Tim Burke is the CTO & Co-founder of Arch Systems. He is an innovative and compassionate technologist with more than 10 years of embedded electronics experience. He earned a PhD at Stanford discovering the first complete theory of organic solar cell operation. Before that, he independently designed a pico-hydropower power plant as a Peace Corps volunteer in Panama that was used as a model for rural electrification. As co-founder and CTO at Arch Systems, Tim leads a team of experienced data and manufacturing experts who build next-generation products that deeply understand manufacturing processes and surface intelligent actions to automatically improve them. Tim and his technologies have received multiple industry awards including a Forbes 30 Under 30 Award and the 2022 Global Technology Award for Best Product. He is passionate about empowering people to have equal access to basic resources and ensuring that the next wave of IoT devices benefits all people. Tim currently serves on the IPC-CFX technical board.