Kip Compton is Senior Vice President of Strategy and Operations for Cisco’s Enterprise Networking and Cloud (EN&C) business. Kip leads strategic planning for the EN&C business and is responsible for driving transformational initiatives that enable Cisco to deliver simpler, cloud-driven, as-a-service portfolios. Kip has over 20 years of senior leadership experience driving innovation in cloud, video, the Internet of Things, and networking. Kip has held leadership roles with vendors as well as service providers. His areas of expertise include video, distributed systems, IoT, cloud, and digital media security Before joining Cisco, he was with Comcast as Vice President of Video and Media Engineering, responsible for development of Comcast’s digital cable, content security, video on demand, and streaming media infrastructure and services. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science and a master’s degree in electrical engineering and computer science, both from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and an MBA degree from the Wharton School. He holds multiple patents in the areas of digital video, security, and networking.

Dr. Sharon Peng is the Vice President of Global Engineering R&D center, Lifestyle Consumer Audio Division at Harman, a Samsung Company. She leads the engineering R&D team in innovation, design, and development of consumer audio products including AKG/Harman Kardon/JBL branded Home, Portable, Headphone & Wearable, IOT & Accessories, and Car Aftermarket products. Her expertise, responsibilities, and interests include advanced audio and acoustic research and development, digital signal and speech processing and filtering, wired and wireless audio/video/gaming system platform and architecture design with AI, ANC, TWS, and machine learning algorithms for enhanced consumer experiences and revenue driven bestselling consumer products. Dr. Peng has more than 25 years of research, development, and leadership experience in Consumer Electronics and Technology. Dr. Peng is an IEEE fellow and served as the IEEE Consumer Electronics Society (renamed as Consumer Technology Society now) President from 2015 to 2018 for two terms. She currently serves as the Chair of IEEE CTS N&A Committee, the board member of IEEE TAB N&A committee, CTS fellow committee, IEEE Masaru Ibuka Award committee, IEEE CTS Standard committee.

Dr. Mahsa T. Pourazad received her M.A.Sc. degree in electrical and computer engineering (ECE) from the University of Manitoba in 2004, and her Ph.D. degree in ECE from the University of British Columbia (UBC) in 2010. She is currently a senior engineer at the Architecture & Analytics Team, TELUS Tech Strategy and an Adjunct Professor with the Electrical & Computer Engineering department at UBC. Her expertise include digital video acquisition, video processing, end-to-end video content delivery, quality of experience and artificial intelligence. She is the author of more than 100 research publications, holds several patents and is the recipient of numerous awards and distinctions. She has been an active member of IEEE, the Standard Council of Canada (SCC), and MPEG. Presently she is a member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Consumer Technology Society (CT Soc) and the Chair of the Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Technical Committee of the CT Soc.

Dr. Prodan is a Comcast Fellow for Next Generation Access Networks (NGAN) at Comcast Cable. As a member of the NGAN team, he coordinates and promotes advanced developments of new technologies including advanced Physical Layer cable transmission technology to leverage product and partnership solutions to the adoption and deployment of Full Duplex DOCSIS (FDX) technology. Dr. Prodan has played an instrumental role establishing the next generation DOCSIS 2.0, 3.0, 3.1, and FDX cable modem standards working with CableLabs and industry representatives from suppliers and cable operators as CTO of the Broadband Communications Group at Broadcom. Previously as CTO of CableLabs, he characterized bi-directional cable plant transmission in cable systems across the US and Canada. In addition, he worked over eight years with the FCC Advisory Committee on Advanced Television Service to develop and test HDTV systems for the US. Prior to joining the cable industry, he worked in the consumer electronics industry at Philips Research Laboratories on Compact Disc and Digital Television. He was elevated to IEEE Fellow for leadership in the development of high definition television and broadband networks. He was among the contributors who were recognized by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences with a Technical Emmy Award for Pioneering Development and Deployment of Hybrid Fiber Coax Network Architecture as part of their work with CableLabs. Also, he is a member of the Cable TV Pioneers. Dr. Prodan holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Columbia University. His bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering are both from City College of New York. He is a Life Fellow of the IEEE for leadership in the development of HDTV and High Speed Data on cable systems. His specialties include: Communication Systems Engineering, Digital Signal Processing, Digital Television, Analog Television, Optical Data Storage.

