Frans Sijstermans is a VP of hardware engineering managing NVIDIA’s multi-media hardware department. He is responsible for RISC-V, security and cryptography accelerators, a deep learning accelerator, and camera, video, and display processing HW. Frans also serves on the board of two open source organizations:  the RISC-V foundation and AOM. He is as passionate about technology now as he was when he graduated from the Eindhoven University of Technology in 1985 with a MSc in Computer Science.