Martin Kellermann is a Marketing Manager at Microchip Technology GmbH, Munich. Earlier he was a Staff Field Application Engineer at Xilinx. He is a seasoned FPGA and SoC professional with a track record of successful customer and project engagements in the industrial, automotive, and data-center domains. He possesses a strong background in high-speed serial data transmission, signal integrity and hardware debugging which helped numerous customers finish their designs successfully. He has also taught courses covering industrial applications and hardware concepts. Martin is a graduate of the Landshut University of Applied Sciences.

He received his MSc from Lodz University of Technology, Poland, in 2008, and his Ph.D. from the University of Glasgow, UK, in 2014. His cientific background helps him succeed in challenging commercial projects. In his free time, he enjoys cycling and horse-riding.

Brian has many years’ experience in the semiconductor industry, previously working in Xilinx’s research lab; as sales representative for Cypress Semiconductor; and as an FPGA FAE at EPS Global. He is currently a Business Development Manager in the FPGA Business Unit at Microchip Technology where he supports customers throughout Europe. Brian has a Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) in Computer Engineering from the Dublin Institute of Technology (now TU Dublin).

He received his MSc from Lodz University of Technology, Poland, in 2008, and his Ph.D. from the University of Glasgow, UK, in 2014. His cientific background helps him succeed in challenging commercial projects. In his free time, he enjoys cycling and horse-riding.

Kamil is co-owner of Brightelligence sp. z o.o., Poland. Apart from managing the company and projects, he performs research and development in the field of FPGAs across many applications like SDN, SDR, video conversion and HPC. During his 16-year-long FPGA journey, he participated in several high-profile projects. His professional interest focuses on optimization and complex system debugging - "a needle in a haystack."

He received his MSc from Lodz University of Technology, Poland, in 2008, and his Ph.D. from the University of Glasgow, UK, in 2014. His cientific background helps him succeed in challenging commercial projects. In his free time, he enjoys cycling and horse-riding.

Dirk Koch leads the Novel Computing Technologies group at Heidelberg University. Before, he worked in the Advanced Processor Technologies Group at the University of Manchester, the University of Oslo, UBC Vancouver, and the University of Erlangen Nuremberg. His main research interests include run-time reconfigurable systems based on FPGAs, embedded systems, computer architecture, VLSI design, and hardware security. Dirk’s group developed the GoAhead tool for implementing partial reconfiguration on FPGAs, the FPGADefender bistream virus scanner, and the FABulous open-source embedded FPGA generation framework. The latter was used to design chips in TSMC and Skywater processes including a memristor (ReRAM) non-volative FPGA. Dirk Koch is the author of the book “Partial Reconfiguration on FPGAs” and a co-editor of the book “FPGAs for Software Programmers”.

He received his MSc from Lodz University of Technology, Poland, in 2008, and his Ph.D. from the University of Glasgow, UK, in 2014. His cientific background helps him succeed in challenging commercial projects. In his free time, he enjoys cycling and horse-riding.