Aaron Rossetto is a Windows Device Driver Engineer at Cirrus Logic in Austin, Texas, where he works on Windows and UEFI drivers for audio silicon such as codecs and smart amplifiers. He formerly spent 22 years at National Instruments creating Windows and Linux drivers and firmware for data acquisition and software-defined radio hardware. Aaron holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada, and has extensive experience and specialization in low-level system software and firmware development, debugging, and deployment.

Abner Chang was a game developer before entering BIOS industry. About 25 years of host firmware experience in the industry. 13 years in Phoenix, 8 years in HPE, and 3 years until now in AMD as the AMD opensource host firmware and SoC feature architect. Industry standard contributor to UEFI/PI/SMBIOS/Gen-Z/Redfish/RISC-V Platform/PLIC, etc. Delivered RISC-V edk2 port to industry in 2016 and was the vice chair of the RISC-V Configuration Structure Task Force.

Andrea Barisani is an internationally recognized security researcher. Since owning his first Commodore-64 he has never stopped studying new technologies, developing unconventional attack vectors and exploring what makes things tick...and break.

His experience builds on large-scale infrastructure defense, penetration testing and code auditing with particular focus on safety critical environments, with more than 15 years of professional experience in security consulting.

His main focus lies on the converge between secure hardware and software, an interest consolidated in the authorship of the USB armory hardware project and the TamaGo bare metal framework.

He is a well known international speaker, having presented at BlackHat, CanSecWest, Chaos Communication Congress, DEFCON, Hack In The Box, among many other conferences, speaking about innovative research on automotive hacking, side-channel attacks, payment systems, embedded system security and many other topics.

Chris is a Software Enabling and Optimization Engineer and a Technical Lead within the Edge Computing Group at Intel. He specializes in firmware bring-up, debugging and enabling of security technologies like Intel® BootGuard.
Chis has a 20+ years of Industry experience in BIOS, test software development and debugging. Based in Munich, Germany, Chris is supporting ECG customers in EMEA with x86 based board designs.

I have been part of semiconductor industry since 2004 as a BIOS engineer at Intel and still enjoying it as Firmware Engineer at Rivos! Got opportunity to work on Notebook, Servers and embedded platforms as Firmware architect and developer. During my stints as Coreboot engineer and later as RISC-V engineer I realised power of open source and became one of the contributors in my limited capacity.

Hardware Design Engineer, Solution Architect, and Entrepreneur, Emmanuel has an extensive background in embedded hardware design, with experience leading design and development (NPD/NPI) across diverse product categories (Consumer, Medical, Military, and Industrial) from ideation through manufacturing.

He is currently the Hardware Chapter Manager at Wenco, a subsidiary of Hitachi Construction Machinery, where he leads the development of hardware solutions for diverse applications across the mining industry.

Before Wenco, Emmanuel led Electrical Engineering at Bailey Electronics, driving the development of industry-leading control solutions, featured in the cabin of Off-Highway vehicles from manufacturers like John Deere, CAT, and Mitsubishi, among others.

Outside of architecting solutions and solving system design problems, Emmanuel loves to write, with over 20 academic citations and 500+ published technical articles for magazines/blogs like Circuit Digest, Power&Beyond, and Wevolver, among others.

When not designing systems, Emmanuel sometimes “entertains” neighbours with sounds from his saxophone.

Furquan Shaikh is a Senior Member of Technical Staff at Rivos Inc., where he serves as the technical lead for CPU firmware. With over 10 years of experience in embedded systems development, he specializes in firmware and kernel development across RISC-V, x86 and ARM processor architectures.

At Rivos, Furquan leads the design and implementation of comprehensive firmware stacks for RISC-V processors. His expertise spans the full embedded development lifecycle, from low-level hardware initialization to kernel-level optimizations.

A committed open source contributor, Furquan has been actively involved in multiple projects throughout his career, most notably as a developer and code reviewer for the coreboot project. He continues to contribute to various open source initiatives both at Rivos and in the broader embedded systems community.

