Todd Vierra

Todd brings more than 25 years of engineering and technical sales expertise in chip design, electronic design automation, and intellectual property.  He joined BrainChip from ARM, where he was director of field sales engineers for more than 15 years, providing support for ARM processors in the Machine Learning, Internet of Things (IoT), embedded and automotive, client/mobile, and enterprise business divisions. He spent nearly seven years in high-speed ASIC design at Applied Micro Systems, and 4 years at Cadence Design Systems. At Nurlogic Design Inc., and Artisan Components Todd led the technical sales teams for digital and high-speed Analog IP. He has a BS Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering and an MBA from Coleman University.

Shashi Kiran Chilappagari

Shashi Chilappagari is the Co-Founder and Chief Architect at DeGirum Corp., a fabless semiconductor company building complete AI solutions for the edge. Prior to DeGirum, he was the Director of SSD Architecture at Marvell Semiconductor Inc. Shashi has B. Tech and M. Tech degrees from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India and Ph.D. from the University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.

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Anthony Valle

Anthony Valle is a Senior Pre-Sales Engineer for North America and Latin America at Ipsotek, an Atos company. Anthony has over 20 years of experience in IT and security technology solutions for the rapidly growing tech-based world.  He works closely with clients in developing solutions for AI at the Edge, utilizing a patented Scenario-Based Rule Engine (SBRE), a powerful tool to precisely define behaviors of interest as they would unfold in the real-world dynamic and complex environment.

Prior to joining Atos, he performed first Sales Engineering and later Application engineering roles for Avigilon, one of the world's largest security manufacturers.   Throughout his career, he has held key management positions within the industry and sought many certifications to further his career in security technology. 

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Khalil Laaboudi

Khalil Laaboudi is VP Innovation and Strategic Partnerships at VOSKER, a fast growing Canada based company with a global footprint, that specializes in remote area monitoring.

Among other subject matters, he is currently in charge of developing, maintaining and monitoring a resilient, reliable and secure LTE network access in more than 50 countries for Vosker's outdoor cameras. Khalil has previously held different senior level positions in the telecommunications industry. Throughout his carrier he established commercial and partnership relations with tier 1 Network Operators in all major geographies.

He is member of the Interuniversity Research Center on Science and Technology (CIRST) where he specializes in comparative telecommunications policies. He is also member of the board at different organizations promoting North-South economic and social collaboration. He is currently completing his PhD thesis on 5G Industrial Strategies at the University of Quebec in Montreal