Mouna Elkhatib, CEO, CTO, and Co-Founder of AONDevices, Inc, a leader in edge AI for speech, sound, and sensor fusion. Mouna managed the formation of AONDevices, growing the team locally and internationally.  An industry expert in voice and audio processing, she architected and led the development of the AONDevices product line and won multiple agreements with tier 1 semiconductor companies. Prior to AONDevices, Mouna architected and led the development of industry leading voice and audio semiconductor solutions for smartphones, PCs, smart speakers, and Internet of Things (IoT) at Qualcomm and Conexant. Mouna is an active member of a number of industry organization, serves on the Global Semiconductor Alliance Women’s Leadership Council, runs the WLI Entrepreneurial Committee, and contributes to the advancement of Edge AI.  She holds an engineering degree from Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Electricité et de Mécanique (ENSEM), eleven US patents and eleven pending patents.

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.