Who would you like to hear speak at DESIGN West? The DESIGN West conference staff needs your ideas for keynote addresses and conference speakers.

Keynoters at the Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) over the years have included engineers, inventors, programmers, industry moguls, physicists, scientists, astronauts, explorers, cartoonists, sci-fi authors, musicians, politicians, manufacturers, analysts, futurists, and industry (and cultural) icons. As varied as embedded systems are, so too have been the ESC speakers and keynoters. The DESIGN West conference staff needs your ideas for keynote addresses and conference speakers.

Drop your ideas below in the comments section of this article and tell us who you would like to see speak at DESIGN West 2013 this April at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, CA.

DESIGN West is owned and managed by UBM plc, which also owns this web site. The conference that brings together seven co-located engineering summits, including the Embedded Systems Conference.

Susan Rambo is the managing editor of Embedded.com.