Accelerating AI Breakthroughs on the Track

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So our next session

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is going to take a straight to the track.

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You'll hear how

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CoreWeave and the Aston Martin Aramco Formula One team

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is really redefining

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performance and strategy in real time.

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So please join me in

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welcoming Fabrizio Pillotti,

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CIO of the Aston Martin F1 team.

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And my guy Bryan Venturo,

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one of the co-founders and CoreWeave’s

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Chief Strategy Officer

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for the topic of accelerating

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AI breakthroughs on track.

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Nice to meet you.

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Hey, Brian.

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Good morning.

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Thanks for being here.

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Everybody else seems to have

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a really well-rehearsed script.

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They know what they're going to say.

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They handed me slides.

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They sent me ten emails.

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They said, look at all the monitors.

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Let's not do that.

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Fabrizio, thanks for being here.

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You know,

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I know you have a really,

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big weekend ahead of you.

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There's probably people

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yelling at you right now

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that you're not there.

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But we're going to take 20 minutes

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and we're going to walk through.

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How the hell did you become

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CIO of the Aston Martin F1 team?

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Like, what does that mean?

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When did this start for you?

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So welcome, everyone.

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Thank you very much for having us.

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Very, very happy and proud and,

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incredibly location AI.

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It's really amazing. Let me say it.

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I'm Italian.

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Maybe the name, doesn't

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doesn't sound very British.

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I was born in Rome.

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And Roman, which the Italian knows.

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It's the worst you can have in Italy.

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I don't know.

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I can ask my mother.

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My father

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was always fascinated by technology.

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Would be this small Lego games?

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Whatever would have happened

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first, computers

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and, and then that kind of teenager time

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when I start to get fascinated

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by formula one,

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which was my passion for sport.

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I was also a professional swimmer,

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until I was like 22,

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a professional swimmer.

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We're going to have to

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test that out somewhere.

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Whenever you want.

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I want to see it. That one.

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Whatever you want.

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And then the.

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I'm just kind of

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want to be

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in this kind of intersection

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between a huge sport event

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and if you can join us in a track,

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or the weekend is an amazing sport.

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Event.

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Then the technology part, which when I,

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when I was a kid

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was obviously different,

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was the first time

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they were talking about telemetry.

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The first time that you'd seen a computer

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related to a car before

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the car was just a mechanical thing.

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Engine, suspension.

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And I'm that kind of generation.

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We are the kind of generation that,

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we introduced computer science

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into the world.

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Generation of our parents

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was a generation

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of engines, mechanical stuff, turbines.

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We are the generation of the,

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get the next step into the data,

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the computer, how we represent,

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how we measure, we ingest data.

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But at that time,

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nobody was talking about ingesting data.

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No, it was talking about a data center.

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It was just.
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Let's try our best.

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Let's win a race.

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And this is where

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I really got fascinated.

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The chance

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to study engineering and engineer,

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work for European

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Space Agency,

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then to work in Mercedes

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for long time commercial.

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And for one,

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little sustained in the bank

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and then got me I tried multiple times

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to, applied and tried it at the end.

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I got the job at

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Formula One, the powertrain

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division engines. I mean, I love engines.

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It's was great.

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And and, and in recent times,

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Mercedes was working with Aston

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Martin for the powertrain and,

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and then I had to kind of

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move, within the family

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and I took over that position.

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There was a Mercedes,

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a move into Aston Martin and was,

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I don't know, a childhood dream.

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I still don't believe it.

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That's my 11th season in Formula One.

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I don't know, I still don't

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sometimes wake up.

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And I was Santa today I was talking

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I was in the

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in the elevator with, Fernando

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as a moment. Oh my God.

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And and it's this,

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this fascination

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and start watching formula one.

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I've seen I don't know if you remember

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Nigel Mansell, Mario Andretti.

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Get on it.

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It was very popular in Italy. And Mario

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was a Lotus, a Ferrari.

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When I was a kid, Niki Lauda was my boss.

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And I don't know

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why to explain it,

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but it was always inside of me, this

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huge fascination.

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And then it became a job

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because obviously the chronology

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evolved from the first computer

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to where we are now

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talking about artificial intelligence.

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Amazing what we can do now,

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incredible partnership with

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CoreWeave helped us a lot.

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So let's talk about that because,

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you know,

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this is the first partnership

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that we have where, you know,

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it's sponsorship of the team.

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But I feel really strongly

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that when we work in partnership

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with somebody,

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it shouldn't be a one way thing, right?

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It's not.

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We just don't want our name on the car.

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And I think that what we've

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what we've done,

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is probably pretty unique, right?

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I mean, just last night,

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we were sitting with Fabrizio

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and Andy and Lawrence.

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You know, we

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we have a new team

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that we've, brought in through

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an acquisition and the

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the gentleman that was there

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was basically explaining

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what we can do from a physical

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AI and engineering perspective,

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to Andy and Fabrizio

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and Lawrence

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is sitting in his chair like this,

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and he's just like,

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yeah, okay, sounds good.

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And he's not here today.

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He's actually at the track

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working with the engineers already.

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Like,

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is that normal

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for you guys to see somebody lean

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in like that or is.

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Not, call just something special

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like you may have seen.

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The car has lots of, sponsors.

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A couple of them are not real.

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I mean, they're also sponsored by,

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the technical partner.

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And, also for that,

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there are different levels

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of be a technical partner.

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CoreWeave, we were discussing about this

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kind of embedded in the company.

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Meanwhile, we've done already

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a couple of steps over

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the last few months,

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and, we are removing one by one

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all the barriers.

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So that was one of the topics

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we discussed, so that in principle,

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we had the same company at one point,

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what we as

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senior manager would like to achieve

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is that the company is so embedded.

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There is no difference anymore.

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People are working

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and on very sophisticated project.

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We have an amount of project

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that we started

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that if I tell you

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the number be surprised.

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But it's very high.

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On all

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aspects of the car

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that goes from the engineering part,

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the testing part, the manufacturing

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and the, operational track side.

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What's going to happen

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over the upcoming weekend?

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And, I have to be

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very honest that it's surprising

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also how CoreWeave engaged.

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Of course some partners, sometimes a bit more like

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a couple of departments.

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We have the whole senior management

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completely into Formula One.

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Thank you very much.

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It's really special.

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I think this is your second race

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coming also to Vegas.

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And as a partner, let's say. Yep.

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And, and then there is,

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so many colleagues.

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Why? Because we are all working together.

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And if we need something,

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whatever level,

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I can pick up the phone and get it done.

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Very, very, very powerful.

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Really. So.

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