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JC Pan

VP, Cloud Supply Chain Sourcing
Microsoft
JC Pan leads Cloud Sourcing, Sustainability, and Security (CS3) at Microsoft, where he oversees the sourcing and supply chain for cloud hardware and services—critical to Microsoft’s role as a global cloud service provider. A recognized expert in supply chain operations, JC Pan has been with Microsoft for seven years, during which his strategic leadership has been instrumental in navigating complex challenges and advancing the company’s supply chain capabilities.
Before joining Microsoft, he spent eight years at Dell, driving supply chain strategy and transformation, and previously served as a project lead at McKinsey & Company for three years, bringing deep consulting experience to his operational leadership.
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JC Pan

VP, Cloud Supply Chain Sourcing
Microsoft
JC Pan leads Cloud Sourcing, Sustainability, and Security (CS3) at Microsoft, where he oversees the sourcing and supply chain for cloud hardware and services—critical to Microsoft’s role as a global cloud service provider. A recognized expert in supply chain operations, JC Pan has been with Microsoft for seven years, during which his strategic leadership has been instrumental in navigating complex challenges and advancing the company’s supply chain capabilities.
Before joining Microsoft, he spent eight years at Dell, driving supply chain strategy and transformation, and previously served as a project lead at McKinsey & Company for three years, bringing deep consulting experience to his operational leadership.

Author:

Laura Ortman

CEO
Cologix

Laura was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Cologix in 2022 after serving as the company’s President and Chief Revenue Officer since 2018. Laura has over 25 years of experience in cloud and technology global leadership focused on GTM strategy, revenue growth, global customer success, sales and account management, and revenue and client relationship management.  Laura was EVP and Chief Customer Officer at Equinix, and prior she spent nine years at VMware, overseeing the Cloud Services business as co-General Manager and Vice President. Laura held global IT and technical support teams for Jeppesen, a Boeing Company, and served various technical and global leadership positions at Lockheed Martin.  Laura is also on the board of Digital Edge DC. Laura holds an MBA in Information Systems from Regis University and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (BSBA) in Marketing from the University of Alabama in Huntsville, where she played collegiate tennis.

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Laura Ortman

CEO
Cologix

Laura was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Cologix in 2022 after serving as the company’s President and Chief Revenue Officer since 2018. Laura has over 25 years of experience in cloud and technology global leadership focused on GTM strategy, revenue growth, global customer success, sales and account management, and revenue and client relationship management.  Laura was EVP and Chief Customer Officer at Equinix, and prior she spent nine years at VMware, overseeing the Cloud Services business as co-General Manager and Vice President. Laura held global IT and technical support teams for Jeppesen, a Boeing Company, and served various technical and global leadership positions at Lockheed Martin.  Laura is also on the board of Digital Edge DC. Laura holds an MBA in Information Systems from Regis University and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (BSBA) in Marketing from the University of Alabama in Huntsville, where she played collegiate tennis.

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Dion Harris

Sr. Director, AI and HPC Infrastructure Solutions
NVIDIA

Dion Harris, Senior Director of HPC and AI Infrastructure Solutions at NVIDIA, leads product strategy across scientific computing, cloud, and AI infrastructure. He also contributes to the company’s sustainability steering committee, with a focus on data center energy efficiency. Prior to joining NVIDIA, he held product leadership roles at Dell/EMC and Symantec. Dion earned both his MBA and bachelor’s degree in Economics from UC Berkeley.

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Dion Harris

Sr. Director, AI and HPC Infrastructure Solutions
NVIDIA

Dion Harris, Senior Director of HPC and AI Infrastructure Solutions at NVIDIA, leads product strategy across scientific computing, cloud, and AI infrastructure. He also contributes to the company’s sustainability steering committee, with a focus on data center energy efficiency. Prior to joining NVIDIA, he held product leadership roles at Dell/EMC and Symantec. Dion earned both his MBA and bachelor’s degree in Economics from UC Berkeley.

Moderator

Author:

Steven Carlini

Chief AI Advocate
Schneider Electric
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Steven Carlini

Chief AI Advocate
Schneider Electric

The semiconductor industry is experiencing unprecedented growth, and this growth comes with significant challenges—more design starts, rising design complexities, shorter time-to-market, and a shrinking talent pool. To address these challenges, semiconductor companies are turning to AI-powered EDA solutions. While mainstream AI & GenAI technologies have seen rapid consumer adoption, adapting these AI technologies for EDA use cases is not straightforward due to stringent quality requirements for semiconductor design. 

