Willy Pell
Director of New Technology, Blue River Technology
Willy Pell started his career at Boeing where he was essentially tasked to making Google Earth for defense applications. He later moved to Silicon Valley and landed at a startup called 510 Systems which made the first Google Street View systems and in addition to autonomous cars. After Google acquired 510 Systems and rolled them into the Chauffeur project which eventually become Waymo, Willy became an early employee at Blue River Technology which applied computer vision and robotics to agriculture prior to John Deere’s Blue River acquisition in 2017. Willy carries an impressive software background and is passionate about building systems that create a positive impact on the world. Willy holds a Bachelor of Sciences degree in Computer Sciences from University of Colorado – Boulder.
