Giulietta Poltronieri

Partner

McKinsey & Company

Giulietta Poltronieri is a Partner in McKinsey’s Global Semiconductors and Advanced Electronics practices. She leads transformational programs with semiconductor clients along the full value chain, including semiconductor equipment players, IDMs, fabless, foundries, OSATs, and customers, with focus on operations, strategy and people topics.

She is leading McKinsey’s “Talent in Semiconductors” Global Service Line and is the EMEA “All-in, Diversity & Inclusion” Leader for McKinsey Advanced Industries practices, leading initiatives to attract and retain female talent in sectors where the male gender has traditionally been prevalent.

Giulietta holds a double Master in International Management from Bocconi University and HEC Paris. Before joining McKinsey, she has briefly worked at Google in the role of Business Associate.

Margaret Han

Executive Vice President and Head of US Foundry

Samsung Semiconductor

Margaret Han serves as Executive Vice President and Head of US Foundry for Samsung Semiconductor.

A veteran of the semiconductor industry, Han brings deep expertise in business development, market expansion, and strategic sourcing. She has held leadership roles at TSMC, NXP Semiconductors, and
Intel, where she consistently drove growth and operational excellence. At TSMC, she was instrumental in establishing the North America marketing and business development division, leading a broad portfolio of customer accounts.

Han earned a degree in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University and completed the Executive Program at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business.

Mohit Gupta

Senior Vice President & General Manager

Alphawave Semi

Mohit Gupta joined Alphawave in September 2022 as part of the OpenFive acquisition from SiFive. He currently serves as Senior Vice President and General Manager for the IP and Custom Silicon Business unit. Mohit brings in more than 2 decades of experience in semiconductor IP and SoC domains, leading worldwide engineering, application engineering, products, and field teams. Prior to Alphawave, he led the IP and Custom SoC business units at SiFive and Rambus.

Mohit holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communications from Thapar University and Master of Science in Microelectronics from BITS, Pilani. He also holds an executive MBA in International Business from Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta.

Robert Wann

Founder, President, and CEO

Enova Technology

Robert Wann founded Enova Technology in January 2000, after 11 years of engineering and technical marketing job roles in Silicon Valley. Robert is passionate about security technology with a vision to build the world’s first real-time Full Disk Encryption (FDE) chip technology. The chip sits at the physical layer of a computer architecture and transparently encrypts the storage device with in-line performance to safeguard the confidentiality of all data-at-rest (DAR) and data-in-transit (DIT). He provided security engineering assessments to guide strategic accounts like US prime defense contractors and others to facilitate, among other technical implementations, their NSA COTS (Commercial-Off-The-Shelf) and NIAP validations. He is well-versed in modern cryptographic chip design, including Quantum-Resistant cryptography, cybersecurity, AI, system security engineering, and assessment.

Robert received his education in MSEE and BSEE, and is a CISSP and CMMC (Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification) Certified Assessor (CCA).

Syed Alam

Partner

McKinsey & Company

Syed is a Partner at McKinsey & Company with focus on Semiconductor and Advanced Industries. Syed has 20+ years of experience helping semiconductor and high-tech clients with growth strategy, M&A, supply chain transformation, manufacturing strategy and digital transformation. Before McKinsey, Syed worked at Accenture, Freescale Semiconductor and Motorola Semiconductor Products Sector.

Syed has deep understanding of the key trends, emerging challenges and opportunities shaping the semiconductor industry. He is recognized as a semiconductor industry leader with multiple publications and presentations at the industry conferences. He is also frequently quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg and CNBC.

Syed received Masters of Science in Manufacturing Systems Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin.

Tulika Jha

Director, Logic Design

Microsoft

Tulika Jha is the Director of Logic Design within Cloud Computing Development Organization at Microsoft. She is the SOC Front Design Execution Lead and Manager for the current generation of Compute SOC after successfully co-leading front-end design for Cobalt 100, Microsoft’s First Datacenter Chip! She is a proven influential leader and manager with 20+ years of industry experience in the Silicon domain. Before Microsoft, Tulika held senior leadership positions as technical lead and manager in design verification, validation, and front-end design, both at IP and SOC levels at Intel Corporation. She possesses expertise in silicon development from cradle to grave, delivering highly innovative and top-performing silicon ranging from IPs and SOCs, catering to Client/Desktop/Laptop and Server market.

Tulika also leads various strategic silicon initiatives and standardization efforts within Microsoft across AI & Compute organizations. She is passionate about D&I and empowering people around her. She leads various D&I initiatives like Industry & University Hiring, STEM in local schools and universities, & mentoring engineers across different career stages.

Vikram Meghal

Senior Vice President and Global Head of Engineering for Networks, Communication, Media and Tech

Infosys

Warren Niles

Founder & CEO

Warlex Technologies

Warren Niles is the founder of Warlex Technologies, an advertising technology startup, with a background in computer science and machine learning. He brings expertise in artificial intelligence, quantitative finance, distributed systems, and cryptography. Warren has built AI systems for web traffic fingerprinting and sentiment analysis, developed a distributed database for scalable CP systems, and created an autonomous engine for real-time financial data analysis.

He holds a B.S. in Computer Science with a concentration in Machine Learning and a minor in Statistics from the University of Chicago.