Mr. Bidlack is the co-President and co-founder of ActivePrime, a software company focusing on data conditioning. He has been building data intensive software systems for nearly 20 years, initially in the automotive industry and then as a researcher with Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the University of Tennessee, and the University of Michigan. He has played key roles on teams funded by NASA, NSF, ARPA, and DOE and has numerous publications in the fields of 3D simulation, robotics, and computer vision. Mr. Bidlack has been a consultant and instructor for the US Government and fortune 1000 companies including TRW, Ford, GM, and Hughes, and many small and medium size businesses. He was co-founder of Viveca, a venture backed company building electronic catalog software that was later acquired.


