Sami Nassar is the Founder, President and Co-CEO of SecEdge, a digital security SaaS platform securing IoT and edge devices from chip to cloud. A semiconductor and cybersecurity veteran, he helped introduce the SIM card into GSM cellular networks in the 1990s, built one of the first cell-phone location-based services companies in the 2000s, and led digital security business lines at NXP Semiconductors and Renesas. He is a founding and board member of the FIDO Alliance and has advised the National Cyber Security Alliance and the EastWest Institute.
Yifeng Zhang is a Silicon Valley semiconductor entrepreneur and the co-founder, President and CEO of Mauna Kea Semiconductors (MKSemi), a fabless chip company building the industry's lowest-power ultra-wideband (UWB) system-on-chip solutions for wearables, IoT, smartphones and automotive. Before MKSemi he co-founded Quintic, a low-power Bluetooth and wearable SoC maker whose BLE and wearable business was acquired by NXP in 2015. He holds 15 patents in IC design and UWB technology and has spent more than two decades in digital, analog and mixed-signal design across Philips Semiconductors, NXP and ams.