An Accellera update and presentation of the 2023 Technical Excellence Award, followed by an invited talk: “RISC-V Everywhere” Presented by Mark Himelstein, CTO RISC-V International

Join us for a luncheon beginning with an update on Accellera activities from Accellera Chair, Lu Dai, followed by the presentation of the 2023 Technical Excellence Award given by Technical Committee Chair Martin Barnasconi. Invited speaker Mark Himelstein, CTO of RISC-V International, will then take the stage for his talk “RISC-V Everywhere.”

Bio: Mark Himelstein, CTO RISC-V International

Before RISC-V international Mark Himelstein was the President of Heavenstone, Inc. which concentrated on Strategic, Management, and Technology Consulting providing hardware and software product architecture, analysis, mentoring and interim management. Previously, Mark started Graphite Systems, Inc (acquired by EMC) where he was the VP of Engineering and CTO developing large Analytics Appliances using highly integrated FLASH memory. Prior to Graphite, Mark held positions as the CTO of Quantum Corp, Vice President of Solaris development engineering at Sun Microsystems and other technical management roles at Apple, Infoblox, and MIPS. Mark has a bachelors degree in Computer Science and Math from Wilkes University in Pennsylvania and a mastersdegree in Computer Science from University of California Davis/Livermore. In addition to publishing numerous technical papers and holding many patents, he is the author of the book “100 Questions to Ask Your Software Organization”.