Xilinx Adapt EMEA Overview
The Xilinx Adapt EMEA virtual technology conference features a series of more than 50 presentations, forums, product trainings, and labs designed to help you unlock the value of adaptive computing for your applications.
This free six-week programme, held every Tuesday and Thursday, begins November 9 with content targeting both software and hardware developers alike. We'll focus on end-market segments, with dedicated sessions covering automotive, broadcasting and pro A/V, consumer electronics, data center, industrial, medical, and wired and wireless businesses.
Join The Conversation
Be the first to learn about Xilinx’s newest products and see how customers are using Xilinx technology to solve their most vexing challenges and achieving unprecedented results.
Accelerate Your Projects
Get hands-on instruction through a variety of workshops that will introduce you to our Vitis™ AI and Vivado® design flows and libraries, help you explore design automation and abstraction techniques to enhance productivity, and show you how to launch an AI-based video analytics application with our new Kria™ system-on-module.
Ask The Experts
Tap into our expert panel discussions where you’ll learn hardware tips and tricks from those on the front lines and get answers to your technical questions about our latest tools.
Schedule and Agenda
* All Times are in Central European Time (CET)
Software & AI : November 9 and 11
On the first day of the event, explore sessions from Xilinx and industry experts to learn how ML algorithms within Vivado® ML are helping to improve both compile time and quality of results. See the Vitis™ HLS tool in action and walk through an updated design flow using Vivado to target Versal® devices.
On day two, learn how to deploy your AI models on the Versal VCK5000 development card, see an introduction to AIE-enabled acceleration libraries, and discover how to partition a Versal ACAP design onto various available engines within the architecture for optimum performance per watt.
| Time | Speaker | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 09:30 - 09:35 | Welcome and Introduction | |
| 09:35 - 09:55 | Snehal Ullagaddi Product Marketing Manager, Xilinx |
Introduction to Vivado ML |
| 09:55 -10:20 | Brian Lay Vivado Product Marketing Manager, Xilinx |
Hardware Development Flow on Versal |
| 10:20 - 10:45 | John Blaine Product Marketing Manager, Xilinx |
Intelligent Design Runs: ML-Based Timing Closure Assistant |
| 10:45 - 11:15 | David Dye Sr. Technical Marketing Engineer, Xilinx |
Team-Based Collaborative Features in IP Integrator |
| 11:15 - 11:25 | Live Questions and Answers |
| Time | Speaker | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 09:30 - 09:35 | Welcome and Introduction | |
| 09:35 - 10:05 | George Wang Sr. Product Marketing Manager – AI & SW, Xilinx |
What’s New in Vitis and Vitis AI? |
| 10:05 -10:50 | Chris Arndt Product Marketing Manager, AI Engine Tools, Xilinx |
Introduction to AI Libraries |
| 10:50 - 11:20 | Ricky Su Technical Marketing Engineer, Xilinx |
Versal Vitis Platform Methodology |
| 11:20 - 11:50 | Fan Zhang Sr. SWM Tech Markting AI Specialist, Xilinx |
VCK5000 Development Card and Solutions |
| 11:50 - 12:00 | Live Questions and Answers |
Industrial, Vision, Healthcare & Sciences: November 16 and 18
Learn how Xilinx is powering the latest trends in industrial IoT, smart vision, and healthcare. Listen to Xilinx and industry experts share the work they are doing from edge to cloud and from the factory to the hospital to the everyday world. If you’re curious about Kria™ SOMs, there are some can’t-miss sessions expanding the scope of the K26 SOM from vision AI into robotics and healthcare applications.
| Time | Speaker | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 09:30 - 09:35 | Welcome and Introduction | |
| 09:35 - 10:00 | Quenton Hall AI System Architect, Xilinx |
Kria SOM: Accelerated Vision and AI Applications for the Software-Centric Developer |
| 10:05 -10:30 | Víctor Mayoral-Vilches System Architect, Robotics, Xilinx |
Bringing Adaptive Computing to Robotics |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Michael Zapke Marketing Lead Industrial, Xilinx Stephen F Bush Sr. Scientist, GE Research |
TSN: Gateway to 5G in Factories |
| 11:00 - 11:05 | Michael Zapke Marketing Lead Industrial, Xilinx |
Summary and Wrap up |
| 11:05 - 11:15 | Live Questions and Answers |
| Time | Speaker | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 09:30 - 09:35 | Welcome and Introduction | |
| 09:35 - 10:07 | Giulio Corradi Principal Architect, Healthcare & Sciences, Xilinx Subh Bhattacharya Lead, Medical Devices, ISM, Xilinx |
Game-Changing Ultrasound: High-Quality, Speed, and Accuracy Using Versal AI Engines and Vitis |
| 10:07 -10:27 | KV Thanjavur Bhaaskar Sr. IIoT & AI Solutions Architect, Xilinx |
Accelerated Edge and Cloud Applications with AWS and Azure |
| 10:27 - 10:37 | Michael Zapke Marketing Lead Industrial, Xilinx |
Summary and Wrap up |
| 10:37 - 10:45 | Live Questions and Answers |
Wired & Wireless Communications: November 23 and 25
Check out the sessions from Xilinx and industry experts about the latest developments in 5G O-RAN technology, plus how to integrate Versal ACAPs into your next wired or wireless communications projects.