Mohiuddin Mazumder received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, in 1989, the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, in 1992, and the Ph.D. degree in applied physics from Yale University, New Haven, CT, in 1996., He then joined the Technology Computer-Aided Design (TCAD) Group, Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA. He has been working on high-frequency interconnect modeling issues in chip, package, and board designs. He has developed an on-chip inductance simulation methodology at Intel. He worked with all major microprocessor design groups to develop on-chip inductance design guidelines to avoid inductance issues. He is interested in developing integrated CAD solutions for signal integrity analysis.

Perry Stultz, General Manager of Microsoft Xbox, has been with Microsoft since early 2008. He currently leads the Xbox Hardware Development Organizations. Over the past 13 years Perry has been honored to represent the engineering team that creates the magical and loved devices that we call Xbox. This includes Xbox 360, Xbox One, and the new Series X/S consoles and controller .In addition to Xbox, he took a few years off from to lead the development of the Surface Pro and Surface Laptop products. Along with traditional engineering development, Perry is a champion for Sustainability in the Gaming organization, fundamentally elevating Sustainable development activities and materials into the millions of Xbox Devices shipped annually. Perry was a 16-year veteran of Intel prior to joining Microsoft. During this time, he worked on various silicon teams that delivered successful chipsets and processors to the market. Perry has both a Master and Bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tennessee. Go Vols!!! In his free time, Perry and his wife Diana have raised 5 wonderful kids that have scattered all over the United States with the youngest starting his collage career at the Colorado School of Mines in the fall of 2021. On the home front, they have 4 dogs, 2 cats, a flock of chickens, and oversees their tree farm east of Seattle.

Dr. Fabio Rangoni is President of Cardioline S.p.A., a leading company in designing, developing and manufacturing electrocardiographs and solutions addressed to the diagnostic cardiology and telemedicine arenas. He graduated in Electronic Engineering and then he attended a School of Biomedical Technologies Specialty of the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery and a course in Strategic Management. He is Member of the Board of Trustees International Society of Computerized Electrocardiology. In the past, he has been Member of the Investment Committee Sofimac Partners, Member of the Steering Commitee dedicated to Innovation, Research and University Unindustria Bologna, president of ASTER, a company which encourages a sustainable growth of the Region through the innovation and knowledge development as well as the attractiveness and internationalization of the local industrial system and president of the Board of directors of Mortara Rangoni Europe. He is author of scientific publications about electrocardiography in international journals.

Laura Hainke is a Research & Communications Specialist at Mentalab, a Neurotech start-up from Munich. She is also a M.Sc. candidate at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, in the field of Clinical Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience. She has been and is currently involved in several research projects using Electroencephalography (EEG) methodology. At Mentalab, she presents the Explore system - a wireless, compact, high-precision mobile ExG biosensor - to the scientific community. Her responsibilities include directly communicating with users, representing the company at scientific events, as well as coordinating and supporting studies using the Explore system. In the future, she intends to pursue a PhD degree in the Cognitive Neuroscience domain.

Dr. Ming Fang is currently in private practice in Gastroenterology and Hepatology in the San Francisco Bay area. He received his Doctor of Medicine from Zhejiang University Medical College in China. He attended Georgetown University for Ph D in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and then Post-Doctor fellow in Molecular Immunology. He published more than 12 reviewed journal papers. Subsequently, Dr. Fang received broad and extensive training in many disciplines in clinical medicine. He finished his residency training in Pathology at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital and Internal Medicine at Yale-NorWalk Hospital, and fellowship in Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Harvard Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
He joined Kaiser Permanente Medical Group (KPMG) in 2004 and became a partner two years later. In the meantime, he introduced evidence-based medical practice to China. Dr. Fang served Board Director on Liver transplant committee, Kaiser Foundation Hospitals in Northern California. He served as President of Asian Physician Association at KPMG in 2005 to 2006. Dr. Fang invented a medication to treat acute on chronic liver failure, which is in the process of application for a patent in the United states, China and European Union. Ming serves on advisory board for TSVC-a investment firm to advise them in biomedical aspect of biomedical startup company projects.

