Bill Lakeland
Co-Founder and CEO, Spexi. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Bill Lakeland leads Spexi, a Vancouver-based decentralized drone network that crowdsources high-resolution aerial imagery and 3D data for physical AI, municipal planning, and wildfire preparedness. With more than two decades of aerial mapping experience, he previously co-owned and exited two aerial imagery firms before launching Spexi.
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11statements
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Everything Bill Lakeland said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Lakeland: Drones beat airplanes on response speed and local unit economics
“Aircraft data is insanely good, and it's very good over broad, big geographies. It just cannot respond as fast, and it cannot get the, like, the unit economics that we can get with drones at a smaller scale.”
Lakeland: Standardized drone datasets train physical AI better than fragmented airplane data
“Everywhere we fly, it's the same kind of drones with the same sort of missions. We can add complexity to the type of drone types and the mission types, but they're literally creating a layer that's the same here in Vancouver as it is in London, that it is in S…”
Lakeland: Spexi restricts drone altitude to avoid capturing identifiable personal data
“We fly at an altitude right now where you can't recognize people, you can't read license plates and street numbers, and there's so personal information is not being collected intentionally. We don't want to fly lower where then we have to blur everything out o…”
Lakeland: Spexi uses blockchain and real-time NFTs for drone authentication
“We do use some blockchain technology where as the drones are flying, we're creating like, you know, real-time NFTs to sort of generate an authentication layer because our system is flying the drone.”
Lakeland: Physical AI foundation models must be living and constantly rebuilding
“And so like these foundation models and like how this works, it's not like you build it and then it just lives there. This thing has got to be living and constantly rebuilding itself.”
Lakeland: Early Google Earth imagery came from his airplane fleet
“So a lot of what you'd see in Google Earth came from one of my airplanes, especially in the Pacific Northwest in the earlier days, and more broadly farther along.”
Lakeland: Spexi mapped over 300 North American cities in 18 months
“And we've flown over three under them now across North America in the last year and a half at a speed and resolution that's sort of unprecedented in the space.”
Lakeland: Spexi Has Over 10,000 Drone Pilots on Its Roster
“There's hundreds of thousands of drone pilots in the U S that are certified to be able to do that. And that are on our, you know, 10,000 plus lists of pilots we have right now.”
Lakeland: Spexi partnered with Niantic and will announce Esri partnership next month
“Companies like what was announced yesterday with Niantic Spatial, and there'll be some announcements with ASRI coming out next month, which is a large geospatial partner, you know, we're working on with others, you know, it's pretty exciting right now in this …”
Lakeland: Defense is by far the largest market for satellite imagery
“If you look at the size of the market share in, in, in satellites, you know, defense is probably the, by and large, the largest need for satellite imagery.”
Lakeland: Spexi pays drone pilots minutes after data verification
“We call that our proof of capture. It's a provenance element to the data because we do pay pilots, you know, right after that's gone through that module, which is minutes, to be honest. The upload minutes later, they get paid, essentially, so.”
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 INNOVATORS & INVESTORSLEDGER | Co-Founder and CEO, Spexi | 1 | 11 | 50% 1/2 | full record on Innovators & Investors → |