Dr. Jamshid Avloni has more than 31 years experience in the chemistry of traditional polymers and 25 years developing electrically conductive polymers (CP).  He leads development, production, and applications of conductive fabrics at Eeonyx.  Prior to joining Eeonyx in 1995, he was a scientist in Prof. Alan MacDiarmid's group at the University of Pennsylvania's chemistry department.  Prof. MacDiarmid was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 2000 for co-discovery of conducting polymers.  While at the Univ. of Penn., Dr. Avloni worked on the synthesis, characterization, blending, and processing of CP materials.  He earned his Ph. D. from Moscow State University.

Oliver Barham is a Mechanical Engineer with 5 years of experience working in aerospace and defense. He has worked on projects such as unfurlable mesh space reflectors, fuzing for munitions, and associated sensors and technologies for private industry and the federal government. He has experience with MEMS sensor and energy harvesting component design.

Mario Baum was born in 1975 in Burgstaedt near Chemnitz, East Germany. After taking a combined MBE (Master of Business and Engineering) degree at Chemnitz University of Technology he started working as an application engineer for a company called GEMAC mbH Chemnitz in the field of micromechanical sensor systems. In 2002 he joined the team of Prof. Gessner at Fraunhofer ENAS (formerly Fraunhofer IZM) as a scientist with both research and marketing tasks. Currently his research work is focused on MEMS packaging and microsystems as well as medical applications.

Luis Bermudez is Director of the Interoperability Certification program at the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). He leads OGC compliance and plugfest activities and supports the Interoperability Program. He teaches at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Master's program. He has a PhD and M.S. in Hydroinformatics from Drexel University, USA and an M.S. in Industrial Engineering from the Andes University in Bogota, Colombia. He has participated in Sensor Web Enablement standards working groups at the OGC and W3C. He has 15 years experience in software development, GIS, semantic sensor web, and international project management.

Damian started his career at HP in their European research labs, eventually running a European-wide middleware solutions business. At HP he led the team that pioneered IP Mediation - a real-time technology for analytics and billing in Telecomm, becoming market leader. He moved to XACTT as VP Product Management, acquired by Amdocs to power its real-time data mediation. Damian was also VP Sales and Business Development for Followap, a Sequoia funded company, market leader in mobile Instant Messaging and Presence until acquired by NeuStar, powering Vodafone's IM service, continuing Damian's career in real-time middleware.  Damian is the author of ten patents and founder of SQLstream, a parallel engine executing continuous SQL queries against streaming big data in a cloud-based architecture.

Raj leads the Advanced Traffic Analysis Center in activities that enhance transportation systems in small to medium-size cities through the use of advanced traffic analysis and intelligent transportation systems. Goals are to enhance safety and improve mobility. In addition, Raj is the principal investigator for the UGPTI's Surface Mobility Application Real-Time Simulation environment (SMARTSeSM) program and is representing NDSU as a technical advisor of the DASH7 Sensor Network Standards Alliance. Raj, a technology executive and product innovator, has more than 135 patents issued or pending. Before joining the staff, Raj was a cooperator in previous UGPTI projects.

Alex Brisbourne is President and COO of KORE Telematics, the world’s largest fully digital wireless network provider focused exclusively on the rapidly-expanding machine-to-machine (M2M) communications market. He is a prolific speaker and opinion leader: He has become a staple at the semi-annual CTIA conferences and, most recently, delivered two sessions at CTIA Wireless 2011 in Orlando, covering smart energy and the connected car. He is frequently quoted as an expert on machine communications in trade and business-oriented media.

Rick is the CTO and co-founder of ThingWorx. Rick was previously CTO at Invensys Wonderware, a leading global provider of manufacturing operations software solutions, and was a vice president with SAP Research in the areas of future manufacturing and the "Internet of Things".

Rick was also the CTO and co-founder of Lighthammer Software Development, where he was responsible for conceptualization and development of innovative web-based and service-enabled software products targeted at the manufacturing industry. At Lighthammer, Bullotta identified and created a new market segment for "manufacturing intelligence and integration" software. He has contributed to a number of industry standards efforts and open source software projects.

Rick has been involved in the industrial sector in diverse roles, including factory operations and management, systems integration, sales and marketing, product management, and industrial engineering. He holds a degree in operations research and industrial engineering from Cornell University.

Mr. Burneske is Senior Vice-president of Engineering for SMT Engineering in Appleton, WI. He has nearly 20 years of product development experience in the EMS industry and has been responsible for design and manufacturing transition for electronic products in consumer, industrial and medical markets. Mr. Burneske has extensive experience with 5 GHz and 2.4 GHz unlicensed wireless systems for wireless video and wireless sensor applications. Mr. Burneske is a graduate of Milwaukee School of Engineering.

