Marco A. Gutiérrez is a PhD in cognitive vision planing for robotics systems and a software engineer at Open Robotics, the organization the open source Robotics Operating System (ROS). He was awarded with Best Team for Functionality Benchmark on Object Perception and Speech Understanding at the Rocking Robot Challenge 2014. He has contributed to several open-source robotics and AI related projects like RoboComp and the Point Cloud Library as organization administrator and mentor for several editions of the Google Summer of Code programme. His areas of interest include cognitive vision, deep neural networks, AI and embedded systems.