Michael Rosenzweig joined Intel in 1992 and has held various technical and management roles in both product and technology groups for x86 and ARM product lines. He holds over 20 patents and brings a broad range of experience in 2D and 3D graphics, audio, video, imaging, performance optimization, system software, software architecture, and product development. His experience includes development of procedural 3D effects for the Web, development of immersive 3D audio libraries, SW media codecs for Intel’s XScale™ product line, media architecture for Atom-based mobile systems with Android, and pathfinding in media, graphics, imaging and AI domains. Mike is a Sr. PE in the CCG Client Platform Silicon Architecture group, leading the AI Architecture team. He holds a Master of Engineering in Computer Science from Cornell University, and a B.S. in Computer Systems Engineering from the University of Massachusetts.

Alan Lee is the Corporate Vice President of Research and Advanced Development at AMD and the founder and head of AMD Research. Previously, Alan was CEO of a company creating technologies for high-frequency trading and quantitative financial analysis. Trained as a mathematician, Alan has performed and directed innovation across a variety of fields, including finance, strategy, software, signal processing, AI, and machine learning.

Luis is the leader of Lenovo’s Product Solutions Development (CPSD) team with overall responsibility for the development of PC and cloud-ready devices (ThinkPad, ThinkCentre and Chrome PCs), workstation PCs (ThinkStation and ThinkPad P Series), smart office solutions (ThinkSmart), Smart IoT devices and strategic innovation like the X1 Fold, the first foldable PC in the industry. He oversees over 800 engineers across development labs in China, Japan and the US. Prior to this, he was vice president of the Product Group, PC and Smart Solutions Development responsible for developing Lenovo consumer, SMB and commercial PCs.

Karl Whealton, senior director, product management, Qualcomm Technologies Inc., leads Product Definition for CPU, DSP and AI Hardware technologies across Qualcomm. Karl’s engineering background in CPU and DSP design informs his work defining CPU, DSP and AI solutions to balance power, performance and cost against the leading use cases of Snapdragon platforms. This includes designing, integrating and bringing to market solutions that elevate end-user experiences with rapidly evolving technologies – including programmers model, process node choices, thermal and power delivery constraints, and flexibility for Applications Developers.

John Allen graduated from Southern Illinois University with a BS in Electrical Engineering Technology in 1986. He started his career at Mitsubishi Electric in the Division that submitted all Mitsubishi products to UL and CSA. After just two years, John started Product Safety Consulting, Inc. in the basement of his parents’ house. The mission was to help companies develop products with Safety and Certifications in mind. Today, as President & CEO of PSC, John makes sure that mission carries on with all the PSC engineers.
Over the last 35 years John has worked with Product Developers and Designers starting from concept in obtaining worldwide Certifications. The product categories are quite diverse, including lighting, consumer electronics, small and large electrics, medical equipment, industrial controls, machinery, gas appliances, Robotics, ITE, New and Innovative and many more. The experiences have given John the ability to see and develop the “First in Class” way of doing Product Safety and Certifications.
John also has been doing Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessments for over 20 years and serves as a senior advisor on product safety to a number of global companies.
John is passionate about Product Safety and Certifications and has been deeply involved in the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) Product Safety Engineering Society (PSES) since 1985. He is Past Chair of the PSES Chicago Chapter, past Chair or the PSES’s flagship Symposium ISPCE 2015, has held various positions on the Board of Governors including a term as President (2017-2019) and now in the Past President role for 2020-2021. John is the founding developer of Compliance 101 and now Chairman of the Compliance 101 Technical Committee. The vision is to change the culture of Product Safety and Certifications from a “cog in the wheel of production” to an asset in the product development process.
John often speaks on various Product Safety and Certification subjects to a variety of Trade Associations, Chamber of Commerce and various IEEE Conferences

