host tom simon, source3 is the name of the company. Youve been watching the communicators looking at new technology at ces on the hill in washington. If youd like to see some of our previous programs, go to cspan. Org. Up up next, a look at the ste of working class families. Later, a conference on the quality and security of food with remarks from foreman fda commissioner margaret ham berg. All this week here on cspan2, were showing you programs from our q a series. Today well feature michael ramirez, an editorial cartoonist whose work appears regularly in usa today and the weekly standard. He discusses his career and his book, give me liberty or give me obamacare. Q a starts at 7 p. M. Eastern today here on cspan2. Join us this saturday for cspans issues spotlight. Our focus will be on police and race relations. Youll see president obama at the Memorial Service for five Police Officers shot and killed in dallas as well as republican senator tim scott of South Carolina and his speech from the senate floor about his own interactions with police. Our program also includes one familys story about an encounter with police in washington, d. C. Followed by a panel with the citys police chief, kathy lanier p. That all gets underway saturday at 8 p. M. Eastern on our companion network, cspan. With the National Conventions in the rearview mirror, road to the white house is on the campaign trail and headed toward the candidate debates. Three are currently scheduled; monday, september 26th at of have university, sunday, october 9th at Washington University in st. Louis, and wednesday, october 19th at the university of investlas vegas. All will start at 9 p. M. Eastern, and you can watch them on our companion network, cspan. To a discussion now on the state of the working class family with a focus on the well being of children, Family Structure and marriage dynamics. The American Academy of political and social science and the annie e. Casey Foundation Hosted this event recently. Its about 90 minutes. [inaudible conversations]