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Joseph Sawicki is a leading expert in IC nanometer design and manufacturing challenges. Formerly responsible for Mentor's industry-leading design-to-silicon products, including the Calibre physical verification and DFM platform and Mentor's Tessent design-for-test product line, Sawicki now oversees all business units in the Siemens EDA IC segment. Sawicki joined Mentor Graphics in 1990 and has held previous positions in applications engineering, sales, marketing, and management. He holds a BSEE from the University of Rochester, an MBA from Northeastern University's High Technology Program, and has completed the Harvard Business School Advanced Management Program.

Prith Banerjee is the Chief Technology Officer of Ansys where he is responsible for leading the evolution of Ansys' Technology strategy and champion the company's next phase of innovation and growth Formerly, he was Executive Vice President, Chief Technology Officer of Schneider Electric. Previously, Prith was Managing Director of Global Technology Research and Development at Accenture. Formerly, he was Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of ABB. Earlier, he was Senior Vice President of Research at HP and Director of HP Labs. Formerly, Prith was Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Formerly, he was the Walter P. Murphy Professor and Chairman of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northwestern University. Prior to that, Prith was Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 2000, he founded AccelChip, a developer of products for electronic design automation, which was acquired by Xilinx Inc. in 2006. During 2005-2011, he was Founder, Chairman and Chief Scientist of BINACHIP Inc., a developer of products in electronic design automation. FastCompany listed Prith in their 100 top business leaders in 2009. He is a Fellow of the AAAS, ACM and IEEE, and a recipient of the 1996 ASEE Terman Award, the 2001 Taylor Booth Award from IEEE, and the 1987 NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award. Prith earned a B.Tech. in electronics engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana.

Lip-Bu Tan has served as Executive Chair of the Board of Directors of Cadence since December 2021 and has been a member of the Cadence Board of Directors since February 2004. He served as CEO of the company from 2009 to 2021 and as President from 2009 to 2017. He also serves as chairman of Walden International, the venture capital firm he founded in 1987, and is a founding managing partner of Walden Catalyst Ventures. Prior to joining Cadence, Mr. Tan was Vice President at Chappell & Co. and held management positions at EDS Nuclear and ECHO Energy. Mr. Tan is a member of The Business Council and serves on the boards of directors of Intel Corporation, Schneider Electric SE, Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd., and Green Hills Software. He also serves on the Board of Trustees and the School of Engineering Dean's Council at Carnegie Mellon University and on the University of California, Berkeley's Engineering Advisory Board. Mr. Tan received the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA)'s 2022 Robert N. Noyce Award and the Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA)'s 2016 Morris Chang Exemplary Leadership Award. Mr. Tan received a BS from Nanyang University in Singapore, an MS in nuclear engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an MBA from the University of San Francisco.

Cecilia Metra is a Professor and the Deputy President of the School of Engineering at the University of Bologna, Italy, where she has worked since 1991, and from which she received the Laurea Degree in Electronic Engineering and the PhD in electronic engineering and computer science. In 2002, she was visiting faculty consultant for Intel Corporation. She is part of the Italian National Research Center on High Performance Computing, Big Data and Quantum Computing, and of the Italian Research Project on Security and Rights In the CyberSpace. She is 2022-2023 IEEE Director, Division V, and she was the 2019 President of the IEEE Computer Society. She is Co-Chair of the "IEEE Metaverse" Project of the IEEE Future Directions, and a member of several IEEE Committees, including the IEEE Conferences and the IEEE Award Committees. She was a member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Computer Society and the IEEE CEDA. She was Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, and Associate Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Computers. She contributed to numerous IEEE international conferences/symposia/workshops as General/Program Chair, Technical Program Committee member, and Keynote/Invited Speaker.

Alberto Sangiovanni Vincentelli is the Edgar L. and Harold H. Buttner Chair of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California at Berkeley. In 1980-1981, he was a Visiting Scientist at the Mathematical Sciences Department of the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. In 1987, he was Visiting Professor at MIT. He is an author of over 800 papers, 17 books and 2 patents in the area of design tools and methodologies, large scale systems, embedded systems, hybrid systems and innovation. He was a co-founder of Cadence and Synopsys, the two leading companies in the area of Electronic Design Automation and the founder and Scientific Director of the PARADES Research Center in Rome.

Heike Riel is IBM Fellow, Head of Science & Technology and Lead of IBM Research Quantum Europe at IBM Research. She is responsible for leading the research agenda of the Science & Technology department aiming to create scientific and technological breakthroughs in Quantum Computing, Physics of Artificial Intelligence, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Precision Diagnostics and Smart System Integration. She is a distinguished expert in nanotechnology and nanosciences and focuses her research on advancing the frontiers of information technology through the physical sciences. She contributed to advancements in the science and technology of nanoscale electronics, in particular the exploration and development of semiconducting nanowires and nanostructures for applications in future electronic and optoelectronic devices, in molecular electronics for future nanoscale switches and memory applications, and organic light-emitting diodes for display applications. Her current research interests include new materials and device concepts for future nanoelectronics for applications in quantum computing and neuromorphic computing. She also serves as the Deputy Director of the new Swiss National Competence Center for Research on Silicon Spin Qubits.

Mark Horowitz is the Yahoo! Founders Professor at Stanford University and was chair of the Electrical Engineering Department from 2008 to 2012. He received his BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from MIT in 1978, and his PhD from Stanford in 1984. Dr. Horowitz has received many awards for his work and has broad research interests. He has worked on many processor designs, from early RISC chips and in 1990 he took leave from Stanford to help start Rambus Inc, a company designing high-bandwidth memory interface technology. His work at both Rambus and Stanford drove high-speed link designs for many decades. In the 2000s he started a collaboration with Marc Levoy in computational photography which led to light-field photography and microscopy. His current research includes updating both analog and digital design methods, agile hardware design, and applying engineering to biology. He remains interested in learning new things, and building interdisciplinary teams.