Jorge Heraud is passionate about bringing practical, high technology to agriculture and construction. He is the CEO of Heraud Consulting LLC, a company that provides consultation services to high impact companies in these spaces. Prior to this role Jorge was the Vice President of Automation and Autonomy for John Deere large global teams working in robotics, autonomy, machine leaning and computer vision. At John Deere he lead the release of See & Spray and the Autonomous 8R tractor. Jorge was also the CEO of Blue River Technology, a subsidiary of John Deere that uses computer vision and AI to detect each plant individually and reduce chemical use by a factor of 3. Jorge co-founded Blue River in 2011 and he successfully raised three rounds of financing from leading venture capital and agricultural companies prior to being acquired by John Deere in 2017.