Why Attend
Following the success of the 4th AI Hardware Summit that took place 13-16th September in Mountain View, US, Kisaco Research is proud to announce the annual 2022 Executive Outlook. The Executive Outlook provides leading industry executives, and key decision makers, an exclusive chance to network, discuss and share their views and predictions on the market from a strategic viewpoint, and, collectively define a vision for the future of AI systems.
Our Executive Outlook is an annual, end-of-year executive-level summit and awards ceremony. It will recognize both engineering and business achievements during the year and gather the very best and brightest in the AI acceleration world, to pause and reflect on the year and set a vision for the following 12 months.
The forum will consist of analyst overviews and predictions, executive keynotes, and an awards ceremony.
The AI Hardware Summit will continue to be the event that brings together the AI acceleration community to put the best AI systems in the hands of the world’s leading scientists, researchers, and enterprises.
The AI Hardware Executive Outlook Summit is designed to celebrate this incredible industry and unify its members in a shared vision of the future.
Event Overview
Thursday December 1, 2021| Online & Broadcasting Globally
2021 Speakers
Brett Simpson
Brett is a co-founder of Arete (formed in 2000) and is based in the firm's London office. He focuses on the global semiconductor component sector. Brett is a regular public speaker at industry events and after 17 years looking at the sector, has a wealth of experience to draw on. Prior to Arete, Brett spent two years at Goldman Sachs in an equity analyst role, specialising in European technology following three years with Ericsson UK, working in business development, covering all aspects of wireline and wireless telecom infrastructure.
Karl Freund
Karl Freund is the founder and principal analyst of Cambrian AI Research. Prior to this, he was Moor Insights & Strategy’s consulting lead for HPC and Deep Learning. His recent experiences as the VP of Marketing at AMD and Calxeda, as well as his previous positions at Cray and IBM, positions him as a leading industry expert in these rapidly evolving industries. Karl works with investment and technology customers to help them understand the emerging Deep Learning opportunity in data centers, from competitive landscape to ecosystem to strategy.
Karl has worked directly with datacenter end users, OEMs, ODMs and the industry ecosystem, enabling him to help his clients define the appropriate business, product, and go-to-market strategies. He is also recognized expert on the subject of low-power servers and the emergence of ARM in the datacenter and has been a featured speaker at scores of investment and industry conferences on this topic.
Accomplishments during his career include:
- Led the revived HPC initiative at AMD, targeting APUs at deep learning and other HPC workloads
- Created an industry-wide thought leadership position for Calxeda in the ARM Server market
- Helped forge the early relationship between HP and Calxeda leading to the surprise announcement of HP Moonshot with Calxeda in 2011
- Built the IBM Power Server brand from 14% market share to over 50% share
- Integrated the Tivoli brand into the IBM company’s branding and marketing organization
- Co-Led the integration of HP and Apollo Marketing after the Boston-based desktop company’s acquisition
Karl’s background includes RISC and Mainframe servers, as well as HPC (Supercomputing). He has extensive experience as a global marketing executive at IBM where he was VP Marketing (2000-2010), Cray where he was VP Marketing (1995-1998), and HP where he was a Division Marketing Manager (1979-1995).
Andrew Feldman
Andrew Feldman is co-founder and CEO of Cerebras Systems. He is an entrepreneur dedicated to pushing boundaries in the compute space. Prior to Cerebras, he co-founded and was CEO of SeaMicro, a pioneer of energy-efficient, high-bandwidth microservers. SeaMicro was acquired by AMD in 2012 for $357M. Before SeaMicro, Andrew was the Vice President of Product Management, Marketing and BD at Force10 Networks which was later sold to Dell Computing for $800M. Prior to Force10 Networks, Andrew was the Vice President of Marketing and Corporate Development at RiverStone Networks from the company’s inception through IPO in 2001. Andrew holds a BA and an MBA from Stanford University.
