Future Devices SIG
‘The Future is Already with Us - How Younger Users of Today's Technology will Drive the
Technology of Tomorrow’
28th January 2015
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This SIG is championed by Abhi Naha of Zone V, Amyas Phillips of ARM, John Roe of Accenture, Charles Sturman of
u-blox and Peter Whale of Qualcomm.
Venue: ARM, 110 Fulbourn Road, Cambridge, CB1 9NJ
AGENDA
13:30
Registration and networking with refreshments (please note that lunch is NOT provided)
14:00
Introduction to Future Devices SIG from Charles Sturman, u-blox
14:10
Welcome from host, <Person Name>, Job Title, ARM
14:15
Session chaired by SIG Champion, Charles Sturman, u-blox
Chris Styles of ARM
Q&A
14:35
14:40
15:00
Session chaired by John Roe, Accenture
Jason Fitzpatrick of Centre for Computing History
Q&A
15:05
Refreshments and networking
15:35
Session chaired by Amyas Phillips, ARM
Jack Lang, Chair, Raspberry PI Foundation
Q&A
15:50
15:55
16:10
Session chaired by Peter Whale, Qualcomm
Future Smart Services - Enhancing our Real-World Experiences
Steve Marsh, Founder & CEO, GeoSpock
The evolution of mobile technology is leading to the creation of smart services with the ability to
present the right information to the right person in the right place at the right time. The line between
the virtual and real world is becoming blurred - new technology will overlay information which will
enhance and augment the way in which we interact with the world around us.
Q&A
16:15
Panel session with all speakers chaired by Charles Sturman, u-blox
16:45
Complete evaluation forms
16:50
Event closes
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Profile of organisers
Cambridge Wireless (CW)
CW is the leading international community for companies involved in the research, development and application of
wireless and mobile, internet, semiconductor and software technologies. With 400 members from major network
operators and device manufacturers to innovative start-ups and universities, CW stimulates debate and collaboration,
harnesses and shares knowledge, and helps to build connections between academia and industry. CW's 19 Special
Interest Groups (SIGs) provide its members with a dynamic forum where they can network with their peers, track the
latest technology trends and business developments and position their organisations in key market sectors. CW also
organises the annual Future of Wireless International Conference and Discovering Start-Ups competition along with
other high-quality industry networking events and dinners. With headquarters at the heart of Cambridge, UK, CW
partners with other international industry clusters and organisations to extend its reach and remain at the forefront of
global developments and business opportunities. For more information, please visit www.cambridgewireless.co.uk
Profile of host
ARM
ARM is at the heart of the world’s most advanced digital products. Our technology enables the creation of new markets
and transformation of industries and society. We design scalable, energy efficient-processors and related technologies
to deliver the intelligence in applications ranging from sensors to servers, including smartphones, tablets, enterprise
infrastructure and the Internet of Things.
Our innovative technology is licensed by ARM Partners who have shipped some 60 billion Systems on Chip (SoCs)
containing our intellectual property since the company began in 1990. Together with our Connected Community, we
are breaking down barriers to innovation for developers, designers and engineers, ensuring a fast, reliable route to
market for leading electronics companies. For more information please visit http://community.arm.com
Profile of SIG Champions
Abhi Naha, Zone V
Abhi Naha is the CEO and Founder of Zone V Ltd who specialise in empowering blind people through mobile devices.
Previously he held senior management roles at Powermat and Idem. Idem is a Finnish handset design firm with over
100 million handsets in the market from four of the top Tier 1 Handset OEMs in the world. Prior to this, Abhi was a
senior manager at Silicon Valley mobile touchscreen and user interface technology provider, Synaptics. Abhi is an ExChairman of the UK based charity BeatBullying and Vice President and board member of the Communications and
Manufacturing Association of India. He has also held advisory roles for Goldman Sachs and Silver Lake in the area of
mobile handset user interface technologies. Abhi Naha holds a MBA from Aston Business School and BSc (Honours)
degree in Electronics Engineering from Leicester University. For more information please visit: www.zone-v.com
Amyas Phillips, ARM
Amyas Phillips heads up ARM's internet of things research laboratory, solving problems to make connected systems
lower cost and more useful. As well as microcontroller architecture ARM R&D is working on embedded development,
resilience and interoperability of connected systems, and enablers for consumer and industrial use cases. For more
information please visit: www.arm.com/
John Roe, Accenture
John is Technology Planning Lead at Accenture Mobility, based in Cambridge. Accenture is a global management
consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, with 261,000 people serving clients in more than 120
countries. John is responsible for spearheading the Technology agenda in Accenture Mobility, where he has worked
since 2009 helping clients deliver key device projects, and taking new technology offerings to market. Prior to
Accenture he worked at Nokia and at Symbian where he spent 10 years working closely with handset OEMs on the
architecture and realisation of many market leading smartphones. John holds a MA in Engineering from Churchill
College, Cambridge University and is a Chartered Engineer. For more information please visit: www.accenture.com
Charles Sturman, u-blox
Charles is leading u-blox' product marketing activities in LTE, responsible for business strategy and chipset product
line. Prior to this he was a founder and executive VP Sales & Marketing at Cognovo, responsible for business, product
and market strategy together with sales planning and leadership. Previously, Charles led ARM’s Vector Signal
Processor activity, developing and marketing a novel signal processor technology, later spun-out as Cognovo. Before
that he held various positions in system design, business development and product marketing within Acorn Computers,
TTPCom and Motorola. For more information please visit: https://www.u-blox.com/
Peter Whale FIET, Qualcomm
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Peter Whale is Director, Product Management with Qualcomm Technologies Inc. At Qualcomm, Peter leads the
development of innovative solutions that make smart devices even smarter and easier to use, through the application
of machine learning. Peter has a long track record of conceiving, developing and marketing successful technologybased solutions, working within a number of innovative Cambridge-based and International organisations. Peter is coauthor of the Essentials of Mobile Handset Design, published by Cambridge University Press. Peter is a board member
of Cambridge Wireless, chairs the agenda committee for the annual “Future of Wireless” international conference, and
is a champion of the Cambridge Wireless Future Devices SIG. For more information please visit: www.qualcomm.com
Profile of speakers
Chris Styles, ARM
Speaker bio to follow. For more information please visit: www.arm.com/
Jason Fitzpatrick, Centre for Computing History
Speaker bio to follow. For more information please visit: www.computinghistory.org.uk/
Jack Lang, Raspberry PI Foundation
Speaker bio to follow. For more information please visit: www.raspberrypi.org/
Steve Marsh, GeoSpock
Steve is the Founder & CEO of GeoSpock Ltd who are building a scalable, ultra-fast, geospatial cloud platform
designed from the ground-up to provide large-scale storage and searching capabilities for real-time location data. He
recently completed his PhD in Computer Science at the University of Cambridge, where he was part of a small team
focused on building and programming a custom super-computer designed to carry out real-time simulation of extremescale neural networks. Speaker bio to follow. For more information please visit: www.geospock.com/
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