Peter Allsopp

Technical Director, Digital Operations

Smiths-Aerospace

Peter Allsopp is Director for Technology & Integrated Systems at Smiths Aerospace (Digital Systems - UK) and Chief Engineer for the Platform Computing Systems Product Area. Peter is a member of a number of UK & European Aerospace working groups. Before joining Smiths Industries in 1991, Peter worked in the Combat Systems Division of VSEL at Barrow-in-Furness. He also taught science for three years at a secondary school in Walsall, West Midlands.

Philippe Cartau

General Manager

Cirrus In Motion

Philippe Cartau studied International Business Development at Concordia University in Montreal. He started his career with 3M in the area of semiconductors and electronics assembly and then moved on to join Aputech, a French start-up which developed a revolutionary method of manufacturing BGA packages. In 2002 he discovered the aerospace industry when he joined Curtiss-Wright in Canada. He strongly contributed to transforming the Stratford division from a component manufacturer to a unique integrator in the field of electromechanical assemblies. He is now the founder and general manager of Cirrus IM, an aerospace consulting firm focused on bringing together providers of engineering excellence with customers looking for state of the art solutions.

Denis Chapuis

Vice President Research and Technology

EADS Group

Denis Chapuis joined the French Naval Academy in 1975 and the French Submarine Force in 1979. He has been Project Officer of the new SSN Barracuda being presently built for the French Navy and of the M51 ballistic missile, developed by EADS Astrium. He has also an extensive experience in tactical data processing, having participated into the development of the system presently on board all French submarines. He left the French Navy in 2000 to join PSA Peugeot Citroën as senior research manager. He then spent one year as the Engines & Gearboxes Product Planner for PSA worldwide, before joining EADS where he works at the corporate level, as Vice President Research and Technology. He is especially in charge of coordination the R&T efforts throughout EADS Group, in the field of Sensors, Electronics and Signal Processing.

Kevin Driscoll

Engineer Fellow

Honeywell Aerospace Electronic Systems

Kevin Driscoll is a Fellow with Honeywell International Laboratories doing research and development in ultra-dependable systems architecture and data networks. He has over 30 years experience in designing safety and security critical systems. He is currently designing the avionics architecture for the U.S. NASA Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle and just completed the task with the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration to develop an evaluation criteria handbook for safety critical aviation databuses. He was a major designer the ARINC 659 SAFEbus and the SAE AS4710 PI-bus standards. He led the VHSIC fault tolerance program and helped design the VHSIC TM bus, which became the IEEE1149 JTAG test bus. He has contributed to the electronics architecture design of the National Aerospace Plane, Space Defense Initiative, Light Helicopter Experimental, Boeing's 777 (AIMS and ADIRS), Advanced Launch System, Honeywell's vetronics programs and Unmanned Underwater Vehicles.

Nick Ford

Senior Consultant, Automotive and Transportation Practice

Frost & Sullivan

Nick Ford has worked closely in business planning, providing strategy guidance and market development support throughout his career. In his previous role he was Product Planning Director at TRW with global responsibility for their £3 billion automotive steering business providing strategy guidance for their electric steering products. Nick has 9 years of automotive experience preceded by 23 years in Aerospace and Defence at British Aerospace and Lucas. As well as holding senior management positions in these corporations, Nick has been MD of EMM Computers, a technology start up company which exceeded $ 1 million turnover in its first year of operation. Since joining Frost & Sullivan last year Nick has been working closely with senior executives in the automotive domain developing their business and product strategy.

Pierre Froment

Senior Vice President, System and Integration Tests, Engineering

Airbus France S.A.S.

Pierre Froment was appointed senior vice president for system engineering and integration tests in 2003 at Airbus. Mr Froment graduated from Ecole Polytechnique in Paris. He then joined Sup Aero in Toulouse to specialise in aviation before joining L'Ecole de l'Air in Aix-en-Provence obtaining a diploma in military transport. Pierre Froment started his professional career in the French Ministry of Defense in procurement services testing missiles, weapon system andcountermeasures. Adaptation to fighters, transport aircraft and helicopters. In 1990, he joined the former Aerospatiale flight test center performing tests of ATR 72s and Airbus A340s. From 1993 to 2000, he was in charge within Aerospatiale of new projects. From 2000 to 2003, Pierre Froment was in charge of integration tests and flight tests support.

Harald Gall

Product Manager

austriamicrosystems AG

Harald Gall is working since his master degree in electronics at the University of Applied Sciences "Technikum Wien", in the automotive industry and was responsible from the concept, to the development and integration phase until mass production of electronic control units. Today Harald Gall is responsible for the complete life-cycle of automotive bus system components as product manager at austriamicrosystems AG. In this position he is the representative of austriamicrosystems in the FlexRay Consortium and contributes to the definition of the FlexRay standard.

Jean-Pierre Garcia

R&T and Advanced Projects Director

Messier-Bugatti

Jean-Pierre Garcia is an engineer in automatic and control systems from the Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers, France. He has been working for more than 20 years in aircraft design for Aerospatiale and then for Airbus France. He joined the Messier-Bugatti company three years ago to take on the role of Research & Technology and Advanced Projects Director in the System Business Team and the the responsibility of the R&T policy in Landing Gear Systems for Messier-Bugatti.

Karl-Heinz Gatterer

Military and Aerospace Marketing Manager, Europe

Altera France

Karl-Heinz Gatterer is Military and Aerospace Marketing Manager for Europe at Altera corporation. He has more than 17 years of experience in semiconductor design, Asic and programmable logic, and defense market. Before joining Altera, Karl-Heinz was leading a team of expert in semiconductor at Thales Research & Technology. He spent more than 10 years in the defence and avionics market where he participates in several methodology programs such as COCISPER. He holds a BSEE from Groupe ESIEE Paris and a Diplome d'Ingenieur in Microelectronic from IST Paris-Jussieu.

