WISH | Women in Semiconductor Hardware is GSA WLI’s technical conference bringing together industry luminaries, entrepreneurs, and university women in STEM. This event will showcase the changing face of technology and offer new awards celebrating the women who have helped to break the glass ceiling and those who are following in their footsteps. Join our industry in supporting and reaching gender parity.
Jodi Shelton / CEO and Co-Founder / GSA
Henry Schein One
Christine King
CEO & Author of Breaking Through the Silicon Ceiling
Henry Schein One
Christine King serves on the Boards of Directors for Skyworks and Henry Schein One, where she also serves as Executive Chair and CEO. Christine began her career at IBM, where she rose from engineering technologist to leader of IBM’s $6B microelectronics business before her appointment at AMI Semiconductor as the world’s first female CEO of a semiconductor company. A book detailing her life and career, Breaking Through the Silicon Ceiling, was published in 2024.
Christine King
CEO & Author of Breaking Through the Silicon Ceiling
Henry Schein One
NVIDIA
Alexis Bjorlin
Vice President & GM, DGX Cloud
NVIDIA
Alexis is vice president and general manager for DGX Cloud at NVIDIA. Prior to NVIDIA, Alexis was vice president for Infrastructure at Meta where her team was responsible for Infrastructure hardware/software co-designed systems, including AI Systems, compute and storage platforms, and custom Silicon. Prior to Meta, she served as senior vice president and general manager of the Broadcom Optical Systems Division and previously Corporate Vice President of the Data Center Group and General Manager of the Connectivity Group at Intel where she oversaw three business units: Ethernet/Networking, High Performance Computing fabrics, and Silicon Photonics. Prior to Intel, she spent eight years as President of Source Photonics, where she also served on the board of directors.
She earned a B.S. in materials science and engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in materials science from the University of California at Santa Barbara.
Alexis Bjorlin
Vice President & GM, DGX Cloud
NVIDIA
Wolfspeed
Elif Balkas
Chief Technology Officer
Wolfspeed
Elif Balkas serves as the Chief Technology Officer at Wolfspeed, responsible for building on the company’s strong technology foundation in wide bandgap materials, driving technological improvements to yield products with high quality and reliability as Wolfspeed continues to grow as the only pure play, vertically integrated silicon carbide company. During her 19+ tenure with the company, Elif served in a variety of leadership positions in R&D and operations, dedicating most of her time and focus on developing technologies that are scalable for manufacturing purposes and to enable more efficient and powerful electronic systems.
Elif cofounded the Women’s Initiative at Wolfspeed, to encourage, develop and support women who will lead the way in innovation and execution in every aspect of the business and community, and served as the leader of the Professional Development Focus to create an environment where everyone’s perspectives, ideas and contributions matter. She continues to serve on Women’s Initiative’s Steering Committee to foster diversity at all levels to create better results for the Company and our community.
Prior to Wolfspeed, Elif served as a scientist at Intrinsic Semiconductor where she was responsible for GaN and SiC epitaxy product development with a focus on high quality and efficient processes. Elif holds a Ph.D. in Materials Science with a minor in Electrical and Computer Engineering from North Carolina State University, specialized in GaN crystal growth via physical vapor transport. Elif is also graduate of the Chief Technology Officer Program at Wharton School.
Elif Balkas
Chief Technology Officer
Wolfspeed
Microsoft
Rani Borkar
Corporate Vice President, Azure Hardware Systems and Infrastructure
Microsoft
Rani Borkar has served as Corporate Vice President, Azure Hardware Systems and Infrastructure, at Microsoft Corporation, a global technology provider, since June 2019. She also served as Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Cloud Capacity, Supply Chain and Provisioning, from 2017 to June 2019. From 2016 to 2017, Ms. Borkar was Vice President, OpenPOWER Development at IBM Corporation, a global technology and consulting company. Prior to IBM, Ms. Borkar worked at Intel Corporation for 27 years, most recently as Intel’s Corporate Vice President and General Manager, Product Development Group.
Ms. Borkar serves as a member of the board of directors of the Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA).
Ms. Borkar joined the Applied Materials board of directors in 2020.