Gilles Chabanis holds a PhD in Physical Chemistry in 1997 from the University of Montpellier. He worked in as a post doctoral research fellow at University College London in the area of semiconductor oxide sensors. He moved to Siemens as innovation project leader for the development of Aircraft Fire Detection systems. Thereafter, he worked as product manager for Aerospace fire detection for Siemens before joining Schneider Electric Innovation Department in 2007. For the past 4 years, he is leading the homes sensors project dedicated to the development of self-powered wireless multisensors for Buildings in the frame of the Homes Programme.

Dr. John M. Chong is Director, Product Engineering at Kionix.  He is responsible for productizing and supporting Kionix’s growing portfolio of inertial sensors.  He was also responsible for developing Manufacturing Test capabilities for Kionix’s accelerometer products as production increased tenfold to 100M units/yr.  Before joining Kionix in 2006, Dr. Chong worked for Calient Networks, a company focused on using MEMS to support increased bandwidth through the automated management of fiber optic networks.  He completed his B.S. (‘93) and his Ph.D. (‘99) in Electrical Engineering at Cornell University, where he worked on novel techniques for the design and manufacturing of MEMS.

Raymond Chow studied electrical engineering at B.C.I.T. in British Columbia, Canada. Since receiving his diploma in robotics and automation, he has worked in hardware design and test engineering for displays, imaging and sensing. He joined Epson R&D in 2001 as an application and validation engineer for Epson graphics and imaging controllers. Today he is part of the team responsible for technical and applications support for Epson Sensing Products, including motion sensors and modules such as the new IMU. 

Prior to Roving Networks, Mitch Dale was director of product marketing for Calypto Design Systems where he ran all outbound and inbound marketing programs. Mitch has more than 17 years of marketing and engineering experience in functional verification and SOC design tool. He was previously director of verification solutions and was responsible for development of emulation and acceleration products at Mentor Graphics. He holds a BS in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from UC Berkeley.

Dr. Daly joined Bodkin Design & Engineering of Newton, MA in 2007.  He is responsible for developing new products and managing sponsored research programs.  Previously, Dr. Daly was Senior Scientist for ICx Ion Optics of Waltham, MA.  There he led product development efforts, particularly of wavelength-tuned infrared-based chemical sensors.  Prior to mid-1998, Dr. Daly was a scientist at NZ Applied Technologies and before that Spire Corporation.  He received his Ph.D. in physics from Brown University.  Dr. Daly has over 25 years experience with infrared technology.  He is author of over 60 papers and holds 9 patents.

Ms. Debra Deininger has expertise in electrochemical methods, materials, and the design, development, and testing of chemical sensors. She earned a B.S. in Chemistry from the Pennsylvania State University and a M.S. degree in Analytical Chemistry from Colorado State University and has 20 years of experience in the gas detection industry, having worked for MSA, Nanomaterials Research, and Synkera Technologies. Ms. Deininger has designed, developed and commercialized a wide range of innovative sensors based upon chemiresistive, catalytic, amperometric, potentiometric and acoustic designs. Ms. Deininger holds four patents, and has authored numerous additional provisional patents and invention disclosures.
 

Tom Dever is an Electrical Engineer and serial entrepreneur with 20+ years of experience in the electronics and automation industry. His experience ranges from programming pneumatic robots to designing PC motherboards to developing embedded monitoring and control systems. He is an accomplished system architect who has a knack for being able to explain complex systems in relatively simple terms. That ability has earned him the role of Director of Business Development at Exosite, but don't be fooled, Tom doesn't mind getting his hands dirty and jumping right into a pile of code!

Mike is a Principal Engineer with Mentor Graphics, part of the SystemVision Development Team. He is engaged in modeling and simulation of Power, Control and Mechatronic Systems. He has more than 30 years of experience in Aerospace and Automotive Engineering, focused on simulation-based design exploration and analysis. Mike holds an MSEE from the University of Southern California and a BSEE from the University of Cincinnati.

Jay Esfandyari has more than 20 years of industry experience in Semiconductor Technology, Integrated Circuits Fabrication Processes, MEMS development and fabrication, and strategic MEMS market and business development. 

In the capacity of MEMS Product Marketing Manager at STMicroelectronics, Jay Esfandyari has developed new markets for MEMS products and achieved multi-million dollar business opportunities.

In his previous roles, Jay worked closely with customers to develop custom MEMS products, developed models to describe the physics of defect generation in silicon wafer during device fabrication processes, created solutions to perform analysis and computer simulation to improve the quality of silicon wafers.

