Inaugural Keynote Session: Featuring Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli 

Dr. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli will discuss how universities can drive innovation and develop companies from seed to multibillion-dollar enterprises, drawing on his 40 years of experience in the field. His talk will explore the essence of innovation, its origins in academic institutions, and practical lessons learned from his extensive career.

Bio: Alberto Sangiovanni Vincentelli is the Edgar L. and Harold H. Buttner Chair of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley and a member of BAIR (Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research) Lab. He is an author or coauthor of over 1000 papers, 17 books and 3 patents in design tools, cyber physical systems, and Artificial Intelligence. He is an IEEE and ACM Fellow, a member of the National Academy of Engineering and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

He is a co-founder of Cadence (Market Cap $86.00B) and Synopsys (Market Cap $95.04B), the two leading companies in Electronic Design Automation with a capitalization of over 180Billion USD.. He was a consultant or member of the Advisory Boards of several companies such as BMW, Mercedes, Magneti Marelli, Intel, ST microelectronics, HP, General Motors, United Technologies, Lutron, Lendlease and Elettronica. Currently, he is a member of the following boards of directors: Cadence, KPIT Technologies, eGap, Cy4Gate and Minerva CQ. He is Chairman of the Board of Quantum Motion, Innatera, Phoelex, e4Life, Exein and Phononic Vibes.

From February 2010 to December 2020, he had been a member of the Executive Committee of the Italian Institute of Technology, where he is now a member of the Technical Scientific Committee. In September 2023, he was appointed President of Chips.it, the 250MEuro Foundation of the Italian Government to foster integrated circuit design. He is the Chairperson of the Strategy Board and of the International advisory Board of the Milano Innovation District (MIND). He is the Chairperson of the Berkeley SkyDeck Accelerator Academic Advisors and is the special advisor of the Dean of Engineering, Berkeley, for entrepreneurship.

Alberto is the recipient of several academic honors (Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award, SRC Aristotle Award, the IEEE Leon Kirchmeyer Graduate Teaching award), and research awards (the IEEE Darlington Award for best paper bridging theory and applications, the IEEE Guillemin-Cauer Award, the EDAA Lifetime Accomplishment Award, the IEEE CEDA Kaufman Award for pioneering contributions to EDA) including the IEEE/RSE James Clerk Maxwell Medal “for groundbreaking contributions that have had an exceptional impact on the development of electronics and electrical engineering or related fields” and the 2023 BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Information and Communication Technologies category: “for transforming chip design from a handcrafted process to the automated industry that power today’s electronic devices”.

Alberto obtained an electrical engineering and computer science degree (“Dottore in Ingegneria”) summa cum laude from the Politecnico di Milano, Italy in 1971 and holds four Honorary Doctorates from University of Aalborg, KTH, AGH and University of Rome, Tor Vergata.