Patrick Blouet, EU Project manager, STMicrolectronics

Biography :

Patrick Blouet is an electronic and computer science engineer. He holds a Master degree from ENSERB in 1981 in France. He started working in a large telecommunication company where he designed a number of medium size systems in the domain of private PABX. Then he moved in a startup doing system engineering. He developed numerous systems in the domain of hard real time, telecommunications, large multi-processing, image processing and storage. During this period, he used to run large projects with multiple partners and then took the position of BU manager for all the imaging products in charge of marketing and technical strategy. He joined STMicroelectronics where he took the responsibility of development tools and applications for DSP’s. He developed the activities and was heavily involved in the creation of a large DSP R&D centre in Singapore. In addition, he took the marketing responsibility of DSP products for telecom segment. He then moved in the Application Processor Division where he held the Architecture director position in charge of defining all the mobile products. He then moved to the Corporate partnerships and public affairs team at ST where is in charge of building and running collaborative projects at European, national and regional level.

Jean Christophe Crebier, CMP

Biography :

Jean Christophe Crebier is senior CNRS researcher working on Smart Power silicon integrated technologies for energy management. Since 2013, he is also the director of CMP, a service organization for Multi Project Wafer.

Stéphane Emery, Head of System-on-chip design, CSEM

Biography :

Stéphane Emery received the Master degree in Electrical Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in 1995 and the MBA in International Management from the University of Geneva in 2007. He is now leading the System-On-Chip section at CSEM, Switzerland.

He previously gathered 20 years of industrial experience working for several semiconductor companies like Philips/NXP, TranSwitch or DSP Group. He developed ASICs and systems and lead several international R&D groups in the fields of telecommunication, processor design and system-on-chip for consumer applications. He is also the co-founder of several companies in the semiconductors field.

Gabriele Saucier, CEO & Founder, D&R, France

Biography :

Gabriele Saucier received her PhD from the University of Grenoble, where she was a professor and headed a research lab on Integrated System Design. She has published more than 350 papers in the design and EDA fields. Dr. Saucier is an IEEE fellow for her contributions in synthesis, test generation and fault tolerance. Leaving her university career, in the 1990s she founded a synthesis company, IST (Innovative Synthesis Technologies), mainly dedicated to FPGA synthesis, and in 1997 Design and Reuse, dedicated to IP-based design. She has launched two successful conferences - Euroasic and IP/SoC.