2. SELF-RACING CAR TEAM
Solving self-driving cars challenges,
competing for prizes in virtual races and interacting with the community.
Skoods develops virtual
simulation scenarios and
models for self-driving cars as
racing competitions
COMPETITIONS
Racing teams generate
autonomous vehicles algorithms
to win the prizes.
CROWD-SOURCED
223 engineers and developers,
from 5 continents, competing and
collaborating together in our
platform.
COMMUNITY
6. ROBORACE
Mission: Demonstrate that the FUTURE of
automotive and IT already here, working
hard in not just real, but even EXTREME
CONDITIONS
Believes: There is a lot of INDEPENDENT
TALENTS in the world that may contribute to
that initiative.
7. BENEFITS
1. Challenges
2. Jobs opportunities
3. $ Prize
1. Competitive engineering
2. Testing
3. Talents
4. Community access
5. Creative content and
niche awareness
FROM INDUSTRY
TO INDUSTRY
INDUSTRY
9. OUR COMMUNITY
223
PILOTS
After the Warm Up campaign we have a diversify
community of engineers and developers: our Pilots.
26
COUNTRIES
5
CONTINENTS
12. COMMUNITY BY AGE
38 to 43
33 to 38
28 to 33
23 to 28
18 to 23
7%
10%
22%
31%
25%
AGE
43+ 5%
13. 1 LOCALIZATION
2 PERCEPTION
3 PREDICTION
4 PLANNING
5 CONTROL
3
5
3
4
5
PIPELINE
OPEN-SOURCE SELF-RACING CAR
20 Members of the team
14. MILESTONES
WARM UP
• Launch
Community
ALPHA
• Open-source
self-racing car
• First competition
BETA
• Advanced
version
• Academy
Launch
LAUNCH
• Formula
launch
2.0
• Environmen
t evolution
GARAGE
• Real self-
racing car
MOONSHOT
Formula
Nov Feb May Aug Nov FebJul 2020
6 phases, 3 months Sprints
17. ABOUT ME
FERNANDO DAMASIO
WORK
• Mentor and Session Lead at Udacity for the Self-Driving Car and
Machine Learning courses.
• Author at Packt for the AI for Big-Data, Coding a Machine Learning
Pipeline and Tools for the Digital Transformation courses.
• Mentor at Singularity University for startups related to Smart Cities, Self-
Driving Cars, Drones and Machine Learning.
EDUCATION
• Digital Strategies for Business at Columbia Business School
• MBA in Project Management at FDC
• Self-Driving Cars Engineering at Udacity
• Machine Learning Engineering at Udacity
• Ports and Terminals Engineering at UFRJ
• Automation and Control Engineering at PUC
CEO & Community Leader
linkedin.com/in/fernando-damasio