
Praveen Penmetsa
CEO and co-founder of Monarch Tractor
Education
- MSME, Mechanical Engineering - University of Cincinnati
- Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Mechanical Engineering - Acharya Nagarjuna University
Overview
Praveen Penmetsa is the CEO of MonarchTractor.Com.
Praveen Penmetsa is bringing the AI craze to farms. His company, Monarch Tractor, makes an electric tractor powered by an Nvidia AI platform that allows the vehicle to drive itself through farm fields and work autonomously. The first machines rolled out of the company’s Livermore, California headquarters last year.
Now, Monarch Tractor is scaling up production in partnership with a Foxconn plant in Ohio, and Penmetsa is coming to the Code Conference to talk about it. He’ll chat with The Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel about making AI accessible, building in the US, and broader concerns around tractor repairability as their technology becomes all the more advanced.
Career
- MonarchTractor.Com - CEO