Rani Borkar
Corporate Vice President, Azure Hardware Systems and Infrastructure
Microsoft
Title Sponsor
Marvell is trusted by the world’s leading technology companies for 25 years, we move, store, process and secure the world’s data with semiconductor solutions designed for our customers’ current needs and future ambitions. Through a process of deep collaboration and transparency, we’re ultimately changing the way tomorrow’s enterprise, cloud, automotive, and carrier architectures transform—for the better. Learn more at Marvell.com.
Lanyard Sponsor
All around us, digital transformation is changing the way PEOPLE live, work, play and communicate. As a leading provider of semiconductor packaging and test services, ASE is playing a significant role in the development of the world’s most innovative electronics. Our technologies have also enabled our customers to create cutting edge products that deliver superior performance, power, speed and connectivity.
Breakfast Sponsor
Siemens AG is an engineering and manufacturing company focusing on electrification, automation, and digitalization. Siemens also provides engineering solutions in automation and control, power, transportation, and medical diagnosis. Siemens EDA is a broad line supplier of EDA tools serving wide variety of markets ranging from communications, consumer electronics, semiconductors, networking, multimedia, military and aerospace, and transportation. It provides a complete semiconductor design flow that includes simulation, emulation, place and route, verification, design for manufacturing, and test, as well as developing tools for wire harness systems and computational fluid dynamics.
General Sponsor
Qorvo products are at work connecting, protecting and powering the planet. We bring core radio frequency (RF) and power technologies and solutions to mobile, infrastructure, the IoT, defense/aerospace and power management markets. Transforming the way you live, work, play and communicate — that’s what inspires us.
General Sponsor
Millions of people experience Synaptics technology every day. Whether in your hand, pocket or purse, on your desk, in your home or in your car, our technology is likely inches from you right now. Our solutions impact how users interact with technology in numerous ways; what they see, what they hear, how they touch, how they engage, and how they connect.
Photo Booth Sponsor
Credo’s mission is to deliver high-speed solutions that break bandwidth barriers on every wired connection in the data infrastructure market. We provide innovative, secure, high-speed connectivity solutions that deliver improved power and cost efficiency as data rates and corresponding bandwidth requirements increase exponentially throughout the data infrastructure market.
Wellness Break Sponsor
GLOBALFOUNDRIES is the world’s first full-service semiconductor foundry with a truly global footprint. The company provides a unique combination of advanced technology and manufacturing to more than 160 customers. GLOBALFOUNDRIES’ three 300mm fabs and five 200mm fabs provide the full range of process technologies from mainstream to the leading edge. This global manufacturing footprint is supported by major facilities for research, development and design enablement located near hubs of semiconductor activity in the United States, Europe and Asia.
Lunch Sponsor
Samsung Semiconductor is a world-leading semiconductor manufacturer with a wide range of products that power the tools you use every day – including smartphones, electric vehicles, hyperscale data centers, IoT devices, and more. With a strong focus on innovation, Samsung designs and manufactures memory, system LSI, foundry, and LED solutions. Set to open in 2024, Samsung recently broke ground on a state-of-the-art Foundry in Taylor, Texas that will power next-generation technologies in areas like 5G, artificial intelligence (AI), and high-performance computing (HPC).
Platinum Sponsor
TSMC pioneered the pure-play foundry business model when it was founded in 1987, and has been the world’s largest dedicated semiconductor foundry ever since. The company supports a thriving ecosystem of global customers and partners with the industry’s leading process technologies and portfolio of design enablement solutions to unleash innovation for the global semiconductor industry. With global operations spanning Asia, Europe, and North America, TSMC serves as a committed corporate citizen around the world.
Platinum Sponsor
Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. Find out more at meta.com.
Platinum Sponsor
Intel put the silicon in Silicon Valley. For more than 50 years, Intel and our people have had a profound influence on the world, driving business and society forward by creating radical innovation that revolutionizes the way we live. Today we are applying our reach, scale, and resources to enable our customers to capitalize more fully on the power of digital technology. Inspired by Moore’s Law, we continuously work to advance the design and manufacturing of semiconductors to help address our customers’ greatest challenges.
