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Dwayne Crocker
Industry Solutions Director – Autonomous Development
Focus on advancing Microsoft’s Autonomous Development solutions by leveraging automotive industry insights, Microsoft platforms, and a rich Partner Ecosystem to deliver results. Before joining Microsoft, Dwayne served in several roles at General Motors in advanced development, mobility, and OnStar connected services over 12 years. Most recently as Head of Product in the AI/ML Product IT organization where he made important contributions to product discipline and leadership with a focus on Autonomous vehicle feature development. Prior to GM, Dwayne’s 10 year career at Verizon spanned several roles including Manager of Telematics Network and Technology, where he was responsible for wireless network and technology development working closely with Automotive OEMs to lead advanced development initiatives. Dwayne has a BS in Electrical Engineering (BSEE) degree from Michigan State University and is a veteran of the U.S. Navy, serving in the Persian Gulf, Somalia and Haiti. He holds over 17 Automotive connectivity and mobility-related patents.
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High-performance computing for accelerated vehicle innovation 

High-performance computing (HPC) is a set of computing, networking, and storage resources integrated and orchestrated to optimize workloads or applications in cloud-enabled environments. HPC enables optimization and orchestration of on-demand central processing unit (CPU), graphics processing unit (GPU), and other computing resources needed to run intensive jobs or workloads.