NI Keynote and Panel Speakers Luke Schreier, NI Vice President and General Manager of Aerospace, Defense, and Government Business | As vice president and general manager of the aerospace, defense, and government business, Luke Schreier is responsible for driving business growth and defining the products, services, and capabilities required to meet the unique needs of NI’s customers in the market. Since joining NI in 2001 as an applications engineer, Schreier has held leadership, product management, and marketing roles across the entire portfolio of modular instrumentation and PXI platform products, with an emphasis on the aerospace and defense application space. He has been heavily involved in the company’s automated test product and go-to-market strategies for more than 15 years. Schreier holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. | Mike Santori, NI Business and Technology Fellow | As a business and technology fellow, Mike Santori works across the company on key business and technology-driven initiatives. He consults with executive leaders and department heads, including those from marketing, sales, and R&D, to drive the company’s strategic direction, development, and future growth. Since joining NI in 1986, Santori has held positions in sales, marketing, and R&D. He has played major roles in a wide variety of initiatives, including company strategy and product development for automated test software, industrial and embedded systems, design-to-test connectivity, real-time and hardware-in-the-loop test, and product life-cycle management. Most recently, he served as vice president of product marketing with an emphasis on optimizing the NI product portfolio, leading the definition and management of new products, and ensuring high-quality technical marketing. Santori also frequently acts as a company spokesperson, communicating the company’s strategy to customers, partners, investors, and employees at NI events such as NIWeek as well as industry conferences. Santori holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Texas A&M University. | Michael Schuldenfrei, NI Technology Fellow | Michael is an NI Fellow, focused on long-term innovation software projects at NI. Additionally, he supports various other activities, including software strategy, sales, marketing, product planning and R&D. He also evangelizes NI enterprise software solutions to customers, partners and industry forums. Michael joined NI from OptimalPlus, which was acquired by NI in June 2020. During his 15-year tenure at OptimalPlus, he served in several leadership roles including Chief Software Architect and CTO, designing, architecting and prototyping many of its flagship products as well as providing support for sales and marketing. Most recently, he was the Corporate Technology Fellow in the business development team. Previously, Michael was a Senior Software Architect at SAP, a Software Architect at Microsoft, and also held various managerial roles in software startups. |
External Speakers Chris Bakker, Tech180 CEO | Chris Bakker is the Chief Executive Officer at Tech180, where he oversees research and development in addition to guiding the direction of the company. He holds a B.S. from the University of California, Berkeley in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science / Materials Science. Prior to co-founding Tech180, he held roles as a field sales engineer, systems engineer, and business development manager of aerospace test for National Instruments. Chris has extensive experience with data acquisition, automated test, and embedded systems and has been published by IEEE AutoTestCon. | Joe Burnside, Sandia National Labs Manager for department 2661 Systems Tester Evaluation and Analysis. | Joe is a retired U.S. Army combat veteran and began his second career with Sandia National Laboratories in 2002. He has served as the lead electrical engineer responsible for the design, fielding, and flight testing of various missile and weapon systems. Joe is the manager for department 2661 Systems Tester Evaluation and Analysis. | Marcos Cardoso, ETAS NI Systems GmbH & Co. KG Senior Product Manager | | Bill Eccles, Bloomy Principal Engineer | William N. "Bill" Eccles is the lead architect and creative problem solver for Bloomy's most complex electrical engineering challenges. In addition, Bill’s extensive expertise in the aerospace and defense application domains helps reduce cost and lead times for test equipment development across major programs. Bill joined Bloomy in 2013 from Hamilton Sundstrand/UTAS’s Special Test Equipment Group where for 14 years he managed, designed and implemented high-fidelity, high-speed test systems for commercial and military electronic controls. He also served for six years in the United States Air Force. | Bertalan Eged, Sagax Communications, Ltd. CEO | Bertalan was graduated from Budapest University of Technology Budapest, Hungary in microwave telecommunications, he has proven track-record of innovative engineering design and development projects related to radar and SIGINT technology, he was involved different large scale system integration projects and high-tech product development and release, based on his system level overview and detailed technical insight adding value and find innovative ways as system evangelist. | Matthew Eurich, WTI Operations, A CertTech Company Sr. Vice President | | Dr. Sandeep Gogineni, Information Systems Laboratories (ISL) Research Scientist | Dr. Sandeep Gogineni, PhD Electrical Engineering, is a Research Scientist at Information Systems Laboratories, Inc. His research interests include Statistical Signal Processing, Machine Learning, Performance Analysis with applications to RF sensing. | Michel Guenat, Puissance + - Spherea Group Senior Product Manager | | Dr. Joseph R. Guerci, Information Systems Laboratories (ISL) President/CEO | Dr. Guerci has 30+ years experience in the successful development and transition of advanced sensor, radar and electronic warfare technology. His background includes a 7 year stint with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) where he was ultimately the Director (SES-4) of the Special Projects Office (SPO). He is the author of 100+ peer reviewed articles and several popular books. He recently (2020) was the recipient of the IEEE Dennis J. Picard Medal for contributions to advanced radar systems. He is currently President/CEO of Information Systems Laboratories, Inc. (www.islinc.com). | Lars Hedlund, Novator Solutions | Lars started his career in Support, Inside Sales and as an Aerospace and Defense Account Manager at NI in Sweden. With sales experience from NI, Lars started working as the Sales Manager for the Spectral Data Analysis department at Novator Solutions. With his technical background and history with the NI platform, Lars also acts as the product manager for several products and solutions in Novator Solutions’ portfolio. | Frank Heidemann, SET GmbH - Smart Embedded Technologies CEO | Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Frank Heidemann is the CEO of SET GmbH, an international company founded in 2001 and headquartered in Wangen, Germany. SET is a Gold Alliance Partner of National Instruments and as such has been awarded several times, most recently as "EMEIA Alliance Partner of the Year 2019". SET is specialized in HiL, functional and semiconductor test systems, as well as in developing and manufacturing electronic systems for the aviation, automotive and semiconductor industries. SET has about 80 employees at four locations in Germany and the US. | David Kirk, Information Systems Laboratories (ISL) Principal Engineer | A Principal Engineer with ISL supporting the development of high fidelity RF modeling and simulation, RF signals processing algorithms, and the interfaces from the simulation to hardware in the loop (HWIL) test and evaluation at RF. Primary focus on radar and SIGINT applications. | Charles Kohfeldt, Astronics Test Systems Senior Director, Engineering, Global Operations | Senior Director of engineering with Astronics since 2013. Thirty six combined years’ experience with increasing responsibilities as TPS Engineer, Simulator Design Engineer, Production Manager, Engineering Manager, Business Development and Director/Executive Manager and C-level positions with GEMS, LMCO-Space Systems, LMCO-Nautical Systems, LMCO-Missile and Fire Control, and ManTech. | Dr. Edward Kraft, Edmkraft, Inc (USAF Retired) Consultant | Dr. Ed Kraft has over 50 years experience in test and evaluation and applications of high performance computing. He was one of the originators and architects of the Air Force Digital Thread / Digital Twin concept. He is a nationally recognized expert in applications of Digital Engineering and is actively working with government, industry, and academia to strategically implement digital engineering principles, practices, and tools. | Mark Krause, G Systems Vice President of Sales and Marketing | Mark Krause is a former US Marine, aerospace engineer, and Designated Engineering Representative (DER) of the FAA. Mark joined G Systems in April 2019 and brings a wealth of expertise in Aerospace, Defense and Government markets. Mark additionally holds a masters degree in Business Administration with extensive expertise in business strategy including M&A activities. | Mike Mc Lernon, MathWorks Signal Processing and Communications Development / Principal Engineer | Mike McLernon is an advocate for communications and software-defined radio products at MathWorks. Since joining MathWorks in 2001, he has overseen the development of numerous PHY layer capabilities in Communications Toolbox, and of connectivity to multiple SDR hardware platforms. He has worked in the communications field for over 30 years, in both the satellite and wireless industries. Mike received his BSEE from the University of Virginia and his MEEE from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. | Niranjan Malode, Captronic Systems Senior Engineer | Business Development & Marketing | Niranjan has completed his Bachelor’s in Instrumentation & Control Engineering and Masters in Business Administration (Marketing). He is NI CLD Certified with 7+ years of work experience at Captronic Systems in System Engineering & Business Development for the Aerospace and Defence Sector. | Jean-Pierre Quemard, Spherea Group Head of Sales | | Terry Stratoudakis, ALE Consultants President | Terry Stratoudakis is the co-founder and Managing Principal at ALE Consultants based in Columbia, Maryland. He has used LabVIEW and LabVIEW in both industry and government applications as a consultant and as part of both internal and external development teams. He is a graduate of NYU Polytechnic University (now Tanden School of Engineering) with a M.S. and B.S in electrical engineering. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and Association of Old Crows (AOC). | Randy Schnell, Astronics Test Systems Communication Test Systems/ Senior Product Manager | Senior Product Manager for Astronics Test System with over 10 years experience in Electronic Maintenance. Also served in the United States Army. | Massimo Sciotti, Elettronica GmbH Head of Engineering | Mr. Sciotti received his Electronics Engineering Degree and PhD in 2000 and 2004 respectively from the University of Rome. He carried out several research activities in the field of Radars and Signal processing techniques. Since 2003, he has worked in Italy and Germany for the main industrial Players in the Defence, Space and Security sector. He is currently leading the Business Unit "Engineering" for Elettronica GmbH. | Alan Soltis, Opal-RT Technologies Senior Manager - Technical Sales | | Steve Spielman, BAE Systems Director, Integrated Test Engineering, Electronic Combat Solutions | Steve is the Director of Integrated Test Engineering for the Electronic Combat Solutions business area within BAE Systems, Electronic Systems sector of BAE Systems, Inc. In this role Steve manages a group of engineers who design, develop, deploy and upgrade test equipment and test software. Steve has close to 40 years of experience in engineering, engineering leadership and project management. He holds a BS in Computer and Information Sciences from Brooklyn College and is a certified Program Management Professional (PMP). |
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