Speakers | Sensors Converge

Meet the 2026 Speakers

Abdul Salam Abdul Karim

Lead ADAS Platform Hardware Systems Engineer

Ford Motor Company

Omar Abed

CTO of InvenSense, a TDK Group company

TDK

Gleb Akselrod

CTO and Founder

Lumotive

Tony Alegria

Product Marketing Engineer

STMicroelectronics

Azita Arvani

Former CEO, Rakuten Symphony North America, Board member, Investor

Arvani Group

Kunal Bajaj

Sensor Lead

Stealth Startup

Damon Barnes

Director of Technical Marketing

Bluetooth SIG Inc.

Pete Bernard

CEO

EDGE AI FOUNDATION

Amanda Brief Frankel

Senior Manager, Brembo Inspiration Lab & Operational Technology Engineering

Brembo

Kirk Byles

CEO

Sensor Biometrics

Mihai Caleap

Founder & CEO

Calyo

Ernesto Manuel Cantone

Product Marketing Manager

STMicroelectronics

Jerry Chen

CEO & President

Upbeat Technology

Steve Chen

Senior Sales Manager

Himax

Calvin Cheng

Director of Applications & Customer Success

Lumotive

Cece Chu

Applications Engineer

Analog Devices

Dana Curtis

Sr. Director of Marketing

Spirit Electronics

Kevin Daly

VP Sales & Business Development

e-peas

Shreyas Derashri

Chief Commercial Officer

Innatera

Vaidehi Deshpande

Applications Engineer

STMicroelectronics

Rob Devlin

CEO

Metalenz

Andy Do

President/CEO

Embedded Works

Francesco Doddo

AIoT Sensors Applications Director

STMicroelectronics

Bo Dong

Founder and CEO

Cephia AI

Josh Douglas

COO & Co-Founder

CPTI

David Drain

Show Director

Sensors Converge

Jeffrey Edrington

Field Application Engineer

STMicroelectronics

Joe Fleming

Associate Professor

Coventry University

Matteo Fusi

Director of Product Marketing - MEMS Sensors & Actuators

STMicroelectronics

Taylor Gage

Automotive ADAS Systems Engineer

Texas Instruments

John George

Sr. Director, Global Business Development

Lightera

Chuck Gershman

CEO

Owl AI

Shanya Gill

CEO

Vigil Inc.

Thomas Gillot

Business Developer

ASYGN

Roger Grace

President

Roger Grace Associates

Swapna Gurumani

Applications Engineer, Edge AI

Microchip Technology

Matt Hamblen

Editor

Fierce Electronics

P-O Hamel

Director of Product Line Management

SiLC Technologies

Luan Heimlich

Northern California Senior Regional Director

FIRST Robotics

Jonas Horn

Senior Product Manager

Sensirion

Cristian Ionescu-Catrina

Partnerships and Ecosystem

Bosch Sensortec

Martin Jefferson

Global Solutions Architect

Globalstar

Scott Johnson

Vice President of Business Development

AIStorm

Dave Jones

President

DE Design Works

Kapil Kamra

Director, Product Management

Qualcomm

Nagender Reddy Kasarla

Engineering Manager

Molex

Pankaj Kedia

Founder and Managing Partner

2468 Ventures

Derek Kerton

Chairman

Autotech Council

Tharak Krishnan

Director of Technical Product Management

BrainChip

Michael Lamp

Director of Global IoT Enablement

Avnet

Joffrey Lauthier

Head of Rail North America

TÜV Rheinland

Michael Lazarenko

Co-Founder & CEO

Embedd.it

Leonard Lee

Executive Analyst & Founder

neXt Curve

Rose Levin

Director – Senior Principal Engineer

Azbil

Bibben Lin

Founder and CEO

millilab

Jim Lin

Software Applications Director

TDK

Klajdi Lumani

Global Product Manager, Sensors

Molex

Giampaolo Marino

Chief Strategy and Growth Officer

Energous

Shivakumar Mathapathi

CTO

Xtrans Solutions

Jackie Mattox

Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer

WE United

Ian McEachern

Owner

Nerdian

Joni Mellin

Principal Product Marketing Manager, Full-Service Foundry

ams OSRAM

Zandr Milewski

Principal Community Engineer

Morse Micro

Larry Miller

Founding Partner

219 Design

Anuraag Mohan

Sr. Director, Business Development, Magnetic Sensors

Infineon Technologies

Mallik Moturi

Chief Business Officer

Syntiant

Fares Mubarak

CEO

SPARK Microsystems

Manoharan Nallasamy

CEO

iLenSys Technologies

Kianoush Nazarpour

Chief Strategy Officer at Neuranics | Chair of Digital Health at The University of Edinburgh 

Neuranics Limited

Amit Nene

Senior Electrical Engineer

David Nishijima

Sr. Manager

Nissan North America

Paul Pickering

Managing Partner

Silicon Catalyst

Brad Poole

Americas Business Development Manager – Edge AI

Microchip Technology

Neeraj Pramodkumar

Senior Product Manager

Qualcomm

Zhenyun Qian

Co-Founder & CTO

Zepsor Technologies

Saeid Safavi

Co-Founder & CTO

AutoSonix LLC

Marian Sandberg

Vice President & Brand Leader

Sensors Converge | Fierce Sensors

Joe Schneider

CEO

Dojo Five

Martin Serrano

Senior Research Fellow

Insight Centre for Data Analytics / NIST Associate

Brandon Shibley

Edge AI Solutions Engineering Lead

Edge Impulse (a Qualcomm company)

Karthik Shivaram

Engineer

Apple

Lauren Shoemaker

Investor

DNX Ventures

Manny Singh

CEO

SensTek Diagnostics

David Smith

Senior Product Manager

ams Osram

Scott Smyser

VP, Sales & Marketing

EMASS, a Nanoveu business

Charlene Soucy

Head of Marketing

Sensors Converge

S. Gokhun Tanyer

Co-director

MulticoreWare Inc.

Madhura Tapse

Product Marketing Manager

NXP Semiconductors

Mubina Toa

Systems Engineering Manager

Texas Instruments

Cory Todd

Senior Embedded Systems Engineer

219 Design

Jaime Trinidad

IoT Solutions Engineer

The Things Industries

Ashok Vaseashta

CEO/CTO/Researcher

International Clean Water Institute

Mark Vena

CEO and Principal Analyst

SmartTech Research

Kris Vossough

Principal

Nano and Micro-Technology Consultants

Brian Walker

Sr. RF Engineer, SME

Copper Mountain Technologies

Peter Walther

President

WCA

Michael Watts

CEO

Analog Photonics

Rob Watts

AI Architect

Intel Corporation

Joe Weiss

Managing Partner

Applied Control Solutions, LLC

Barry M Wise

President and CEO

Eigenvector Research, Inc.

Joshua Wright

Principal

jMachina.io

Alper Yegin

CEO

LoRa Alliance

Prasanthi Yerra

Systems Applications Engineer

Analog Devices

Raymond Zheng

Senior Managing Director

Honda Xcelerator Ventures