Events
Speakers
Organisations (alphabetical order):
Dr. Mike Short
Vice President, Research and Development, O2
The Road to 2020: More connected systems
Mike's career spans 36 years in Electronics and Telecommunications, with the last 23 years in Mobile Communications. In 1989 he was appointed Director of Cellnet dealing with major infra-structure investments and commercial agreements. In 1993 the focus moved to launching Cellnet's GSM service and establishing Roaming Agreements.
Kanwar Chadha
CMO and Member of the Board of Directors, CSR
Location aware: beyond navigation
Kanwar Chadha is responsible for establishing CSR’s vision, corporate marketing strategies and positioning, strategic alliances and incubating new business ideas. Kanwar joined CSR through its merger with SiRF Technology where he was a founder and helped establish SiRF as the leading provider of GPS enabled location technology to consumer markets. Kanwar is well known for his visionary role in evangelizing benefits of location technology for mainstream consumers and holds more than Read More...
Björn Ekelund
Head of Ecosystems and Research, Office of the CTO, ST Ericsson
The LTE Revolution
In 2001, Mr Ekelund was one of the founding fathers for Ericsson’s wireless chipset company, Ericsson Mobile Platforms, and has been part of its executive management up until the merger, forming the ST Ericsson joint venture. With close to 25 years in wireless applications, Björn Ekelund is today responsible for ecosystem creation, collaborative R&D and external innovation in ST-Ericsson, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. Read More...
Mike Hall
Principal Software Architect, Windows Embedded, Microsoft Corp.
Mike Hall is a Principal Software Architect in the Windows Embedded Business at Microsoft, working with Windows Embedded Compact and Windows Embedded Standard. Mike has over 30 years industry experience and has been working at Microsoft for over 15 years -- originally in Developer Support, focusing on C/C++, MFC, COM, device driver development, Win32, MASM, and Windows CE operating system development, and then as a systems engineer in the Embedded Devices Group before taking on his current software architect role.
Tony King-Smith
VP Marketing, Imagination Technologies - member of the board, Pure
Converging on the Chip
Tony is a highly experienced electronics industry senior executive with more than 27 years experience in the semiconductor and consumer electronics industries. He is currently Vice President of Marketing for Imagination Technologies, where he is responsible for strategic and tactical marketing of all semiconductor System on Chip (SoC) Intellectual Property (IP) technologies and also manages Imagination’s strategic partnerships and ecosystem programmes. Read More...
Dr. Bob Gove
President and CTO, Aptina Imaging
Imaging Everywhere
Bob Gove is Aptina Imaging's President and Chief Technology Officer and has has been working in semiconductors and related businesses since 1976.
Bob previously led Micron Technology's imaging business unit, which produced CMOS image sensors for a wide range of applications. Prior to the formation of Micron's Imaging Group in 2001, he was general manager of Micron's NetCom San Jose Design Center Read More...
Kevin Smith
VP, Segment Marketing, ARM
Kevin Smith has been at ARM since January 2001 and was appointed as VP, Segment Marketing in 2009. Kevin has held various roles since joining ARM, including Global Distribution Manager, where he was responsible for driving ARM's initial development tools distribution strategy. This was followed by a 2-year Read More...
Steve Wainwright
VP, General Manager Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Region, Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
Connected Transport
With 25 years experience in the semiconductor business Steve has held various senior leadership positions in Sales, Marketing and Business Development. Steve joined Freescale in June 2005 as the VP of Sales in EMEA based in Geneva, and was promoted to his new position in January 2008.
Prior to his current role, Steve was Read more...
Jim Douglas
Senior Vice President, Marketing, Wind River
As Wind River’s senior vice president of marketing, Jim Douglas is responsible for global marketing strategy, communications, and programs. Douglas joined the company in March 2010. A 25+ year veteran of the high-tech industry, Douglas was most recently chief executive officer of Read more...
