Our 2024 Speakers...
Marc Tremblay
Marc is a Distinguished Engineer and VP in the Office of the CTO (OCTO) at Microsoft. His current role is to drive the strategic and technical direction of the company on silicon and hardware systems from a cross-divisional standpoint. This includes Artificial Intelligence, from supercomputer to client devices to Xbox, etc., and general-purpose computing. Throughout his career, Marc has demonstrated a passion for translating high-level application requirements into optimizations up and down the stack, all the way to silicon. AI has been his focus for the past several years, but his interests also encompass accelerators for the cloud, scale-out systems, and process technology. He has given multiple keynotes on AI Hardware, published many papers on throughput computing, multi-cores, multithreading, transactional memory, speculative multi-threading, Java computing, etc. and he is an inventor of over 300 patents on those topics.
Prior to Microsoft, Marc was the CTO of Microelectronics at Sun Microsystems. As a Sun Fellow and SVP, he was responsible for the technical leadership of 1200 engineers. Throughout his career, he has started, architected, led, defined and shipped a variety of microprocessors such as superscalar RISC processors (UltraSPARC I/II), bytecode engines (picoJava), VLIW, media and Java-focused (MAJC), and the first processor to implement speculative multithreading and transactional memory (ROCK – first silicon). He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Sciences from UCLA and his Physics Engineering degree from Laval University in Canada. Marc is on the board of directors of QuantalRF.
Greg Ombach
Dr. Grzegorz (Greg) Ombach is a highly accomplished and visionary senior executive passionate about driving innovation and change. Throughout his career, he has led the development and implementation of game-changing innovations that have disrupted industries and driven growth. With a truly global outlook, having worked at various companies e.g. Siemens VDO, Qualcomm, Airbus across Europe, the USA, and China, he specializes in creating innovative solutions that meet customers' needs and transform industries.
As the Head of Disruptive Research and Technology at Airbus, Greg focuses on accelerating the development of disruptive technologies and solutions that can shape the future of aerospace. He collaborates with internal and external stakeholders to identify emerging trends and opportunities and develops strategies that drive innovation and continuous learning across all Airbus divisions.
Greg's leadership and commercial expertise have led to his success in high-tech
innovations, change, and commercialization. As the Chairman of the Board of Directors at AdvEn Industries Inc, he has helped transform the company from a research and development startup to a disruptive growth company with a new state-of-the-art manufacturing facility and industry-leading patented and patent-pending technologies for next-generation batteries, energy storage systems, and other applications.
Greg is a dynamic leader passionate about managing technological innovation from ideation to broad market adoption. His ability to drive transformative change across multiple industries has earned him a reputation as an effective and inspiring leader who thrives in dynamic environments. With a track record of leading game-changing innovations, Grzegorz has the potential to transform industries and is a respected leader in the field of innovation and change.
Charles Phiri
Dylan Curley
Dylan Curley has spent the majority of his career in AI from a software engineering background. He focuses on large scale AI systems infrastructure, automation, scaling, and reliability. These days Dylan manages a team of SREs (reliability engineers) at Google, who are responsible for the vast majority of AI systems across Alphabet including launching & operating the latest advances in Generative AI (Bard, Workspace, Search, YouTube, etc). He has also spent time working on AI for medical research and astrophysics, and advises startups in AI.
Salam Al Mosawi
Sokratis Kartakis
Kian Mohadjerin
With an extensive background in ML, Python, and HIP/C++, Kian Mohadjerin leads AI innovation at Nscale. He has developed a deep expertise through hands-on development and leadership in various AI initiatives.
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Jörg Roskowetz
Jörg Roskowetz is an experienced professional in the field of AI and Web3 technologies. He collaborates closely with key strategic partners and his role involves spearheading the development of innovative proof of concepts and bespoke graphic features tailored to meet the evolving demands of the industry.
Paul Dongha
Galina Sagan
Galina Sagan is a Principal at Hitachi Ventures, a global venture fund (with >600m USD AUM) with Hitachi being a single LP. Galina specializes in Enterprise SaaS B2B and digital investments. Some of the relevant deals include Trustwise AI, Archetype AI, Rescale and WekaIO. Formerly a Senior Investment Associate at Speedinvest, a pan-European early stage fund with > €1 billion AUM.
Galina has been recognized as one of GCVs Rising Stars in 2022.
Manoj Saxena
Jonathan Berte
Jonathan Berte first experimented with vision and artificial intelligence in 2009 and continued to amass expertise in applied physics and image processing.
During an early stint working with automotive software, Berte soon saw the potential of combining machine vision with robots. With an academic background in applied physics from Ghent University and a specialization in neuroscience at ETH Zürich, Berte built a solid reputation for developing custom solutions for machine vision and robotics. He started as a consultant in 2003; opportunities quickly led to a full-fledged company renamed Robovision in 2008 headquartered in Ghent, Belgium.
Robovision pioneered a software platform for AI applications in advanced image recognition and robotics. It soon evolved into a turnkey AI solution-provider with a deep-learning platform, RVAI. Designed to be no code and user-friendly, RVAI allows people from farmers to machine operators to adapt, retrain and run models without relying on data scientists. With over 1,000+ industrial applications deployed, Robovision has enabled over €250M in sales.