Joachim Hampp

Regional Engineering Manager

Wind River

Joachim Hampp is working since 1999 for Wind River GmbH in Ismaning as a System Architect for Aerospace and Defense. In this role he is the technical lead contact for all customers in the A & D business and customers certifying their products to DO-178B and IEC 61508.

Peter Hermle

Head of Sales and Marketing

TechSAT GmbH

Peter Hermle is the Head of Sales and Marketing for TechSAT GmbH of Poing near Munich, Germany, since October 2006. Before this he held positions as Sales Manager for Concurrent Computer Corporation, USA, selling real-time computer systems and also for Engenuity Technologies Inc., Canada, selling software tools for avionics development. Mr. Hermle holds a master of science (M.Sc./Dipl.-Ing.) degree in aeronautical engineering from Technical University of Munich and is also an active pilot and flight instructor.

Hermann Kopetz

Professor for Real-Time Systems

Vienna University of Technology

Hermann Kopetz received his PhD degree in physics "sub auspiciis praesidentis" from the University of Vienna, Austria in 1968. He was a manager of a computer process control department at Voest Alpine in Linz, Austria, before joining the Technical University of Berlin as a professor for Computer Process Control in 1978. Since 1982 he is professor for Real-Time Systems at the Vienna University of Technology, Austria. In 1993 he was offered a position as Director of the Max Planck Institute at Saarbrücken, Germany. During the last few years, Dr. Kopetz has been a visiting professor at the University of California in Irvine and in Santa Barbara a number of times.

Bruno Martin

Expert R&D Engineer

Esterel Technologies S.A.

Bruno Martin worked has a sub-contractor for Airbus between 1997 and 2002. In mid 2002, he joined Esterel Technologies as a R&D engineer, and has since been involved in both SCADE product development and European projects. His work mainly deals with widening the scope of SCADE, by the development of Gateways to 3rd party tools.

Dave Milne

Product Line Manager, Electronic Controls and Sensors

Honeywell Engines, Systems and Services

Dave Milne has worked in the aerospace electronics industry for more than 20 years. He led the electronic engine controls product line for Honeywell Aerospace from 2002-2005. Prior to that, he served in various engineering, engineering management, and product marketing roles including Chief Engineer, Electronic Engine Controls. He has recently accepted the role as cabin pressurization product line leader for Honeywell Aerospace.

Stefan Poledna

CEO

TTTech Computertechnik AG

Stefan Poledna has 20 years of experience in the automotive industry and know-how in the area of controller unit development. He is a founding member of TTTech and is responsible for R&D and services. Mr. Poledna also lectures on fault-tolerant computer systems at the Vienna University of Technology.

George Romanski

President, CEO

Verocel Inc.

George Romanski has been involved in the software industry for over 36 years. He has developed software tools, techniques and guidance which are used to certify numerous avionics and aerospace programs. Mr. Romanski serves the safety-critical industry as a member several committees including ARINC-653 (IMA specification) and SC-205 (Development of DO-178C). Mr. Romanski is president of Verocel, a company specializing in the verification of software, and in the development of tools and guidance that helps in this process. Verocel developed the certification materials for the VxWorks operating systems and also the TTP-Driver software.

Friedrich Scheerer

Manager CPCS Development

Nord Micro AG & Co OHG

FriedrichScheerer studied communications and automation engineering in Gießen, Germany. After graduation he joined Nord-Micro working as project manager and lead system engineer for the development of the cabin pressure control system in the Airbus A320/330/340 family. Between 2002 and 2004 he held the position of project manager and senior system engineer for the cabin pressure control system of the Airbus A380. In 2007 he was appointed development manager for cabin pressure control systems at Nord-Micro.

Erwin Schoitsch

IT-Research

Austrian Research Centers GmbH - ARC

Erwin Schoitsch received his Master Degree in Technical Physics and a Bachelor degree in Computer Science at the University of Technology in Vienna. He works at Austrian Research Centres - ARC for more than 35 years as Information Technology specialist. He was system programmer, engineer, department head and project manager of many industrial and research projects dealing with development of systems with high dependability requirements. He was and is involved in many European projects in the area of safety, dependability and software process improvement. Since 2004, he his member of the managing team of the Integrated Project DECOS (Dependable Embedded Components and Systems, EU-FP6-IST-511764).

Georg Stöger

Director Product Strategy

TTTech Computertechnik AG

Georg Stöger holds a degree in computer science from the Vienna University of Technology. After graduation he worked as multimedia training software developer for IBM Austria. In 1998 he joined TTTech Computertechnik AG to work in the software design and development department. At TTTech he was responsible for services, training and technology dissemination and software development, and now holds the position of director product strategy.

Wolfgang Wiewesiek

Manager Automotive Networks

Fujitsu Microeletronics Europe GmbH

Wolfgang Wiewesiek is Manager Automotive networks at Fujitsu Microelectronics Europe’s Automotive Business Unit at Langen. He studied electrical engineering at the TU Braunschweig and later he directed the development of satellite-based data processing devices at the „Institut für Datenverarbeitungsanlagen“ before moving to a semiconductor manufacturer in 1998. At that time his focus was on CAN, its ISO standardization, and the specification of new CAN interfaces of which a filed patent emerged. End of 2004 he started his career at Fujitsu where he signs responsible for the introduction of this new bus-technology into Fujitsu’s automotive microprocessor portfolio. He also coordinates the activities for AUTOSAR.