Talk Title: Embedded Analog Intelligence for Robotics
About the speaker: : Matthieu Chevrier is a system and application manager at Texas Instruments, whose team solves customer problems on a worldwide basis. He has been leading efforts at TI on sensors for robotics since 2009 and extending to control aspects since 2016. He makes things happen by combining business, leadership and innovation skills to push the boundaries and stay on top of the latest industry trends.  He received his Engineering degree in from the Ecole Supérieure d’Electricité (Supélec), France, in 1999and holds patents in a broad range of low power sensing topics. 
About the company: Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) is a global semiconductor design and manufacturing company that develops analog ICs and embedded processors. By employing the world's brightest minds, TI creates innovations that shape the future of technology. TI is helping approximately 100,000 customers transform the future, today.
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Talk Title: Deep Learning and the Edge-Cloud
About the speaker: Marcel Wagner is working as Software ApplicationEngineer in Intel’s Software Group in Munich. In this role, he is working with software vendors and customers to help optimizing software on Intel Platforms. In the last few years, Marcel focused on optimizing Edge and Cloud components to enable a seamless end to end work from Edge to Cloud.  Before joining Intel, Marcel was working at Nokia-Siemens-Network and Siemens Corporate Technology. His research interests range from cloud, e.g. Kubernetes and OpenStack, to Edge platforms, e.g.OpenVINO, Open IoT Service Platform and StarlingX. Marcel holds a Diplom Inform. degree from University of Karlsruhe and a Dr. rer. nat. from University of Freiburg.
About the company: Intel Deutschland GmbH Intel (NASDAQ:INTC), a leader in the semiconductor industry, is shaping the data-centric future with computing and communications technology that is the foundation of the world’s innovations. The company’s engineering expertise is helping address the world’s greatest challenges as well as helping secure, power and connect billions of devices and the infrastructure of the smart, connected world – from the cloud to the network to the edge and everything in between. Find more information about Intel at newsroom.intel.com and intel.com.
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Talk Title: IoT Cloud Technologies on Edge
About the speaker: Stepan joined Microsoft at2006 as Technical Evangelist. After nine years he left Microsoft to start working as European Cloud Team Lead at pharmaceutical company MSD. He spent in pharma industry one and half year to rejoin Microsoft back. His responsibility in a new role is to help companies with Proof of Concept and architecture of IoT solutions in Germany using Microsoft Azure. In free time Stepan visiting a cooking school and cook for friends as a hobby.
About the company: Microsoft is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington, that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports and sells computer software, consumer electronics and personal computers and services. On October 2008 Microsoft announced Azure, a cloud computing service for building, deploying, and managing applications and services through a global network of Microsoft-managed data centres.
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