Jay Esfandyari holds a master's degree and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Technology of Vienna, Austria.

Focusing today on technical writing and editing, Randy Frank has a diversified technical background for his expertise.

Randy has established departments to address new technologies and effective communications in technology business for over 30 years. At Chrysler Corporation, he was involved in cold room (-20F) engine testing and alternator development. At American Motors, now part of the Chrysler Group, he was responsible for their first electronic engine control systems. At Motorola, he was involved with production, marketing and applications aspects of semiconductors including the introduction of several new power transistors, smart power ICs and sensors. At ON Semiconductor, he developed all of the communication material for establishing a $2 billion start-up and launching the company on the NASDAQ Stock Exchange. At International Rectifier, he identified and launched dozens of new leadership products.

Randy is an SAE Fellow, 2001, and former Chairman of Sensor Standards Committee in the Society of Automotive Engineers as well as an IEEE Fellow, 2005,and former Chairman of the Automotive Electronics Technical Committee and Awards Committee of the IEEE Power Electronics Society.

Randy has three patents issued in the semiconductor packaging area and has written more than 300 papers, several book chapters and the book Understanding Smart Sensors, 1995, 2000.

Randy has organized and chaired numerous sessions at technical conferences, including the Energy Harvesting Symposium and the Automotive Sensors Symposium at Sensors Expo since 2003, and hosted several webcasts on a variety of topics.

Randy has an MSEE, MBA and BSEE from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan.

Stéphane Gervais-Ducouret has 19 years of experience in the semiconductor industry as global marketing, project management, and product designer. He has worked for multi-national companies in Europe and in Asia across different segments.  Stéphane also has experience in emerging technologies and markets. His current position is global marketing for sensors at Freescale semiconductor and he is focusing on consumer and mobile phone market development. Stéphane holds a Doctorate degree (Ph. D) in Electronics from the University of Bordeaux (France) and an MBA degree from Newcastle University, Australia. He holds a European and US patent in MEMS application.

Thomas Gessner studied physics and completed doctoral thesis at TU Dresden in 1983. Since 1991 he is the director of the Center for Microtechnologies at the Chemnitz University of Technology and professor of a chair for microtechnology (1993). From 1998 he lead the Chemnitz branch of the Fraunhofer IZM and since 2009 he is the head of the new Fraunhofer-Institution for Electronic Nanosystems ENAS in Chemnitz. Furthermore he got an appointment as advisory professor of FUDAN University Shanghai in 1999 and of Chongqing University in 2003. At least he is author/co-author of more than 410 publications and 14 patent applications.
 

Steve Grady is responsible for all strategic messaging, product roadmap, CRM, e-initiatives, collateral and lead generation as VP Marketing at Cymbet. He has more than two decades of domestic and international experience in marketing, sales, business development, product management, engineering, and general management in the networking, hardware and software industries. Mr. Grady has been involved with both startups and in large company environments with global scope. Prior to joining Cymbet, Mr. Grady held senior management and technical positions at ADC, Marconi, TimeSys, Reltec, and AT&T Bell Labs. He holds BSEE and MSEE degrees from the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana.
 

Heinrich Grüger (1968) studied physics at the University of Hannover where he specialized in plasma physics. From 1994 to 1998 he was employed by the Institute of Solid State and Materials Research (IFW) Dresden and obtained his PhD in 1999 from the Technical University Dresden with a thesis on the plasma assisted deposition of carbon nitride thin films. In 1999 he was employed by the Fraunhofer-Institute Photonic Microsystems (IPMS) at Dresden, where he is working in the field of sensors. Since 2000 he is group manager and responsible for sensor system developments.

Peter Himes has over 25 years' experience in helping startups and public companies establish their strategic direction and industry position. Experienced in IC and MEMS alike, Peter has held VP of Sales and/or Marketing positions at QuickSil, SiTime, and Winbond Corporations. Earlier in his career, Peter spent 15 years at National Semiconductor in various engineering, marketing and corporate strategy roles in National's Analog Products division.
 

Dr. Perry Holman has been involved in the research, design, and development of magnetic sensors for nearly 20 years.  Currently, Dr. Holman is a Principal Design Engineer with Honeywell Sensing and Control in Richardson Texas.  Dr. Holman is the author of 7 papers, and holds 6 US and international patents.  “Magnetoresistance Transducers And How to Use them as Sensors” is a design handbook on magnetic sensors written by Dr. Holman.

