Speaker Biographies

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Matt Perkins

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.


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Francesco Pessolano

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.


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