Lauren Dunford is the Co-Founder and CEO of Guidewheel, a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, TED speaker, and regular speaker at Davos and Stanford. She believes how we make things matters. A leading voice on "physical AI," Lauren is bringing intelligence to the machines that power the real economy. Backed by top investors and scaling rapidly across five continents, Guidewheel already helps 400+ manufacturers—including Johnson & Johnson, Hershey, and Cargill—boost productivity by up to 2X while cutting energy costs and emissions by 15-20%.