Guo Dong has been actively engaged in firmware development since 2007, beginning with contributions to EDK and EDK2. After several years of experience with coreboot, he co-founded the Slim Bootloader (SBL) project alongside his team. Guo Dong currently focuses on advancing SBL and developing UEFI payload solutions, maintaining a strong commitment to open-source firmware innovation and platform enablement.

Henry is a dedicated and accomplished professional in web development, with a strong background in front-end engineering. With years of experience and a proven track record of success, Henry has contributed to numerous successful projects and has a reputation for driving innovation and excellence. With a talent for simplifying complex projects and a passion for optimizing developer experience, Henry has been recognized for architecting and building an entire project's frontend from scratch, resulting in a highly performant web application. His work has consistently delivered outstanding results and inspired his peers.

Jay has over 35 years of low-level software and firmware development experience, ranging from embedded controls systems to specialized device drivers to BIOS and bootloaders. After 12 years working for various employers, Jay founded SysPro Consulting, LLC in 2001, an engineering consulting firm that focuses primarily on providing specialized software engineering expertise to their clientele.

In 2011, SysPro began working with Intel Corporation to support the development of boot firmware solutions for Intel® processors that are an alternative to a traditional UEFI BIOS for embedded applications. After several years of enabling such boot firmware solutions on various hardware designs, SysPro began working with Intel’s customers to provide these services directly to them. In 2017, SysPro began developing alternative boot firmware solutions for systems used in various U.S. DoD programs, and currently government programs are the majority of SysPro’s business.

Jay promotes many of the key advantages of using alternative boot firmware solutions over traditional UEFI BIOS firmware for defense and other embedded systems applications and has written a number of white papers on the subject.

I am thrilled by computers. I spent a lot of time designing them at architectural and hardware level, and participated to crazy projects, including building up the biggest european super computer in the late 90's. I love to share my knowledge and enable people to design better computers. I am particularly focused on open technologies currently, which includes design tools like FreeCAD, KiCAD, and open source firmware projects like linuxboot and OpenBMC. I used to work for big companies, created a french based startup that I successfully sold to an american company in 2018. I am now part of HPE mainly focused on open platforms. What does it mean will be known in a couple of months / quarters and years.

Jeff is a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google and focuses on hyperscalar platform integrity solutions. He serves as the OCP Security Project co-lead and the TCG Data Center Workgroup co-chair. He has worked on Google’s in-house Titan root-of-trust chip, has made significant contributions to the CMVP and Caliptra programs, and is now applying Google’s domain experience to help advance the state of attestation technology in the wider industry.

Jens is a software engineer from Bochum, Germany with over 6 years firmware development experience at 9elements. He founded Blindspot Software in 2023 to accelerate firmware development through smart and automated tools.

Chunhui Jia is the firmware team architect at ByteDance and a seasoned expert in the firmware industry. With deep experience across UEFI BIOS, BMC, and OS driver development, he has built a strong track record in tackling complex firmware challenges. His current focus centers on improving firmware debuggability, enhancing observability, and advancing automated issue diagnosis and troubleshooting.

Jiming Sun is a distinguished firmware architect with over three decades of experience shaping the evolution of system firmware across the computing industry. After earning his Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, he began his career developing firmware for AT&T's transmission systems before specializing in BIOS development at Zenith Data Systems.
During his extensive 15-year tenure at Intel, punctuated by strategic roles at leading technology companies during the dot-com era, Jiming made significant contributions to the industry. He was instrumental in the creation of Tiano/UEFI, which revolutionized the firmware interface standard. At AMD, he led the development team that created AGESA (AMD Generic Encapsulated Software Architecture), a crucial foundation for AMD platform initialization. Later, during his time in Intel's Internet of Things Group (IOTG), he architected the Intel Firmware Support Package (FSP), significantly simplifying Intel CPU adoption for embedded systems developers.
Jiming's career path includes influential positions at industry leaders including Insyde, Dell, and Apple, where he consistently drove innovation in firmware architecture and implementation. Since joining Amazon Web Services (AWS) in 2018, he has led the BIOS development team in creating AWS's custom BIOS solution based on open-source EDK2. Currently, he focuses on advancing firmware security and efficiency for AWS server infrastructure, continuously exploring and evaluating emerging firmware solutions to enhance cloud computing capabilities.
Throughout his career, Jiming has been at the forefront of major transitions in system firmware architecture, from legacy BIOS to UEFI, and now to cloud-optimized solutions, making him a respected voice in the firmware community.

