Steven Arms received his Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Vermont in 1983. Shortly after in 1987, Steve founded MicroStrain, a leading manufacturer of displacement, orientation, and wireless sensor systems for remote monitoring of machines/structures. Today, MicroStrain’s products are used in a variety of applications in the automotive, aerospace, industrial, manufacturing, semiconductor, environmental monitoring, oil and gas, power generation, civil structures and defense markets. Steve has been awarded 34 US patents, and has over 13 pending. He has contributed to 18 journal publications and 44 abstracts/presentations in the areas of advanced instrumentation, wireless sensing, and energy harvesting.

Dr. Bagula is a lecturer in the department of computer Science of the University of Cape Town in South Africa. His research interests are mainly in the areas of Telecommunication with applications to smart inter-networked devices and ICT4D. More specifically, he focuses on wireless sensor networks, RFID, their integration and their applications in Developing Countries.

Mark F. Bocko is Professor and Chair in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York. His research extends from the fundamental limits of sensors to development of wireless sensors for applications ranging from machine health monitoring to health care. He has worked as a consultant to several sensor companies and is one of the founders of ADVIS, Inc. which builds integrated electronics for wireless sensors and image sensors for surveillance cameras. He is currently the Mercer Brugler Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Rochester.

Raj Bridgelall is the Vice President of Engineering and Chief Technology Officer at Axcess International, Inc. He is responsible for overseeing the R&D, and engineering of the company’s existing and emerging product line. He has over 20 years of experience in secure wireless communication, and has been named on 74 US patents and 55 US patent publications. Prior to joining Axcess, he served as Vice President of R&D at Alien Technology, where he pioneered the development of low-cost, rugged and reliable RFID reader and tag products. He holds an M.S degree in Electrical Engineering from Stony Brook University, NY.

Alex Brisbourne is president & chief operating officer of KORE Telematics. He has more than 20 years of experience in the networking and telecommunications industry with concentration in wireless, enterprise and fixed line services. He speaks regularly at business and technology conferences, most recently CTIA 2009, and is a frequent source of expert commentary in trade and business

Dr. Andrew Clark is currently the Chief Technical Officer and Co-Founder of SensorTech Corporation. Dr. Clark's PhD is in Bioengineering from Clemson University. He is the co-inventor of SensorTech's patent pending polymer sensor technology in conjunction with Dr. Martine Laberge, the Chair of the Clemson University department of Bioengineering. Dr. Clark has conducted research and development of advanced materials for medical and industrial applications over the past 9 years including two years at SensorTech. Current projects include contract work for the Department of Naval Research and various industry partners.

Russell Craddock graduated from with a B.Sc in Chemistry before undertaking an M.Sc in Semiconductor Devices. He joined the Lucas Research Centre to investigate silicon pressure sensor and accelerometer design before transferring to Lucas NovaSensor in the USA to work on the development of automotive accelerometers. In 1992 Russell joined Druck Ltd – now GE Sensing, leading piezoresistive and resonant pressure sensors development for GE Druck and automotive pressure and accelerometer products for GE NovaSensor.

Thomas Daue has been with Smart Material Corp., Sarasota, Florida as its President since 2000. Thomas began his professional career in computer architecture and computer development before he started his first company for high vacuum surface analysis equipment in 1983. Shifting his academic and entrepreneurial focus on the development and application of new materials, Thomas has started subsequently several companies in this area, including diagnostic medical devices and medical implants. Thomas Daue has received a B.S. and M.S. degree in electrical engineering and computer sciences from the Technical University in Berlin, Germany.

Jeremiah Fasl is a PhD Candidate at the University of Texas at Austin. He received a MSE and BSCE from the University of Texas at Austin. His research is focused on improving monitoring and inspection practices for fracture-critical bridges.

Mike Ferguson is CEO of Intelligent Business Strategies. As an independent analyst and consultant he specialises in business intelligence(BI) and business optimisation. With over 28 years of IT experience, Mike has consulted for many companies on BI, complex event processing (CEP), performance management, enterprise architecture and data governance. He has spoken all over the world and written numerous articles. Mike is a resident expert on the Business-Intelligence-Network, providing insights on the industry. Formerly he was co-founder of Codd and Date Europe – the inventors of the Relational Model, a Chief Architect at Teradata and European CEO of Database Associates.

