Tarik Hammadou is a world-renowned entrepreneur and industry expert with over 15 years of experience in R&D, product development, business development, sales, industry evangelism, and general management. He has a passion for harnessing technical, business, and entrepreneurial IQ to nurture breakthrough innovation across different geographical locations. His expertise includes start-ups, business modeling, IP portfolio management, R&D management, customer focus strategies, sales & negotiation, ASIC and NASIC design, Signal processing, imaging technology, smart cameras, Homeland security solutions, and much more.

He has made significant contributions to innovation that has been discussed several times at the NSW Australian parliament. Tarik has published over 20 journal and conference papers and holds several patents in the area of image processing and sensors. He received the Australian "Pearcey Special Recognition Award" in 2009 for his excellence and outstanding contribution to innovation.

Tarik has built extensive relationships with key leaders in high technology companies, universities, governments, and their national labs worldwide. He served as a Board Member, Co-founder and CEO of VIMOC Technologies, where he developed a new generation of cognitive computing machines for IoT applications. He also served as the CTO - R&D principal, CEO at DigiSensory Technologies Pty Ltd, Senior Research Eng at Motorola, and Research Assistant at Edith Cowan University.

Currently, Tarik is a Senior Developer Relations Manager at NVIDIA, working on retail-intra-logistics AI solutions.