Albert W Wegener (He/him)

Al Wegener is the founder and CEO of Anacode. Al is a serial entrepreneur with 25+ years of real-time embedded software design and digital signal processing (DSP) experience. Al loves to invent, implement, and optimize new algorithms of all sorts, especially for compression. From 2006 to 2013 Al was the founder and CTO of Samplify, which raised $23M in two rounds trying to bring lossy compression to high-speed DSP systems that had never used compression before to reduce bandwidth and storage bottlenecks. Samplify’s patents, many of which had Al’s name on them, are now owned by Intel (via Intel’s acquisition of Altera, the FPGA company).