John Martinis

CTO & Co-Founder Qolab and 2025 Nobel Laureate in Physics

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John Martinis is a distinguished physicist and 2025 Nobel Laureate in Physics, renowned for his pioneering contributions to superconducting quantum computing. His research has been central to developing high-fidelity qubits and engineering the architectures needed for scalable quantum processors. He previously led Google’s quantum hardware team, where his group achieved the landmark 2019 quantum supremacy experiment — the first demonstration of a quantum computer outperforming the world’s most powerful classical supercomputer on a computational task. In 2022, he co-founded Qolab, where he now serves as CTO and continues to advance next-generation superconducting qubit technology and quantum system design.

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Dr. Baaziz Achour

EVP and Chief Technology Officer Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Dr. Baaziz Achour serves as Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. In this role he is responsible for global research and development activities associated with all technologies in QCT, Qualcomm’s semiconductor business, as well as overseeing the execution of enterprise-wide technical and product roadmaps across all business areas.

Dr. Achour first joined Qualcomm as a Systems Engineer in 1993. Over the course of his tenure with Qualcomm, he has held several leadership roles within the engineering organization and has helped drive the expansion of Qualcomm’s leadership in critical technology areas as the company has diversified. Dr. Achour has been essential in contributing to nearly every generation of technology and was a key part of the leadership team that enabled the accelerated launch of 5G.

Dr. Achour holds a B.S. degree in Physics from the University of Algiers, and master’s and doctorate degrees in Electrical Engineering from Tufts University. He has twenty-four granted U.S. patents in the area of communications.

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Jan M. Rabaey

Professor Emeritus at University of California at Berkeley

Jan Rabaey is Professor Emeritus in the EECS Department the University of California at Berkeley, after being the holder of the Donald O. Pederson Distinguished Professorship at the same institute for over 30 years. He is a founding director of the Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC), the Berkeley Ubiquitous SwarmLab, and the SIA-DARPA GSRC Center. He served as the Electrical Engineering Division Chair at Berkeley twice. From 2019 until 2025, he also served as the CTO of the System-Technology Co-Optimization (STCO) Division of IMEC, Belgium.

Prof. Rabaey has made high-impact contributions to a number of fields, including low power integrated circuits, advanced wireless systems, mobile devices, sensor networks, and ubiquitous computing.  Some of the systems he helped envision include the infoPad (a forerunner of the iPad), PicoNets and PicoRadios, the Swarm, Brain-Machine interfaces and the Human Intranet. 

He is the primary author of the influential “Digital Integrated Circuits: A Design Perspective” textbook that has served to educate hundreds of thousands of students all over the world. He is the recipient of numerous awards, amongst others the 2009 EDAA Lifetime Achievement Award. Most recently, he received the 2025 IEEE James H. Mulligan Jr Education Medal,  the 2025 IEEE CASS John Choma Education Award, and the IEEE 2026 Donald O. Pederson Solid State Circuits Award. He is a Life Fellow of the IEEE, and has been involved in a broad variety of start-up ventures.

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DAC Conference

DAC: The Chips to Systems Conference DAC is where the future of electronic design takes shape. Each year, system architects, chip designers, engineers, researchers, and executives from 11,000+ organizations worldwide come together to learn, connect, and innovate. With over 60 expert-selected technical sessions and 150 exhibitors showcasing the latest in AI automated tools, EDA, and IP, DAC is the place to discover breakthrough ideas, build lasting connections, and stay at the forefront of the chip design industry. Don’t miss it.

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We are reinventing semiconductor design and verification through advanced AI agent techniques. Alpha Design AI is pioneering an AI-native approach to Electronic Design Automation (EDA), transforming how chips are designed and verified. Our flagship product, ChipAgents, aims to boost RTL design and verification productivity by 10x, driving innovation across industries with smarter, more efficient chip design.

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Siemens

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Siemens is the technology company for transforming industry, infrastructure and transportation.  The expertise underpinning our technologies—electrification, automation, software, and digital twin—is helping customers be more productive, profitable, and sustainable.

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Cadence

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Cadence delivers tools, software, IP, and high-end services that help companies design and verify chips, packages, boards, and entire systems. Real Behavioral Modeling. Automated Workflows. Extensive Coverage. Comprehensive Platform. Customizable Tools.

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Ricursive

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Ricursive Intelligence is a frontier AI lab focused on building self-improving systems, starting with chip design. We are reinventing chip development and closing the loop between AI and the hardware that fuels it, recursively accelerating the path to artificial superintelligence.

We are the team behind AlphaChip (Nature 2021), RL-CCD (DAC Best Paper 2023), Insta (DAC Best Paper 2025), C3PO (ASP-DAC Best Paper 2026), with hands-on experience developing Gemini, Claude, and TPUs. Our team members come from Google DeepMind, Anthropic, NVIDIA, Cadence, Apple, Stanford, MIT, Harvard, and other top institutions.

Backed by $335M from Sequoia, Lightspeed, DST, and NVentures, we are scaling a small, elite team to solve the most important bottlenecks in AI and chip design. Join us at https://www.ricursive.com/careers

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IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation

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IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society

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