John Arthur is a principal research scientist and hardware manager in the brain-inspired computing group at IBM Research - Almaden. He has been building efficient and high-performance brain-inspired neural network chips and systems for the last 25 years, including Neurogrid at Stanford and both TrueNorth and NorthPole at IBM. John holds a PhD in bioengineering from University of Pennsylvania and BS in electrical engineering from Arizona State University.

Dr. Ana González is currently VP of Business Development at iPRONICS. Former R&D Manager at EPIC (European Photonics Industry Consortium), she has a solid network at photonic industry with a large experience reaching out commercial partners and new adopters of PIC technologies. Her expertise lies in the development of optical systems for telecom and datacom.
She received her bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the University Autonomous of Barcelona (UAB) and her PhD degree from the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2).