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Our aim for the Lunch and Learn series has been to offer a blend of executive and technical topics, featuring women who are leaders in their respective fields delivering keynote presentations and participating in panel discussions. The overarching theme of our Lunch and Learns is “Pathways to Success”. This event will provide an excellent opportunity for women from different companies to connect and network, which we believe is essential for visibility and professional growth.
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Coffee & Networking
10:30 AM - 10:35 AM
Opening Remarks
10:35 AM- 11:15 AM
Keynote
11:15 AM - 12:30 PM
“Pathways to Success”
Panel Discussion
12:30 PM - 2:25 PM
Lunch/Coffee & Networking
2:25 PM - 2:30 PM
Closing Remarks
Coffee & Networking
Opening Remarks
Keynote
“Pathways to Success”
Panel Discussion
Lunch/Coffee & Networking
Closing Remarks
Priya Heerwani leads Technology Strategy for multiple High-Tech clients. Her experience spans Digital Transformation, Digital Platforms, Tech Value, and recently Gen AI Strategy. She specializes in helping companies define and execute strategic initiatives, advance towards digital maturity, optimize costs, and drive organization-wide innovation.
In terms of education, Priya has an MBA from INSEAD and MS in Chemical & Environmental Engineering from Michigan State University.
VP of Marketing and Communications
Credo
Diane has over 20 years of Marketing Communications and PR experience in the semiconductor industry. She has led the communications and brand efforts for two successful IPOs and worked with numerous Fortune 500 companies, both internally and as a partner. Diane also leads Credo’s ESG efforts and is engaged with several nonprofit organizations, including the American Heart Association for which she serves on the Executive Leadership Team for its annual Heart Ball Fundraiser. Prior to joining Credo, Diane served as a Senior Director of Marketing Communications and PR with Power Integrations. She has held various positions at Marvell, Audience (acquired by Knowles corporation), Power Integrations, and Nvidia.
Semiconductor Strategy Manager & Transformation Executive
Accenture
Maggy Ibrahim is a strategy manager in Accenture’s Semiconductor practice focused on cross functional transformation and raw materials. She serves clients across the semiconductor value chain from materials to equipment & IDMs/foundries. Prior to Accenture, Maggy was at Intel in Data Center Sales Operations for $8B of revenue and materials & equipment procurement for $1B of spends. Maggy holds an MBA from Michigan State University and Bachelor’s in International Studies from Texas A&M University.
Fellow
AMD
Rita Gupta is Fellow at AMD in Server System Architecture and Co-Chair of Memory Systems WG at CXL consortium. She has over 24 years of industry experience in various domains such as CPU coherency, IO technology and Memory. In her career, she has donned breadth of roles in technical leadership and people management across various aspects of design cycle from architecture to silicon.
Sr. Director, Engineering & Technical Marketing
ASE, Inc.
Dr. Lihong Cao is Sr. Director at ASE responsible for driving advanced packaging technology development, package architectures, engineering operation and business engagement. Her expertise spans across design, process development and production enablement. She leads chiplets Die to Die interconnect standardization effort within UCIe consortium serving on the Board of Directors. Prior to joining ASE, Dr. Lihong led global teams in advanced packaging technology qualification at AMD. Her academic experience includes a tenure as Research Associate Professor at Nanyang Technology University in Singapore.
Director of Design Engineering
Silicon Labs
Xun Yang is a Director of Design Engineering at Silicon Labs, leading a worldwide team of PHY/MAC engineers designing wireless IoT ICs. Xun joined Silicon Labs in 2000 as a design engineer, and worked on the company’s Wireline, Timing, and most recent years IoT products. Prior to Silicon Labs, Xun worked at AMD and Lucent Technologies. Xun has a BSEE from Tsinghua University in China and a MSEE from University of Texas at Austin.
Sr. Director, Strategic Finance & Operations
GlobalFoundries
Anubha Tewari leads Strategic Finance & Operations at GlobalFoundries where she owns GF’s long range planning, market intelligence, strategic pricing and R&D finance. In her 10yrs at GF, she has had roles spanning demand management, business operations, investment planning, chief of staff to CEO & product management.
Anubha holds a Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering from VJTI and a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering from ASU.