Thursday, February 23, 2006
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm • Fir Ballroom
Panel 1 - Cooley's Bigwigs Panel

Moderator: John Cooley - ESNUG & EE Times, Holliston, MA

Officially the title to this panel is "The Bigwigs Panel". The reality is that it should be titled "The Cooley Panel - Where Everyone Gets to See the EDA Bigwigs Run the Gauntlet of This Year's Difficult Questions" -- but that's too many words.

Every year John Cooley gathers together bigwigs from most of the major and a few minor companies. He then surveys his 22,000 member ESNUG mailing list for edgy questions to ask his panelists. Then Cooley asks the panelists the questions. It makes for one colorful afternoon of no BS discussions. Immediately afterwards everyone goes for free cocktails in the DVCon Exhibit Hall. Panelists to be announced prior to the conference and exhibition.

The video of last year's panel

Panelists:

Rajeev Madhavan - CEO of Magma
Antun Domic
- GM of Implementation, Synopsys
Joe Sawicki
- GM of Design-to-Silicon, Mentor Graphics
Ted Vucurevich
- CTO of Cadence
Atul Sharan
- CEO of Clear Shape
Kathryn Kranen
- CEO of Jasper
Brett Cline
- The SystemC Poster Boy
Gary Smith
- Senior EDA Analyst, Gartner/Dataquest