Ideally, EDA AI solutions that provide productivity boosts to chip designers and engineers should (a) seamlessly analyze design and verification data, (b) optimize complex processes, and (c) generate better designs. Across these functional areas, we will discuss illustrative ML, GenAI, and Agentic approaches. Additionally, we will also discuss the challenges associated with AI adoption, including data availability, model interpretability, and computational demands. 

Further, we will discuss the grand vision of having a purpose-built centralized EDA AI platform. Such a platform framework can be very powerful by combining sophisticated foundational models or even IC domain-specific foundational models with a multimodal data lake to bring GenAI capabilities to push the boundaries of semiconductor innovation, paving the way for more efficient, scalable, and intelligent design processes.

Join us to explore the capabilities of EDA AI and see what the future holds!

Author:

Ankur Gupta

SVP & GM
Siemens EDA

Ankur Gupta is Senior Vice President and General Manager of Digital Design Creation at Siemens EDA. This includes Test, Embedded Analytics, Digital IC design, Power Optimization, and Power Integrity Analysis. Formerly he was head of Product Management and Applications at Ansys, Semiconductor and Head of Applications Engineering for Digital Implementation & Signoff at Cadence Design Systems.

Ankur has 20+ years of experience in EDA, working on some of the industry’s most innovative Test, Digital Design, Implementation and Signoff products. He holds a Master’s Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering, from Iowa State University.

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Ankur Gupta

SVP & GM
Siemens EDA

Ankur Gupta is Senior Vice President and General Manager of Digital Design Creation at Siemens EDA. This includes Test, Embedded Analytics, Digital IC design, Power Optimization, and Power Integrity Analysis. Formerly he was head of Product Management and Applications at Ansys, Semiconductor and Head of Applications Engineering for Digital Implementation & Signoff at Cadence Design Systems.

Ankur has 20+ years of experience in EDA, working on some of the industry’s most innovative Test, Digital Design, Implementation and Signoff products. He holds a Master’s Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering, from Iowa State University.

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John Overton

CEO
Kove

John Overton is the CEO of Kove IO, Inc. In the late 1980s, while at the Open Software Foundation, Dr. Overton wrote software that went on to be used by approximately two thirds of the world’s workstation market. In the 1990s, he co-invented and patented technology utilizing distributed hash tables for locality management, now widely used in storage, database, and numerous other markets. In the 2000s, he led development of the first truly capable Software-Defined Memory offering, Kove:SDM™. Kove:SDM™ enables new Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning capabilities, while also reducing power by up to 50%. Dr. Overton has more than 65 issued patents world-wide and has peer-reviewed publications across numerous academic disciplines. He holds post-graduate and doctoral degrees from Harvard and the University of Chicago.

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John Overton

CEO
Kove

John Overton is the CEO of Kove IO, Inc. In the late 1980s, while at the Open Software Foundation, Dr. Overton wrote software that went on to be used by approximately two thirds of the world’s workstation market. In the 1990s, he co-invented and patented technology utilizing distributed hash tables for locality management, now widely used in storage, database, and numerous other markets. In the 2000s, he led development of the first truly capable Software-Defined Memory offering, Kove:SDM™. Kove:SDM™ enables new Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning capabilities, while also reducing power by up to 50%. Dr. Overton has more than 65 issued patents world-wide and has peer-reviewed publications across numerous academic disciplines. He holds post-graduate and doctoral degrees from Harvard and the University of Chicago.

AI is only as good as the foundation upon which it is built. Unstable infrastructure can turn even the most brilliant algorithms into expensive experiments that fail when you need them most. With proven security, massive scale, and unmatched reliability, AWS was built for the needs of tomorrow's most demanding workloads. We'll dive into the high-performance networking, innovative silicon design, and differentiated services that enable customers to push the boundaries of what's possible. Because when it comes to AI, this isn't just infrastructure—it's the foundation that powers the future.

Author:

Barry Cooks

VP, Compute Abstractions
AWS

 

Barry Cooks is a global enterprise technology veteran with 25 years of experience leading teams in cloud computing, hardware design, application microservices, artificial intelligence, and more. As Vice President of Technology at Amazon, he is responsible for compute abstractions (containers, serverless, VMware, micro-VMs), quantum experimentation, high performance computing, and AI training. He oversees key AWS services including AWS Lambda, Amazon Elastic Container Service, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service, and Amazon SageMaker. Barry also leads responsible AI initiatives across AWS, promoting the safe and ethical development of AI as a force for good. Prior to joining Amazon in 2022, Barry served as CTO at DigitalOcean, where he guided the organization through its successful IPO. His career also includes leadership roles at VMware and Sun Microsystems. Barry holds a BS in Computer Science from Purdue University and an MS in Computer Science from the University of Oregon.