Grant Schmidbauer (born 1963) is responsible for the Nemko Group Sales and Marketing function, as well as Nemko Group services for Certification and International Approvals. Grant has more than 36 years of experience in the field of international product compliance and is tasked with further developing Nemko’s brand in the market. Started with Nemko in 1996, Grant formerly worked for CSA International and TUV SUD. Grant is a graduate from the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT), Vancouver BC, in Power Electronics. Grant is an IEEE Sr. member and is currently in his 3rd term serving on the Board of Directors of the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society (IEEE/PSES).

Jong-Moon Chung received B.S. and M.S. degrees in electronic engineering from Yonsei University and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Pennsylvania State University. From 1997 to 1999, he was an assistant professor and instructor at the Pennsylvania State University. From 2000 to 2005, he was with the Oklahoma State University as a tenured associate professor. Since 2005, he has been a professor in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and is the Associate Dean of the College of Engineering, and a professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine, College of Medicine, all at Yonsei University (Seoul, South Korea). He is currently an Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, Section Editor of the Wiley ETRI Journal, Co-Editor-in-Chief of the KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems, and Vice President of the IEEE Consumer Technology Society (CTSoc) and the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society (PSES). He has been serving as a specialist for the Ministry of National Defense for the Republic of Korea government on military drone and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for many years. Since 1996, he has conducted many R&D projects for the military and industry on next generation communication systems, UAVs, unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs), and is currently conducting three projects for the Hyundai Motors Group on future autonomous vehicles.

Tsang is the President of the Honorary Advisor Committee of Greater Bay Area 5G Industry Alliance. KF is also a Director of HK R&D Center for Logistics & Supply Chain Management Enabling Technology (LSCM) and a member of Hong Kong Science Park Advisory Committee for Technology Validation Initiative. KF is active in IoT and Smartcity development. He won many prizes and in particular he was awarded the IoT Heros Award in 2016 by GS1 IoT Council (nominated by Cisco).
KF is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong. He has published more than 300 technical papers, a few patents, and four books/book chapter. KF’s research area is in IoT and Smartcity standards and compliance which embraces 5G and IoT security, privacy, and open standards, IoT protocol design, AI algorithms and smart X applications. Tsang is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a Fellow of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE). He has contributed to conferences in many roles, such as Track Co-Chairs, Technical Program Chair, and also presented many tutorials and technical talks. He has served as an Associate Editor and Gest Editor of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (Impact Factor: 10.215) and also an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (Impact Factor: 8.236).

MS Daniece Carpenter (NCE) is a Senior Principal Regulatory Engineer with Dell Technologies, joining Dell in 1993. Currently the Society Secretary for the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society, she is also a Founding Member for the Society. MS Carpenter currently manages multiple projects for Dell Technologies across the product portfolio, working with regulatory agencies across the world to obtain the appropriate regulatory certifications. These projects include desktop, notebook, and Enterprise computer products as well as the IoT products for commercial uses. She has extensive experience in investigation of regulatory requirements for new products and new markets. She also has served on a number of standards writing committees both at the national and international level.

Mr. Ken Kapur is currently the Director of Global Product Compliance at Thermo Fisher Scientific. Ken is an expert is regulatory compliance and has been working with product regulations for over 30 years. Mr. Kapur’s experience includes a number of management and technical roles at companies such as Agilent, KLA, Seagate, AMD, Trimble and AT&T.
Mr. Kapur has an Engineering background and started his work in the area of product safety with Underwriters Laboratories (UL). He has expanded his expertise from Product Safety to EMC, Environmental, Chemical, SEMI and related regulations as they pertain to Global Market Access. Mr. Kapur has been on a number of technical standards committees; he has had roles in writing standards and has conducted independent evaluations of numerous products under a wide range of product categories including consumer electronics.
Mr. Kapur has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of the Pacific. He is a Senior IEEE Member and has been very involved in the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society over the years with roles that include Chair of the Santa Clara Valley PSES Chapter and VP Member Services as part of the IEEE PSES Board of Governors.

