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CASPA Conference
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With Jensen Huang (Founder, NVIDIA), Kunle Olukotun (Chief Technologist, SambaNova), Steven Woo (Fellow, Rambus), Weifeng Zhang (Chief Architect, Lightelligence), Chloe Jian Ma (VP China, ARM), Glenn Ge (Founder, TetraMem). |
| Santa Clara Convention Center, 5001 Great America Parkway, Santa Clara |
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Oct 07 (Sat) , 2023 @ 12:30 PM
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Agenda
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Registration & Networking
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Welcome from CASPA President
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
BOD Election
10:30 AM - 11:15 AM
Law Seminar
11:15 AM - 11:30 AM
Announcement for new BODs
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Lunch Break
12:30 PM - 1:00 PM
Registration & Networking
1:00 PM - 1:10 PM
Welcome from CASPA President
1:10 PM - 4:25 PM
KEYNOTE SPEECH FROM GUEST SPEAKERS
4:25 PM - 4:30 PM
Closing Remark
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About this event
7 hours 30 minutes
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Dinner Banquet Special Guest:
Jensen Huang
Founder, President & CEO
Jensen Huang founded NVIDIA in 1993 & has served since its inception as president, chief executive officer, & a member of the board of directors.
Since its founding, NVIDIA has pioneered accelerated computing. The company's invention of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market, redefined computer graphics, & ignited the era of modern AI. NVIDIA is now driving the platform shift of accelerated computing & generative AI, transforming the world's largest industries, & profoundly impacting society.
Huang is a recipient of the Semiconductor Industry Association's highest honor, the Robert N. Noyce Award; IEEE Founder's Medal; the Dr. Morris Chang Exemplary Leadership Award; & honorary doctorate degrees from Taiwan's National Chiao Tung University, National Taiwan University, & Oregon State University. He has been named the world's best CEO by Harvard Business Review & Brand Finance, as well as Fortune's Businessperson of the Year & one of TIME magazine's 100 most influential people.
Prior to founding NVIDIA, Huang worked at LSI Logic & Advanced Micro Devices. He holds a BSEE degree from Oregon State University & an MSEE degree from Stanford University.
Kunle Olukotun
Co-Founder & Chief Technologist
SambaNova Systems
Kunle Olukotun is the Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at Stanford University. Olukotun is a renowned pioneer in multi-core processor design & the leader of the Stanford Hydra chip multiprocessor (CMP) research project.
As co-founder of SambaNova Systems, Olukoton has developed an AI innovation company that empowers organizations to rapidly deploy best-in-class AI solutions in days to unlock new revenue & boost operational efficiency.Prior to SambaNova Systems, Olukotun founded Afara Websystems to develop high throughput, low-power multi-core processors for server systems. The Afara multi-core processor, called Niagara, was acquired by Sun Microsystems & now powers Oracle's SPARC-based servers.
Olukotun is the Director of the Pervasive Parallel Lab & a member of the Data Analytics for What's Next (DAWN) Lab, developing infrastructure for usable machine learning. Olukotun is an ACM Fellow & IEEE Fellow for contributions to multiprocessors on a chip & multi-threaded processor design. Olukotun recently won the prestigious IEEE Computer Society's Harry H. Goode Memorial Award & was also elected to the National Academy of Engineering-one of the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer.
Kunle received his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from The University of Michigan
Steven Woo
Fellow & Distinguished Inventor at Rambus Inc
Steve Woo is a Fellow & Distinguished Inventor at Rambus, working on technology & business development efforts across the company. He is currently leading research work within Rambus Labs on advanced memory systems for accelerators & computing infrastructure, & manages a team of senior architects. Since joining Rambus, Steve has worked in various roles leading architecture, technology, & performance analysis efforts, & in marketing & product planning roles leading strategy & customer programs. Steve received his PhD & MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, & Master of Engineering & BS Engineering degrees from Harvey Mudd College.
JOHN Y. CHEN
Corporate Vice President of Technology & Foundry Management at NVIDIA
John Y. Chen has been the Corporate Vice President of Technology & Foundry Management at NVIDIA since 2004. He has been responsible for working with TSMC & other foundries to get NVIDIA's new products manufactured by most advanced process technology.
Prior to that, Dr. Chen spent 10 years at TSMC, first in charge of company-wide yield improvement, & testing/packaging operation, then he created & ran the R&D at TSMC, Taiwan. Subsequently, he built & ran the Fab Operations of WaferTech in Camas, WA, the 1st TSMC wafer fab in USA. Lastly, he served as the Vice President of Business Development for TSMC.
Earlier in his career at Hughes Research Lab & Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, he has contributed more than 100 journal articles, most published by IEEE. He wrote a textbook on CMOS Devices & Technology for VLSI, published by Prentice Hall (a part of Simon & Schuster now) in 1990. He was elected to the IEEE Fellow in 1992 for leadership in & contributions to CMOS device & process technology.