Geoff Tate
Anil Mankar
Anil Mankar has spent 30 years developing products in the semiconductor industry. At Western Digital, Mr. Mankar developed PC core Logic chipsets. During his years at Conexant Systems Inc. in the position of VP of Engineering, he developed multiple products across industry segments and later became the company's Chief Development Officer overseeing all product development for V92 Modem, DSL, Set-top boxes, PC audio and video 'System on a Chip' products. Mr. Mankar was SVP of VLSI Engineering at Mindspeed Technologies, responsible for Wireless and VOIP infrastructure product development.
Ingolf Held
Mr. Ingolf Held has been Chief Executive Officer of GrAI Matter Labs (GML) since January 2018. Prior to GML, he was responsible for technology strategy and product marketing of imaging and computer vision at Intel. He holds an MScEE from Erlangen University and an MBA from Rotterdam School of Management.
Richard Clode
Richard Clode is a Portfolio Manager at Janus Henderson Investors, a position he has held since joining Henderson in 2014. He is co-lead manager of the Global Technology Leaders and Sustainable Future Technologies strategies. Prior to Henderson, Richard held positions with Gartmore, Moore Capital, Pioneer Investments and Herald Investment Management. Richard received a first class honours degree in modern history from the University of Oxford. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and has 18 years of financial industry experience.
Peter Suma
Peter is a co-CEO of Applied Brain Research Inc. Prior to ABR, Peter led start-ups in robotics and financial services as well as managed two seed venture capital funds. Peter holds degrees in systems engineering, science, law and business.
Dr. Chris Eliasmith
Chris is a co-founder and co-CEO of ABR. Chris leads all of the scientific and technical aspects of ABR. Chris is also a professor at the University of Waterloo appointed in the Philosophy and Systems Design Engineering departments and cross-appointed to Computer Science. He holds the Canada Research Chair in Theoretical Neuroscience and is the director of the Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience (CTN) at the University of Waterloo. Chris has published over a hundred articles and two books: How to Build a Brain (Oxford University Press) and his seminal Neural Engineering. In 2015, he won the prestigious NSERC Polanyi Award for his research.
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.
Sumeet Kumar
Dr. Sumeet Kumar is CEO of Innatera Nanosystems, the pioneering Dutch neuromorphic processor company. Dr. Kumar holds an MSc and PhD in Microelectronics from the Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. He was previously with Intel, where he worked with the Imaging and Camera Technologies Group developing domain-specific tools for the development of complex media processor architectures. At Delft, Dr. Kumar is credited with creating two highly-successful European R&D programmes developing energy-efficient compute hardware for highly automated vehicles, together with organizations including Infineon, NXP, and BMW, among others. He was also responsible for leading industry-focused research on power-efficient multiprocessors and computational neuroscience.
Kurt Busch
Kurt Busch is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Syntiant Corp. He has extensive experience in product development, having driven the successful launch of new products, ranging from SAS and semiconductors for telecom and broadcast video to consumer electronics and data center systems. Prior to Syntiant, he was president, chief executive officer and a member of the board of directors at Lantronix (NASDAQ: LTRX), a global provider of secure data access and management solutions for the Internet of Things (IoT) and information technology (IT).
He also served as a senior vice president and general manager of high-performance analog business unit at Mindspeed Technologies, acquired by MACOM. Prior responsibilities include technical sales and marketing roles at Analog Devices, Intel, Digital Equipment Corporation and two start-ups. Mr. Busch is an engineering hall of fame inductee of the University of California at Irvine, where he earned Bachelor of Science degrees in electrical engineering and biological science. He holds a Master of Business Administration from Santa Clara University.
Mike Henry
Loic Lietar
Huaiyu Meng
Dr. Huaiyu Meng is co-Founder and CTO of Lightelligence, a global optical computing company. Huaiyu received his PhD degree in Electric Engineering from MIT, where his research focused on integrated photonics in CMOS platform for telecom, datacom, and bio-sensing applications. He received his Bachelor’s degree from Nanyang Technological University in Electric Engineering with first class honor.
