Hello, everyone and welcome to the ThoughtWorks podcast, a regular podcast featuring all things technology at ThoughtWorks. I'm one of your regular host, Neil Ford.

And I'm Jean-Mack Dechani, joining you from San Francisco office for this episode.

And we have our guest today from Germany, so I'll let them introduce themselves.

Yeah, sure. I'll go. I'm Emily Gorsenski. I'm a data scientist based out of Berlin, Germany.

And I'm Jeremy Abbott. I'm the head of product innovation also based out

of Hamburg, Germany, not Berlin. So as I said, the purpose of this podcast is interesting

technology stuff. So tell us what kind of interesting technology stuff you want to enlighten us with

today. Yeah. So today we're going to talk about the project we have.

It's called Tech Lab and we worked with drones and trying to make them autonomous.

I'm excited to hear about the collaboration of a data scientist and head of product innovation in the context of a tech lab.

It's a good combination to have.

Intelligent autonomous drones. what could possibly go wrong?

Yeah.

I mean, the interesting thing is we come also from Emily and I are two different perspectives.

You might hear that we're both American, but as far as drone experience goes, I'm definitely

more the consumer.

I've had three or four drones. I've only lost two of them,

which isn't too bad. And, you know, I've also built a few. But Emily's, I would say, she's

definitely more the hardcore drone expert. Maybe she could say a little something about that.

Yeah. What's interesting about that is I came to data science by way of being an aeronautical engineer.

So I was actually a control systems engineer in aeronautics and aerospace applications for about 10 years.

I studied aeronautical engineering in my undergrad, and I've worked on a lot of these projects.

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