Art Holzknecht is Sales Manager in the Encoder Products Division of Renishaw, Inc., a leading developer and manufacturer of displacement (linear and angle) sensors and encoders for a wide variety of applications and markets.  Art has previously held positions in engineering design and management with leading technology companies involved in the selection and integration of position sensors .  He holds a BSME from the Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Mark J. has spent over a quarter century defining, developing and marketing advanced mixed-signal and low power wireless semiconductor solutions for companies like Atmel, National Semi, MicroLinear, Aeroflex and EM and is a return presenter at Sensors Expo.  In his current role, he is empowering ultra-low power and energy harvesting sensor applications through EM's Bluetooth Low Energy, 2.4GHz digital wireless, and RFID solutions.

Matt Jennings is the Vice President of iDigi Applications at Digi International.   iDigi Applications is a Digi business unit tasked to provide custom built business-focused, remote monitoring applications utilizing cloud technology. The division was formed through the acquisition of Matt’s company - Utiligent.  Matt has many years experience in data management and device management with Global Tier.  Prior to that, he had an extensive career with Accenture where he developed strategic business plans and created infrastructures for wholly owned subsidiaries.

Joe Jesson is currently CTO of XACT Technology and in a previous role, co-founder and CTO of GE Asset Intelligence, BP-Amoco Coroprate Research Center, Communications Network Manager at CNA in Chicago, and Motorola APD in Schaumburg, Illinois.  One of many awards, Joe was recipient of the GE Edison Award, presented at the GE Research center in 2007. He is a speaker at the International Telematics Update Conferences, M2M conferences, TCF, etc. and been an ACM and IEEE member for almost 30 years. Joe has graduate degrees from DePaul University and a MTS at the University of Chicago (1972).

Joe Keating studied electrical and computer engineering at The University of Colorado, Boulder (BS, 1990), including graduate level studies in optical-electronics. Mr. Keating began his career as an embedded electronics design engineer. Joe has over ten years of experience in battery design development and applications support. Currently, he is the Sr. Director of Applications Engineering at Infinite Power Solutions, Inc., in Littleton, Colorado.

Ryan Knight graduated from the University of Pittsburgh 2007 with a B.S./M.S. in mechanical engineering.  His graduate research work focused on microelectro-mechanical systems with sol-gel derived PZT.   After Mr. Knight's graduate work he started working for ARDEC Fuze Division - Adelphi, MD.  He worked in MEMS safety and arming devices for fuzing, setback acceleration energy generation research and design using both magnetic and piezoelectric transducers, and MEMS inertial-switch development and testing. Currently Mr. Knight works for the Army Research Laboratory in the Weapons and Materials Research Directorate.  He is also pursuing a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering at the University of Maryland.

Dave Koester is VP of Engineering for Nextreme, Inc. Dave has over 15 years of experience in semiconductor technology and product development focused primarily in the fabrication and manufacturing of semiconductors and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). He has been responsible for product development in numerous areas including optical and wireless communications, biomedical device applications, and various sensing devices. Dave has held key technical and managerial positions with MCNC, Cronos Integrated Microsystems, JDS Uniphase, MEMSCAP, Inc. and RTI International. Dave received a MS from North Carolina State University in materials science and a BS from Iowa State University in ceramic engineering.

Vijendra Kuroodi is the Principal Systems Architect at Rohm Semiconductor USA. He has 16 years of semiconductor industry experience managing, supporting, defining and launching successful consumer electronics SOCs and software. He engages with customers, markets and standards bodies to develop specifications and solutions. He has vast systems design experience including development of industrial data acquisition systems, measuring instruments, touch sensors and consumer electronics products. He holds five US patents.

Dr. Lee is a research assistant professor in the University of Notre Dame. He obtained his Ph.D. in KAIST in 2007. His main research interests include energy harvester design, topology optimization, and reliability based design optimization. He is the recipient of Korean Research Foundation Grant. He is the author of more than 40 peer-reviewed publications. He was awarded the best paper prize by the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineering in 2007, and the 2009 highlight of collections by smart materials and structures (IOP publishing). His recent development on energy harvester was acknowledged by several science news websites (PhysOrg.com, EETweb.com).

Recognized scientist, engineer and leader in operations, strategy, business process reengineering and research commercialization. His research and development background is in software, physics, biophotonics and analytical instrumentation with life science, remote sensing and analysis applications. Mr. Levy has a career of successful scientific and engineering projects with many federal agencies, national laboratories and major corporations. Currently, he is Chief Technology Officer at Quant Engineering, specializing in software for engineering and science. His responsibilities include analytical modeling; data acquisition, analysis and statistics; image processing and analysis; modeling of physical processes; design algorithms; process automation; numerical optimization and innovative numerical techniques.

