Joël Rubino began his career in 1984 at the IBM research center in Nice. After holding various technical, marketing and sales positions during the first 10 years of his career, in 1997 he joined IBM Software division in New York as Director of worldwide developments on a range of IBM software offerings. Upon his return from the United States in 2000, he joined the management board of IBM France as Marketing Director and was appointed in 2005 Vice-President of Marketing Europe, based at IBM Europe headquarters in Madrid. In 2008 he took over as Vice-President of Sales, Small Business Sales for Europe. After almost 3 decades at IBM, he decided in 2012 to resign and launch his own startup, Apicube, specializing in big data and social media analytics where he was the CEO. In 2016 he co-founded Cartesiam, a company specializing in embedded artificial intelligence “at the edge”, where he held the position of CEO until Cartesiam was acquired by STMicroelectronics In July 2021. He is now director of Edge AI at STMicroelectronics and strategic advisor for the Edge AI business.

Chris is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and technologist, now VP of AI Engineering and Product for Webex Collaboration in Cisco. Most recently he was co-founder and CEO of BabbleLabs, a speech ML company, acquired by Cisco in 2020. Prior to Babblelabs, Chris served as CTO for Cadence’s IP Group, which he joined after Cadence’s acquisition of Tensilica, the company he founded in 1997 to develop extensible processors. He led Tensilica as CEO and later, CTO, to develop one of the most prolific embedded processor architectures, especially for compute-intensive embedded processing. Chris was a pioneer in developing RISC architecture and helped found MIPS Computer Systems in 1984. He has an MS and PhD in EE from Stanford and a BA in physics from Harvard. He was named an IEEE Fellow in 2015 for his work in development of microprocessor technology.