Ken Foust received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Alfred University. Before joining Kionix, he was a Product Engineer for IBM Microelectronics (Essex Junction, VT) where he coordinated the fabrication of advanced custom and foundry CMOS microprocessors. At Kionix, Mr. Foust is a senior applications engineer and manages the Company’s customer technical support department. He works closely with customers in developing and integrating the sensor solutions that will enable the next generation of motion-enabled consumer products.

Roy Freeland is President of Perpetuum Ltd and Co-Chair of the ISA100.18 Power Sources Standards Working Group. In 2004 he started Perpetuum which is now the world’s leading manufacturer of Vibration Energy Harvesters which are used to power Wireless Sensors. Roy is a Cambridge graduate engineer and has lived in USA, UK, France Sweden and Canada. After starting Meggitt Electronics, he ran six high technology business sectors at Spirent Plc. He was CEO at United Industries Plc, a UK listed Company.

Dr. Froggatt has been our Chief Technology Officer since September 2005. Prior to joining us, Dr. Froggatt co-founded Luna Technologies in the Fall of 2000 to develop instrumentation for fiber optic devices and served as Chief Technology Officer until our acquisition of Luna Technologies in September 2005. Dr. Froggatt is a leading expert in the field of interferometric measurement and is the primary inventor of the technology used in the Luna-branded product platforms of the Optical Vector Analyzer and Optical Backscatter Reflectometer. Before joining Luna Technologies, Dr. Froggatt worked at NASA Langley developing ultrasonic and optical instrumentation. He received a bachelor's and master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech and a doctoral degree from the Institute of Optics, University of Rochester. Dr. Froggatt has 15 issued patents in ultrasound and optics.

David Gascon, Computer Engineer by the Polytechnic Center of Zaragoza is the Libelium's Co-Founder and Chief Technical Officer. He has been working as professor at the Engineers University of Zaragoza (Spain). His main research areas are the Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), Mesh Networks and the Self Emergent and Autoorganizational Complex Systems as show his development in the creation of two protocols for the Internet based on the ant colony and other swarm insects behaviors (Marabunta, Enjambre). He is also the co-founder of the WSN Spanish Consortium (Redsens) and main member of the International Research Groups: Sensor Networks and Mesh Networks.

Roger H. Grace is president of Roger Grace Associates (RGA), a Naples Florida- based marketing consulting firm specializing in high technology, which he founded in 1982. His background includes over 40 years in analog circuit design engineering, manufacturing engineering, application engineering, project management, product marketing, and technology consulting. He serves as a member of the editorial advisory board of Sensors Magazine, NASA Nano TechBriefs, Small Times, and the R&D Magazine Micro/Nano Newsletter. His educational background includes a BSEE and MSEE (as a Raytheon Company fellow) from Northeastern University, and the MBA program at the Haas School of Business at U.C. Berkeley.

Steve Grady is responsible for all strategic messaging, technical product roadmap, CRM, e-initiatives, collateral and lead generation at Cymbet. He has more than two decades of domestic and international experience in marketing, sales, business development, product management, engineering, and general management in the networking, hardware and software industries. Mr. Grady has been involved with both startups and in large company environments with global scope. Prior to joining Cymbet, Mr. Grady held senior management and technical positions at ADC, Marconi, TimeSys, Reltec, and AT&T Bell Labs. He holds BSEE and MSEE degrees from the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana.

Burkhard Habbe is Vice President Business Development at Micropelt, a thin film thermoelectric chip maker located in Freiburg, Germany. After completing his degree in Mechanical Engineering at Munich’s Technical University and working as automation engineer during his early career Burkhard has held various senior positions in sales, marketing and business development in technology driven industries including automation, microelectronics and machine vision. Burkhard is now responsible for taking Micropelt’s thin film thermoelectrics to target markets which, besides energy harvesting for low power electronics and wireless sensors, include photonics micro-cooling, rapid thermal cycling for genomics, and a range of thermal sensing applications.

Abhiman Hande is the Principal Engineer at Texas MicroPower Inc. (TMP) and involved in development of energy harvesting systems, circuits, solutions, and IP. He has several years of experience in power electronics, embedded systems, and applications for wireless sensor networks. He was a Research Associate at the University of Texas at Dallas and an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Lake Superior State University prior to joining TMP. He has a Ph.D degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toledo. He has published several articles in leading journals and conferences and is a Senior Member of IEEE.

