Join us at WISH, GSA WLI’s premier technical conference that promises to be an inspiring celebration of innovation and empowerment. With around 1,000 attendees, including industry luminaries, visionary entrepreneurs, and brilliant university students in STEM, this event will showcase the evolving landscape of technology. Attendees can look forward to inspiring keynotes from trailblazers who are reshaping the tech world, as well as celebratory awards honoring extraordinary women who have broken the glass ceiling and those paving the way for future generations. This is a unique opportunity to connect with like-minded professionals and forge valuable relationships that can propel your career forward. Join us in championing gender parity and celebrating the remarkable achievements of women in technology—be part of the movement transforming the industry!
Annelise McCarthy (She/Her)
Founder, Women’s Speaking Coach, Public Speaking Expert, Facilitator, Keynote Speaker & MC
Her Speaking Coach
Annelise is a renowned Women’s Speaking Coach with over 15 years Public Speaking training and experience. She’s on a mission to subvert the dull and pretentious reputation of Public Speaking and transform this into an exciting and empowering skill. An international speaker, entrepreneur and CEO, Annelise is also a World Public Speaking Championship Finalist (yep – total nerd) and holds a double bachelor’s degree in Law and Mandarin. From growing up with a speech impediment and later battling an identity crisis and self-doubt in the corporate world, Annelise understands the unique challenges that hold women back from using their voices. With a combined social media community of over 200K, Annelise is a necessary modern voice for women wanting to speak up and stand out. Her philosophy? Embrace imperfection, challenge tradition, and give fear the middle finger. Annelise believes speaking is a lifelong skill that every woman can master – because your voice deserves to be heard.
Breakfast Sponsored by Siemens
Join us for an inspiring and empowering panel discussion, featuring some of the most senior and influential women in the semiconductor industry. These trailblazing leaders have not only risen to the top in a highly competitive field but have also paved the way for future generations. In this session, they will share their personal journeys, keys to success, and insights on how to become effective leaders in the tech world. Attendees will gain valuable advice and practical strategies from these accomplished women who have truly made it to the top in tech. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from the best and be inspired to achieve your own career aspirations in the semiconductor industry.
Semiconductors are the beating heart of today’s world, powering everything from consumer electronics to the AI systems driving the digital economy. Sustaining the pace of innovation, critical to the industry’s future, depends on attracting and retaining exceptional talent. Yet the technical complexity of the field, and its increasingly competitive landscape, make talent acquisition an ongoing challenge. This panel brings together experts in workforce development and talent strategy to explore how we can attract, engage, and retain the next generation of semiconductor leaders. From diversifying the pipeline and rethinking educational pathways to fostering inclusive cultures and supporting long-term career development, the discussion will spotlight actionable strategies to secure the talent needed to drive innovation forward.
As AI transforms how we design semiconductors, the boundary between human and machine ingenuity is being redefined. This panel will explore how generative AI, autonomous agents, and open-source tools are reshaping design workflows, challenging traditional hardware methodologies, and shifting the talent landscape. What does this mean for junior engineers, researchers, and the future workforce? Are we building toward a new model of AI-Human leadership, or phasing out the very people who drive innovation? Join us for a conversation at the intersection of AI, hardware, and human potential.
VIP Reception Sponsored by TSMC
Broadcom
Carrie Pelton
Vice President, Wireless Semiconductor Division
Broadcom
Carrie is vice president for the wireless semiconductor division at Broadcom. During her time at Broadcom, Carrie has been involved in many aspects of the semiconductor wafer fabrication facility in Fort Collins. She began her journey with Hewlett Packard in microlithography. Carrie was part of the transfer team to bring the novel FBAR technology to Fort Collins from a smaller HP facility in the early 2000s; her fab now runs this technology in high volume. Carrie has helped stabilize the workforce in semiconductor manufacturing in Fort Collins with significant efforts placed on community outreach and internal pipeline development, collaborating with local high schools and community colleges.
She earned a B.S. in chemical engineering from Arizona State University and an MBA from the University of Colorado.
Carrie Pelton
Vice President, Wireless Semiconductor Division
Broadcom
Arm
Dipti Vachani
Senior Vice President & General Manager, Automotive Business
Arm
Dipti leads the organization responsible for delivering Arm-based solutions in the transformational opportunities of automotive.
Previously, Dipti served as Vice President and General Manager of the Product Management and Customer Enablement division in the IoT Group at Intel. Before that, Dipti held several leadership positions at Texas Instruments and led the creation of the company’s Sitara brand of Arm MPUs.
