
Andreas Ehret
Director, Automotive at Dolby Laboratories, Nuremberg, Germany

Mathias Johansson
Co-founder and Chief Product Officer, Dirac Research AB, Uppsala, Sweden
In 2001, Mathias founded Dirac together with two professors and three PhD students. Mathias has served as the CEO of Dirac for 11 years, but recently decided to move into the CPO role, where he now focuses on Dirac’s product strategies. During his leadership, Dirac grew to become a pioneer and leader in digital sound technology within automotive, home audio, headphones and mobile audio. Hundreds of millions of audio devices are now equipped with Dirac sound optimization. As a pioneer in the field, Mathias has rich experience in everything related to digital sound, in particular sound field control and immersive audio. He holds a PhD in signal processing from Uppsala University.

Roger Shively
JJR Acoustics, LLC - Seattle, WA USA