Jacob Beningo is an independent consultant and lecturer who specializes in the design of embedded software for resource constrained and low energy mob ile devices. He has successfully completed projects across a number of industries including automotive, defense, medical and space. He enjoys developing and teaching real-time and reusable software development techniques using the latest methods and tools. He blogs for DesignNews.com about embedded system design techniques and challenges. Jacob holds Bachelor's degrees in Electrical Engineering, Physics and Mathematics from Central Michigan University and a Master's degree in Space Systems Engineering from the University of Michigan.Show more

Clive "Max" Maxfield received his B.Sc. in Control Engineering from Sheffield Hallam University in England in 1980. He began his career as a designer of central processing units (CPUs) for mainframe computers. Over the years, Max has designed all sorts of interesting "stuff" from silicon chips to circuit boards and brainwave amplifiers to Steampunk Prognostication Engines (don't ask). He has also been at the forefront of electronic design automation (EDA) for more than 30 years. Max moved to America in 1990. Max's numerous technical articles have appeared in a wide variety of electronics and computing magazines, and he has held contributing editor and executive editor positions for many of these publications.Show more

Adam Taylor is an expert in design and development of embedded systems and FPGA's for several end applications. Throughout his career, Adam has used F PGA's to implement a wide variety of solutions from RADAR to safety critical control systems (SIL4) and satellite systems. He also had interesting stops in image processing and cryptography along the way. Adam has held executive positions, leading large developments for several major multinational companies. For many years Adam held significant roles in the space industry he was a Design Authority at Astrium Satellites Payload processing group for 6 years and for three years he was the Chief Engineer of a Space Imaging company, being responsible for several game changing projects.Show more

Colin Walls has over forty years' experience in the electronics industry, largely dedicated to embedded software. A frequent presenter at conferences and seminars and author of numerous technical articles and two books on embedded software, Colin is an embedded software technologist with Mentor, a Siemens business, and is based in the UK. His regular blog is located at: http://blogs.mentor.com/colinwallsShow more

Joe Hopper is a Principal Security Consultant (Professional Ethical Hacker) for Fracture Labs, a technology security company with a strong focus on se curing embedded systems and the Internet of Things. Prior to starting Fracture Labs, Joe spent 15 years in various engineering roles (application, infrastructure, and security) with Fortune 500 companies. He has hacked devices from smart lights and security systems to industrial vehicles and airplanes.Show more

Quantum Leaps founder and CEO Dr. Miro Samek is an expert on programming modern real-time embedded (RTE) systems. His practical books about UML state machines, active objects (actors), and real-time embedded frameworks (RTEFs) are among the most popular on the market. Miro has also published dozens of technical articles for Embedded Systems Programming/Design, Dr. Dobb's Journal, and a column for C/C++ Users Journal. Recently, Miro has been teaching the popular "Modern Embedded Systems Programming" course on YouTube. His extensive industry experience ranges from safety-critical software development at GE Medical Systems through real-time embedded software design at two Silicon Valley companies specializing in GPS technologies. Software he wrote continues to power billions (yes, thousands of millions) of embedded devices. Miro earned his Ph.D. in nuclear physics at GSI (Darmstadt, Germany).Show more

Mike Anderson is currently lead systems architect for The PTR Group, LLC -- a subsidiary of Huntington-Ingalls Industries. With over 40 years in the e mbedded and real-time computing industry, Mike works with a number of RTOS offerings for IoT devices including mbed and Zephyr as well as embedded/real-time Linux on a number of CPU architectures. As an instructor and consultant, Mike is a regular speaker at the Embedded Linux Conference, Sensors Expo, Arm TechCon and the Embedded Systems Conference as well as other Linux and IoT-oriented conferences. Ongoing projects include work with mesh wireless topologies including Wi-Fi and Bluetooth mesh, IEEE 802.15.4/6LoWPAN and commercial reverse engineering. Additionally, he continues to play the role of mentor in working with the FIRST Robotics and CyberPatriot programs in the high schools.Show more

Sergio Prado has been working with embedded systems for more than 20 years. He is an entrepreneur and founder of Embedded Labworks, where he gives 40+ training sessions every year. He is also a Linux developer, blogger (embeddedbits.org) and contributes to several free software projects, including Buildroot, Yocto Project and the Linux kernel.Show more

Lorenzo Rizzello is an embedded software engineer at Skypersonic, a young company delivering drones for indoor inspections. He enjoys programming micr ocontrollers to control and locate aerial vehicles in GPS-denied environments. Lorenzo also has experience developing firmware in Python for MCU's using platforms like Zerynth which target IoT applications. He has been collaborating with Jacob Beningo on Python-based environments for Machine Learning applications on resource-constrained devices such as OpenMV. Lorenzo holds a Master's degree in Robotics and Automation Engineering from the University of Pisa.Show more