Nicholas Napp, Founder, CEO Xmark Labs. As a co-founder of Xmark Labs, Nicholas is focused on the role of Virtual & Augmented Reality and Blockchain technologies in enterprise digital transformation. He enjoys working at the intersection of strategy, technology and corporate narrative to accelerate business growth.Nicholas has been working with VR and AR systems since the 1990s when his team at Rainbow Studios pioneered the use of VR in 3D animation production. He has launched over 40 products across a wide range of consumer and enterprise markets.Nicholas is also Chairman of the Board at FabNewport, a non-profit provider of maker-centered learning programs and services for middle school and older students.

Jeewika Ranaweera is a principal hardware engineer working on high-speed microprocessors at Oracle. She received her Bachelor’s in CSE from ISPJAE in Havana, Cuba and her Master’s and PhD degrees in ECE from the University Of Toronto, Canada. She is an IEEE Senior Member and a steering committee member for IEEE Future Directions and Digital Reality Initiatives. Jeewika authored an eBook about her engineering journey for IEEE Women in Engineering to inspire others to follow STEM careers and illustrated the 1stchildren’s book published by IEEE. Recently she delivered a Keynote on “Successful Leadership Development in STEAM Careers,” at the IEEE LAEDC 2020, WIE/YP Networking session in Costa Rica. She is passionate about delivering talks on Quantum Computing, and the need to have a diverse environment to eliminate “Bias in AI” that discriminates minority. She also shared her unique insight via a podcast on areas where immersive technologies benefit humanity. She has been a speaker at the IEEE LAEDC, Drive World Conference, ChipChat, IEEE VTS, IEEE CCNC, AWE, IEEE TTM, Grace Hopper Conference, IEEE WIC Summit, and FB Developer Circle. She has also been a Track chair for the IEEE WIE ILC. She volunteers as a female technologist through the Oracle Education Foundation. As a Program Evaluator for ABET, she helps guide the content, quality and delivery of ECE degree programs around the world. She has authored and co-authored many papers published in technical journals, or presented at international conferences. Jeewika holds five US Patents.

Robert M. Frankston is best known for writing VisiCalc – the first electronic spreadsheet. While at Microsoft, he was instrumental in enabling home networking. Today, he is addressing the issues associated with coming to terms with a world being transformed by software. Frankston became an outspoken advocate for reducing the role of telecommunications companies in the evolution of the Internet, particularly with respect to broadband and mobile communications. He coined the term “Regulatorium” to describe what he considers collusion between telecommunication companies and their regulators that prevents change.

Dr. Bhunia is a preeminent professor, director of the Warren B. Nelms Institute for the Connected World and Semmoto Chair Professor of Internet of Things in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA. He has over twenty years of research and development experience with over 250 publications in peer-reviewed journals and premier conferences.

Kun QIAN received his doctoral degree (Dr.-Ing.) for his study on automatic general audio signal classification in 2018 in electrical engineering and information technology from Technische Universität München (TUM), Germany. From 2021, he has been appointed to be a (Full) Professor with the title of “Teli Young Fellow” at the Beijing Institute of Technology, China. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE

Max is a Special Project Lead for Bloomberg New Economy, a platform that aims to build a more responsible future by enabling global leaders from East and West to forge common ground. He is also a Technology Fellow at USC CCLP where he works closely with director Geoffrey Cowan on issues at the the intersection of technology, media, and society.

Asma is working with Cognitive, Connected & Computational Imaging Research group in Electrical & Electronic Engineering, National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG). Her research interest includes Energy Systems, Privacy & Security, Internet of things, Embedded Devices, AI, Deep Learning, Computer Vision, CE devices, and Blockchain Technology.