Speakers

Gracia Wan Joined CEVA in Jan 2010 as China Country Manager leading CEVA sales and support team in China. Gracia has over 10 years experience in semiconductor industry and focus on SIP licensing business in recent 7 years. Prior to joining CEVA, she was China Country Manager at CommTone Solution Co., Ltd. representing multiple famous IP companies in China include InterDigital, Discretix, Comsys etc. Gracia holds an engineering degree from the Harbin Engineering University.

Barbara Yu, Joined CEVA in Jan 2011 as Taiwan Country Manager leading CEVA Taiwan support team. Barbara has over 12 years experiences in semiconductor industry and focus on SIP licensing business in recent 4 years. Prior to joining CEVA, she was Taiwan Country Manager in Tensilica (IP company) and Sr. Sales Manager in Magma Inc (EDA company) etc. Barbara holds a MBA degree from National Chiao-Tung University.

Kazuyoshi Hibino Joined CEVA in Nov 2008 as Japan Country Manager leading CEVA sales and support team in Japan. Hibino has over 25 years experience in semiconductor industry and focus on SIP licensing business in recent 10 years. Prior to joining CEVA, he was Sales Director of VeriSilicon Inc. (ASIC and IP company) and before that held several business management positions at LSI Logic (ASIC company), TSMC (Foundry), etc. Hibino holds an engineering degree from Seikei University.

Moshe Sheier serves as our Vice President of Marketing. Mr. Sheier brings with him more than 20 years of experience in the semiconductor IP and chip industry in both development and managerial roles. Prior to this position, Mr. Sheier was the Director of Product Marketing at CEVA and before that he has managed Xilinx Inc. partner program in EMEA. Before joining CEVA, he was with the DSP Group since 1993, holding different engineering and R&D management positions, including the VLSI Department Manager. Mr. Sheier holds several US patents in the area of DSP architectures, a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and an M.B.A.

Liran Bar serves as CEVA’s Director of Product Marketing, overseeing Imaging & Vision DSP core product line. Liran has more than fifteen years of experience in the imaging semiconductor industry. Prior to joining CEVA, Mr. Bar was Director of Product Marketing at Altair Semiconductor covering LTE wireless communications product line. Before that he served as a director of product marketing at different multidisciplinary companies specializing in DSP multimedia, CMOS image sensor and Image signal processing. He holds a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Ben-Gurion University.

Franz has more than 15 years of experience in the semiconductor IP area, specifically in the connectivity markets. He co-founded RivieraWaves in 2010 and lead the sales and marketing activities. In 4 years, he grew the Bluetooth and Wi-Fi IP business from zero to $4M. Before joining RivieraWaves, Franz has been the Product Marketing Manager at Wipro-NewLogic during 4 years, in charge of the Bluetooth IP portfolio. From 1999 to 2005, Franz held several positions of project leader, customer support manager, team leader and hardware design engineer at VLSI Technology, Philips Semiconductor, NewLogic and PLDA.

Zeev Kaplan is a Communication Algorithms Team Leader in CEVA Wireless BU. He has over 15 years of experience in communications engineering with expertise in algorithms, DSP Cores and systems design. Zeev has a broad experience with LTE, Wi-Fi and wired home-networking (HomePNA, HomePlug, G.hn) networking standards. Zeev Kaplan has a BSc. (Summa Cum Laude) and MSc. in Electrical Engineering from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.

Youval Nachum serves as CEVA’s Senior Product Marketing Manager for audio and voice product line. Youval brings over 20 years of multi-disciplinary experience, spanning marketing, system architecture, ASIC, and software domains at leading technology companies. He is passionate about anticipating long term trends and leading technical programs to their successful completion. Highly proficient in combining market requirements, product definitions, industry standards and design innovations into breakthrough products. Youval holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.

Dana Zhang Joined CEVA in March 2017 as Product Solution Manager in China. Dana has over 10 years’ experience in communication engineering with expertise in PHY layer implementation and design. Dana holds an master degree from the Newcastle University.

DIGITIMES分析师兼研究经理，负责研究领域包括平面电视、视讯服务与smart home。产业研究经验超过15年，过去亦曾服务于WitsView。毕业于台湾科技大学企管系、外贸协会国际企业经营班。

姚嘉洋分析师主要专注 IDM 与 Fabless 的市场竞合策略、芯片设计与相关各类终端应用研究，在担任集邦咨询拓墣产业研究院担任半导体分析师之前，已经在台湾科技媒体领域拥有八年的工作经验，研究专题涵盖 EDA、MCU、FPGA、模拟与混合讯号等领域。

现阶段研究范围聚焦在AI、5G与车用相关的芯片与 IP 发展，并持续关注全球芯片设计产业发展动态，在这些领域，皆有相当深度的研究。

Vincent Nallatamby is the founder and CEO of Tempow, a 15-people startup based in Paris, designing a new enhanced BT Audio Stack. Tempow’s first product, the Tempow Audio Profile (TAP), allowing to connect 5 speakers from one smartphone, is available into Motorola smartphones. The company is now working on True Wireless Earbuds. Vincent Nallatamby was named one of the “100 under 30 French Entrepreneurs to follow” in 2018.

