OCTO
ROB ALBRITTON
TITLE : SENIOR DIRECTOR , OLABS AI CENTER OF EXCELLENCE
LOCATION : VIRGINIA
Following a further excursion to MITRE , where he worked on tactical AI emerging from the Pentagon , Rob joined Octo , inspired by its galvanising vision . “ Here was a company with almost no strings attached ,” Rob enthuses . “ I was invited to combine state-ofthe-art AI technologies , with my extensive knowledge of the war fighter , and use them as a force for good in the world . They wanted to develop and field some of these technologies as rapidly as possible and I thought , ‘ Oh my God , this is the place I have to be .’"
Shades of grey They have a curious saying at Octo – ‘ innovate in the grey ’. It ' s part of who they are and it ’ s ingrained throughout their culture . “ That ' s a term that our SOF brethren at Fort
EXECUTIVE BIO
Award-winning artificial intelligence ( AI ) and machine learning ( ML ) authority Rob Albritton is Senior Director , AI Practice Lead at Octo . A former U . S . Army Geospatial Research Lab Scientist and ML Engineer at MITRE , Rob spent several years growing NVIDIA ’ s public sector team alongside the world ’ s foremost thought leaders on highperformance computing , AI , and deep learning . Rob now leads Octo ’ s oLabs AI Center of Excellence , where he guides and shapes Octo ’ s AI capability , strategy , and vision . Rob holds an MBA from the UVA Darden School of Business , an MS from the National Intelligence University , and a BS in from the University of Maryland .