Nominations are complete and now it’s time to vote for the Fourth Annual Physical Security and Video Surveillance Market Influencers. Who is an industry influencer that others should listen to and take note of their subject matter expertise and industry foresight? Below is a list of those nominated and a paragraph about why they are deserving of being the 2017 Physical Security Industry Influencer.

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Voting for 2017 is now closed.

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Zvika Ashani
Agent Video Intelligence (Agent Vi)

Mr. Ashani co-founded Agent Vi in 2003, bringing with him over a decade of technology excellence in the fields of image processing and understanding, video compression, networking infrastructure, server technologies and architectural design. Mr. Ashani is the author and holder of several patents for technologies relating to intelligent video analysis. In addition, Mr. Ashani is a recognized leading authority on Machine Learning and related algorithms, with particular emphasis on Deep Learning, and has published a number of articles discussing how Artificial Intelligence (AI) (manifested through Machine Learning), will have significant bearing on the video analytics market, through the use of Deep Learning technology. Mr. Ashani is an erudite and proficient speaker, having presented at multiple industry events and conferences around the world, including: i-HLS Video Analytics Conference (Israel), ISC West security conference (USA), National Institute of Standards and Technology ? NIST (USA), IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (Italy).

Steve Birkmeier
Arteco

Steve Birkmeier holds an MBA in Marketing and Entrepreneurial Studies from Saint Louis University. He began working with Arteco in 2005 and played an integral role in founding and developing the ARTECO US Division. He has held roles in Marketing, Sales and Operations for Arteco. Steve is now responsible for Sales Operations for North America, Latin America, Africa and Australia.

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