Rahul Patel serves as senior vice president and general manager of the Connectivity & Networking Business Unit for Qualcomm Technologies Inc. In this role, Patel leads the Wireless Infrastructure and Networking (WIN), Mobile, Computing and Connectivity (MCC), Small Cells, Internet of Things (IoT), Wearables and Voice & Music (V&M) businesses.

Prior to joining Qualcomm Technologies, Rahul was the senior vice president and general manager for Wireless Connectivity in the Broadband and Connectivity Group at Broadcom where he managed the product roadmap, R&D engineering, marketing, business development, and applications engineering organizations to expand Broadcom’s Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and GPS leadership across all market segments. During his 13-year career with Broadcom, Rahul had a strong track record of developing successful product lines, driving P&L growth, and developing strong teams.

Mark Hopgood is the Senior Director of Corporate Strategy at Dialog Semiconductor with a remit spaning all business units within the company.  He also holds the VP of Business Development position at partner company Dyna Image.  He has over 20 years’ experience within the semiconductor industry.

Mark joined Dialog in 2010. Prior to joining Mark was chairman of the marketing committee for WorldDMB and Director of Marketing at Frontier Silicon. He has also held Senior Management roles at Sony Semiconductor Europe.

Mark graduated from Brunel University in 1995 with a BEng in Microelectronics Engineering, specialising in ASIC system architecture design.

Mirian Kuao is Communication Segment Marketing Manager at Macronix, in charge of developing and managing the go-to-market strategies, driving outbound marketing initiatives and business operations. Mirian joined Macronix in 2013. She has almost fifteen years of experience in the high-technology sector. 

Mirian Kuao’s background spans a range of technologies and markets. Prior to Macronix, Mirian holds various positions in application marketing, business development, market Intelligence analysis, and production planning.

Patrick co-founded ThroughTek in 2008 with his belief in the future of globally connected device systems. His passion and ideals are key elements in the evolution of Kalay Platform, which currently sources one of the largest IoT ecosystems with more than 500 million total connections per month. Patrick was at the helm for a number of tech startups before ThroughTek and has proven to be an exceptional entrepreneur. Under his leadership, ThroughTek has scaled its IoT ecosystems business while maintaining a strong startup culture with innovation as the driving force.

Prashanth Shetty is the Global Vice President of Marketing at Ayla Networks, a leading IoT platform company driving business transformation for product manufacturers and service providers.

He has over 18 years experience in product & marketing leadership roles in enterprise B2B software companies. Prior to Ayla Networks, he was the CMO at Guardian Analytics, a SaaS company focused on leveraging behavioral analytics and machine learning for fraud detection in banking institutions. Prior to that he ran global marketing for the Security & API Management divisions at CA Technologies ($350M annual revenues) where he led the launch of several new SaaS products. Earlier in his career he spent over 8 years in the Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) solutions space, between stints at MetricStream, SAP and EMC/RSA. He started his career as a product analyst at Oracle.

Prashanth graduated from Stanford University and earned an MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

Hiroyuki Matsumura is chair and representative director of TransferJet Consortium Incorporated Association (TJC). Matsumura began his carrier at TJC as chair of TJC and for more than 6 years, he helped to establish this organization from just consortium group to corporation. And he helped to develop new specification of high rate close proximity communication technology and standardization work at IEEE and ITU-R with TJC’s members. This new communication technology is TransferJet X which speed is over 6 Gbits /sec and carrier frequency is 60GHz.

He is also senior managing director of HRCP Research and Development partnership which was approved by METI, Japan. This company is developing new communication device which is based on TransferJet X specifications.

Richard Elberger is a Global IoT Partner Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services. In his role, he works with hardware partners worldwide to ensure customers can build amazing and innovative IoT solutions on AWS. Richard has worked in the software and services industry for over 20 years and holds an MBA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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