Shawn Prestridge has served as Senior Field Application Engineer at IAR Systems since 2008 and became the US FAE Team Leader in 2019; he has been in t he software industry since 1993. Before joining IAR Systems he worked as Embedded Hardware/Software Engineer and with Embedded Development. Shawn holds a BS in Electrical Engineering, a BS in Mathematics, an MS in Electrical Engineering, an MS in Software Engineering and a PhD in Electrical Engineering specializing in Quantum Cryptography, all with Southern Methodist University in Dallas.Show more

Niall Cooling is a Chartered Engineer and Feabhas founder, one of the leading independent providers of training and consultancy for real-time embedded systems development and software competency. He has been delivering training and providing consultancy and mentoring to a wide variety of leading electronics companies world-wide for over 20 years. Niall regularly works with a wide range of industries, ranging from industrial control to consumer devices and defence. Much of his recent work has been guiding companies around the necessary skills and tools to comply with automotive standards, such as ISO 26262, MISRA-C and Adaptive-Autosar.Show more

Jason Pecor is responsible for product management, marketing, and business development at Alorium Technology, a Wisconsin-based company focused on FPG A-accelerated products and embedded platforms. Jason's career started at Rockwell Collins as a project engineer and FPGA designer. He moved to Eau Claire in 1998 to join Silicon Logic Engineering (SLE) and spent the next 15 years focused on ASIC design verification, project management, IP product management, and business development. Jason co-founded Superion Technology, an ASIC design and verification engineering company in 2013. The Superion team launched Alorium Technology in late 2015 to focus on embedded solutions.Show more

Mr Alexopoulos Ilias, received his B.S. degree from the Automation department of the Technological Educational Institute (T.E.I.) of Piraeus in Athens Greece in 1996 and his MS degree from Brunel University in 1999. With more than 20 years of experience in embedded system design, product development and lifecycle and numerous projects involved he gained experience in multiple domains in sensing, DC motors, prototyping, control systems, DSP, FPGAs, RF, Certifications, testing and system engineering apart from the core competencies. He is also an inventor with patents in various territories (US, EU, Australia), and recognition of work within companies and the open source community. Currently developing a low-cost embedded platform that consists of a two-chip solution with a 32-bit microcontroller and a tightly coupled Spartan 6 FPGA, with the relevant ecosystem of firmware and hardware to support rapid application developmentShow more

Bryant Sorensen is Principal DSP Engineer with Eargo, a startup developing 'invisible' completely-in-the-ear hearing aids. He has more than 26 years of experience in audio DSP implementations in firmware, SoCs, and ASIP / programmable DSP core designs. The majority of his career has been spent in hearing aids with Eargo, Knowles, and Starkey Hearing Technologies, with other time at Cirrus Logic and Mythic. He is an expert in low-power implementations that enable hearing aid audio signal processing, in both FW and HW. He holds an MSEE from the University of Tennessee Space Institute, and a B.A. in Computational Mathematics from Utah State University.Show more

Mohammed Billoo is Founder of MAB Labs, LLC. He has over 12 years of experience architecting, designing, implementing, and testing embedded software. His experience and expertise ranges from writing Linux device drivers to interface with custom hardware to writing efficient (sometimes < 1 KB) applications to run on resource-constrained microcontrollers. Mohammed has also led numerous teams in launching embedded systems, from R&D prototypes to large-scale TRL 9 government solutions. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, where he teaches courses in Computer Architecture and Advanced Computer Architecture. Mohammed received both his Bachelor's and Master's of Electrical Enginering from the same institution.Show more

Amir Kapetanovic, PhD, graduated in electrical engineering at the University of Zagreb Croatia. He then moved to Switzerland and started as the teachi ng assistant of the professor at the University of Neuchatel. Later on, he joined prestige R&D Swiss companies as Ascom and Motorola Geneva. He then moved to Silicon Valley co working with all major blue chips semiconductor and DSP companies and served as the technology validator to the leading investor houses and individuals. He provided number of invited speeches, lectures and workshops to embedded conferences and universities in USA and Europe. He now serves number of companies as from the level of the advisory board to major consultant provider where his more than 30 years of experience meets the need of the highest competences and bring his renowned lectures to all.Show more

More than 10 years in Embedded System Design, providing embedded design services as Consultant in EU market. Trainer for Embedded Software Development , Embedded Linux, RTOS, Xilinx SoCs for Germany, Switzerland and Eastern EU countries. Software Team Leader to manage embedded System projects with PLC2 GmbH in Aerospace, Datacenters and Automotive Industry.Show more

James Grenning's trains, coaches and consults worldwide. James' mission is to bring modern technical and management practices to to product developmen t teams, especially embedded systems development. He is the author of Test-Driven Development for Embedded C (https://wingman-sw.com/tddec). He is a co-author of CppUTest, a popular unit test harness for embedded C and C++ (http://cpputest.org). He invented Planning Poker, an estimating technique used around the world, and participated in the creation of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development (https://agilemanifesto.org/). His website is https://wingman-sw.com.Show more