Craig K. Harmon is Q.E.D. Systems’ President and CEO. With over 25 years of proven experience in the information systems industry he is the leading expert on AIDC standardization in the world. He chairs the ISO committee addressing RFID applications in the supply chain. He chairs the RFID Experts Group, and the U.S. group developing the U.S. positions for ISO RFID standards. He chairs the ISO committee on Mobile Item Identification and Management on bringing ISO standardization to Mobile RFID and Mobile Optical Media with web services. He chairs the ISO committee responsible for the development of sensor specifications.

Founder & CEO: Gerhard Heider – 56 : - Occupied leader positions in small (VP at VLSI Technology) as well as large corporations (VP in Philips responsible for the # 1 strategy) - Has been responsible for the development of several world # 1 products (DECT, Bluetooth, USB) - Created, developed and sold Smartfusion – a start-up in mobile Java platforms - Lived (and worked) in Germany, US and France. Has taught into MBA classes.

K. Lance Kelly graduated from Northwestern University with a PhD in Chemistry, focused on the optical properties of metallic nanoparticles. He is currently employed with Five Stones Research Corporation, a small business with a close mentor-protege relationship with Miltec Systems based in Huntsville. Through this partnership he leads research and development of plasmonic-related sensors, and contributes to combined optical and piezoelectric microsensors for military and defense applications. Immediately previous to joining Five Stones, he worked for four years at the University of Tokyo gaining experience on optically responsive nanomaterials, specifically a multi-color photochromic system based on silver and titanium dioxide.

Peter Kinnell Gained a masters degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Birmingham (UK), and The Danish Technical University in 2001. After graduating he continued his studies At the University of Birmingham undertaking a PhD in MEMS sensor design, specializing in advanced packaging for resonant strain gauges. Since completing his PhD he has worked as a senior design engineer at GE Sensing. His work has included a range of products from large volume medical and automotive sensor applications to ultra high performance resonant pressure sensors.

C.S. Lam received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1984. He was an MTS and a manager at the Frequency Control Products Div. of Bell Labs until 1995. From 1995 to 2002, he was the Director of R&D at Vectron Int'l responsible for the development of crystal and SAW products. From 2002 to 2007, he was the CTO at TXC Corporation in Taiwan. Presently he is the Director of Product Development & Marketing at Epson Electronics America in San Jose, CA responsible for supporting the sales of Epson Toycom's quartz crystal, crystal oscillator, and sensor products in North America.

Youbok Lee is a technical staff engineer at Microchip Technology Inc. He has been with Microchip since November of 1997. Currently, Dr. Lee is working on mixed-signal devices. He has over 25 years of industry experiences in RF, embedded microcontrollers, sensors, and remote sensing applications. Dr. Lee holds a Bachelor of Science Degree from the Yeungnam University in Korea, a Master of Science (MS) Degree from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA, and a Ph.D. from Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI.

Richard Lindenberg, S.E. is a Senior Associate with Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates. His focus is the development of health monitoring systems along with techniques used to correlate measured responses to analytical behavior.

Reem Malik is an Applications Engineer at Analog Devices. She supports customers in the Medical, Industrial and Instrumentation areas, in implementing precision AFE amplifier solutions. Reem holds a B.Sc and M.Sc in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts.

VP Applications Engineering, CAP-XX (Australia) Pty Ltd Pierre has over 25 years of hardware and embedded software design experience. He has been with CAP-XX for 9 years where he is responsible for development of new supercapacitor applications. Prior to joining CAP-XX he held senior technical positions with Racal Defence Electronics, Chubb Electronic Security, CAE Pty Ltd and Honeywell Industrial Control. He has had 15 articles published on supercapacitor applications. Pierre has a B.E. Electrical (1st class hons), M. Eng. Sc. from the University of NSW, Australia, and an MBA from INSEAD, France. He is a member of the IEEE.

I have a mechanical engineer degree, and have worked mostly in european countries (I speak 4 languages) mainly in the electrotechnic industry. I always wanted to create a company, and made it happen after my Executive MBA in 2005. After a cooperation with Insa school of Engineering, I filled 2 patents, and created Arveni in 2007. After first fund raising, and four customer contracts, I am president and founder of Arveni sas.

Scott Mayo earned his electrical engineering degree in 1986, and went to work for Bently Nevada Corporation (now part of General Electric) designing accelerometers and proximity displacement sensors used in industrial applications. While a Product Manager at Bently Nevada, he wrote several sections adopted into American Petroleum Institute (API) standard 670, Machinery Protection Systems. He currently is with Endevco Corporation, a Meggitt group company, as a Field Applications Engineer, based in the Houston, Texas area. Recently Scott has published several technical papers on the topic of piezoelectric accelerometers. Scott’s particular interest is in high temperature piezoelectric accelerometers and their applications.

