If cars can drive themselves, why can’t infrastructure build and maintain themselves? When you hear the word autonomous, you most likely think of self-driving cars, but that is just the beginning. Peter Nickolov and Patrick Conte will walk you through autonomy and why it will be more prevalent in the industry than ever before. Automation is a simple rule-following, replacing a human action that is set by a human role. Autonomy is learning behavior and parameters that have been set to take human error out of the equation. When you think autonomous, think of infrastructure. In this session, we will be discussing

1.    The difference between automation and autonomous 

2.    How autonomy is used within infrastructure  

3.    how will autonomy help the world adapt to Covid and post Covid life