A Principal System Architecture at Arm. Primary responsibility for Arm SBMR (Server Base Manageability Requirements) and SBMR Proof-of-concept development. Involved with OpenBMC and EDK2 development.

Lei Yu is the firmware architect at ByteDance, bringing extensive expertise in OpenBMC community contributions and complex system design. With years of hands-on experience, he is dedicated to enhancing system reliability, increasing observability, and simplifying architectures to improve usability for Site Reliability Engineers (SREs). Lei is passionate about driving innovations that make firmware and system management more transparent, efficient, and robust, ultimately enabling smoother operations and faster issue resolution.

I have been a working student at 9elements since 2023 and am doing my Master's in IT-Security at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany.
I am interested in bringing new, memory-safe(er) languages into the realm of firmware.

Software Development Manager at AWS.
BIOS Engineer with over 20 years of experience in UEFI BIOS development

to be announced

Computer science student at Hochschule Bochum and embedded linux developer at 9elements.

Principal Member of Technical Staff - Firmware Engineer at AMD.
Passionate about silicon enabling and open source.

I work in the Architecture and Technology Group (ATG) at Arm, where I focus on system architecture with an emphasis on security. My areas of interest include firmware architecture, measured boot, TPMs, and Dynamic Root of Trust for Measurement (DRTM). I engage with industry standards bodies such as the Trusted Computing Group (TCG), contributing to the evolution of trusted computing specifications. I also actively prototype and contribute to the open-source ecosystem, with work spanning projects like EDK2, Linux, and Arm Trusted Firmware. I recently graduated with a masters degree from the University of Southern California.

Ravi Rangarajan is a Firmware Engineer working on implementing Edge requirements on Intel platforms. Additionally, Ravi is an evangelist for enabling open source firmware solutions for IA platforms.

Sachin Kamat is a Principal Engineer at Intel involved in the architecture, design and development of boot firmware solutions on client and server platforms.

Rangasai (Sai) Chaganty is a firmware engineer with more than 20 years of experience working on Intel Architecture solutions with expertise in UEFI firmware architecture and Intel(R) FSP architecture. Additionally, Sai is active in various tech talks within Intel and also serves as the chair of SMBIOS Working Group within DMTF.

Samer El-Haj-Mahmoud is a Distinguished Engineer and System Architect at Arm Architecture and Technology Group (ATG). He has 25 years of experience specializing in server firmware and system design, remote management, and industry standards. His current work focuses on system architecture for Arm-based servers and PCs. Samer has a long history of contribution to industry standards and related open source projects, including the UEFI Forum, DMTF, OCP, CXL, UCIe, OpenBMC, TianoCore, and the Arm System Architecture Advisory Council (SystemArchAC).

Sunny Wang is a Principal Firmware Engineer in Arm’s Architecture and Technology Group, working as the technical lead on SystemReady compliance program for the SystemReady band, driving the creation and adoption of key system architecture technologies across the Arm ecosystem — including those defined in Arm’s system architecture specifications such as BSA, xBSA, BBR, and BBSR, which incorporate widely adopted industry standards like Arm ARM, PCIe, UEFI, ACPI, SMBIOS.
He is also a contributor to open-source projects including UEFI edk2, FWTS, edk2-test (UEFI SCT), arm-systemready, sysarch-acs, and industry standards. Prior to joining Arm, Sunny held UEFI/BIOS firmware lead and engineering roles at HPE/HP and ASUS, accumulating over 12 years of experience in system firmware development.