Parag Beeraka

Parag Beeraka is the Senior Director of Segment Marketing within the IoT Line of Business at Arm. In his role, he is responsible for driving the segment strategy across multiple segments along with setting the strategy across new emerging growth technologies such as machine learning and smart vision. Prior to joining Arm, Parag Beeraka was the Director of Product Management at Western Digital where he was responsible for flash based products for mobile, automotive and IoT segments. Parag holds an MBA from University of Chicago Booth School of Business along with an MS from University of Kansas and B.Tech from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University in India. 

Melanie Murk

Melanie is an expert on strategic collaboration and value creation in the food value chain. During her research (2012 - 2019, EFMI Business School, The Netherlands) she connected with many food retailers, processors, farmers, and farm suppliers as well as governmental organizations in multiple regions. Her network reaches from farm to fork. She has incorporated her knowledge in various management programs and has educated hundreds of business people on this topic.

Adam Sud

Lokwon Kim

Dr. Lokwon Kim is CEO of DEEPX. Prior to DEEPX, Dr. Kim spent over a decade in leading research labs and companies such as Apple, Cisco Systems, the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Broadcom, the Korea Electronics Technology Institute (KETI) and Hynix Semiconductor (now SK hynix), where he played a key role in the design and verification of computer hardware systems used widely around the world. At Apple, Lokwon led design and verification of application processors used in the iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and more. At Cisco, he played a key role in modeling, design and verification of network router core chipsets. He was the recipient of the Cisco Achievement Program Award in recognition of outstanding employee efforts and achievements. Lokwon earned a PhD in Electrical Engineering at UCLA.

Nandan Nayampally

Nandan is an entrepreneurial executive with over 25 years of success in building or growing disruptive businesses with industry-wide impact.  Nandan was most recently at Amazon leading the delivery of Alexa AI tools for Echo, Fire TV and other consumer devices. Prior to that he spent more than 15 years at Arm Inc.  including roles as GM developing Arm’s CPU and broader IP portfolio into an industry leader that is built into over 100B chips. He started his career at AMD on their very successful Athlon processor program. He also helped grow product lines in startup businesses such as Silicon Metrics and Denali Software which had successful acquisitions down the road.

Rochan Sankar

Rochan is Founder, President and CEO of Enfabrica. Prior to founding Enfabrica, he was Senior Director and leader of the Data Center Ethernet switch silicon business at Broadcom, where he defined and brought to market multiple generations of Tomahawk/Trident chips and helped build industry-wide ecosystems including 25G Ethernet and disaggregated whitebox networking.

Prior, he held roles in product management, chip architecture, and applications engineering across startup and public semiconductor companies. Rochan holds a B.A.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto and an MBA from the Wharton School, and has 6 issued patents.