Michael Whitley
廖仁亿
廖仁亿先生担任新思科技人工智能实验室主任。廖仁亿先生拥有超过20年的芯片设计和技术市场的行业经验。从芯片软硬件协同设计到验证/实现以及人工智能芯片的市场调研/规划等。廖仁亿先生分别在清华大学和台湾大学取得计算机工程学位及电机工程硕士学位。
Jeffrey Liao
Jeffrey Liao currently serves as the Head of AI Laboratory in Synopsys. He has over 20 years of IC design industry experience in IP designs/SOC design/verification, software/hardware co-design and technical marketing in AI and other technologies. Jeffrey Liao received a Bachelor degree in Computer Science from National Tsing Hua University and a Master degree in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University.
Devon Bergman
Lopo Champalimaud
Lopo is the Founder and CEO of Treatwell, the largest hair and beauty booking service in the world. The company, which is headquartered in London, has over 10 million appointments made through its online bookings platform annually, employs over 500 people and has over 25,000 spas and salons using its service, with 1,500 new ones joining each month.
Lopo was born in Lisbon and raised in Montreal where he studied at McGill University. After a mercifully brief career in banking and private equity with Pictet and Wand Partners, he moved into technology, and was the founder of two successful data and CRM start-ups in New York. He moved to the UK in 2001 and became the MD of Lifestyle at lastminute.com.
While working at Lastminute.com, Lopo realised the potential for disruption within the €100bn health, wellness and beauty industry, which to that point had largely failed to join the internet revolution. He believed that by providing a world-class cloud-based management software for spas and salons and connecting it to a convenient consumer marketplace, he could help businesses grow while also making it easier for customers to find and book their beauty appointments. In 2008 he founded the company, then called Wahanda, to do just that.
Lopo steered the company through a major European expansion campaign that included five acquisitions in the space of a year, a company rebrand and a name change from Wahanda to Treatwell. In 2015, Japan’s Recruit Holdings invested over €292 million, taking a majority stake in the company helping to fund the ongoing expansion of the business into a global brand. Hair and beauty appointments are now bookable on Treatwell in 11 countries across Europe, with the aim to be in 20 markets by 2020.