<div dir="ltr"><b style="" id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-adae9068-1b71-b8ce-1106-4549bfbce815"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Apply by </span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">March 25</span><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> for the </span><a href="http://www.ldv.co/visionsummit/2018/competitions" style="font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Entrepreneurial Computer Vision Challenge</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, part of the </span><a href="http://www.ldv.co/visionsummit/" style="font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">LDV Vision Summit</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> May 23-24 in New York City. Submit a short write-up for a chance </span><span style="font-weight:700;font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">to give a spotlight presentation of a recent project </span><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">to top computer vision experts and entrepreneurs.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="font-weight:normal;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Examples include:</span></p><ul style="font-weight:normal;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">a key idea behind work accepted at CVPR or ICCV, </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">demo code recently posted on GitHub, </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">an innovative aspect of your thesis proposal, </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">or any interesting idea you've explored through a blog post or social media.</span></p></li></ul><br><p dir="ltr" style="font-weight:normal;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Receive mentoring from </span><a href="http://www.ldv.co/about" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">LDV Capital & our Experts in Residence</span></a><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> such as Serge Belongie. Check out our evolving list of </span><a href="http://www.ldv.co/2018/ccompetitions" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">judges for 2018</span></a><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> and what past competitors like </span><a href="http://www.ldv.co/blog/2017/7/18/timnit-gebru-wins-2017-ecvc-leveraging-computer-vision-to-predict-race-education-and-income-via-google-streetview-images" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Timnit Gebru</span></a><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Stanford>Microsoft Research), </span><a href="http://www.ldv.co/blog/2016/5/30/grokstyle-wins-ldv-vision-summit-2016" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Sean Bell</span></a><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Cornell>Grokstyle) and </span><a href="http://www.ldv.co/blog/2017/3/1/hired-at-facebook-after-showcasing-research-in-visual-technology-at-the-ldv-vision-summit-an-interview-with-divyaa-ravichandran" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Divya Ravichandran</span></a><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (CMU>Facebook) say about the benefits of participating.</span></p></b><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"><br></div>