Phil Rogers, AMD Corporate Fellow, is the lead architect for the Heterogeneous System Architecture, focused on drastically reducing the power consumed when running modern applications, and enabling the software ecosystem for heterogeneous computing.

Phil joined AMD with the ATI acquisition in 2006 and has played a lead role on Fusion, APU architecture and programming models since then. He was elevated to AMD Corporate Fellow in 2007. After joining ATI Technologies in 1994, Phil served in increasingly senior architecture positions in the development of DirectX^® and OpenGL^® software. Phil was instrumental in the development of all of ATI Radeon GPUs since the introduction of the Radeon series in 2000. Phil began his career at Marconi Radar Systems, where he designed digital signal processors for advanced radar systems. Phil earned his Bachelor of Science degree in electronic and electrical engineering from the University of Birmingham.

As Senior Vice President and Chief Software Architect, Tom Malloy leads Adobe’s Advanced Technology Labs, part of the company’s Office of Technology. Spearheading Adobe’s long-term research and development initiatives, he leads a team of computer scientists who are delivering the next generations of Adobe software innovations.

Malloy is responsible for defining Adobe’s technology strategy as well as overseeing multiple R&D focus areas including Adobe’s Advanced Graphics Technology Group, the Document and Enterprise Technology Group and the Publishing Technology Group. His organization also takes a leading role in incubating new projects, championing industry standards, facilitating collaboration with universities and seeding new products.

Malloy previously headed Adobe’s Advanced Technology Group (now part of the Office of Technology) for nine years and held a variety of other senior engineering roles in the organization. Some of his most significant contributions have included the expansion of Adobe’s products to the Windows^® environment, development of advanced document security technologies, and the extension of Adobe^® PDF as a de facto industry standard for automating document-based enterprise processes.

Prior to joining Adobe in 1986, Malloy worked for Apple Computer, where he helped drive software development for the Lisa computer, the precursor to the Macintosh. Previously, Malloy worked at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), where he was the lead engineer of the Bravo document processing system for the Alto computer.

Malloy sits on the board of Aklara, an electronic auction firm, and is a member of ACM and IEEE. He holds three patents as well as a bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science from Stanford Universiity.

Dr. Amr Awadallah is Co-Founder and CTO of Cloudera where he is responsible for all engineering efforts from product development to release for both the open source projects and Cloudera’s proprietary software. Prior to Cloudera, he served as Vice President of Engineering at Yahoo!, and led a team that used Hadoop extensively for data analysis and business intelligence across the Yahoo! online services. He holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering from Cairo University, Egypt and a Doctorate in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

Mark Papermaster is Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for AMD. He is responsible for AMD’s engineering, research and development and product development organization. His more than 30 years of engineering experiences includes significant leadership roles managing the development of a wide range of products spanning from low-power handhelds to high-performance blade servers.

Before joining AMD in October 2011, Papermaster was the vice president of the silicon engineering group at Cisco, leading an organization responsible for silicon strategy, architecture, and development for the company’s switching and routing businesses.

Prior to Cisco, Papermaster served as vice president of Apple Devices Hardware Engineering, where he was responsible for the iPod and iPhone hardware development. He also held a number of senior leadership roles at IBM^®, serving on the company’s Technical Leadership Team and overseeing development of the company’s key microprocessors and blade server technologies.

Papermaster received his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and a master’s degree in electrical engineering from University of Vermont. He is a member of the University of Texas Cockrell School of Engineering Advisory Board, and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation IT Advisory Committee.

Philip Pokorny is responsible for all aspects of Penguin Computing’s hardware products. He joined Penguin Computing in February 2001 as an engineer and has steadily taken on more responsibility in Penguin's hardware organization. He brings a wealth of both customer and engineering experience to the design, development and support of Penguin Computing's products.

Prior to Penguin Computing, Pokorny worked for 14 years in various engineering and system administration positions with Cummins, Inc., and its electronics startup, Cummins Electronics. He participated in the development of internal network standards, deployed and managed a multi-site network of multi-protocol routers and supported a diverse mix of office and engineering workers with a variety of server and desktop operating systems. He has contributed code to Open Source projects including the Linux kernel, lm_sensors and LCDproc.

Pokorny graduated in 1987 from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology with bachelor’s of science degrees in math and electrical engineering with a second major in computer science.

David Perry was the founder & president Shiny Entertainment, Inc. for over 12 years (bought by Atari), he's one of the best known video game industry veterans. Over 29 years, Perry has developed or programmed over 100 games across 29 video game platforms. All told, Perry's games (including #1 hits like The Terminator, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Disney's Aladdin & Warner's Matrix projects) have totaled over a billion dollars in retail sales. Perry sits on the advisory board of the Game Developers Conference, Indiecade, VGEXPO, and has spoken at TED, E3, Hollywood and Games Summit, CGDC, MIT, USC, UCI, UCLA, QUB, Montreal Game Summit, Digital Hollywood, What Teens Want etc.

In his last position Perry was the co-founder & chief creative officer of Acclaim.com, directing multiple MMORPG games, Social Network Games & Casual Titles. All games used the 'free-to-play' model, supported by in-game advertising, subscriptions or micro-transactions. Now Perry is the CEO and co-founder of Gaikai.com, a company that's developed a cutting-edge video game streaming technology that allows any Windows game or application to run in any browser with just one click.

Perry also recently launched a book for students called David Perry on Game Design - GameDesignBook.org (the largest non-profit book on Game Design ever written).