| Time | Speaker | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 09:30 - 09:35 | Welcome and Introduction | |
| 09:35 - 10:10 | Liam Madden Executive Vice President and General Manager, Wired and Wireless Group, Xilinx |
Exploring High-Performance 5G Wireless and Infrastructure Solutions |
| 10:10 -10:45 | Dan Mansur Vice President, Wired& Wireless Group, Xilinx Harpinder Matharu Sr. Director Technical Marketing, Xilinx Dimitris Mavrakis Sr. Research Director, ABI Research |
Fireside Chat on Wireless (5G & O-RAN) Market |
| 10:45 - 11:15 | Anthony Collins Director of Product Management RF and Radio IP, Xilinx |
Optimized High-Performance RF Solutions for RFSoC DFE |
| 11:15 - 11:50 | John Baker Sr. VP Business Development, Mavenir |
O-RAN O-DU to mMIMO System Integration |
| 11:50 - 12:00 | Live Questions and Answers |
| Time | Speaker | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 09:30 - 09:35 | Welcome and Introduction | |
| 09:35 - 10:05 | Faisal Dada Wired Solutions Architect. Xilinx Mike Wissolik Director of Product Marketing, Xilinx Simon Stanley Xilinx Analyst at Large, Heavy Reading |
Fireside Chat on Wired Market |
10:05 - 10:50 |
Faisal Dada Wired Solutions Architect. Xilinx Gilles Garcia, Sr. Director Business Lead Wired and Wireles, Xilinx |
Multi-Terabit SmartPHY for Next-Generation Transport Applications |
| 10:50 - 11:25 | Awanish Verma Principal Architect and Director Technical, Xilinx |
Scalable, High-Performance Network Security with Versal Premium High-Speed Crypto (HSC) |
| 11:25 - 11:35 | Live Questions and Answers |
Automotive: November 30 and December 2
Check out the sessions about the latest innovations in automotive technology and what’s to come. You can hear from Xilinx and industry experts discussing a wide range of topics. Presentations include a session on the future of forward cameras and a presentation from Xylon on how Xilinx Zynq® UltraScale+™ MPSoC and Versal ACAP are powering its development platforms.
| Time | Speaker | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 09:30 - 09:35 | Welcome and Introduction | |
| 09:35 - 10:05 | Dr. Zhenghua Yu CEO, Motovis |
The Future of Forward Cameras |
| 10:05 -10:35 | Andy Luo Director of Product Marketing, AI and Developer, Xilinx |
AI Inference with Deep-Learning Processor Unit (DPU) in Automotive |
| 10:35 - 11:05 | Mahmoud Saadat Co-founder and CEO, Zadar Labs |
Radar’s Next Generation: Ultra-High-Performance Sensing |
| 11:05 - 11:15 | Willard Tu Sr. Director, Automotive, Xilinx Jim Kane VP Engineering – Automotive, Baraja Mark Fitzgerald Director, Autonomous Vehicle Service Strategy Analytics |
Lidar Adoption in ADAS and Autonomous Driving |
| 11:15 - 12:30 | Live Questions and Answers |
| Time | Speaker | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 09:30 - 09:35 | Welcome and Introduction | |
| 09:35 - 10:10 | Paul Zoratti Director of Automotive Solutions, Xilinx |
Xilinx Architectural Concepts for Domain Controllers |
| 10:10 - 11:15 | Manuel Uhm Director of Silicon Marketing, Xilinx |
DAPD (Data Aggregation, Pre-processing and Distribution) & Sensor Fusion and Compute Acceleration with Versal AI Edge |
| 11:15 - 11:45 | Davor Kovačec CEO, Xylon |
A Complete Heterogeneous Sensor Fusion and Validation Design Framework for Next-Gen Automotive |
| 11:45 - 12:15 | Paul Zoratti Director of Automotive Solutions, Xilinx Paul S. Levy Sr. Staff Functional Safety Systems Engineer, Xilinx |
What’s a Domain Controller Without Functional Safety? |
| 12:15 - 12:30 | Live Questions and Answers |
Data Center: December 7 and 9
Over the two days we will discuss a wide array of topics detailing the advantages of adaptive compute acceleration for HPC, AI, and machine learning.