Geoff Mulligan is Chairman of the IPSO Alliance. He is also the Chair of the IETF 6Lowpan Working Group. He provides consulting in the areas of sensor networks, wireless design and protocols and has helped build a number of embedded IP sensor network projects for the US Military, Commercial building management and home control and energy management. He holds a number of patents in Networking and Email.

As Applications Engineer with Microchip Technology’s High-Performance Microcontroller Division, Jayanth Murthy designs and develops application firmware and hardware, application notes, technical documents and provides customer support for Microchip’s 16- and 32-bit PIC® microcontrollers and dsPIC® Digital Signal Controllers. Jayanth’s areas of focus include DSP, audio and graphic applications. He has a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering with specialty in DSP, communications and video processing.

Prior to being CTO at Awarepoint, Matt spent 10 years at Motorola as the Technical Director, developing Motorola’s Asset Tracking and Smart Energy technologies. Matt’s experience includes being an individual contributor in the design and simulation of low-power, low-rate wireless sensor network protocols and the development of social networking algorithms and proof-of-concept vehicles. Matt also served as Motorola’s Director Representative for the ZigBee Board of Directors. Matt is an internationally known speaker on the topic of wireless sensor network technologies and a seasoned thought leader who is respected by senior leadership teams, standards bodies and technical committees.

Dr. Pessolano has more than a decade of experience in multimedia systems mostly at Philips and its spun-out Semiconductors division in a leading role for activities in SoC design for multimedia systems, 3D display systems, smart cameras, security systems. He is currently responsible for all activities in Vision Systems at IMEC, one of the world's largest research institutes. Dr. Pessolano holds a BSc/MSc in Electrical Engineering from University of Pisa and a PhD in Computer Science from London South Bank University. He is author and co-author of more than 30 peer-reviews papers and he has been awarded 13 patents.

Michel Saint-Mard is a civil engineer of 39 years old, managing drector of TAIPRO Engineering. He accumulated more than 8 years of industrial experience in the development of space cryogenic applications before working in the field of smart systems at the University of Liege. During 3 Years, he was the responsible of the MICROSYS laboratory in Belgium. This laboratory aims at the packaging of smart systems. Beginning of ofYear 2009, he created a start-up called TAIPRO Engineering with the objectives to develop TAIlored Microsystems improving PROduct or PROcess of industrialists.

Stephen Sajben is the Global Product Manager - Sensors for GE Sensing and Inspection Technologies - Pressure Measurand Division. Steve started his career in Instrumentation in 1991 as a Sales Engineer, joining GE in 1996. Since then he has assumed roles of increasing responsibility, first in Sales Management and later in Marketing and Product Management. Steve's current project focus in on the commercial launch of GE Sensing Resonant Silicon Technology.

Schwartz joined Digi in July 2006 as Technology Strategist with more than 10 years of embedded, RF design and project management experience. In this position, he evaluates new standards and technologies, resulting in proposed product direction. He also provides product training internally and externally, and supports technical media relations and white paper development. Prior to joining Digi, Schwartz’s major responsibilities included Director of Applications Engineering at Maxstream, a Digi-acquired company. Schwartz holds a BS and MS in electrical engineering from Utah State University.

Pradeep Shah is the Founder and President of Texas MicroPower Inc. He has over three decades of technology innovation and product development experience in a large IC company. As a Texas Instruments FELLOW, with over 25 years of innovation and management, he held positions in operating business groups and R&D environments with expertise in semiconductor based opportunity development. Product and technologies developed include rejuvenating the nonvolatile memory business. The first set of CMOS products resulted in direct revenue impact exceeding 2.5-3B$ over the 1985-95 decade. He holds a Ph.D degree in Electrical Engineering from Rice University.

Dan Shangraw, P.E. is the President of Automated Software Technology. Automated Software Technology develops custom data acquisition systems specializing in LabVIEW software design. He received a BSME from Western Michigan University, is a Certified LabVIEW developer, and is a Licensed Professional Engineer in the state of Michigan. Mr. Shangraw has over 12 years experience developing custom data acquisition systems.

I have done M.sc Electronics from Karachi University, and am now doing MS(CS) from Iqra University, further I have got fellowship for MS leading to Phd from Higher Education Commission. Areas of interest include implanted Bio sensors inside human body and Brain Computer Interface for movement control.

