Ruud Derwig has 25+ years of experience with system architectures for embedded systems. Key areas of expertise are hardware and software IPs for security, operating systems, and other low-level platform software. He holds a master's degree in computing science and a professional doctorate in engineering from the Eindhoven University of Technology. Ruud worked at Philips Research and NXP Semiconductors and is currently Security & Systems Architect in Synopsys' IP Group. Ruud has contributed to various industry consortia, such as Eurosmart, various Linux Foundation projects, SPEC Embedded Group, and European innovation projects. Ruud chairs the Soft-IP taskforce of Eurosmart and is an active member of ITSC and ISCI-WG1.

Marc Fyrbiak is co-founder and CPO at Emproof. He received his PhD degree from Ruhr University in Bochum, under the supervision of Prof. Christof Paar. He has a BSc degree in Computer Science from TU Braunschweig and an MSc degree in IT Security from Ruhr University Bochum. Today he specialises in the reverse engineering of hardware and embedded software systems and their protection.