Johnny is an RF/EMC engineer at LS Research.  He has experience in the development of small custom antennas for a large variety of frequency bands.  In addition to antennas; Johnny has worked as part of a team designing wireless radio modules.  He has also developed range prediction software for low power, short range wireless devices.  As a compliance engineer, he has experience testing to FCC Part 15, ETSI, and Industry Canada standards.  Johnny graduated from Marquette University with a BSEE in 2008, and a MSEE in 2009.  His areas of research included numerical techniques for Electromagnetic scattering and antenna theory

Karen became the MEMS Industry Group (MIG) Managing Director in June 2007. She oversees operations of MIG; spearheads strategic growth; and oversees sales, public relations, marketing, and outreach. Karen is active on the worldwide MEMS conference circuit as a keynote speaker, moderator and panelist promoting MIG’s role as a key player in the MEMS global supply chain.

Formerly Director of Special Projects, Karen played a pivotal role in launching MIG in January 2001. Karen has been critical in creating the content for MEMS Executive Congress, MEMS Education Series and annual member meetings, as well as establishing and maintaining partnerships with other organizations to advance the MEMS industry.

Karen joined MIG from Carnegie Mellon University's Center for Economic Development where she was a Senior Policy Analyst. Prior to Carnegie Mellon, Karen was Senior Associate at Cleveland Tomorrow, promoting public-private partnerships and private capital investment. Karen was also a Program Associate with the Ford Foundation, managing programs to catalyze development in communities around the United States.

In her spare time, Karen volunteers at the Environmental Charter School at Frick Park, the National Council of Jewish Women and the University of Vermont. Karen has a BA from the University of Vermont and a MS in Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University. Karen and her family reside in Pittsburgh, PA.

Mr. Lloyd is responsible for managing and leading the advanced development, product development and firmware development teams at InvenSense. He joined the company in 2008 and oversees the development activities that result in the production of the company’s industry-leading MotionProcessing™ technologies. Mr. Lloyd is a seasoned mixed-signal IC designer with over 20 years of hands on and executive management experience for leading semiconductor companies. Mr. Lloyd earned his Bachelor of Science in Electronics Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.

Jacob Loverich is currently the VP of Research at KCF Technologies. He has been developing electromechanical devices for the past ten years and has focused last five years on wireless sensors and energy harvesting technologies. This work has spanned secure wireless sensor networks to acoustic sources for filter cleaning to piezoelectric atomizing devices. In his previous position a as a JSPS Fellow at Kyoto University in Japan, Dr. Loverich developed a new class of all polymer micropumps and invivo energy harvesting devices. He earned his Doctorate in Mechanical Engineering from the Center for Acoustics and Vibration at Penn State University. 

Mary Ann Maher is the CEO of SoftMEMS LLC. She received her Ph.D. degree (1989) from Caltech in the area of semiconductor device modeling. She subsequently conducted post- doctoral studies at the Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology (CSEM) in Neuchatel, Switzerland and joined Tanner Research in 1992. She moved to MEMSCAP in 1999 as an Executive Vice President and became the company's CTO in 2001. She founded SoftMEMS LLC in 2004.
 

Reza Moghimi is an applications engineering manager in San Jose, CA. He received a BSEE from San Jose State University in 1984 and an MBA in 1990—and has also received a number of on-the-job certificates. He has worked for Raytheon Corporation, Siliconix, Inc., and Precision Monolithics, Inc. (PMI)—which was integrated with Analog Devices in 1990. At ADI, he has served in test-, product-, and project-engineering assignments. He has written many articles and design ideas—and has given presentations at technical seminars. His hobbies include travel, music, and soccer.

Cody Morrow is graduate of Iowa State University in Aerospace Engineering and has been identified as one of the up and coming bright engineers by his peers and management at Cirrus Aircraft    Cody holds a commercial aircrafts pilot's license as well a being a Certified Flight Instructor .  Cody was an instrumental part of the team to get the Cirrus SR22 aircraft certified for flights into known icing (FIKI).  Specific to our presentation, Cody was the lead engineer to incorporate a new system for fuel and Ice protection level indication into the Cirrus SR2X platform.

President and founder of Dynamic Control. Angelo has an extensive background in electrical design and has been awarded many US Patents. Over the past 20 years he has led the design and manufacture of a diverse array of products including medical robotics, missile avoidance systems, automotive engine control systems and the advanced cargo systems for military helicopter systems.  He has extensive experience in creating and leading dedicated teams that produce products in a  cost-effective and timely manner.  Angelo has used the ARAMIS 3D image correlation technology for validating designs and computer models for successful competitiion against substantially larger competitors.

