Developing self-driving technology is one most difficult engineering problems of our time — and in order to succeed, you need to build a team that matches the scale of this enormous challenge. And even if you do manage to hire an ideal team in a hurry, how do you ensure that productivity scales with this growth? In this talk, Anantha will share how Lyft managed to build a successful and sizable self-driving car team that is extremely diverse in its expertise. He will draw on inspiration from his previous experiences working on cutting edge/emerging technology that ran for multiple years and predicting what the "final" shape, processes and culture of a team should be.

Going from 0 to 60 - Building Lyft’s Self-Driving Car Team

Anantha Kancherla