GP Singh
GP Singh is a career chip designer trained in Microprocessor through his decade long experience in Sun Microsystems where he had opportunity to work on many generations of UltraSparc processors. Passionate about Semiconductor and a fierce advocate of using semiconductor for betterment of common people’s everyday lives, he co-founded Ambient Scientific 3+ years ago along with his current colleagues. Ambient's has solved the difficult problem of low power consumption for AI computing through grounds up innovations. It has invented the architecture and circuit technologies called DigAn(TM) to build tiny power consuming family of AI Microprocessors called GPX. As other RISC or CISC Microprocessors, GPX Microprocessors provides application developers the freedom and flexibility to define their own AI algorithms and models. The company aims to make GPX AI Microprocessors the foundation of intelligent IoT and Embedded AI applications.
Gordon Hirsch Wilson
Thomas Piliszczuk
Orr Danon
Orr Danon is co-founder and CEO of Hailo Technologies. Prior to starting Hailo, Orr spent a decade as a group leader in a leading technological unit of the Israeli Defense Forces, where he led some of the largest and most complex interdisciplinary projects in the Israeli intelligence community. For this work, Orr received the Israel Defense Award from the President of Israel and the Creative Thinking Award from the Head of Military Intelligence. Orr earned a B.Sc. and physics and mathematics from the Hebrew University as part of the ”Talpiot” program and an M.Sc. in electrical engineering (cum laude) from Tel Aviv University.
Kushagra Vaid
Mark Lippett
Mark started with XMOS in 2008 in the role of VP Engineering, before being appointed as COO and taking the helm as CEO in 2016. Mark has extensive experience across the electronics industry, with involvement in both blue-chip and start-up companies.
Prior to XMOS Mark was founder and CTO of Ignios – a semiconductor IP company specialising in resource management in multicore architectures which was sold to Fujitsu and CoWare. Mark also founded and ran web companies and a semiconductor design services agency.
Earlier in his career Mark worked for numerous blue-chip companies, including Philips, Thorn-EMI, Texas Instruments and Bell-Labs (Lucent micro-electronics), holding roles in the UK and overseas.
Mark holds a Masters degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Surrey and an MBA from Henley Management College.
Steven Woo
I was drawn to Rambus to focus on cutting edge computing technologies. Throughout my 15+ year career, I’ve helped invent, create and develop means of driving and extending performance in both hardware and software solutions. At Rambus, we are solving challenges that are completely new to the industry and occur as a response to deployments that are highly sophisticated and advanced.
As an inventor, I find myself approaching a challenge like a room filled with 100,000 pieces of a puzzle where it is my job to figure out how they all go together – without knowing what it is supposed to look like in the end. For me, the job of finishing the puzzle is as enjoyable as the actual process of coming up with a new, innovative solution.
For example, RDRAM®, our first mainstream memory architecture, implemented in hundreds of millions of consumer, computing and networking products from leading electronics companies including Cisco, Dell, Hitachi, HP, Intel, etc. We did a lot of novel things that required inventiveness – we pushed the envelope and created state of the art performance without making actual changes to the infrastructure.
I’m excited about the new opportunities as computing is becoming more and more pervasive in our everyday lives. With a world full of data, my job and my fellow inventors’ job will be to stay curious, maintain an inquisitive approach and create solutions that are technologically superior and that seamlessly intertwine with our daily lives.
After an inspiring work day at Rambus, I enjoy spending time with my family, being outdoors, swimming, and reading.
Education
- Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
- M.S. Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
- Master of Engineering, Harvey Mudd College
- B.S. Engineering, Harvey Mudd College
Altaf Khan
Altaf Khan is the CEO of Infxl LLC, Colleyville, TX. Infxl develops ultra-low-power and ultra-low-latency Machine Learning (ML) solutions for FPGA, DSP, and MCU. Altaf started his career as an accelerometer system engineer in Silicon Valley, but simplifying neural nets has been his passion over the last three decades. He has developed fast ML for real-time applications, low-cost ML for battery-operated IoT endpoints, and small-footprint ML for a variety of hardware. He has developed intelligent solutions for a major US airline and a well-known auto parts supplier. He has been the CTO of a brokerage company, CEO of two startups, consultant for software process improvement, and an industrial controls engineer. Altaf received his BSEE from Wilkes College, MSEE for the University of Pennsylvania, and PhD from the University of Warwick.