Patrick Noonan is a Business Development Manager at National Instruments focusing on simulation and design technologies to facililate better methodologies for the designing and testing of circuit designs using SPICE and other simulation technology.   Since 1998, he has served various roles at National Instruments including a design role in the data acquisition/signal conditioning group for designing high voltage isolation and signal conditioning products.

Rob OReilly is a Senior Staff Engineer at Analog Devices Inc. Rob has spent the last 20 years developing test, characterization and reliability processes for MEMS inertial sensors and microphones. He is currently responsible for advanced MEMS test, unique application support and business development. A former flight engineer in the US Navy, Rob also attended Northeastern University with focus in mechanical engineering and solid state physics.

Jonathan Oram is responsible for environmental monitoring and control of over 200 buildings in the ATK facility.  He has 8 years of experience with sensor networks and enterprise level software systems.

Harry Ostaffe is vie president of marketing and business development at Powercast Corporation, and has over 20 years experience in the fields of broadband and wireless networking, industrial controls, and computing. He has prior experience with Ericsson, Marconi, Lucent Technologies, AT&T Network Systems, Bayer and IBM. Harry received an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Penn State University.
 

Pragnesh Patel is a Senior Engineer at Moog-Quickset, the leading manufacturer of Pan-Tilt-Zoom (PTZ) systems for military and industrial applications.  Pragnesh is directly involved in the specification, selection, qualification and implementation of solid state position sensors for use in PTZ systems.  He has particular expertise in hardware/software integration and real time control systems implementation.

Scott Philiben has been in aerospace engineer for his entire career.  A graduate of the University of Wisconsin in Mechanical Engineering.  A holder of 6 Patents and One patent pending , Scott has had a varied and progressive career in aviation small to medium size companies that were absorbed into Goodrich Aerospace, Zodiac Aerospace, Cessna, Gulfstream.  Most recently Scott organized a new engineering and aircraft component  company around a critical issue in aviation - accurate fuel level and usage reporting

Wladimir Punt  started as IC designer and has 15 years’ experience in different global, technical and commercial product marketing positions at the semiconductor companies Philips Semiconductors (now NXP), Microtune and Micronas.  

In his current position as Vice President Sales & Marketing at Micropelt, he is identifying and installing the proper partners and channels to create energy harvesting opportunities  and to execute projects for Micropelt’s thin-film thermoelectric solutions.

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Steven Ramage is Executive Director, Marketing and Communications at the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). The OGC is the industry standards body for spatial technology and location, namely addressing geospatial data exchange and interoperability.  Steven is responsible for a broad range of marketing, communications and education program activities worldwide. These include encouraging participation in OGC programs from the OGC's members. He also works closely with the OGC Global Advisory Council and the OGC Board of Directors.  Steven has a degree in Information Management and an international postgraduate diploma in European Marketing.  He speaks several languages including French, German and Norwegian.

Dr. Ricketts is Distinguished Engineer and Chief Technology Officer in IBM Industry Solutions.

Laurent Robin is in charge of the MEMS & Sensors market research at Yole Developpement. He previously worked at image sensor company e2v Technologies (Grenoble, France). He holds a Physics Engineering degree from the National Institute of Applied Sciences in Toulouse, plus a Master Degree in Technology & Innovation Management from EM Lyon Business School, France

Steve Scheirey is responsible for Hillcrest Labs’ TV Software and Services products. Steve has a diverse background in consumer electronics, Web and mobile applications, telecommunications, and defense industries. He has more than 20 years of experience in engineering, software development, and systems architecture.

Steve has a record of accomplishments for innovative startup companies. Steve is a founding member of Hillcrest and has a hands-on role in software development, project management, and technical leadership. Prior to Hillcrest, Steve was a software manager and technical contributor at Tellabs and SALIX technologies where he helped architect and develop one of the world’s first high density VOIP switches. Steve began his engineering career at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), a not-for-profit center, known for addressing complex research, engineering, and analytical problems. Steve helped develop and launch integrated command and control systems for the surface Navy fleet. Steve is a U.S. patent holder and inventor on numerous patent- pending applications.

Steve earned a bachelor of science in electrical engineering from Cornell University and a master of science in computer science from The Johns Hopkins University.

Mark I. Schiefer is the currently the Senior Scientist in charge of technical development at The Modal Shop.  With over 30 years of expertise in sensors, calibration, optics and digital data acquisition, Schiefer is responsible for the creation of transducer level distributed intelligent dynamics sensing systems and application solutions.  He provides both national and global support to the metrology community, serving on IEEE and ISO standards committees.  Schiefer holds an MSEE from the University of Cincinnati. 