Platinum Sponsor
Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) enables digital transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge. Its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Microsoft Azure is the world’s most advanced computing platform that enables organizations to solve complex problems and drive human ingenuity. Behind Azure’s ever-expanding suite of cloud offerings is a set of scalable, secure, and sustainable hardware systems and infrastructure. With datacenters in over 60 regions across the globe and availability in 140 countries, Azure is trusted & resilient and responsibly designed to enable innovation from the edge to the cloud. For more information, news and perspectives from Microsoft, please visit the Microsoft News Center at http://news.microsoft.com.
Platinum Sponsor
Micron Technology is a world leader in innovative memory solutions and storage that accelerate the transformation of information into intelligence, inspiring the world to learn, communicate and advance faster than ever. We deliver the world’s broadest portfolio of technologies at the core of today’s most significant disruptive breakthroughs such as artificial intelligence, IoT and autonomous vehicles. With more than 40 years of technology leadership and 40,000 patents contributing to the advancement of the industry, Micron’s team of engineers, researchers, and business thinkers share a common goal: to use our expertise in the relentless pursuit of innovation for our customers, partners, and communities.
Platinum Sponsor
Qualcomm is the world’s leading wireless technology innovator and the driving force behind the development, launch, and expansion of 5G. When we connected the phone to the internet, the mobile revolution was born. Today, our foundational technologies enable the mobile ecosystem and are found in every 3G, 4G and 5G smartphone. We bring the benefits of mobile to new industries, including automotive, the internet of things, and computing, and are leading the way to a world where everything and everyone can communicate and interact seamlessly.
Gold Sponsor
Alphawave Semi is a global leader in high-speed connectivity and compute silicon for the world’s technology infrastructure. Faced with the exponential growth of data, Alphawave Semi’s technology services a critical need: enabling data to travel faster, more reliably, and with higher performance at lower power. We are a vertically integrated semiconductor company, and our IP, custom silicon, and connectivity products are deployed by global tier-one customers in data centres, compute, networking, AI, 5G, autonomous vehicles, and storage. Founded in 2017 by an expert technical team with a proven track record in licensing semiconductor IP, our mission is to accelerate the critical data infrastructure at the heart of our digital world.
To find out more about Alphawave Semi, visit: awavesemi.com.
Gold Sponsor
Here at Infineon, we combine entrepreneurial success with responsible action to make life easier, safer, and greener. In the 2023 fiscal year (ending 30 September), Infineon reported revenue of more than €16 billion with a workforce of some 58,600 people worldwide.
The Woman of Innovation Award recognizes an industry veteran who has dedicated her career to making exceptional contributions to drive the development, innovation, growth and long-term opportunities for the semiconductor industry.
The Female Up and Comer Award recognizes and profiles the next generation of young women in the semiconductor industry. Companies are encouraged to identify women with a technical background and education within their organization who have been in the industry five years or less and have made exceptional contributions toward the development, innovation, growth and success in her short time in the industry.
The GSA Rising Women in Semi Award will recognize three to four female nominees who are considered rising leaders by their individual companies. These nominees should have made exceptional contributions toward the development, innovation, growth, and success of the semiconductor industry and made a huge impact during her time in the industry, which should be more than ten years but less than twenty years.
The Designing the Difference Award recognizes companies who are making a significant and measurable impact on advancing the industry through diversity and inclusion.
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WISH is free for university students. University students, please reach out to events@gsaglobal.org for your complimentary attendee code.
150 W San Carlos St
San Jose, CA 95113 United States
Join us at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center, a premier destination in the heart of Silicon Valley, for an unforgettable event. This state-of-the-art venue is an ideal location for networking with industry leaders and innovators, right here in Silicon Valley. With its expansive, flexible spaces and cutting-edge facilities, the convention center promises a conducive environment for exchange of ideas and growth. Don’t miss the chance to connect with peers, explore new trends, and experience the pulse of technology at one of the most celebrated venues in the tech world.
WISH is free for university students. University students, please reach out to events@gsaglobal.org for your complimentary attendee code.