Alexandra Pinto
My name is Alexandra Pinto and I am the founder of Hoursec, we are doing Energy Efficient AI-On-Chip for edge devices. I studied Physics and Neural System and Computation at ETH Zurich. Our Passion and inspiration on Neuroscience and it’s interceptions with Technology and Data Science! allow us to see the brain as a matrix or operator which performs a transformation, that takes all external signals and transforms them in a world were there are only three dimensions for space, one for time, but N-dimensions for sound, flavor, colors etc. In some strange way, our brains build a space that helps us make sense of the world and how we interact with it. This inspiration took us into the creation of a brain inspired chip with low energy and high throughput for AI workloads and we are excited to take our technology further into commercialization
Testimonial
Since we are an early stage startup but with a technology with the potential to step-change the energy consumption of current AI-workloads, this meeting is an opportunity to get exposed and learn from the current big players in the market. We will use this opportunity to give our perspective on topics of energy benchmarks and sustainability.
Chris Kachris
Chris Kachris is the founder and CEO of InAccel that helps companies speedup their applications using hardware accelerators in the cloud easier than ever. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Delft University of Technology. He is the editor of the book Hardware Accelerators in Data Centers and he has more than 20 years of experience on FPGAs and hardware accelerators for machine learning, network processing and data processing. His has co-authored more than 80 scientific paper on hardware accelerators and his work has been cited in more than 2000 publications.
Testimonial
There are a lot of companies that now provides powerful AI platforms. However, the main challenge for the widespread adoption of specialized AI chips is the easy of integration with the current software stack and the frameworks that are widely used by ML engineers, data scientist and DevOps. Therefore, there is the need of an abstractions layer (similar to an Operating system in the CPU world) that will allow software developers to fully utilize the power of AI chips without having to change the software. Therefore, it is crucial to discuss the need for the abstraction layers (middleware, runtime system, resource manager) that will allow the AI chips to be easily integration with the software frameworks and the DevOps tools (kybernetes, etc.). The main contribution that will bring into the panel is the need for the software stack for easy deployment, scaling and resource management of the AI chips to be easily adopted by the software and ML community.
Manu Nair
Manu started his career at Analog Devices India as a mixed-signal designer. From 2015, he has been working on designing neural network accelerators, first at the University of Manchester, followed by a PhD in the topic from the Institute of Neuroinformatics, UZH-ETH Zurich. He co-founded Synthara in 2019 and has since been leading its business development as its CEO. Synthara is focussed on delivering server-class, rapidly-customizable AI accelerators for the next-generation of edge inference applications. The breakthrough performance and low latency delivered by our Adaptiva IP product family enables a whole new class of wearable, smart sensing, and biomedical applications. Synthara is headquartered in Zug, Switzerland and has won a number of awards from various organizations such as Intel Ignite, European Space Agency, Innosuisse, and others.
Testimonials
I have a stake in the game and would be curious to hear directly about the challenges in operating in this industry from my peers. I am also happy to share my experience in running SYnthara and the challenges and opportunities as we see them
Anton Lokhmotov
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Applied Brain Research
Website: https://appliedbrainresearch.com/
Applied Brain Research (ABR), headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, is an AI semiconductor company that is pioneering time series processing (TSP) AI for edge IOT devices. ABR’s innovative and patented state space algorithms and TSP ASIC architecture enable capabilities for Voice UI and advanced biomedical inference previously unachievable in battery powered devices. ABR provides customers with a complete toolchain for network development, training and secure deployment. For more information, please visit https://www.appliedbrainresearch.com.
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Khronos Group
Website: https://www.khronos.org/
The Khronos Group is an open, non-profit, member-driven consortium of over 150 industry-leading companies creating advanced, royalty-free interoperability standards for 3D graphics, augmented and virtual reality, parallel programming, vision acceleration and machine learning. Khronos standards include Vulkan®, Vulkan® SC, OpenGL®, OpenGL® ES, OpenGL® SC, WebGL™, SPIR-V™, OpenCL™, SYCL™, OpenVX™, NNEF™, OpenXR™, 3D Commerce™, ANARI™, and glTF™. Khronos members are enabled to contribute to the development of Khronos specifications, are empowered to vote at various stages before public deployment and are able to accelerate the delivery of their cutting-edge accelerated platforms and applications through early access to specification drafts and conformance tests.
