Using Simulation to Find the Failures Physical AI Misses
Simulation; synthetic data; autonomy validation
Speaker
Kevin McNamara
Founder and Chief Product Officer
Parallel Domain
Biography
Kevin McNamara is founder and chief product officer of Parallel Domain, a company developing simulation and synthetic-data tools for autonomous systems. The company’s current leadership page places him in charge of its PD Replica product while Zack Novak leads commercial and operational scaling as CEO. McNamara founded Parallel Domain in 2017 to address limits in the data available for training perception systems. His work connects product development with the practical challenge of recreating complex environments and testing rare but consequential situations.