Aside from Robovision, where he also serves as Chairman of the Board, Jonathan is a frequent guest lecturer at the London School of Economics, Vlerick Business School, and Ghent University on subjects focused on artificial intelligence, machine vision, and robotics.
Sakyasingha Dasgupta
Sakya is the founder and Chief Executive officer of EdgeCortix. He is an artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning technologist, entrepreneur, and engineer with over a decade of experience in taking cutting edge AI research from ideation stage to scalable products, across different industry verticals. He has lead teams at global companies like Microsoft and IBM Research / IBM Japan, along with national research labs like RIKEN Japan and the Max Planck Institute Germany. Previously, he helped establish and lead the technology division at lean startups in Japan and Singapore, in semiconductor technology, robotics and Fintech sectors. Sakya is the inventor of over 20 patents and has published widely on machine learning and AI with over 1,000 citations.
Sakya holds a PhD. in Physics of Complex Systems from the Max Planck Institute in Germany, along with Masters in Artificial Intelligence from The University of Edinburgh and a Bachelors of Computer Engineering. Prior to founding EdgeCortix he completed his entrepreneurship studies from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Asim Shah
Ola Tørudbakken,
Ola has 30 years of experience building distributed systems and high-performance networking across AI, HPC, Enterprise and Telco.
Ola currently serves as Director of AI Systems at Meta. Previously Ola was SVP Systems at Graphcore, driving their 2nd generation AI systems. Ola came to Graphcore through the acquisition of Skala Technologies, an AI startup he co-founded. Prior to Skala, Ola worked as Chief Architect of Networking and Netra Servers at Oracle. Ola joined Oracle through the acquisition of Sun Microsystems. At Sun, Ola served as Distinguished Engineer, amongst many things responsible for the famous 3456-port Magnum Infiniband Switch now on display in the Computer Museum, Silicon Valley. Prior to Sun Ola was at Dolphin ICS, acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2000. Ola started his career as a research scientist at SINTEF, a Norwegian industrial research organization.
Ola is a recognized industry expert in distributed systems, holds over 48 patents, has published several papers in leading publications, and participated in numerous standardization bodies. Ola holds an MSc degree in Computer Science from University of Oslo in 1994
Walid Hadid
Euan Wielewski
Christoph Spohr
Jürgen Weichenberger
Matthew Burns
Matthew Burns develops go-to-market strategies for Samtec’s Silicon to Silicon solutions. Over the course of 20+ years, he has been a leader in design, technical sales and marketing in the telecommunications, medical and electronic components industries. Mr. Burns holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Penn State University.
Jake Kochnowicz
Anton Abrarov
Stylianos Venieris
Kamran Naqvi
Maximilian Stauder
Andrew McMahon
Andrew (Andy) McMahon is a Principal Engineer within the AI COE at Barclays where he works on building the latest generation of machine learning and AI products to support colleagues and customers across the world. Andy is a well-known thought-leader in the practical implementation of MLOps, Generative AI and ML engineering, with experience developing these capabilities in several organisations. He has lectured at leading universities on these topics and is a sought after public speaker. He is also the author of a popular technical book, Machine Learning Engineering with Python (Packt).
Mo Haghighi
Dr Mo Haghighi is a director of engineering/distinguished engineer at Discover Financial Services. His current focus is hybrid and multi-cloud strategy, application modernisation and automating application/workload migration across public and private clouds. Previously, he held various leadership positions as a program director at IBM, where he led Developer Ecosystem and Cloud Engineering teams in 27 countries across Europe, Middle East and Africa. Prior to IBM, he was a research scientist at Intel and an open source advocate at Sun Microsystems/Oracle.
Mo obtained a PhD in computer science, and his primary areas of expertise are distributed and edge computing, cloud native, IoT and AI, with several publications and patents in those areas.
Mo is a regular keynote/speaker at major developer conferences including Devoxx, DevOpsCon, Java/Code One, Codemotion, DevRelCon, O’Reilly, The Next Web, DevNexus, IEEE/ACM, ODSC, AiWorld, CloudConf and Pycon.
Sally Ward-Foxton
Sally Ward-Foxton has been writing about the electronics industry for more than a decade. As a freelance journalist she has published articles in EE Times, Electronic Design Europe, Microwaves & RF, ECN, Electronic Specifier: Design, IoT Embedded Systems, Electropages, Components in Electronics and many more. She also supplies technical writing and ghostwriting services to several of Europe's leading PR agencies. She holds a Masters' degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Cambridge, UK.
Prof. Eiman Kanjo
Phil Burr
Phil Burr is Head of Product at Lumai where he is focused on bringing the world’s fastest and most energy efficient datacentre AI accelerator to market. Phil has over 25 years of experience in global product management, go-to-market and leadership roles within leading semiconductor and technology companies, and a proven track record of building and scaling products and services. Phil’s previous experience includes leadership roles at Arm, indie Semiconductor, Mentor Graphics (now part of Siemens) and The Technology Partnership.