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Barry Cooks

VP, Compute Abstractions
AWS

 

Barry Cooks is a global enterprise technology veteran with 25 years of experience leading teams in cloud computing, hardware design, application microservices, artificial intelligence, and more. As Vice President of Technology at Amazon, he is responsible for compute abstractions (containers, serverless, VMware, micro-VMs), quantum experimentation, high performance computing, and AI training. He oversees key AWS services including AWS Lambda, Amazon Elastic Container Service, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service, and Amazon SageMaker. Barry also leads responsible AI initiatives across AWS, promoting the safe and ethical development of AI as a force for good. Prior to joining Amazon in 2022, Barry served as CTO at DigitalOcean, where he guided the organization through its successful IPO. His career also includes leadership roles at VMware and Sun Microsystems. Barry holds a BS in Computer Science from Purdue University and an MS in Computer Science from the University of Oregon.

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Yee Jiun Song

VP, Engineering
Meta

Yee Jiun Song serves as Vice President of Engineering at Meta, leading the Infrastructure Foundation organization. In this role, he oversees the strategy and development of Meta's AI, compute, and storage hardware platforms, custom silicon, supply chain operations, and the management of global infrastructure capacity.  

Yee Jiun's tenure at Meta started in 2010 when he joined the company as a Research Scientist with a focus on improving system reliability and fault tolerance. He later became Vice President of Engineering for the Core Systems organization, where he played a key role in developing the software systems necessary for Meta's services to scale reliably to millions of servers.


Yee Jiun is committed to research and innovation and has published in various academic conferences, including SOSP, OSDI, and ISCA.

Yee Jiun holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a B.A. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley, an M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell University.

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Yee Jiun Song

VP, Engineering
Meta

Yee Jiun Song serves as Vice President of Engineering at Meta, leading the Infrastructure Foundation organization. In this role, he oversees the strategy and development of Meta's AI, compute, and storage hardware platforms, custom silicon, supply chain operations, and the management of global infrastructure capacity.  

Yee Jiun's tenure at Meta started in 2010 when he joined the company as a Research Scientist with a focus on improving system reliability and fault tolerance. He later became Vice President of Engineering for the Core Systems organization, where he played a key role in developing the software systems necessary for Meta's services to scale reliably to millions of servers.


Yee Jiun is committed to research and innovation and has published in various academic conferences, including SOSP, OSDI, and ISCA.

Yee Jiun holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a B.A. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley, an M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell University.

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Alan Rosa

CISO & SVP, Technology
CVS Health

Alan Rosa is the SVP, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and Head of Infrastructure and Operations at CVS Health .  The 3,500 colleagues and contractors in his organization are responsible for delivering services and experiences related to Digital Workplace, Contact Center, Infrastructure, Cloud and Technical Operations across all CVS lines of business.  In addition, Alan is the appointed CISO for the company responsible for health and integrity of the Cybersecurity program, GRC/Risk initiatives and Privacy Engineering.

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Alan Rosa

CISO & SVP, Technology
CVS Health

Alan Rosa

CISO & SVP, Technology
CVS Health

Alan Rosa is the SVP, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and Head of Infrastructure and Operations at CVS Health .  The 3,500 colleagues and contractors in his organization are responsible for delivering services and experiences related to Digital Workplace, Contact Center, Infrastructure, Cloud and Technical Operations across all CVS lines of business.  In addition, Alan is the appointed CISO for the company responsible for health and integrity of the Cybersecurity program, GRC/Risk initiatives and Privacy Engineering.

Prior to joining CVS Health, Alan was the CISO and head of IT for Twitter where he was responsible for the Security program as well as all aspects of the Information Technology organization.  Alan has over 25 years of experience driving the development and evolution of enterprises technologies and teams for large multinational brands while building products and services that protect assets while avoiding risks.  He has held global leadership roles for companies such as Disney, MSG, General Electric and Quest Diagnostics. 

An award winning technology leader, Alan was named to the Top 100 of HITEC (Hispanic IT Executive Council), and the ComputerWorld Premier 100. Alan has served on various technical advisory boards and counsels including those for Dell, EMC, Cisco and VMware. 

Alan holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Central Florida, and Masters degrees from Columbia University and Seton Hall.  He also attended the Rutgers University College of Law. In addition he holds technical designations in the areas of Security, Networking, and Privacy.  He is a veteran of the US Navy having proudly served in the Submarine service. 

To learn more about Alan, follow him on LinkedIn