Luke Liu is President & CEO of LIPS Corporation, based in Silicon Valley of Taipei (R.O.C.). He holds a M.S. in Computer Science and Information Engineering from Fu Jen Research Institute.
In 2013, Luke founded LIPS by a team consisting of CSAIL MIT research scholars with mission to “Create a Real 3D World”.
LIPS positioned as 3D Machine Vision Platform provider offering 3D depth cameras, standard recognition middleware, standard solutions, customized camera design, middleware, and total solution projects for developers and marketers worldwide.

Kavé has more than 30 years of experience in the industry. His main areas of interest are Automotive and Wireless Connectivity IC design, where he holds several patents and paper publications. He started his career at Philips Research Labs in 1982 and moved on to Philips Semiconductors in 1990. He joined Catena in the year 2000, where he is the Vice president and Chief Technology Officer.

Igor Kofman, is a Director of Business Development at Silentium. Igor loves disruptive headphone technologies and new ANC application use cases. During his twenty plus years in Consumer Electronics and Automotive industries, Igor directed New Technology development, New Product incubators and Product Strategy for companies like Bose, Harman Becker and general Motors. Igor brings wealth of knowledge in all aspects of Wearables Product Strategy and ANC technology hardware and software. When Igor is away from being obsessed with Noise Management he can be found in a Surf-ski or on a ski slope.

José M. López-Almansa holds a M. Sc. on Telecommunications Engineering from Technical University of Madrid. He has more than twenty years of experience on GNSS Technology. He spent three years at the Technological Center of the European Space Agency (The Netherlands) working mainly on modelling of interference effects on GNSS receivers. Afterwards, he joined the Spanish company GMV where he has been working on multiple projects about GNSS technology for European Space Agency (ESA) and Galileo Supervisor Authority (GSA), as well as internal GNSS R&D activities. He currently serves as Technical Leader within GMV, leading the developments on SDR GNSS Receivers.

沈德琪先生是华畅科技无线通信事业部IOT产品高级 经理。通信专业硕士学历。华畅科技是一家独立的移 动通信协议栈软件提供商，致力于协议栈开发20年。
他在该公司参与并主持过多个协议栈项目的开发如 TD-SCDMA、GMR-1、LTE、GSM-R及NB-IoT

Erez Lugashi is a serial technology entrepreneur in the emerging tech world of IoT, VR, and AI. He is currently the CEO and founder of AbiliSense.
AbiliSense has developed a new breed of AI sound recognition technology, analyzing ‘big data’ generated by IoT devices in order to hear, identify and even predict both day-to-day occurrences as well as life-threatening situations.

毕业于中国科学院软件研究所，从业以来在中科院软件所，风河系统等公司从事操作系统，编译器等系统软件研发近二十年，现担任阿里云IoT事业部物联网操作系统AliOS Things首席架构师。

Miki Haseyama (Professor) is an Adviser to the President; a Director of Education and Research Center for Mathematical and Data Science; a Vice Dean of Graduate School of Information Science and Technology; a Director of Front Office for Human Resource Education and Development Support Office for Female Researchers; a Deputy Director of Office for Institutional Research in Hokkaido University. Her research interest includes multimedia processing of image, audio, music, video, text, Web, biological signals, etc. Moreover, her recent research topic is real world application of multimedia processing technologies based on AI, IoT and big data/complex network analysis. She has been a Director, International Coordination and Publicity of The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE); a Vice-President of the Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers, Japan (ITE); an Editor-in-Chief of ITE Transactions on Media Technology and Applications. She has also been a Board Member/Chief Technical Adviser of the Information Grand Voyage Project, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Japan; an Expert Member of the Information and Communication Council, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Japan; a Member of the Science Council of Japan and other organizations. Furthermore, through the collaboration with foreign R&D projects such as Quaero, CHORUS and Theseus, her achievements were highly appreciated.

Ram Shallom brings to Autotalks over 10 years of experience in Business Development, Marketing and R&D of cutting-edge technological products.