Michael Scholles received the Diploma in electrical engineering and the Dr.-Ing degree, both from Gerhard-Mercator-University Duisburg (Germany). From 1990 to 1995 he has been with the Fraunhofer Institute of Microelectronic Circuits and Systems (Fraunhofer IMS) Duisburg. Since 1996, he has been employed by Fraunhofer IMS Dresden. In 2003, he became Division Director “Electronic Systems” at the then founded Fraunhofer IPMS. Since 2005 he is Business Unit Manager “Sensor and Actuator Systems” at Fraunhofer IPMS. Since January 2011, he is responsible for “Business Development & Strategy” at Fraunhofer IPMS.

Schwartz joined Digi in July 2006 as Technology Strategist with more than 10 years of embedded, RF design and project management experience. In this position, he evaluates new standards and technologies, resulting in proposed product direction. He also provides product training internally and externally. Prior to joining Digi, Schwartz’s major responsibilities included Director of Applications Engineering at Maxstream, a Digi-acquired company. Schwartz holds a BS and MS in electrical engineering from Utah State University.
 

Greg has been with Kaman for 40 years holding positions in Engineering, Manufacturing, Sales and Customer Service.  His knowledge of Inductive Eddy Current Technology for Non-Contact Displacement Sensing is unsurpassed in the industry

Patrick J. Timmons is currently the Calibration Systems Engineer at The Modal Shop, a PCB Group Company. Timmons graduated from Michigan Technological University in 2009 with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering. He has since continued development on a linear motor based shaker for low frequency long stroke calibration applications.

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Christopher Townsend received his BS degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Vermont in 1990. He has been awarded over 20 US patents, and has contributed to 14 journal publications and a wide range of presentations and abstracts in the area of advanced instrumentation, wireless sensing, and energy harvesting. Townsend is Executive Vice President of Engineering for MicroStrain, Inc, which specializes in smart sensing systems with expertise in wireless sensor networks, inertial sensing, precision displacement sensing, and energy harvesting.  

Craig Trautman is Vice President, Business Development for Innovative Micro Technology and holds more than 25 years of experience in engineering, marketing, and sales.  Prior to IMT, he was Vice President of Marketing and Sales at TeraVicta Technologies; a RF MEMS switch company as well as VP of Marketing and Sales at StarCore LLC, a DSP  IP company targeting wireless and consumer electronics .  Previously, he directed global systems engineering, marketing and sales organizations at Motorola and held engineering positions with Delco Electronics, Honeywell and McDonnell Douglas. 

Mr. Trautman holds B.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering from the University of Missouri.
 

Willard is the Director of Embedded at ARM, responsible for developing the awareness of ARM technologies in the embedded markets such as Automotive, Smart Energy, and Standard Microcontrollers. He is a 23-year veteran of the semiconductor industry, having worked in variety of engineering, sales and marketing positions promoting semiconductors for embedded applications for Motorola Semiconductor (Freescale), National Semiconductor, and NEC Electronics (Renesas). Willard holds a BSEE from the University of Michigan, and a MBA from the University of Phoenix. He has been with ARM since 2006.

John Tyson II, PE is the founder and president of Trilion Quality Systems, a manufacturer and developer of advanced optical measurement systems.  He has more than 25 years experience in the field of laser based and optical inspection methods of holography, ESPI, shearography and photogrammetry, as well as six patents in the field.  He is a graduate of Duke University (1981) with a BSE in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science.  He lectures extensively, has written and reviewed peer-review journal articles.  He authored Optical Leaking Testing Method in MIL-STD-883, is co-founder and twice Chairman of the Laser Methods Group of ASNT.

Founder of Sensorcon, focused on gas & environmental sensor system design and manufacture.  ~10 years experience in electronics/packaging & manufacturing.   BS Engineering from Clarkson University, MS from Tufts University, PhD candidate at SUNY Buffalo.

Reid spends his days helping system designers get their domain expertise and great ideas implementing in Triad’s revolutionary via configurable arrays. Before Triad, he spent more than twenty years designing ASICs with companies such as IBM, Philips, and ASIC International for PC graphics, digital video, HDTV, wavelet CODECs, and communication systems. 

Stephen Whalley is the Cross Platform Technology Director for Sensors in the Intel Architecture Group at Intel.  In this capacity, Steve is responsible for sensor technology strategy definition, implementation consistency, and maximizing hardware and software reuse across Smartphone, Tablet and PC platforms.

