Keynotes

Since joining Arm as one of its first employees, Simon has driven technical and business innovations to help transform the company into the leading architect of the most pervasive compute technology the world has ever seen.

Simon led the development of early ground-breaking Arm processors – the Arm7 and Arm9 – powering the world’s first digital mobile phones. He played a key role in developing industry standards, and his engineering work led to him being granted several embedded-systems patents. He became vice president of engineering in 2001, and before being named as Arm CEO in July 2013, he held several other strategy positions including global head of sales. He was personally responsible for expanding the company’s U.S. business and strengthening its leadership and relationships in California’s Silicon Valley, where he still lives with his family.

Simon helped steer the company through the 2016 acquisition by SoftBank, and, in June 2017, was elected to serve on the SoftBank board. He also sits on the boards of the Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA), the Electronic System Design Alliance (ESD Alliance), TechWorks and is a non-executive director at Dolby Laboratories, Inc.

Simon earned his BEng in electronic engineering from the University of Sussex and an MSc in computer science from the University of Manchester.  In recognition of his extraordinary lifetime accomplishments and his impact to the global tech industry, Simon was conferred an Honorary Doctor of Science from the University of Sussex.

Dianne Marsh is the Director of the Device & Content Security team at Netflix. Her team works with device partners around the world to provide secure transit of video content that you watch on Netflix, and is tasked with ensuring a great user experience for our viewers. Dianne earned a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from Michigan Technological University.

Chris Bergey is the senior vice president and general manager of the Infrastructure Line of Business at Arm. Chris’ organization is responsible for the proliferation of Arm-based solutions throughout the data infrastructure of today and tomorrow, from cloud computing to the network edge.  

Prior to joining Arm, Chris served as senior vice president of Devices Products at Western Digital Corporation and was responsible for product management and product marketing across the company’s $10B+ portfolio of hard drive and flash-based products for datacenter, client, mobile, automotive, and IoT. Previously, Chris was the vice president of Marketing at Luxtera, a silicon photonics startup that revolutionized datacenter interconnect, after spending over nine years at Broadcom.   

Chris holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical and computer engineering from Drexel University and a MBA degree from the Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. 

Alexander Hitzinger, CEO of Artemis, a subsidiary of the Volkswagen Group, is responsible for the development of new technologies for electric, highly automated driving and an extensive ecosystem around the car. It´s first task is to create a highly efficient electric car that is scheduled to be on the road as early as 2024. Hitzinger started his professional career in 1997 as a development engineer with Toyota Motorsport in Germany. From 2000 to 2006, he worked at the British engine manufacturer Cosworth, where he was in charge of the CA-V8 Formula 1 Engine design. During the period from 2006 to 2011, Hitzinger was Head of Advanced Technologies at Red Bull’s Formula 1 Team. From 2011 until 2016, Hitzinger was Technical Director for Porsche’s Le Mans World Endurance Championship program, which won in three consecutive years the famous 24 hours of Le Mans and the World Endurance Championships. In this function, he was responsible for the development of the 919 hybrid long-distance racing car. In 2016, Hitzinger moved to Apple in California and in 2019 re-joined Volkswagen Group.

Greg Bowman is an Associate Professor at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and serves as the Director of the Folding@home project. He and his lab are focused on harnessing protein dynamics to design new therapeutics and understand/predict the effects of genetic variations. To achieve this, they combine experimental approaches with computer simulations that allow them to watch how every atom in a protein moves. These simulations could easily take hundreds to millions of years on a single desktop computer. To amass sufficient computing power, Bowman and his team lead the Folding@home distributed computing platform, which brings together millions of citizen scientists who volunteer to run simulations on their personal computers. Using Folding@home and complementary experiments, the Bowman lab has identified new strategies for combating infectious diseases, like antibiotic resistant bacterial infections and Ebola virus, and insight into how genetic variations impact human physiology. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the entire Folding@home team has pivoted to focus on accelerating the discovery of new therapeutics by understanding the SARS-CoV-2 virus, identifying new therapeutic opportunities, and designing small molecule drugs. These efforts are tightly integrated with those of experimental collaborators, and all the data will be shared publicly to empower other scientists to explore different avenues of attack on the virus.

Rene Haas is the president of Arm’s IP Products Group (IPG) and a member of the Arm Executive Committee. Rene took over management of IPG in January 2017 and is responsible for all IPG activities including product development, engineering, sales, marketing, and commercial operations.

Rene was previously Arm’s chief commercial officer in charge of global sales and marketing, a position he held since Oct. 2015. Prior to that he served as the vice president of strategic alliances.

Before joining Arm, Rene held several applications management, applications engineering and product engineering roles, including seven years at NVIDIA as vice president and general manager of its computing products business.

Dipti Vachani is the senior vice president and general manager of the Automotive and IoT Line of Business at Arm. Dipti’s organization is responsible for the proliferation of Arm-based solutions in the transformational opportunities of autonomous driving and IoT.

Prior to joining Arm, Dipti served as vice president and general manager of the Product Management and Customer Enablement division in the IoT Group at Intel Corporation. There, she was responsible for driving the overall product development roadmap, technology direction, IoT Edge product portfolio and worldwide customer enablement for IoT.

Before Intel, Dipti spent 17 years at Texas Instruments, where she led the creation of the company’s Sitara brand of Arm MPUs and held multiple product manager and leadership roles including vice president and general manager of the Single Core Processors group.

Dipti has served on the board of directors for NetSpeed Systems and the Innovation and Technology advisory board for the City of San Jose.  She holds a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from Texas A&M University, an executive MBA degree from the University of Texas at Austin and is a graduate of the executive education programs at Stanford, Harvard and Cambridge business schools.

Paul leads the Client Line of Business within Arm. The client team defines the compute platform that shapes user experiences in smartphone, AR/VR, DTV, gaming and laptop/tablet markets.

Paul previously ran Security, IoT and wireless businesses at Arm has been involved in connected devices since the early days of Bluetooth, developing innovative products for consumer, medical and industrial markets.

Prior to joining Arm Paul led the low power wireless division of CSR, a fabless semiconductor business (now part of Qualcomm). Paul started his career in engineering consultancy, working with leading global brands to develop innovative products and services.

Richard Grisenthwaite is senior vice president, chief architect and fellow at Arm, where he has been working for the past 21 years. He is responsible for the long-term evolution of the Arm architecture and has led the architecture since the introduction of Armv6 in 2001.

In his early days at Arm, Richard worked on Arm720T, Arm940T and Arm1136EJF-S. Prior to Arm, Richard worked for Analog Devices on fixed function DSP, and at Inmos/ST on the Transputer. Richard has a BA from the University of Cambridge and holds 86 patents in the field of microprocessors.

Mark Hambleton is vice president of Open Source Software at Arm. Mark joined Arm in 2014 and took over leading the open source software group soon after. Within this role, Mark leads the system software teams chartered with driving Arm’s leadership in open source and has been responsible for the software engineering relationship with Linaro. Prior to joining Arm, Mark was a member of the Linaro TSC representing Broadcom and prior to Broadcom was the Head of Core Systems and a Distinguished Architect at Nokia in their Smart Devices group. Mark has been working with open source technologies for over 20 years and in the Arm ecosystem for more approaching 15 and involved with Linaro at various levels for the majority of their history.