About Gregory D. Dibb

This is current as of about 2019.  I've paused the updates, so forgive gaps and perhaps malfunctioning links.  This is a fun journal of sorts of what I've been up to.

Intro:
A short summary of links and news about me, Gregory D. Dibb.

  

Social Media:

• My LinkedIn page
• Follow me on twitter: Follow me on twitter @dibbg  though I have to confess, I don't tweet much...
• Founder of Silicon Valley Autonomous Vehicle Enthusiasts meetup group, with over 3,000 members
• My Autonomous Vehicles YouTube channel, where you can find some videos posted from the meetup, among others.

Professional: 

• Up until 4/2019, I was Deputy Director at Nissan Research Center - Silicon Valley.  I moved from Nissan HQ in Nashville to Silicon Valley in 2012 to start up the research center which is focused on research around Autonomous Vehicles, Connected Vehicles, and Human Machine Interaction (HMI)  
• Fun fact: Notice the beautiful official picture of the center (which has since moved, and this building is now a Google building)--that's a picture I commissioned with the professional photographer taken during a 6am sunrise, and I'm inside walking briskly around to keep the motion-activated lights on for the perfect shot.  Ah the things I've learned ;-).
• Creator of Podcast series Driving Innovation, powered by Nissan. On iTunes here. 
  
• Co-organizer of NRC-SV's Science Advisory Council with James Euchner, Don Norman, and Jeff Bradshaw (and previous members Missy Cummings and Terry Fong)

  
Conferences: 

• Presenter to the SF BayLEAFs EV enthusiast group Innovating for Fully Autonomous Vehicles.  Audio available here.  
  

• Panelist for The Self-Aware Car at the Verge conference in San Francisco. Video available here. 
  
• Panelist for "Ubiquitous Sensing and Interconnected Security"at MediaX conference at Stanford: Well-being & Productivity in a Globally Connected World  

  

  Speaking at Stanford's MediaX conference.  

  Video available here, clip here
• Keynote speaker on lean research at FIRJAN conference in Rio de Janeiro 
  
  
  
  
  
• Panelist, The Connected Car, MobileCON

• Speaker at Automotive Steering Conference in Berlin

Picture of my presentation at automotive conference in Berlin

• Speaker at Connected and Autonomous Vehicles Conference, Santa Clara, CA
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• Speaker along with Serge Passolunghi at the Berkeley Innovation Forum 2017 on Open Innovation & the Future of Mobility
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News Media:

• Interview with Silicon Valley Business Journal: Inside Nissan's Silicon Valley self-driving car lab
• Interview with Wall Street Journal's Steve Rosenbush: Nissan Robotic Car Group Maps New Route to Product Development 
• Interview with newspaper of Sao Paulo. Pensar como humano e desafio para "carro-robo"  I'm told it's the highest circulation paper in all of Brazil.  That made me nervous, but it wasn't so bad when I realized I couldn't read the article...
• Yes, I did feel like a superhero on the top of the city of Rio:

• An interview I did along with Liam with a magazine from Japan, no clue what this says:
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Hobbies: 

• Founder of Villa Place Neighbors group, later led by Rachel Zjilstra as the Edgehill Village Neighborhood Association 
• Team manager of my daughter's Destination Imagination team.  To my dismay, they picked an artsy challenge rather than an engineering challenge, but I've always loved musicals, and I learned as I went.  
• Won $1000 for my "cheapest of the cheap" idea in 2009 from Ms. Cheap of the newspaper The Tennessean.  Yep, I'm cheap and proud of it.
• 2015-2016 President of Silicon Valley chapter of the BYU Management Society
• Soccer coach every year for AYSO community soccer teams
• Active player in Palo Alto Adult Soccer League
• Ultimate Frisbee enthusiast.  Co-organizer of Kids Ultimate Frisbee meetup group. Previous member of Nashville's Masters club team, Now member of OG Grandmasters team, went to Nationals in Denver in 2015 and 2017, regionals in 2016 and 2018.
• (That may or may not be me in that picture)