Previously, Whalley has managed numerous PC and server platform technology enabling activities and several industry initiatives while at Intel.  He was also a founding contributor to the USB program and Chairman of the USB Implementers Forum from 1996 to 1998. 

Moving to Chandler, Arizona in 1990 from the United Kingdom, Whalley has managed multiple product development and marketing programs in various areas of Intel.  He joined Intel in February 1988, working as a European Marketing Manager in Swindon, England.

Whalley earned a Bachelors of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering, graduating with Honors from the University of Salford, England. He also received a Masters Degree in International Management from the American Graduate School of International Management (‘Thunderbird’), Arizona.
 

Jeannette is a Product Line Manager in Freescale’s Sensor and Actuator Solution Division.  In this role, Jeannette is responsible for the product and operational aspects for the intelligent motion sensor platform.   Jeannette has over 23 years experience in the semiconductor industry.  She has held positions of increasing product and marketing responsibilities.  Ms. Wilson has a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and a MBA. 

Principal Engineer with more than 15 years experience in acoustic, pressure and vibration sensor design and development, utilizing both piezoelectric and silicon MEMS piezoresistive technologies.  Formal education comprises both a Bachelor of Science in Physics and Master of Science in Physics.  Coupled with my professional occupation in research and development, I also have more than 8 years experience as a college faculty Physics professor, primary teaching focus is calculus-based mechanics and electromagnetic theory.

Tim Worst joined Measurement LTD as the Chief Technologist and General Manager in November 2010. He is responsible for developing and bringing to market the industrial line of MEMS based pressure transducer products as well as guiding the manufacturing, test and calibration processes of ML’s industrial pressure products. Before joining Measurement LTD Mr. Worst managed the engineering as well as manufacturing departments for several leading pressure sensor manufacturing companies. Tim has over thirty-five years experience in the design and application of pressure sensors with vast expertise in the industrial, aerospace, test and measurement environments.

Tim volunteers extensively with the Boy Scouts of America where he teaches the Electronics, Electricity, Robotics and Engineering Merit Badges. Tim has an Electrical Engineering Degree from Thomas Nelson College located in Virginia.
 

Sergey Y. Yurish is President of International Frequency Sensor Association (IFSA), cofounder of Sensors Web Portal, Inc. (Toronto, Canada) and Technology Assistance BCNA 2010, S. L. (Barcelona, Spain) and editor-in-chief of Sensors & Transducers journal and IFSA
Newsletter. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the National University Lviv Polytechnic in 1985 and 1997 respectively. He has published more than 160 articles and papers in peer reviewed international journals and conferences, workshops and symposiums; hold nine patents. He is an author and co-author of 5 books, including ‘Data Acquisition and Signal Processing for Smart Sensors’; ‘Smart Sensors and MEMS and ‘Smart Sensor Systems’ and ‘Digital Sensors and Sensor Systems: Practical Design’. Sergey Yurish have got numerous best
articles and best papers awards. In 2010 he has been awarded by the IARIA Fellow 2010 for continuous leadership roles and outstanding scientific research results. Dr. Yurish is an advices chair and member of many international advisory and programme committees including SENSORDEVICES and SENSORCOMM international conferences.

Dr. Yurish has contributed to numerous advanced engineering courses in Austria, Germany, Italy, Spain and The Netherlands. In 2003 he was a co-director of NATO Advanced Study Institute on Smart Sensors and MEMS in Portugal. Prof. Yurish has leaded many research
projects in sensors and instrumentation related areas. Current research and industrial activities are related to digital and smart system integration; and sensors signal conditioning and interfacing.

Craig Zajac is the Senior Product Marketing Manager for the non-volatile memory IP, analog audio IP and video analog front-end IP product lines at Synopsys. Prior to joining Synopsys, Craig managed the non-volatile memory portfolio at Impinj and Virage Logic. Craig has over 10 years of experience in the semiconductor industry and has held product marketing and engineering roles at companies including National Semiconductor, ON Semiconductor, and Motorola. Craig holds a BS and MSEE from Stanford University and an MBA from Arizona State University.

Dr Harry Zervos PhD is a technology analyst with IDTechEx. Harry received his degree in physics from the University of Athens, Greece, and went on to study materials science at Cranfield University, where he received his PhD. His research focused on the precision engineering and nanotechnology field, with experience in international projects merging industrial and academic sponsorship. He is currently involved with in-depth analysis of the technologies and markets for  energy harvesting, storage and their applicability on wireless sensors and wireless sensor networks, printed electronics (with a specific interest in thin film solar and displays & lighting technologies) as well as electric vehicles and their potential for growth.