Dr. Sam Williams
Matthai Philipose
Matthai is a researcher in the Mobility and Networking Research group at Microsoft Research.
He builds systems for recognizing human state, especially human behavior, based on sensor data. Matthai's focus is on statistical algorithms for recognition, but he is interested in model elicitation, rich representations of "common sense", sensor design, infrastructure design and high-performance/low-power implementations as well. Matthai is currently looking at the question of how and why to build perception systems on mobile phones.
Barrie Mullins
Barrie has 25+ years of experience working with edge, embedded and AI systems across multiple industries including industrial, automotive, robotics, storage, and communications. Previously, he spent a year at Blaize as head of marketing, and three years at NVIDIA where he led the Jetson Product Marketing team. Prior to NVIDIA, he held multiple roles in Xilinx, including leading product marketing and management for the Zynq product line, sales enablement, business development, customer program management and managing design services. Barrie moved to the United States in 2007 from Ireland, where he worked for Xilinx and two starts ups, Raidtec Corp. and Eurologic Systems, in the Data Storage space where he holds three patents.
Barrie received his EE from the Munster Technological University, an ME from University College Dublin and an MBA from Santa Clara University’s Leavey School of Business.
Bhupender Thakur
Bhupender Thakur is Product portfolio owner for several High Performance and Big Data platforms for research and early development at Roche. He is the Agile product portfolio owner of on-premise HPC services delivering compute and storage clusters in several locations across the USA, Germany and Switzerland, and product owner for workflow applications for NGS and Oncology research supporting Roche Avenio product offerings.
Bhupender leads a cross functional squad of developers, product owners, architects and subject matter experts, working on roadmaps for existing and new research offerings and leading discussions on planning, lifecycle, operations and business continuity.
He holds a PhD in Theoretical and Computational Nuclear Physics from the University of Delaware.
Krste Asanovic
Krste is SiFive’s Chief Architect and a Co-Founder. He is also a Professor in the EECS Department at the University of California, Berkeley, where he also serves as Director of the ADEPT Lab. Krste leads the RISC‑V ISA project at Berkeley and is Chairman of the RISC‑V Foundation. He is an ACM Fellow and an IEEE Fellow. Krste received his PhD from UC Berkeley, and a BA in Electrical and Information Sciences from the University of Cambridge.
Kristen Call
Bruce Mckinnon
Susan Sly
Susan Sly is the Co-CEO and cofounder of RadiusAI (RAI), an award-winning visual intelligence company specializing in the retail and healthcare sectors. RAI is currently implementing its smart retail solution at the edge for a national retailer with 1,000 locations.
RAI has been named one of the fastest growing startups in Phoenix three years in a row and won VentureBeat’s AI Innovation at the Edge Award in 2022, beating out several highly acclaimed technology companies.
Prior to cofounding RAI, Susan led channel sales teams in three sectors generating over $2 billion in revenue. In her spare time, Susan is the host of the highly acclaimed podcast, Raw and Real Entrepreneurship, mom of five, wife, and tech investor. Susan has appeared on CNN, CNBC, Fox, ABC Family, and is a member of the prestigious Forbes Business Council.