Wayne Wei-Ming Dai is the chairman of Shanghai Open Processor Industry Innovation Center (SOPIC), the chairman of China RISC-V Innovation Consortium (CRVIC), and the founder, the chairman of the board of directors, President and Chief Executive Officer of Verisilicon. Prior to founding VeriSilicon, Dr. Dai was the Co-Chairman and Chief Technology Officer of Celestry Technologies, Inc., an EDA company, which was acquired by Cadence Design Systems in 2002. Prior to that, he was the founder, chairman of the board of directors, and Chief Executive Officer of Ultima Interconnect Technology, Inc., one of the predecessor companies to Celestry. Dr. Dai was the founding Chairman of the IEEE Multi-Chip Module Conference and IEEE Symposium on IC/Package Design Integration, Co-Chairman of the Program Committee of the 2010 International Green Energy Forum. He was an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems and an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems. He has published more than 100 papers in technical journals and conferences and received the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award from the President of United States in 1990. Dr. Dai received his B.A. degree in Computer Science and his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. He was a professor in the department of Computer Engineering at the University of California at Santa Cruz.

Xiaoning Qi is the Vice President of Alibaba Group. Previously, he held senior management and technical positions in companies such as Intel, designing integrated circuits and systems. He sits on the board of directors at several international organizations including RISC-V International Association. He is a member of Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) Advisory Board, a member of GSA Asia-Pacific Leadership Council and GSA CEO Council. He has published more than fifty technical papers, a book, and has delivered over five dozen invited talks. Xiaoning received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and is an IEEE Fellow.

Dr. Zhangxi Tan is a co-director of the RISC-V International Open-source Laboratory (RIOS), leading open-source IP and software development that helps the RISC-V ecosystem world-class. He serves in academic roles at Tsinghua University and City University of Hong Kong. He earned his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, where he was a core member of the original RISC-V project under Turing Award laureate Professor David A. Patterson. He is specialized in computer architecture and VLSI designs. After graduating from Berkeley, he joined Pure Storage (NYSE:PSTG) as a Founding Engineer serving as a lead designer for Pure's award winning FlashBlade product, which generates hundreds of million-dollar revenues every year and have many high-profile customers. He later founded OURS Technologies, an autonomous driving chip company, which was later acquired by Aurora (NASDAQ:AUR). Dr. Tan holds numerous patents in flash memory and hardware acceleration and is the inventor of the open-source SPARC processor (RAMP Gold).