Dipti is on the Women’s Leadership Council for the Global Semiconductor Association.
She holds a BS in Computer Engineering from Texas A&M, an Executive MBA degree from the University of Texas, and is a graduate of the Executive Education programs at Stanford, Harvard, and Cambridge business schools.
Dipti Vachani
Senior Vice President & General Manager, Automotive Business
Arm
IQE
Jutta Meier
CEO and CFO
IQE
Jutta Meier is the CEO and CFO of IQE plc, the leading supplier of advanced compound semiconductor wafer products and material solutions to the global semiconductor industry. She leads the company’s strategic direction and oversees its financial operations, driving IQE’s growth and transformation as the world’s only pure-play epitaxy provider with a three-continent footprint.
Jutta has over 25 years of senior finance experience gained in leading technology companies including Intel, GlobalFoundries and Advanced Micro Devices. She holds an MBA from Technische Universität Dresden.
Jutta Meier
CEO and CFO
IQE
AMD
Sharon Zhou
Vice President, AI
AMD
Dr. Sharon Zhou is the VP of AI at AMD and was the founder and CEO of Lamini, an AI startup that won last year’s VentureBeat Gen AI Startup Award and has been recognized as a Forbes Cloud 100 Rising Star. As a former faculty member at Stanford, she led a 50+ person Generative AI research group and published award-winning papers in generative AI. Sharon teaches some of the most popular AI courses on Coursera, including Fine-tuning LLMs and Diffusion models, reaching millions of developers and executives. She earned her PhD in AI from Stanford, where she was advised by Dr. Andrew Ng. Before her PhD, she worked as an AI product manager at Google.
She received her bachelor’s degree in computer science and Classics from Harvard. Additionally, Sharon has served as an AI advisor in Washington, D.C., and has been featured in MIT Technology Review’s 35 Under 35 list.
Sharon Zhou
Vice President, AI
AMD
San José State University
Sheryl Ehrman
Don Beall Dean of the Charles W. Davidson College of Engineering
San José State University
Sheryl Ehrman is the Don Beall Dean of the Charles W. Davidson College of Engineering at San José State University, a position she has held since 2017. Prior to joining San José State, she was a faculty member in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park, for 19 years. Dean Ehrman received her PhD degree from UCLA and her BS degree from UC Santa Barbara, both in chemical engineering.
Sheryl Ehrman
Don Beall Dean of the Charles W. Davidson College of Engineering
San José State University
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.
Lanyard Sponsor
ASE, Inc. is the leading global provider of semiconductor manufacturing services in packaging and test. With strong leadership in heterogeneous integration, manufacturing efficiencies, and sustainability approaches, packaging innovation is at the heart of what ASE does. Today, ASE’s advanced packaging, system-in-package, and chiplet solutions are accelerating growth momentum across AI, HPC, Data Center, Automotive, IoT, 5G, and more. To learn about our VIPack™ and powerSiP™ platforms, please visit aseglobal.com or follow us on LinkedIn and X: @aseglobal.
Designing the Difference Award Sponsor
The landscape of technology is constantly evolving, making it challenging to stay on top of trends and maintain field-level expertise. Our labs provide the essential day-to-day knowledge and experience required to develop cutting-edge solutions in the AI space. We’re here to assist you in navigating the complexities and hurdles on your journey, from concept to market.
Female Up and Comer Award Sponsor
AMD is the high performance and adaptive computing leader, powering the products and services that help solve the world’s most important challenges. Our technologies advance the future of the data center, embedded, gaming and PC markets.
Founded in 1969 as a Silicon Valley start-up, the AMD journey began with dozens of employees who were passionate about creating leading-edge semiconductor products. AMD has grown into a global company setting the standard for modern computing, with many important industry firsts and major technological achievements along the way.
Rising Women in Semi Award Sponsor
Our vast portfolio of Flash products enables a seamless and simplified world of resilient data expression and storage. We believe that everyone should be inspired by their data – to move, create, discover, share, and unlock their potential. These values focus our vision, inspire what we build, and drive our ambitions, shaping our path and defining what success looks like across everything we do.
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.
VIP Dinner Sponsor
We’re driven to build incredible things that connect people in inspiring ways.
Because we can’t truly advance groundbreaking AI alone, we share our research and engage with the AI community to advance the science, together.
Whether it be in AI Infrastructure, Generative AI, NLP, Computer Vision or other core areas of AI, our focus is to connect people in inspiring ways through collaborative, responsible AI innovation.
