Kurt Keutzer

Kurt Keutzer is currently Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California at Berkeley and Associate Director of the Gigascale Silicon Research Center (GSRC). Prior to returning to academia at Berkeley, Professor Keutzer was Chief Technical Officer and Senior Vice-President of Research at Synopsys. Dr. Keutzer is a fellow of the IEEE, and has coauthored 2 books on logic synthesis and hardware design.

Ken Kennedy

Ken Kennedy is the Ann and John Doerr Professor of Computational Engineering and Director of the Center for High Performance Software Research (HiPerSoft) at Rice University. He is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the Association for Computing Machinery, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and has been a member of the National Academy of Engineering since 1990. Professor Kennedy has published over 150 technical articles and supervised 34 Ph.D. dissertations on programming support software for high-performance computer systems.

Bob Dahlberg is current the Vice President of Marketing at ReShape. Bob has over 20 years experience in high-technology management, including 12 years at Synopsys, where he started as the marketing department. During his tenure, Bob managed diverse functions, including worldwide application engineering, the service business unit, and the Synopsys Venture Fund. Bob started his career at Intel evangelizing DSP, Ethernet, and silicon foundry products.

Steve White

Mr. White was vice president of design verification at Synopsys, Inc. from 1994 to 1996. In that position he re-defined the company's verification strategy. Prior to Synopsys, Mr. White co-founded Logic Modeling Systems with Dr. Widdoes. Mr. White holds a B.A. from Michigan State University.