XDF Presentation Recordings

AI Scientists & Developers

Speaker Company Title of Presentation Video
Ian Ferreria
Chief Product Officer AI		 Core Scientific Theft Reduction Through Alveo Video Analytics  
Sumit Gupta
VP, AI, Machine Learning & HPC		 IBM IBM's Open-Source Based AI Developer Tools  
Tianqi Chen
Creator of TVM Stack, XGBoost, and MXNet and co-founder of OctoML.ai		 Carnegie Mellon University Learning-based Learning Systems  
Professor Kurt Keutzer
Professor at UC Berkeley & Founder of Deepscale		   Fast, Energy-Efficient Deep Neural Nets are the Key to Pervasive Intelligence  
Professor Kei Hiraki
Inventor, Chainer, and Emeritus Professor at University Tokyo		 Preferred Networks Development of a very high-speed, low power computer system for Deep Learning at Perferred Networks  
Nick Ni
Director of Product Marketing, Software and AI		 Xilinx AI Inference for Versal ACAP  
George Wang
Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Software and AI
Kamran Khan
Sr. Product Manager, AI/ML		 Xilinx Vitis AI for Cloud to Edge Overview  

Application Software Developers

Speaker Company Title of Presentation Video
Oliver Tremois
SW Technical Marketing AI Engine Tools		 Xilinx AI Engine Tools Introduction  
Rob Armstrong
Director, SW Acceleration and AI Technical Marketing		 Xilinx Vitis Introduction  
Alvin Clark
Sr. Technical Marketing Engineer		 Xilinx Development with Vitis Accelerated Libraries  
Thomas Bollaert
Senior Director		 Xilinx A Practical Methodology for Developing Vitis Applications  
Thomas Bollaert
Senior Director		 Xilinx Deploying Vitis Applications in the Data-Center  
Fred Revenu
Vivado Product Engineer		 Xilinx UltraFast Methodology & Timing Closure  
Sonal Santan
Distinguished Engineer		 Xilinx XRT - Acceleration RunTime  

Xilinx Core Vertical Markets

Speaker Company Title of Presentation Video
Paul Zoratti
Director, Xilinx Automotive Solutions/Systems Architect		 Xilinx Automotive System Architectures - from ADAS to Autonomous Drive  
Quenton Hall
AI System Architect		 Xilinx Exploring the Path Towards Safe and Robust ML in Real-World Systems  
Jason Vidmar
Sr. System Architect - Military & Satellite Communications		 Xilinx Machine Learning for Aerospace & Defence Applications  

CTO Track

Speaker Company Title of Presentation Video
Lucian Petrica
Senior Research Scientist		 Xilinx FINN: An Open Source Framework for Training and Inference of Quantized Neural Networks  