Photo Booth Sponsor
Credo’s mission is to advance high-speed connectivity solutions that deliver optimized performance, reliability, energy efficiency, and security for the next generation of AI driven applications, cloud computing, and hyperscale networks.
Dessert Bar Co-Sponsor
For more than 50 years, Ansys software has enabled innovators across industries to push boundaries with the predictive power of simulation. From sustainable transportation and advanced semiconductors, to satellite systems and life-saving medical devices, the next great leaps in human advancement will be powered by Ansys.
Dessert Bar Co-Sponsor
NVIDIA pioneered accelerated computing to tackle challenges no one else can solve. Our work in AI and digital twins is transforming the world’s largest industries and profoundly impacting society.
Platinum Sponsor
We design industry-leading, high-speed connectivity solutions for customers in high-growth end markets.
Our leading-edge technology advances push the boundaries of wired connectivity capabilities, enabling data to travel faster, more reliably, and using lower power.
Powering next generation technologies, we serve Tier-One customers in North America, Asia Pacific, Europe, and the UK. Our innovative solutions have repeatedly set industry benchmarks in terms of performance, power consumption, size, and flexibility.
Platinum Sponsor
We are a world leader in innovative memory solutions that transform how the world uses information to enrich life for all. For over 45 years, our company has been instrumental to the world’s most significant technology advancements, delivering optimal memory and storage systems for a broad range of applications.
Gold Sponsor
#WhyCisco
At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint. Simply put – we power the future.
Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.
We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.
Gold Sponsor
Semiconductors are crucial to solve the energy challenges of our time and shape digital transformation. This is why Infineon is committed to actively driving decarbonization and digitalization. As a global semiconductor leader in power systems and IoT, we enable game-changing solutions for green and efficient energy, clean and safe mobility, as well as smart and secure IoT. We make life easier, safer, and greener.
Gold Sponsor
At ST, we are creators and makers of semiconductor technologies mastering the semiconductor supply chain with state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities. As an integrated device manufacturer, we work with our customers and partners to design and build products, solutions, and ecosystems that address their challenges and opportunities, and the need to support a more sustainable world. Our technologies enable smarter mobility, more efficient power and energy management, and the wide-scale deployment of cloud-connected autonomous things.
Gold Sponsor
Teradyne tests and helps build the world’s most innovative products. Our leading-edge testers make sure that new products work right the first time, every time. And our robotics portfolio helps manufacturers to develop and deliver new products quickly, efficiently and cost-effectively. From idea to final product – we test and automate it all.
General Sponsor
Emerson (NYSE: EMR) is a global industrial technology leader that provides advanced automation. With an unmatched portfolio of intelligent devices, control systems and industrial software, Emerson delivers solutions that automate and optimize business performance. Headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, Emerson combines innovative technology with proven operational excellence to power the future of automation. For more information, visit Emerson.com.
General Sponsor
GF is one of the world’s leading semiconductor manufacturers and the only one with a truly global footprint. We are redefining innovation and semiconductor manufacturing by developing feature-rich process technology solutions that provide leadership performance in pervasive high growth markets. As a steadfast partner, with a unique mix of design, development and fabrication services, GF works collaboratively alongside our customers to bring a broad range of innovative products to market.
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
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).
General Sponsor
Synaptics is leading the charge in AI at the Edge, bringing AI closer to end users and transforming how we engage with intelligent connected devices, whether at home, at work, or on the move. As the go-to partner for the world’s most forward-thinking product innovators, Synaptics powers the future with its cutting-edge Synaptics Astra™ AI-Native embedded compute, Veros™ wireless connectivity, and multimodal sensing solutions. We’re making the digital experience smarter, faster, more intuitive, secure, and seamless. From touch, display, and biometrics to AI-driven wireless connectivity, video, vision, audio, speech, and security processing, Synaptics is the force behind the next generation of technology enhancing how we live, work, and play.
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 a semiconductor company that has taken intentional, measurable steps to create an environment where innovation and diverse perspectives are valued and contribute to a forward-thinking industry. Companies should demonstrate company-wide initiatives, internal culture, community engagement and overall commitment to creating an environment where innovation and diverse perspectives are valued and contribute to industry impact and overall long-term vision of meaningful leadership and culture.
Standard pricing is valid through September 1, 2025.
Late pricing begins September 2, 2025.
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.
As part of our commitment to making your experience as seamless as possible, GSA has arranged rooms at the San Jose Marriott connected to the convention center.