Alex Tsyplikhin
Sailesh Chittipeddi
Dr. Sailesh Chittipeddi became the Executive Vice President and the General Manager of the Embedded Processing, Digital Power and Signal Chain Solutions Group of Renesas in July 2019. He joined Renesas in March 2019.
Before joining Renesas, he served as IDT’s Executive Vice President of Global Operations and CTO, with an additional focus on corporate growth and differentiation. In this role, he was responsible for the company’s operations, procurement, quality, supply chain, foundry engineering, assembly engineering, product & test engineering, facilities, Design Automation, and Information Technology groups. From a product line perspective, he had responsibility for the IoT Systems Group, RapidWave Interconnect Systems, PCIe and Standard Products Group. Additionally, Dr. Chittipeddi helped IDT leverage its existing strengths to increase corporate value while driving the rapid delivery of new products.
Prior to joining IDT, Dr. Chittipeddi was President and CEO of Conexant Systems and served on its Board of Directors. He led the company in its transition from a public company to private ownership and through its debt restructuring efforts. Before that, he held several executive roles at Conexant Systems, including COO, co-President, EVP for Operations and Chief Technical Officer, with responsibility for global engineering, product development, operations, quality, facilities, IT and associated infrastructure support. Dr. Chittipeddi started his career in technology with AT&T Bell Labs and progressively managed larger engineering and operations groups with AT&T Microelectronics/Lucent and Agere Systems. Dr. Chittipeddi serves on the Board of Directors for Avalanche Technology (USA) and Tessolve (Division of Hero Electronix, India). He also serves as a Board Observer in Blu Wireless Technology (Bristol, UK), Peraso Technologies (Canada) and Anagog (Israel).
Dr. Chittipeddi holds five degrees, including an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin and a Ph.D. in physics from The Ohio State University. Dr. Chittipeddi has earned 64 U.S. patents related to semiconductor process, package and design, and has had nearly 40 technical articles published.
Vasudev Lal
Vasudev Lal is an AI Research Scientist at Intel Labs where he leads the Multimodal Cognitive AI team. His team develops AI systems that can synthesize concept-level understanding from multiple modalities: vision, language, video and audio. His current research interests include equipping deep learning with mechanisms to inject external knowledge; self-supervised training at scale for continuous and high dimensional modalities like images, video and audio; mechanisms to combine deep learning with symbolic compute. Prior to joining Intel, Vasudev obtained his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Alam Akbar
Alam Akbar is a veteran of the semiconductor industry with experience spanning multiple engineering, product management, and product marketing roles. He holds a Bachelors of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M, and an MBA from Santa Clara University.
Alam began his career at Synopsys as an Application Consultant where he helped grow their market share in the signoff domain. He then joined the business management team at Cadence where he helped launch a new physical verification solution. After Cadence, Alam joined Intel Foundry services as a design kit program manager, and then moved into the client compute group as director of product marketing. There, he helped scale Intel's storage business, and developed product strategy for new memory solutions for the PC market.
At ProteanTecs, he's part of a team that’s bringing greater insight into the health and performance of semiconductors across the value chain, from the design stage to in field operation, and all the steps in the middle.
Pooja Singh
Pooja Singh is a Partner in McKinsey’s Healthcare practice and a leader in the domain focused on Healthcare Affordability, Quality and Outcomes. Pooja serves payers, healthcare technology & services companies and private equity institutions on topics related to transformations, operations and innovation. Specifically, Pooja has extensive experience in serving payers on topics including Payment Integrity, FW&A, Medical Management, Care Management and Network management.
Malik Muller
Kwok Ho Chan
