---
title: "Joseph Nelson"
category: "people"
role: "Cofounder, CEO"
company: "Roboflow"
linkedin: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/josephofiowa/"
twitter: "https://x.com/josephofiowa"
sourceLabels: ["Official speaker roster", "Official conference schedule"]
---
# Joseph Nelson

## Profile
Cofounder, CEO at [[roboflow|Roboflow]].

- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/josephofiowa/)
- [X / Twitter](https://x.com/josephofiowa)

## Biography
Joseph is cofounder/CEO at [[roboflow|Roboflow]], the vision AI company. [[roboflow|Roboflow]] makes infrastructure millions of AI engineers including half the Fortune 100 use to create and deploy vision models in the cloud and on the edge. They are the authors of RF-DETR, SOTA realtime instance segmentation and detection transformers. [[roboflow|Roboflow]]'s backed by investors like YC, GV (fmr Google Ventures), Greg Brockman, Jeff Dean, amongst others.

## Conference Sessions
- [[2026-06-29-joseph-nelson-the-state-of-vision]] — The State of Vision (2026-06-29, 10:45am-11:05am)
- [[2026-07-01-nader-khalil-state-of-the-union-why-local-why-now]] — State of the Union: Why Local, Why Now (2026-07-01, 10:45am-11:05am)
- [[2026-07-01-nader-khalil-state-of-the-union-why-local-why-now-11-10am-11-30am-track-4-420]] — State of the Union: Why Local, Why Now (2026-07-01, 11:10am-11:30am)

## Evidence Graph
This evidence graph summarizes how this person appears across the conference source graph: scheduled sessions, linked videos, transcripts, and slide-derived evidence.

### Linked Sessions
- [[2026-06-29-joseph-nelson-the-state-of-vision|The State of Vision]]
- [[2026-07-01-nader-khalil-state-of-the-union-why-local-why-now|State of the Union: Why Local, Why Now]]
- [[2026-07-01-nader-khalil-state-of-the-union-why-local-why-now-11-10am-11-30am-track-4-420|State of the Union: Why Local, Why Now]]

### Media Signals
- `youtube-OimPoLxioYg` — 8 slide-derived text signals
- Slide-derived themes for `youtube-OimPoLxioYg`: clip, prompt, image, text, embedding, paint, user, drawing.
- Evidence links for `youtube-OimPoLxioYg`: [[youtube-OimPoLxioYg]], [[youtube-OimPoLxioYg-slides]], [[youtube-OimPoLxioYg-dense-slides]], [[youtube-OimPoLxioYg-reconstructed-slides]]
- `youtube-ESbWpPT_9-o` — 10 slide-derived text signals
- Slide-derived themes for `youtube-ESbWpPT_9-o`: research, decode, hardware, ideas, progress, iteration, given, software.
- Evidence links for `youtube-ESbWpPT_9-o`: [[youtube-ESbWpPT_9-o]], [[youtube-ESbWpPT_9-o-slides]], [[youtube-ESbWpPT_9-o-dense-slides]], [[youtube-ESbWpPT_9-o-reconstructed-slides]]