• 3.5 Million Embedded Engineers Needed by 2015 -Nasscom Report
• "Celebrating 20 years of Embedded," ESC Silicon Valley will feature a multimedia Keynote Address, with a host of industry experts, authorities, inventors and creators.

-- Jim Ready, founder and CTO of MontaVista Software and developer of the first viable commercial RTOS product

-- PJ Plauger, president of Dinkumware and senior editor of The C/C++ Users Journal and Contributing Editor to Embedded Systems Programming

-- Dr. Bjarne Stroustrup, the designer and original implementer of C++ and the author of "The C++ Programming Language" and The Design and Evolution of C++

-- Nick Tredennick, designer of the microprocessor that later became the central processor for the original Apple Macintosh

-- John Wharton, designer of the world's first 8048-based keyboard controller and automobile carburetor. He went on to design the eight- bit microcontroller that became the 8051

-- Paul Saffo, a forecaster, professor and fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences at Stanford University.