Keith Wehmeyer
General Manager – IPTV Segment, Digital Home Group – Intel Corporation
Smart TV and Service Providers
Keith R. Wehmeyer is currently the General Manager of IPTV segment team (part of the Digital Home Group) at Intel Corporation. In this role Keith leads a planning, marketing, program management and architecture team developing System on Chip (SoC) solutions for IPTV set-top boxes. Keith joined Read more...
John Bird
Principal Consultant; Futuresource Consulting
The Markets
With over 25 years' experience, John is an international expert on the consumer electronics, mobile, broadband and wireless sectors.
John joined Futuresource after eight years at Motorola, where he was Director of Corporate Strategy for the EMEA region. During this period he was responsible for assessing Read more...
Professor Christofer Toumazou
Winston Wong Chair in Biomedical Circuits
Director and Chief Scientist, Research Director Bionics, Imperial College
Towards Disposable Healthcare: From digital plasters to semiconductor genetics
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Professor Toumazou has made outstanding contributions to the fields of low power analogue circuit design and current mode circuits and systems for radio frequency and biomedical applications. Through his extensive record of research he has invented innovative electronic devices ranging dual mode cellular phones to ultra-low power devices for both medical diagnosis and therapy. Toumazou was made a Read more...
Stephen Longden
ITS and Telematics Specialist; SBD
How will vehicle manufacturers bring telematics connectivity to the mass-market?
Stephen achieved an MSc in Transport Planning and Management at the University of Westminster, before becoming the editor of The Intelligent Highway magazine. At SBD, Stephen specialises in research and analysis into automotive telematics and navigation. He has investigated a variety of ITS applications and is widely regarded as an expert on emerging markets such as China and emerging initiatives such as eCall.
Rick Chapman
Director; iNets South West Microelectronics
With 25 years of experience, Rick has worked in high tech industries, predominantly Semiconductors and Software. After 5 years with Marconi, Rick joined STMicroelectronics in 1990. Over nearly 12 years, he held a variety of international positions, including Semicustom R&D Director and Business Development Director – Microprocessors. Since 2001, Rick has worked with several start-ups - as a founding executive of SuperH Inc., CTO of Cobault Ltd and Spiral Gateway Ltd. He is now the CTO of Reveal2me Ltd., and owns Parkview Consultants, working with startups crossing the divide between technology, innovation and sound business practice.
Mike LeGoff
Managing Director; Plessey Semiconductors
A physics graduate and former naval officer, Michael LeGoff has 18 years experience in the semiconductor industry.
He founded Dynex Power Inc. in September 1995 and listed the company in 1998, growing the business to 350 employees and £30 million annual turnover in less than 5 years. After selling his interest in business in May 2005, he joined Zarlink Semiconductors Ltd.
In early 2009, he planned and successfully led the management buy-out of the Swindon-based assets of MHS and acquired the Plymouth semiconductor manufacturing facility from X-Fab.
Simon Knowles
VP Strategy & DXP Technology, Founder; Icera Semiconductor
Simon is responsible for Icera's corporate strategy and product roadmap. For the first 7 years of Icera's evolution Simon served as Vice President Silicon Engineering, delivering Icera's first two generations of cellular chipsets. Simon is the architect of Icera’s unique DXP® processor technology and continues to direct the evolution of DXP® architecture. He is a member of the Board of Directors and a founder of the company.
Prior to Icera, Simon co-founded ADSL chip company Element 14, where he served as Vice President Silicon. Element 14 was acquired by Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ: BRCM) for $640M in 2000. Simon established Element 14’s design centre in Bristol, UK, and was responsible for the development of Element 14’s digital chips. Simon co-architected the FirePath processor which today enables Broadcom's unique soft DSL modem technology. Prior to Element 14, Simon led the custom processor design group of STMicroelectronics (NASDAQ: STM), formerly the design team of processor pioneer Inmos in Bristol, UK. Simon started his career at the UK’s Defence Electronics Research Agency, after graduating from Cambridge University with a degree in Electrical Science.