John Phillippe manages the ecosystem and partners around AI, ML and computer vision for the Secure Connected Edge business line at NXP. He works to build strong relationships with industry players with an eye for innovation and business growth towards providing customer solutions to the challenges of embedded vision, AI and ML development and deployment. He has over 20 years of hardware design and systems engineering experience ranging from analog circuits, I/O libraries, multi-chip modules and reference system designs. He received his electrical engineering degree from The University of Texas at Austin.