Jack is a Senior Scientist with Certus Scientific and has been working with the ALHAT team at NASA-Langley for the past two years on a real-time 3D imaging system for autonomous navigation and hazard avoidance. Jack received his PhD in Chemical Physics from the University of Florida and was an R&D computational quantum chemist in the chemical industry for over 25 years. Jack is also the lead researcher and applications manager for the visualization and virtual reality lab at Marshall University. Jack has been involved with various 3D visualization and image processing projects over the past 6 years.

Maggie Strevell is founder and President of Naper Solutions Inc., a digital marketing consulting company, which specializes in website design for search engines and driving quality traffic with PPC advertising. Maggie has extensive knowledge in digital marketing for sensor products and assists clients with search engine optimization, pay per click advertising, product feeds, and social media.

In addition to Maggie’s experience in maximizing ROI for online advertising, she gives SEO and PPC workshops local to the Chicago area. She is a contributing author of online content including the Google AdWords Study Guide. With a focus on tracking results, her team recently released WhoStats, a simple and powerful report that helps clients better understand their customers, the vertical industry, and how to gain a competitive edge.

A highly experienced healthcare professional with a wide repertoire of technical qualifications, Scott Sullivan is the business manager of perioperative services at UCSD Medical Center. His strength in organizational management and controlling costs have proven to increase caseload productivity and improve business process management. An acclaimed thought leader in implementing innovative ideas and tracking trends, Sullivan has successfully implemented and lead multi-million dollar healthcare facilities to impact processes and technical changes on existing operations and procedures.

Jason Tollefson is Product Marketing Manager for Microchip Technology’s Advanced Microcontroller Architecture Division, specializing in low-power products. His responsibilities include new product definition and low-power marketing for Microchip’s PIC18 and PIC24 product lines. Jason holds a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota’s Institute of Technology, and a M.B.A from the University of Phoenix. Jason worked in new-product development for 8 years before moving to marketing.

Willard received his BSEE Degree from University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. He began his career in with Motorola Semiconductor standard product group in 1988. Later Willard migrated over to sales for a variety of semiconductor companies (FSL, NSC, NEC) selling MCUs into the automotive electronics, where he spent 13 years of his career. In 2005, Willard transitioned into a marketing role for ARM as the focusing on the Embedded Solutions. Willard has helped ARM partners, and customers incorporate ARM IP into new designs while communicating market trends and needs back product divisions to create next generation IP.

Mr. Vogeley has been the CEO for AdaptivEnergy since 2007. Prior to this he worked for Hewlett Packard Medical Products in various roles including Design Engineer, Marketing Engineer and Product Manager of Medical Personal Computers. Mr. Vogeley co-founded Bio-Systems Research, Inc. which developed eye-tracking computer consoles for the handicapped. He invented the LCD projection panel and many related products, holding 17 patents in this field. He founded nVIEW Corporation which went public on NASDAQ in 1991 with a secondary offering in 1992. Mr. Vogeley, graduated with distinct honors with a bachelor of science degree in Electrical Engineering from Duke University.

Reid Wender has been Director of Applications Engineering for Triad Semiconductor since 2005. He spends his days helping system designers get their ideas into via configurable silicon. Prior to joining Triad, Reid was VP of Engineering for the Semiconductor Division at QuVIS, a leading digital cinema company. He has 20 years of ASIC design and project management experience at companies including Nextwave Silicon, ASIC International, Philips, and IBM. He holds a BSEE from the University of Tennessee.

Dr. Wobschall is President of Esensors Inc. and a former member of the EE faculty of the University at Buffalo. He has worked in the areas of electronic instrumentation, sensor development, and bioengineering, taught courses on electronic instruments and given seminars on sensor-related topics at national meetings for many years. He is the author of a book on electronic instruments, several patents and over 50 technical papers. As a member of IEEE 1451 working groups he is developing open-source protocols for smart transducers.

Joel Young has more than 22 years of experience in developing and managing data and voice communications. Young is Vice President of Research and Development and Chief Technology Officer for Digi International, and is responsible for research and development of all of Digi’s core products. Prior to joining Digi, Young was Vice President of Sales & Marketing at Transcrypt International. During his tenure at Transcrypt, Young also served as Vice President of Product Development and Vice President of Engineering. Young earned a B.S. in electrical engineering and an M.S. in computer science from the University of Southern California.

Marco is a researcher at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, in Trieste, Italy and a PhD student at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH). His research interests are mainly in the areas of ICT4D. More specifically, he focusses on wireless sensor networks and their applications in Developing Countries.

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