Vilas Sridharan is currently an AMD Senior Fellow where he leads the RAS (Reliability, Availability and Serviceability)
Architecture team. His research focuses on the modeling of hardware faults and architectural and micro-architectural
approaches to reliability and fault tolerance in high-performance microprocessors. Vilas received his Ph.D. and M.S.E.
from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University, and his B.S.E. in Computer
Engineering from Princeton University in 2000. From 2000 - 2004, he worked in the SPARC server division at Sun Microsystems.
Since 2010, he has been on AMD's RAS Architecture team.
Nicolas Ganry is Senior Product Marketing Manager for Aerospace & Defense applications at
Microchip Technology. He joined the company in 2012, bringing with him 15 years of experience in
various electronic systems (hardware and software development).
Nicolas is leading Aerospace & Defense product line in France delivering space qualified processors,
microcontrollers, memories, and communication interfaces. He is also driving business development
activities in Europe for all Microchip products.
Located in Nantes (ex-Atmel site), Nicolas is representing Microchip in Europe at ESA CTB working
closely with European Space agencies (ESA, CNES, DLR, …) and space industry primes.
Florian Lumpe began his career in the aerospace industry a academic degree in mechanical
engineering and general management. In his current role as Coordinator Strategic Product Assurance
at the German Aerospace Centre in Cologne, he coordinates the integration of Product assurance
into projects.