Matt Pekarske, Phil Raymond, Bob Sayle

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Matt is currently a Principal Connectivity and Wireless Engineer working on integrating wireless and wired networking technologies into medical devices for GE Healthcare. He is involved with several wireless healthcare industry efforts including influencing US and foreign regulatory policy on the use of wireless in healthcare, a vice-chair position with the Wi-Fi Alliance Healthcare Marketing Task Group, a participant on the IEC/ISO 80001 Wireless Guidance Technical Report, a participant on the AAMI Wireless Strategic Task Force and a member of the ANSI C63.27 Evaluation of Wireless Coexistence standard development group.

Phil leads a connectivity CoE in Philips and is a wireless connectivity industry expert with 28 years’ experience in designing, integrating, and marketing technologically advanced connectivity solutions for healthcare, home and enterprise markets. He is heavily involved in shaping the WLAN healthcare enterprise market as chair of the Wi-Fi Alliance Healthcare Task group, chair of the IEC/ISO 80001-2-3 wireless guidance for risk management in medical IT-Networks, and steering committee member for the AAMI/HIMSS/ACCE Health Technology Alliance (HTA).

Robert (Bob) Sayle is a Technical Solution Architect for Cisco Systems, Inc. He has been working in high-tech since the early ‘90s and has had multiple roles including system administration, programming, and network engineering. Bob now specializes in both wireless and information security for enterprise networks. He is currently a member of multiple working groups in Wi-Fi Alliance and is a member of AAMI’s Wireless Strategy Task Force and the BI&T Editorial Board. He also contributes to AAMI’s blogs as “Bob in IT” where he has been championing improving the security posture of biomedical equipment.