Data Center

Speaker Company Title of Presentation Video
Seong Kim
Sr. Director Datacenter Architecture		 Xilinx Accelerating Database and Data Analytics Workloads  
Dilip Ramachandran
Senior Director, Marketing Data Center Ecosystem Alliances & Solutions		 AMD
John W Lockwood
CEO		 Algo-Logic Systems, Inc. Ultra Low Latency Trading with FPGAs Using Algorithms in Logic to Process Real-Time Data  
Roy Liao PH.D.
Founder & CEO		 Aupera From Edge to Cloud, Aupera's FPGA Solution is Changing the Landscape of Video AI Computing  
Dan Gibbons
VP Software Development, Xilinx Data Center Group		 Xilinx Enabling ISV Developers with the Vitis Development Platform  
Dan Eaton
Sr. Manager, Market Development, Accelerated Computing		 Xilinx Database and Data Analytics Ecosystem  
Ping Fan
Founder & CEO		 DeePoly Ultra-high Performance Image Processing with Alveo Accelerator Cards  
Niraj Mathur
VP of High Speed Interface Products		 GigaIO Next-Gen Networking for Heterogeneous Compute & Storage  
Thad Omura
EVP Marketing & Operations		 Scaleflux Data Driven Application Gravitate to Computational Storage  
Nick Tausanovitch
Director of System Architecture		 Xilinx Adaptable SmartNIC Platform for Network Acceleration Technical Preview  
Ahmet Houssein
Sr. Director of Data Center Marketing
Jason Viehland
System Architect		 IBM
Phil Vachon
CTO Security Architecture		 Bloomberg
Maurice Penners
Principal Engineer		 Xilinx Building Video & Imaging Solutions for Xilinx Alveo  
John Nichols
Distinguished Engineer
Roop Ganguly
Chief Solutions Architect		 Bigstream Bigstream Technology Applied to Samsung SmartSSD Computational Storage Device  
Oliver Gunasekara
Advisor to Data Center Group		 Xilinx The Future of Video Encoding  
Mikhail Tushentsov
VP Engineering		 SciComp, Inc. Advanced Monte Carlo Simulations on FPGA Financial Derivatives Pricing Applications  
Arnaud Derasse
CEO		 Enyx Ultra Low Latency SmartNIC Development Framework  
Sebastian Turullols
Senior Director, Acceleration & IP Solutions		 Xilinx FPGAs: Accelerating Data Center Applications in the Storage Tier  
Pankaj Mehra
VP, Product Planning		 Samsung
Adam Malamy
Director of Engineering		 Xilinx Enabling V-Nova Perseus Video Compression IP Using Xilinx HEVC Encoder  
Obioma Okehie
Group Lead, FPGA		 V-Nova
Alastair Richardson
Global Business Development - Finacial Technology		 Xilinx Xilinx Financial Technology Solutions  
Pankaj Mehra
VP, Product Planning		 Samsung Samsung SmartSSD Platform  

Embedded SW Development

Speaker Company Title of Presentation Video
Troy Jones
Embedded Software Product Marketing		 Xilinx Embedded Software for Versal  
Terry O'Neal
Marketing Engineer - Embedded Software & Compute		 Xilinx Connecting Embedded Edge Devices to the Cloud  
Aniket Kolarkar
Embedded Platform Marketing		 Xilinx Versal Platform Management  
John Blevins
Senior Manager, Embedded Software & Ecosystem		 Xilinx Building Mixed Criticality Software Architectures on Versal  
Yashu Gosain
Sr. Solution Manager		 Xilinx Multimedia Solutions  

Hardware Development

Speaker Company Title of Presentation Video
David Dye
Sr. Technical Marketing Engineer		 Xilinx Dynamic Function eXchange: Get More Out of Your Platform  
Ron Plyer
Vivado Product Marketing		 Xilinx RTL Synthesis Methodology  
Premduth Vidyanandan
Director of Software and AI Products		 Xilinx System Level Design and Verification in Versal ACAP  
Brandon Day
Technical Marketing - NoC, DDR and HBM		  
Ambrose Finnerty
Xilinx DSP Technical Marketing Manager		 Xilinx AI Engine Architecture Overview  
Brian Philofsky
Principal Technical Marketing Engineer - Power/Thermal		 Xilinx How to Properly Manage Power and Thermal Design on Your Next Project  
Sumit Shah
Sr. Director of Silicon and B&K Product Line Marketing and Management		 Xilinx Versal Architecture Overview  
Manuel Uhm
Director, Silicon Marketing
Asad Riaz
Director - Embedded Platforms Marketing		 Xilinx Versal Embedded System Design  
Emmanuel Puillet
Senior Technical Marketing Embedded Subsytems Engineer

Wired & Wireless Communications

Speaker Company Title of Presentation Video
Paul Newson
Wireless Systems Architect		 Xilinx Versal AI Engines: Adaptable Compute for 5G Wireless Signal Processing  
Martin Gilpatric
Transceiver Technical Marketing		 Xilinx Versal Transceiver Tools  
Mike Wissolik
Director of Product Marketing		 Xilinx Versal Architecture and Design Methodologies for Communications  
Anthony Torza
Distinguished Engineer		 Xilinx Xilinx Accelerator Cards for 5G Telco Data Center