Ceva Technology Symposium series 2025
The future of intelligent devices is being shaped by AI, advanced sensing, and wireless connectivity – and Ceva is enabling it.
Agenda
| 08:30-09:00 | Registration opens | |
| 09:00-09:10 | Welcome by Barbara Yu, Taiwan Country Manager, Ceva | |
| 09:10-09:40 | “The Transformative Impact of Edge AI on IoT and Connected Devices”, Pete Bernard, CEO, EDGE AI FOUNDATION | |
| 09:40-10:10 | “Enabling What’s Next: The Connected Intelligence Era”, Iri Trashanski, Chief Strategy Officer, Ceva | |
| 10:10-10:30 | Tea & Coffee Break | |
| 10:30-11:00 | “The Next Steps in AIoT Development: Consumer Chip Industry Outlook to 2026”, Chiayao Yang, DigiTimes analyst | |
| 11:00-11:30 | “The Journey with Ceva, Shaping Vision Intelligence Together”, Young-Jun Yoo, Executive VP of Automotive Biz & Ops Unit, Nextchip | |
| 11:30-12:00 | “Edge Processing: Shaping the Future of Tech”, Frank Ghenassia, Chief Technology Officer, Ceva | |
| 12:00-13:00 | Lunch | |
| AI track | Wireless track | |
| 13:00 – 13:30 | “The Power of AI Scalability: Beyond a Single NPU”, Rami Drucker, Strategic Customers Account Manager, AIBU, Ceva |
“Ceva-Waves Wireless IP: From Core Building Blocks to Turnkey Connectivity Combo solutions”, Franz Dugang, Product Marketing Senior Director, WIoTBU, Ceva
13:30 – 13:40 – Sirius Wireless – RF partner
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| 13:30-14:00 | “embedUR’s ModelNova: AI Innovations for Ceva-NeuPro-Nano”, Rajesh C Subramaniam, Founder & CEO, EmbedUR | |
| 14:00-14:30 | NeuPro-Nano: Purpose-Built NPU for the Embedded Edge”, Elia Shenberger, Senior Director of Product Marketing, AIBU, Ceva |
13:40 – 14:10
“Channel Sounding & HDT: The New Pillars of Bluetooth Innovation”, Franz Dugang, Product Marketing Senior Director, WIoTBU, Ceva
14:10 – 14:20 – IntelPro – adoption at scale
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| 14:30-15:00 | “On-Device and On-Premises AI: Powering Anything, Anywhere, Anytime”, Yen-chi Xu, Lead, AI Vision Group, AIzip | 14:20 – 14:50 “Wi-Fi 7: Where High Performance Meets Real-Time Connectivity”, Franz Dugang, Product Marketing Senior Director, WIoTBU, Ceva 14:50 – 15:00 – partner |
| 15:00-15:20 | Tea & Coffee Break | |
| 15:20-15:50 | “Ultra-efficient Voice Solution: Cyberon DSpotter on Ceva NeuPro-Nano NPU”, Alex Liou, BVP of embedded solutions, Cyberon Corp. | “Spatial Awareness with UWB: From Fine Ranging to Radar Sensing”, Franz Dugang, Product Marketing Senior Director, WIoTBU, Ceva 15:40 – 15:50 – LGE, RF partner |
| 15:50-16:20 | “Key Foundations for Building a Future-Proof AI Architecture”, Rami Drucker, Strategic Customers Account Manager, Ceva | “Heading towards 5G Advanced and 6G”, Elad Baram, Director of Product Marketing, MBBU, Ceva |
| 16:20-16:50 | “Reimagining Edge Processing: Vision DSP as an NPU Co-Pilot”, Rami Drucker, Strategic Customers Account Manager, AIBU, Ceva | “The convergence of Satcom and 3GPP standards”, Elad Baram, Director of Product Marketing, MBBU, Ceva |
| 16:50-17:00 | Summary and Lucky Draw | |
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Speakers
Barbara Yu
Pete Bernard
Iri Trashanki
Frank Ghenassia
Chiyang Yao
Rajesh C Subramaniam
Rami Drucker
Franz Dugand
Yen-chi Xu
Elad Baram
Elia Shenberger
Alex Liou
Young-Jun Yoo
Iri Trashanki
Iri Trashanski is Ceva’s Chief Strategy Officer, overseeing strategy, marketing, and corporate development. With over 20 years in the semiconductor industry, he has held leadership roles at GlobalFoundries, Hitachi Vantara, Samsung, Marvell, and SanDisk. He holds an MBA from Babson College and a BA from IDC, Israel.
Frank Ghenassia
Executive product and technology leader, specialized in defining and leading the development of disruptive technologies for connected devices, at the intersection of product management, technical leadership and engineering management, from ideation to production at scale
Held senior management and technical leadership positions in international companies and start-up in multiple domains: semiconductor (SoC), mobile, automotive, AI and media processing.
Chiyang Yao
Rajesh C Subramaniam
Since its founding in 2004, Rajesh C Subramaniam has led embedUR systems as CEO, transforming it into an industry leader.
With a strong engineering management background spanning startups to public enterprises, he transformed embedUR into a hub for wireless networking, embedded-engineering services, and telecom product development.
Franz Dugand
Franz has more than 25 years of experience in the semiconductor IP domain, specifically in the wireless IoT markets working on Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, UWB, and NB-IoT. Before joining Ceva, he co-founded RivieraWaves in 2010 and led its sales and marketing activities. At Ceva, he grew the Bluetooth and Wi-Fi IP business to power more than 1 billion devices annually and has aided to position Ceva as the #1 wireless connectivity IP provider.
Yen-chi Xu
Elad Baram
With over 15 years of experience in product management, Elad have a proven track record in driving product strategy, market development, and technological innovation across startups and Fortune 500 companies.
Elia Shenberger
Senior Director, Product Marketing at the Sensor and Audio Business Unit Elia Shenberger is a seasoned professional with over 15 years of experience in the Professional and Consumer Sensor and Audio industries. His expertise lies in overseeing multi-layered collaborative projects, leading them to successful product implementations. In addition to his leadership skills, Elia also brings technical prowess to the table as a professional audio engineer.
Alex Liou
Alex Liou is the Vice President of Cyberon Corporation, overseeing the Embedded Solution Business Unit. He has over 28 years of experience in the speech technology industry, spanning algorithm design, application development, and business management. Prior to joining Cyberon in 2002, he worked as a Software Engineer at Acer and later served as Director of the Research Department at Applied Speech Technologies. Alex holds both a B.S. and an M.S. degree in Computer Science and Information Engineering from National Taiwan University
Young-Jun Yoo
Young-Jun Yoo is executive Vice President of the automotive business unit at Nextchip, the oldest fabless vision chip company in South Korea. He has 19 years’ experience in image signal processing for embedded vision systems. Over the last 16 years at Nextchip, Young-Jun has led Nextchip’s automotive business to global success with automotive OEM, Tier 1 and Tier 2 customers. He has also been responsible for strategic planning, ecosystem partnerships, technical marketing and product management. Young-Jun is now focused on building Nextchip’s image signal processing business in ADAS and autonomous vehicle markets, where Nextchip offers both chips and silicon IP to enhance images for human viewing and for consumption for AI algorithms.
Venue
Sheraton hotel
No. 265號, E Section 1,
Guangming 6th Rd, Zhubei City,
Hsinchu County,