Tara Akhavan

CEO
Faurecia IRYStec
Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Tara Akhavan is a visionary award-winning technology entrepreneur and pioneer in the field of perceptual display processing for the consumer and automotive industry. She is the CEO of Faurecia IRYStec, Inc., (formerly known as IRYStec, Inc.), an innovation center that was acquired by Faurecia in April 2020. Tara founded IRYStec in 2015 and served as CTO for five years to introduce eye-friendly display technology to the automotive industry. She has a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering, a master’s degree in artificial intelligence, and a Ph.D. in image processing and computer vision from Vienna University of Technology. Akhavan is the Canadian committee member for the International Committee for Illumination (CIE) and the marketing vice chair for the Society for Information Display. She was recognized as an Entrepreneur of the Year in 2019 by EoY Canada and as the founder of Top 20 Innovative Start-Ups in Canada in 2018 by CIX, Canada’s largest investor conference.

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Presentation(s):

• SID: Powering the Display Industry for 60 Years

  Wednesday, May 11, 2022
  2:00 PM – 5:05 PM

• 60th Anniversary SID Enabling the industry

  Wednesday, May 11, 2022
  2:25 PM – 2:30 PM

• Turning Point: Moving Forward After a Setback

  Thursday, May 12, 2022
  3:30 PM – 5:00 PM