Robotics & Edge AI Application

• Deepu Talla

  NVIDIA

  VP – AI and Robotics

  Session 1

  Deepu Talla is the Vice President of Robotics and Edge AI at NVIDIA, where he is responsible for deploying AI technology in autonomous machines and intelligent devices, such as humanoids, industrial ARMs, mobile robots, intelligent video analytics, and factory automation. Previously, he was responsible for NVIDIA’s mobile business unit. Talla holds a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.

• Ed H. Chi

  GOOGLE DEEPMIND

  VP of Research

  Session 2

  Ed H. Chi is VP of Research at Google DeepMind, leading machine learning research teams working on large language models (from LaMDA leading to launching Bard/Gemini), and universal assistant agents. With 39 patents and ~200 research articles, he is also known for research on user behavior in web and social media. As the Research Platform Lead, he helped launched Bard/Gemini, a conversational chatbot experiment. His research also delivered significant improvements for YouTube, News, Ads, Google Play Store at Google with >950 product landings and ~$10.4B in annual revenue since 2013.

   

  Prior to Google, he was Area Manager and Principal Scientist at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center's Augmented Social Cognition Group in researching how social computing systems help groups of people to remember, think and reason. Ed earned his 3 degrees (B.S., M.S., and Ph.D.) in 6.5 years from University of Minnesota. Inducted as an ACM Fellow and into the CHI Academy, he also received a 20-year Test of Time award for research in information visualization. He has been featured and quoted in the press, including the Economist, Time Magazine, LA Times, and the Associated Press. An avid golfer, swimmer, photographer and snowboarder in his spare time, he also has a blackbelt in Taekwondo.

• Giovanni Campanella

  TEXAS INSTRUMENTS

  Sector General Manager

  Building innovative humanoid robots for the future with semiconductors

  Giovanni Campanella is a Sector General Manager at Texas Instruments, where he leads a team to help customers solve design challenges in industrial automation and robotics. He earned a bachelor's in electronic and telecommunication engineering at the University of Bologna and a master's in electronic engineering at the Polytechnic University of Turin.

• Miller Chang

  Advantech

  President of Embedded Sector

  Session 4

  Miller Chang is the President of Embedded IoT. As a global leader of the embedded computing market, Advantech Embedded-IoT Group drives innovation through cutting-edge AI technologies, ecosystem partner collaboration, and integrated solutions for diverse vertical markets. We offer a comprehensive range of edge computing platforms, from embedded boards and intelligent systems to industrial peripherals, application-focused autonomous systems, and robotics solutions, along with design-in services. Continuously advancing the development of edge AI SDK and IEC62443 IoT security software, Azure OpenAI cloud services. To target emerging industries such as robots, drones & AMR, renewable energy, agriculture, mission critical. 5G.

Generative AI Next

• James McNiven

  ARM

  VP of Product Management, Client Line of Business

  The Scalability of Intelligence: What the Future of AI Demands

  James leads Arm’s product management team for the Client line of business.

   

  His responsibilities include the definition, delivery and successful deployment of the compute platforms that shape user experiences in the smartphone, DTV/STB, the Metaverse, gaming, and laptop/tablet markets. Previously, he has led the CPU, GPU and System and Software teams at Arm.

   

  James holds a BSc in Computer Science and holds patents in the fields of security and power management.

• Nuri Cankaya

  INTEL

  VP, Commercial & AI Marketing

  Accelerating the Enterprise GenAI Transformation

  With a rich background spanning two decades in marketing and innovation, Nuri Cankaya leads the Commercial & AI Marketing at Intel. He is dedicated to helping customers overcome their business challenges and surpass their goals through the transformative power of AI. As a futurist at heart, he derives great joy from delivering presentations on the subject of "AI and the Future" at numerous customer and community events and has authored books on technology and the future of the internet, covering topics such as AI, Web 3.0, IoT and blockchain. Prior to joining Intel, Nuri spent 17 years leading product marketing leadership around the data center, AI and cloud with Microsoft Azure.

• Jeremy Willmott

  ADOBE

  Director -Digital Strategy Group, APAC

  Session 3

  Jeremy has spent the last 25 years running Marketing, Digital and Transformation teams in leading brands across the globe - through Retail, Travel & Government.

   

  He focusses on the intersection of Marketing, Technology and Experience Design – to create world leading customer experiences, that support the needs of customers & deliver strong commercial returns.

   

  Jeremy believes that in todays’ environment, delivering strong, consistent and personalized experiences across every engagement and channel, is the #1 driver of brand growth. Leveraging the potent mix of a clear strategic plan, streamlined processes, integrated platforms, data democratization and cross functional teams; he helps brands put the customer at the centre of everything they do to deliver accelerated business growth.

   

  Jeremy currently leads the Digital Strategy practice for Adobe across APAC, helping Adobe’s top brands accelerate their Customer Experience. He strives to keep evolving how brands meet the needs of their consumers in meaningful and commercially impactful ways.

• Ben Gu

  CADENCE

  Corporate Vice President, Multiphysics System Analysis

  Session 4

  As the leader of Cadence Multiphysics System Analysis (MSA) Business Unit, Ben oversees R&D, Product Engineering, and Product Validation of all the system level products in Cadence, including the recently acquired Beta CAE Systems, the recently launched Optimality, Clarity 3D Solver, Celsius Thermal Solver, the Millennium M1 CFD supercomputer as well as Sigrity, Voltus, Reality, EMX and Fidelity CFD products. Additionally, he is responsible for the strategy and M&A for the MSA Business Unit.