Edge IR
Website: http://www.edgeir.com
Edge Industry Review (EdgeIR.com) is a news, analysis and industry resource website documenting the changes taking place on the edge of the internet infrastructure market – the present and the future of the Edge Computing ecosystem.
Tryolabs
Website: https://tryolabs.com/
Tryolabs machine learning consulting teams excel at helping companies improve their KPIs by leveraging their own data. They combine computer vision and natural language processing skills, ability to build forecasting models and full-stack development capabilities to craft solutions that can improve revenue streams and reduce operational costs.
Tryolabs also engages and gives back to the community as much as possible. Some of their efforts include open-source projects, machine learning talks and workshops around the globe, meetups, event listings, and a blog.
AI Magazine
Website: https://aimagazine.com/
AI connects your brand with the world’s leading executives in the fields of AI strategy, machine learning and digitally disruptive technologies – thought leaders and innovators driving this pioneering sector. They are the trusted authority at the cutting-edge of developments in artificial intelligence, machine learning and automation; guiding the business leaders, influencers and disruptors that are shaping the industry.
HPCwire
Website: https://www.hpcwire.com/
HPCwire is the #1 news and information resource covering the fastest computers in the world and the people who run them. With a legacy dating back to 1987, HPC has enjoyed more than three decades of world-class editorial and topnotch journalism, making it the portal of choice selected by science, technology and business professionals interested in HPC, AI and data-intensive computing. For topics ranging from late-breaking news and emerging technologies in HPC, to new trends, expert analysis, and exclusive features, HPCwire delivers it all and remains the HPC community’s most reliable and trusted resource. Visit www.hpcwire.com.
Enterprise AI
Website: www.enterpriseai.news/
EnterpriseAI further sharpens and expands upon the already extensive coverage originating from its predecessor, EnterpriseTech, on machine/deep learning, advanced modeling/simulation, high performance data analytics and the technologies that enable them, including; high performance data centers, cloud computing, high performance storage, AI silicon and AI frameworks – spanning all relevant verticals. With its focus trained on decision-makers, technologists and thought leaders across the technology spectrum, EnterpriseAI delivers reporting, insight and analysis on AI technologies, tools and strategies that enable business deployment and integration in the enterprise.
IoT Global Network
Website: www.iotglobalnetwork.com
IoT Global Network
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IoT Global Network serves as an invaluable source of information for IoT decision makers in all areas of industry and public services, including consumer-related, energy, financial, industrial, healthcare, security and transportation, – and anyone else who would like to learn more about how the Internet of Things will shape tomorrow’s society.
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To join our community, register at: https://www.iotglobalnetwork.com/register For more information, contact: Cherisse Jameson: [email protected]
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The AI Hardware Summit 2021 Innovator Award
Celebrating the industry’s leading and most accomplished individuals to commemorate the backbone of AI progress. Join the ecosystem dedicated to AI progress in voting on the ‘AI Innovator of the Year' award. Nominations and voting for the ‘AI Innovator of the Year’ award will take place through our online voting platform, and as a crowdsourced award, the winner will be the innovator who receives the most votes from their community!
The AI Hardware 2021 Innovator Award winner will receive:
- Announcement as the winner after the morning sessions during the AI Hardware: Executive Outlook Summit on December 1st, 2021.
- A 5min acceptance speech/time to talk about their insights on the outlook for the AI Hardware industry
- A video interview shared with over 20k subscribers to AI Hardware Summit emails
- Introduced at the AI Hardware 2021 Innovator Award winner at AI Hardware Summit 2022, along with a 10min keynote speaking opportunity on the main stage.
- Advertised throughout the marketing campaign for AI Hardware Summit as the AI Hardware 2021 Innovator Award winner
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