
Henrik Flodell
Director of Marketing at Alif Semiconductor, San Francisco, California, USA
Henrik Flodell is the Marketing Director at Alif Semiconductor. With 20+ years of experience in the embedded industry, Henrik started his career as a firmware developer for medical dataloggers in the early 90s, and has since managed development tools, embedded software deployment systems, hardware development platforms, marketing and business development teams, and participated in SoC product definitions for a wide range of embedded devices. He held those positions at leading semiconductor companies such as IAR Systems, NXP Semiconductors, Atmel Corporation and Renesas Electronics. At Alif, Henrik is responsible for the Ensemble product family, and Alifs rapidly growing partner Eco-System.

Josh Morris
ML Engineer at DSP Concepts, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Josh Morris is the engineering manager of ML development at DSP Concepts. Josh got his start in ML working on automatic speech recognition (ASR) and natural language processing (NLP) for conduct surveillance in financial institutions. From there, he worked on applications ranging from embedded audio dynamic range control to optical character recognition (OCR). At DSP Concepts, he focuses on ML IP creation and the ML development experience in Audio Weaver. Audio Weaver is a cross-platform audio framework featuring a modular, drag-and-drop, real-time design environment that enables product development teams to rapidly create signal processing solutions for embedded environments.

Steve F. Willenborg
VP of Sales, Linkplay Technology, Campbell, California, USA
An international executive with a strong background in engineering and business development for multiple product market segments, Steve’s career spans for over 35 years, covering audio, consumer electronics and automotive. At Linkplay Technology, Steve is directly involved in supporting some of the largest corporations, cutting-edge companies and brands in the development of smart audio solutions, software/firmware development, and wireless audio, device cloud software and streaming content integration. Before Linkplay, Steve worked for NPD Development (Shenzhen, China), Scan Speak (Denmark) and Premier Sound Group (Shenzhen, China), all business units of Eastech Holding, managing global auto OEM product development, and operation teams located in China, Denmark, Singapore and the USA. Previously he worked with Materion Corporation, Tymphany Corporation, Zylux Acoustic, Harman International, and General Motors.