Rodrigo Liang
Rodrigo is CEO and co-founder of SambaNova Systems. Prior to joining SambaNova, Rodrigo was responsible for SPARC Processor and ASIC Development at Oracle. He led the engineering organization responsible for the design of state-of-the-art processors and ASIC's for Oracle's enterprise servers.
Nick Ni
Nick Ni is Senior Director, Data Center AI and Compute Markets at Adaptive Embedded Computing Group (AECG) at AMD, responsible for the P&L of the fast-growing Data Center AI and compute segment. His team is responsible for product marketing and product management including AI product planning, go-to-market, business development and solution architecture.
Hui Wang
Vamsi Nalluri
Vamsi is ML HW Architect at Rivian, and has 17 years of experience in the semiconductor industry working on architecture, verification, and validation.
He most recently was at Xilinx, where he has accelerated sparse neural networks to achieve 3X hardware performance improvement on the 7nm flagship technology platform from Xilinx on many of the industry standard networks like ResNetv50, Yolo and other CNN benchmarks.
Prior to that, he has architected and trained dataflow implementations of quantized and mixed precision neural networks at Intel.
He graduated from IIT Madras with a B.Tech in Electrical Engineering and is a big tennis fan - which includes playing and watching
Vinay Palakkode
“Vinay Palakkode is a senior staff machine learning engineer and manages a team of deep learning researchers and engineers at Rivian Automotive’s self-driving organization. Vinay holds a master’s degree in electrical and computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. He specializes in perception for robotics and high-performance computing. Vinay held prior engineering and management positions at Apple’s Technology Development Group (TDG) and Special Projects Groups (SPG).”
Heidi Adler
James Horgan
Willem Hoyng
Professor Dr. Willem Albert Hoyng, LLM (Leiden University, King‘s College, PhD (Tilburg University).
Professor Hoyng is a partner at HOYNG ROKH MONEGIER
Professor Hoyng’s practice primarily consists of litigating in the field of intellectual property law. Professor Hoyng is member of a select group of lawyers admitted to appear before the Dutch Supreme Court.
Professor Hoyng is also known for advising on and coordinating pan-European patent strategies. He is the adviser of many innovative Dutch and foreign multinationals, including pharmaceutical and biotechnological companies.
He Chairs the Advisory Board of the UPC (Unified Patent Court), participated in drafting the Rules of Proceedings for the UPC and advises the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs on UPC matters.
Professor Hoyng teaches Intellectual Property Law at the University of Tilburg since 1988.
Gerben Hartman
Gerben Hartman is a lawyer in the Research and Documentation directorate of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) since 2021, where he carries out preliminary analyses of references for a preliminary ruling and other case-related research. His work mainly focuses on all areas of Intellectual Property law. Previously (2010-2016), he worked as a lawyer at a top-tier law firm in the Netherlands. He completed his law studies at the university of Nijmegen (2009) and Stanford Law School (2017), followed by a four-year EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship at Queen Mary University of London, with secondments in the Legal Service of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) and in the cabinet of Judge Niilo Jääskinen at the CJEU.