Prior to Autotalks, Ram served in executive positions in Israeli innovative start-ups including co-founding Kupoya (acquired by ACTU-CCI.COM). Prior to leading Kupoya, Ram led a large-scale Israel Defence Prize winning project, for an elite technological unit of the Israeli Defence Forces.

Ram holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc. (both Magna Cum Laude) in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Ben-Gurion University.

Rendong Ying received his B.S. in 1994 from East China Norm University, Shanghai, China, Master and Ph.D. degree in 2001 and 2007 respectively from Shanghai Jiaotong University, all in electronic engineering. He is now associate professor at the Dept. of EE at Shanghai Jiaotong Univ. Dr. Ying has published 20 journal and conference papers and has 5 awarded patents. He is the author of “Embedded System – Principle and Design,” Publishing House of Electronics Industry 2011.

Tetsuya Nomura is the General Manager of Soho Enterprise. Under preparation of Soho Enterprise Co. Ltd.

Over 20 year experience of SoC design in Sony from 1990 to 2018. Image compression and processing SoC in wide variety of products, Digital Camcoder, MPEG2 AV decoder for DVD, TV, professional video camera, and managed Taiwan R&D center for image processing SoC design, CMOS image sensor technical support centers in Taiwan and China. Back to R&D work with DSP technology from 2014, spin-out this year to develop DSP based vision solution to contribute to Open Innovation.

From 2014, belonging to Strategic Marketing department, I am in charge of entire BDs of every department in Nextchip.

沈泊，现为上海酷芯微电子有限公司创始人及CTO；1991年-2002年于复旦大学获学士、硕士及博士学位，主修集成电路设计；2002-2005年担任复旦大学微电子系副教授；2000-2005年创立上海微科集成电路有限公司，任总经理，2005年公司被Nasdaq上市公司Trident并购； 2008年创立上海视丰微电子有限公司，任chairman&CTO，2010年视丰公司被台湾上市公司Nova

樊光辉有10以上的图像DSP设计，项目管理和公司经营经验。他加入虹软研发中心已经超过13年，任职高级产品经理。樊光辉毕业于杭州电子科技大学，获得计算机应用专业硕士学位。

陈锋作为首席市场官于2008年加入福州瑞芯微电子。瑞芯微是一家兼具创新和务实特性的集成电路设计公司，为智能手机、平板电脑、通讯平板，电视机顶盒、车载导航、IoT物联网和多媒体音视频产品提供专业芯片解决方案，连续8次被授予中国芯片的蓝带奖。加入瑞芯微之前，陈锋先生在SMIC担任高级总监职位。陈锋先生取得清华大学应用物理学士学位和美国里海大学电子工程硕士学位。

Based in Canada, Patrice heads ImmerVision’s engineering as well as, contributes to IP growth and the adoption of ImmerVision’s 360° panomorph technology by global corporations. He has overseen the integration of 360° imaging technology in numerous consumer electronics, surveillance, automotive, aerospace, medical and broadcast products. Recently, he has led the miniaturization of the panomorph 360° technology for smartphones, tablets, wearables and IoT devices.

Back in 2000 in France, after completing his Master’s degree in image processing and computer graphics, Patrice joined the INRIA and contributed to their research in robotic surgery simulation field. In parallel, he co-founded ImmerVision, a company dedicated to 360° optics and imaging technology. With his conviction that 360° technology could be applied everywhere, he contributed to the development of 360° panomorph optical and imaging technology.

Beyond technology, Patrice believes that innovation is propelled by human beings, partnerships and alliances – he has collaborated with a large ecosystem of partners in the optics industry like Fujifilm, CBC Computar, Tamron and Kolen, and in the silicon industry like Marvel, Intel, Qualcomm, Sony, Samsung, HiSilicon, NXP and OmniVision. In addition, Patrice is an avid surfer, international traveler and always seeks to make new connections.

现任奥比中光通用事业部副总经理。十年安防从业经验，曾任中国智慧城市专家委员会委员，参与国内多个智慧城市顶层规划设计，主持物联网、智慧城市传媒机构的运营管理，安防与服务机器人领域专家

“Tsuyoshi Kawakita”  joined in Fujitsu related group on April,1992 and experienced the software development for digital switching system and video conference system. After that he was in charge of software development of imaging processing LSI “Milbeaut” for 15 years from 2003. He joins in present corporation “SOCIONEXT” from 2015 as Director of Software Development Department of Imaging Solution Business Unit.

林永育先生现任厦门星宸科技有限公司（SigmaStar）集团总经理，董事长。林先生曾任晨星半导体股份有限公司（MStar）首席执行官，晨星软件研发（深圳）有限公司总经理。林先生取得了厦门大学金融学硕士和浙江大学应用电子技术学士，并于长江商学院完成了其EMBA。