   

  Before Cadence, Ben had been with Magma, Freescale, and Motorola, developing simulation related EDA products. Ben received numerous awards including the Cadence Corporate Innovation Award. Besides, he has published numerous research papers and received the prestigious IEEE Donald Peterson Best Paper Awards in 2016 and holds 5 U.S. patents.

Datacenter Solution

• Michelle Jou

  BP CASTROL

  CEO

  Session 1

  Michelle joined bp group in April 2022 as Castrol’s chief executive officer, leading the global business with ~5,000 employees, serving customers in more than 150 countries, and recently proudly celebrating 125 years of Castrol business.

   

  Since joining, Michelle has overhauled Castrol’s core business strategy and has started transformation to diversify Castrol brand into new sectors, products and services, by investing in the transformative end to end Electric-two-wheeler segment as well as developing liquid cooling solutions for the rapidly growing data centre industry. Under Michelle’s direct supervision, the Castrol Data Centre team provide thermal management solutions to global customers, enabling higher performance cooling of the latest generation IT hardware through efficient cooling.

• Adam White

  INFINEON

  Division President of Power & Sensor Systems

  No AI without power – how to power the future of AI

  Adam White has over 20 years of experience in the semiconductor industry. He is currently Division President of Infineon’s Power and Sensor Systems (PSS) division, and previously served as the Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of this division. Prior to Infineon, he was International Rectifier’s Executive Officer and Senior Vice President Worldwide Sales, holding the responsibility for all demand creation activities throughout direct, distribution and representative sales channels globally. Since joining International Rectifier in 1996, Mr. White held a number of engineering positions within the company’s R&D, Marketing and Manufacturing teams.

   

  In addition to his power management semiconductor expertise, Mr. White has extensive global demand creation experience in developing, deploying and managing many aspects of the Sales, Field Application Engineering and Business Development Teams throughout the Americans, Asia, Europe and Japan. Mr. White holds a Diploma in Engineering, Electronic and Electrical Engineering with Industrial, BEng (Hons) DIS, IEEE, from University of Loughborough, United Kingdom.

• Colin Presly

  SEAGATE

  VP of Customer Engineering

  The Future of Sustainable Data Center in the AI Era

  Colin Presly, Seagate's VP of Customer Engineering, has 25 years of hard-drive technology experience. Colin's career includes leadership roles in research and development, precision equipment engineering, the CTO office, and global customer-serving technical organizations. Colin has contributed to the successful launch of multiple generations of enterprise-grade HDDs, including Seagate's revolutionary Mozaic technology. Colin holds a Master of Engineering from Imperial College London.

• Pankaj Sharma

  SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC

  EVP for Data Centers, Networks & Services

  Session 4

  Pankaj Sharma serves as the Executive Vice President for Data Centers, Networks & Services at Schneider Electric.

   

  The Data Centers, Networks and Services division provides complete physical infrastructure solutions for data centers, distributed IT environments, and industrial applications. In his position, Pankaj is responsible for leading all global functions including strategy, commercial operations, marketing, R&D, supply chain, services, finance, and human resources. He manages teams in numerous countries across Asia, Europe, The Middle East, Africa and the Americas, driving overall growth and profitability.

   

  Most recently, he served as the Senior Vice President of the Home & Business Networks (HBN) line of business from August 2016 to December 2019. In this role, he was responsible for the future strategy, product and software landscape, and leading a global team of R&D, quality, software, program creation, and product management professionals.

   

  Prior to this role, Pankaj served as the Regional VP for APJ, where he held responsibility for overseeing the business strategy across East Asia, Japan, India, and the Pacific – totaling 17 countries. Through his leadership, he ensured businesses across the region maintained a strong focus on customers and partners. He led the team of regional leaders and Cluster VPs in countries to develop customer-oriented processes, deliver innovative energy solutions in data centers, and build successful relationships with Schneider Electric stakeholders.

   

  Since joining Schneider Electric in 2000, Pankaj has held a variety of roles including Business Vice President for India, Japan, South Korea, and East Asia; as well as roles in marketing & sales, strategy, and HBN & channels for the APJ region. Based in Boston, Massachusetts in the United States, Pankaj’s achievements include leading his team to turn around APW President’s rack business in India (a company acquired by Schneider in 2011), among other successful M&A activities performed for the formerly known, Secure Power Division.

   

  Prior to joining Schneider, Pankaj worked with GE in the Services area and began his career on the shop floor manufacturing CNC machines.

   

  Pankaj is a six-sigma green belt and ISO9000 certified auditor.

   

  Connect with Pankaj on LinkedIn.

   

  About Schneider Electric.

• Alan Chang

  COMPAL

  VP, Infrastructure Solutions Business Group (ISBG)

  Session 5
  Alan Chang brings over 15 years of extensive experience in server product planning and account management

  within the OxM sector. His career trajectory spans from software programming to hardware product planning, culminating in his current role as Server GM and Vice President at Compal.

   

  Alan Chang has been deeply involved in the Open Compute Project (OCP), contributing to both hardware design and marketing strategies, and is committed to fostering collaboration and innovation within the open hardware community. He now leads the Dell and Whitebox server businesses, focusing on next-generation solutions in AI and general compute infrastructure to keep the company at the forefront of emerging technologies.