The 2020 speakers and agenda will be announced soon! Below, meet a few of the 2019 speakers who brought innovative and industry-leading content to the 2019 program.
To meet all of the 2019 speakers and to view the last year's agenda, please download the 2019 event program.
After several executive positions in B2B Sales and Marketing, Dr.-Ing. Ronald Mueller founded Vision Markets in 2014 with the mission to support companies to grow in the Imaging field. Quickly, Vision Markets became the leading Marketing and Management Consulting Company dedicated to the global Machine Vision industry. With a team of currently 8 co-workers Vision Markets has already supported over 55 SMEs as well as multi-billion dollar companies from Tokyo to Vancouver. The quality of the offerings derives from the technical know-how of imaging technologies, the market expertise built since 2002, and the executive management experience of its consultants. On this basis, Vision Markets enables its clients to grow with strategic consulting services in Marketing, Sales, Product Management, and Corporate Acquisitions. Operational outsourcing services like recruiting, public relations management, writing of marketing content, and digital marketing are complementing the portfolio. Furthermore, Ronald is member of several Machine Vision innovation award juries.
Mahabir Gupta is Solutions & Products Consultant - IoT, Mobility & Data Security at Volvo - having more than 5 years of experience in software development and security evaluator experience in a broad range of industries including automobile, healthcare, construction, e-commerce, banking, IOT, and mobile gaming. He has solid understanding of full mobile and software development life cycles, penetration testing, EMVCo & PCI guidelines, security threat and agile methodologies. He is mobile passionate with extensive knowledge in defining project scope, requirement, technical specification and designing security threat of the architecture of the application.
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Boyang Zhang is a senior camera engineer at Cruise. He is responsible for specification, validation, and development of camera sensors for Cruise’s autonomous vehicles.
Robert Bloomquist is Director of Automotive Marketing at Xilinx where he has a global role driving strategic opportunities directly with automotive OEMs, developing inbound and outbound marketing and supporting the sales team with the positioning of Xilinx’s key value propositions.
He brings more than two decades of automotive expertise to his position at Xilinx. Prior to Xilinx, Bloomquist spent eight years at Texas Instruments where he lead an OEM-focused sales team that saw numerous industry-leading infotainment and ADAS design wins. Additionally, he held automotive positions at National Semiconductor and initially started at Maxim Integrated where he pioneered its entrance into the automotive market as a founding member of the company’s automotive business unit.
Bloomquist sits on the 2019 IS Auto Americas advisory board where he helps to define the conference themes and speaker tracks. He holds a bachelor of arts in economics from the University of Michigan.
Tomoo Mitsunaga received his B.E. and M.E. degree in biophysical engineering from Osaka University, Japan, in 1989 and 1991, respectively. He has been working for Sony Corporation since 1991. He studied computer vision and computational photography as a visiting scholar with Prof. Shree Nayar in Columbia University from 1997 to 1999.
Since 2016 he is appointed General Manager and leads a team of development on signal processing for image sensors.
Lawrence Vivolo brings more than 30 years in high-technology design, marketing and business expertise to his role as Automotive and Electronic Design Automation (EDA) Business Development Manager for Dell EMC. Prior to joining Dell EMC, he held various Marketing Director and management positions for EDA and Enterprise Computing products at Atrenta, Synopsys, Cadence Design Systems and Intergraph Computer Systems. He began his career as an semiconductor chip design engineer in the high-performance supercomputing industry. He holds a bachelor’s degree in electronic engineering from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, and a master’s degree in business administration from Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, Calif.
Rom Clement is a Principal Engineer at Lyft who leads the technology strategy for Lyft’s self-driving division, Lyft Level 5. As one of the first employees of Level 5, Rom established and grew the hardware engineering and operations teams. Prior to Lyft, Rom spent more than a decade at Google Maps and Google Fiber leading hardware teams. In particular, he led all hardware designs of the Google Maps Street View cars from 2008 to 2017. As an Aerospace Systems Engineer by training, Rom has extensive experience developing multi-disciplinary teams for projects involving photonics and optics for harsh environments.
Bahman Hadji has over ten years of experience working with sensing devices for medical, consumer, and automotive applications. In his current role with the SensL Division of ON Semiconductor’s Intelligent Sensing Group, he is focused on bringing to market high-performance sensors used in LiDAR systems and enabling the LiDAR technology ecosystem to leverage ON’s product portfolio. Prior to joining ON Semiconductor in 2017, he held product engineering and product marketing management roles at Aptina Imaging and OmniVision Technologies. Bahman obtained his Bachelor of Applied Science in Computer Engineering and Master of Applied Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering degrees both from the University of Waterloo in Canada.