In the 80's, he has served on the Technical Advisory Board of ITRI/ERSO, the incubator of Taiwan semiconductor industry including TSMC. In 2001, he became the board director of Cascade (Nasdaq:CSCD) for six years until the company was acquired by FormFactor. Also, he has served as a director on Monte Jade board & as technical advisors for three private companies in Silicon Valley. He is now on the advisory board of D2S.
Dr. Chen holds a B.S. in E.E. from National Taiwan University, an M.S. in E.E. from University of Maine, a Ph.D. in E.E. from UCLA, & a master's degree from the UCLA Executive Engineering Management Program. He has taught & given lectures at serveral universities & has been invited to give many speeches around the world.
Dr. Chen recently authored a book on Leadership in Management, published by Nova Science Publishers, N.Y., February 2022.
Dr. Weifeng Zhang
Chief Architect & VP of Software at Lightelligence Inc
Dr. Weifeng Zhang is the Chief Architect & VP of Software at Lightelligence Inc, responsible for system architecture, hardware software co-design, & software infrastructure to empower optical computing & interconnect technologies. Prior to joining Lightelligence, Weifeng was a Sr. Director of Alibaba Group & the Chief Scientist of Heterogeneous Computing at Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure. He was a founding member of the Board of Directors at MLCommons (MLPerf) & currently serves as the Tech Chair of AI Co-Design Workgroup at Open Computing Project Foundation (OCP). He co-founded the HiPChips organization & co-chaired the International Workshop of High Performance Chiplet & Interconnect Architectures (HiPChips) at ISCA-2022 in New York, HPCA-2023 in Montreal, & ISCA-2023 in Orlando, respectively. Weifeng received his PhD in Computer Science from University of California, San Diego (UCSD).
Chloe Jian Ma
Vice President, China GTM, ARM
Chloe Jian Ma is VP of China Go-To-Market for the IOT & Embedded Line of Business at Arm. In this role, Chloe is responsible for strengthening & expanding Arm products, solutions & ecosystem for the China market so that the next wave of innovations in AIoT & embedded intelligence happen on the Arm platform. She joined Arm from the RISC-V world, where she worked for both SiFive & StarFive (SiFive's China JV) & had her hands full with many aspects of the business from global technology partnership/ecosystem building, to GTM strategy, to fundraising & running a regional subsidiary.
Chloe's experience in the semiconductor industry also included Mellanox & Intel, where she led the GTM of cloud networking & compute solutions into the hyperscale Internet & Cloud service provider segment. Prior to entering the semiconductor industry, Chloe assumed engineering & marketing leadership roles in the networking industry at Juniper Networks, Huawei & Cisco Systems. To close the full loop, her 1st job was with Wind River in real-time embedded OS with a vision to make everything smart! Chloe received an MBA degree from Wharton, an MSEE from University of Southern California, & a BS in Electronics from Peking University in China.
Dr. Glenn Ge
CEO & co-founder of TetraMem Inc
Dr. Glenn Ge is the CEO & co-founder of TetraMem, a leading Silicon Valley startup in AI acceleration. With a decade of experience in the semiconductor sector, he has contributed to numerous product innovations. He boasts around 800 global patent filings, stemming from over 300 US/PCT patent families, many of which are now in mass production. Dr. Ge holds three Master's degrees, including an MBA from the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business, & a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
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 & General Manager of the Product Management & Customer Enablement division in the IoT Group at Intel. Before that, Dipti held several leadership positions at Texas Instruments & 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, & is a graduate of the Executive Education programs at Stanford, Harvard, & Cambridge business schools
Mr. Zheng Li
Director of Board, Chief Executive Officer
JCET Group Co.,.
STATS Chip PAC Pte..
Mr. Zheng Li joined the company as Chief Executive Officer on September 9, 2019. He was appointed as a Director of the Board for JCET & certain subsidiaries of the Company on September 26, 2019.
Mr. Zheng received his Master's degree in Financial Economic Management from the University of Tokyo & Bachelor's degree in Industrial Management Engineering, Tianjin University. He has close to 30 years of experience working in IC companies in the United States, Japan, Europe & China. Prior to his current position, Mr. Zheng served as Global Senior Vice President of NXP, President of NXP Greater China, CEO of Renesas Greater China & GM of Tomen America ( a Toyota group subsidiary) Santa Clara office.
Currently, Mr. Zheng also serves as Vice Chairman of China Semiconductor Industry Association, Rotating Chairman of Packaging & Testing Branch of China Semiconductor Industry Association, Chairman on duty of National Technology Innovation Strategic Alliance for IC Assembly & Testing, & SEMI Global Board of Director. In 2022, Institutional Investor, the leading financial rating agency in U.S., ranked Mr. Zheng as the second best CEO in the semiconductor industry in Asia (excluding Japan).
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