Brian Lent is an AI pioneer who has been at the forefront of data science, machine learning, and leading-edge AI technology companies for over three decades.  He is now at Auger, leading its Analytics and Data platforms to build the leading AI-driven platform for supply chains around the world.

As the co-founder and CEO of Plunk, Lent embarked on a mission to build “the Bloomberg of residential real estate” — starting with the launch of Plunk as the first generative AI-driven home analytics platform. With a world-class team of data scientists and engineers, Lent brought advanced LLMs, computer vision, AI, and ML algorithms to the world’s largest asset class — residential real estate.

Prior to Plunk, Lent founded the mobile cloud analytics company Medio Systems, supporting 440+ million consumers in over 100+ countries. In 2014, Medio Systems was acquired by Nokia (HERE Technologies), after which Lent was promoted to Chief Technology Officer. For the next four years, Lent lead a worldwide technology and R&D organization, and spearheaded the company’s primary technology roadmap and strategic direction, including product innovation, research, and multi-tiered mixed public cloud analytics technology. Previous to HERE, Lent spent most of his career leading groundbreaking technology work for companies including IBM and Junglee, which was acquired by Amazon. 

While earning his master's and Ph.D. candidacy at Stanford University in Computer Science, he co-founded Mining Data at Stanford (MiDAS), the research lab which incubated the Google crawler and search engine in 1994. As a recipient of both the prestigious National Science Foundation and Department of Defense Office of Naval Research Graduate Fellowships, Lent is a key industry thought leader and author of numerous professional publications and patents.