| Time | Speaker | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 09:30 - 09:35 | Welcome and Introduction | |
| 09:35 - 9:55 | Nathan Chang Senior Product Manager, Xilinx |
The Xilinx Adaptive Computing Platform for High-Performance Computing |
| 09:55 -10:30 | Nathan Chang Senior Product Manager, Xilinx Vinod Kathail Chief Architect, Xilinx Dan Eaton Director of Business Development, Tigergraph Bob Lucas Distinguished Engineer, Ansys |
Panel - How Heterogeneous Computing is Driving a New Era of Accelerated HPC Workloads |
| 10:30 - 11:02 | Dan Eaton Director of Business Development, Tigergraph Kumar Deepak Distinguished Engineer, Xilinx |
Accelerated Customer360 Toolkit and Financial Crimes Toolkit |
| 11:02 - 11:20 | Grant Hampson Research Engineer, CSIRO |
Massive in-Network Processing for the The World’s Largest Radio Telescope |
| 11:20 - 11:30 | Live Questions and Answers |
| Time | Speaker | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 09:30 - 09:35 | Welcome and Introduction | |
| 09:35 - 10:25 | Pradeep Nallimelli Networking and Security Datacenter Systems Architect, Xilinx | Boosting Network Acceleration in Cloud and Enterprise Data Centers with Turnkey SmartNIC Solutions |
| 10:25 - 10:45 | Aaron Behman Director of Data Center Marketing, Xilinx |
Build and Scale Your Live Video Streaming Service with the Alveo U30 and Video Streaming SDK |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | Moshe Tanach CEO, Neureality |
Breaking the Bonds of CPU-Centric AI Inferencing with NeuReality |
| 11:00 - 11:10 | Live Question and Answer |
Pro A/V, Broadcast and Consumer : December 14 and 16
Learn about the latest trends in Pro A/V, Broadcast, and Consumer and how Xilinx platforms can get you faster to market with plenty of room to innovate and differentiate. You can watch sessions from Xilinx and industry experts on how the demand for more immersive capture and display is driving new standards for connectivity, the need for higher performance video processing, and how low-latency compression is enabling live streaming over IP networks with fantastic video quality. We also take you through the world of cost-optimized Consumer applications and unrivalled multi-channel video processing performance in Broadcast & AV.
| Time | Speaker | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 09:30 - 09:35 | Welcome and Introduction | |
| 09:35 - 10:35 | Alex Luccisano Sr. Video Systems Architect - Pro A/V, Broadcast & Consumer, Xilinx Andy Rayner Chief Technologist, Nevion Jean Lapierre Sr. Director, Advanced Technologies, Matrox Peter Schut SVP Media Infrastructure, EVS Broadcast Equipment |
Panel - State of the AV & Broadcast Industries |
| 10:35-11:00 | Ramesh Iyer Sr. Director - Pro A/V, Broadcast & Consumer, Xilinx |
Xilinx Is Too Expensive for Consumer? Think Again! |
| 11:00 - 11:25 | Robert Green Sr. Manager - Pro A/V Broadcast & Consumer, Xilinx |
Ingredients for Multimedia Pipelines |
| 11:20 - 11:50 | Gordon Lau Video Systems Architect - Pro A/V, Broadcast & Consumer, Xilinx Richard (Jason) Moss AV Systems Architect, Xilinx |
ML in AV: Improving Efficiency and Monetizing Content |
| Time | Speaker | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 09:30 - 09:35 | Welcome and Introduction | |
| 09:35 - 10:15 | Jean-Baptiste Lorent Director, Marketing & Sales, intoPIX Peter Schut SVP Media Infrastructure, EVS Broadcast Equipment Jean-Marie Cloquet CTO, Silex Insight Robert Green Sr. Manager - Pro AV, Broadcast & Consumer, Xilinx |
Panel - Mezzanine Codecs – Lightweight Compression in the Spotlight |
| 10:15 -10:45 | Richard (Jason) Moss AV Systems Architect, Xilinx |
Listen Up! Switching to Xilinx Platforms in Audio Applications |
| 10:45 - 11:20 | Gordon Lau Video Systems Architect - Pro AV, Broadcast & Consumer, Xilinx |
Streaming Problems Solved by the Xilinx Video Codec Unit |
| 11:20 - 11:50 | Gordon Lau Video Systems Architect - Pro AV, Broadcast & Consumer, Xilinx |
Using Versal ACAPs in Broadcast Applications |