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# Joseph Nelson
Making visual AI accessible for the physical world as co-founder and CEO of Roboflow.

## About

Joseph Nelson makes visual AI tools accessible to developers as the co-founder and CEO of Roboflow. He focuses on moving AI out of the datacenter and into the physical world, helping teams run computer vision models on constrained edge devices.

Before starting Roboflow, Joseph co-founded a natural language processing company, worked at Facebook, and taught machine learning. He goes by @josephofiowa on Twitter.



## Past Sessions

### World Congress 2026 North America · September 23, 2026
San José, CA
- [Building AI for the Physical World](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100614-building-ai-for-the-physical-world) · 30 min · 🎥 Watch recording



## Videos

- [Building AI for the Physical World](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100614-building-ai-for-the-physical-world) · Tomislav Tipurić, Alex Spinelli, Eystein Stenberg, Gerardo Pardo-Castellote, Joseph Nelson


## Links

- [X](https://twitter.com/josephofiowa)