Yonatan Geifman
Dr. Yonatan Geifman is a Co-Founder and CEO at Deci, which enables deep learning inference at scale on any hardware by an algorithmic acceleration approach. Deci has been recognized as Tech Innovator for Edge AI by Gartner and included in CB Insights’ AI 100 list. Its proprietary technology’s performance set new records at MLPerf with Intel. Before launching Deci, Yonatan was a member of Google AI’s MorphNet team. He received his PhD in Computer Science at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. His research focused on making Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) more applicable for mission-critical tasks. It has been published and presented at leading global conferences including the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) and International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML).
Barrie Mullins
Barrie has 25+ years of experience working with edge, embedded and AI systems across multiple industries including industrial, automotive, robotics, storage, communications. Previously at NVIDIA, he led the Jetson Product Marketing team for almost 3 years. 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. In Ireland, Barrie worked for Xilinx and 2 starts ups, Raidtec Corp. and Eurologic Systems, in the Data Storage space. 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.
Andrew Stanford-Jason
Andrew is Senior Technologist at XMOS. He is involved with all aspects of technology development of XMOS’ xcore processor, driving new innovations to deliver on the challenges of a rapidly evolving market. With previous experience working with both adaptive algorithms and compilers, Andrew has a broad understanding of the requirements of a machine learning platform, from development to deployment. He is currently working on the co-development of the silicon architecture and machine learning tools for XMOS.
Arun Iyengar
Arun Iyengar is the CEO of Untether AI. He brings to Untether AI extensive operational and general management experience across a variety of markets from automotive, cloud, to wired and wireless infrastructure. Prior to Untether AI, Iyengar held leadership roles at Xilinx, AMD, and Altera where he set and executed strategies to grow revenues in each of the targeted markets.
Nick New
Founded Optalysys in 2013 with twenty years experience in Fourier optical processing, having previously spun Cambridge Correlators Ltd. out of the University of Cambridge from technology developed during PhD in Optical Pattern Recognition.
