Industry Strategy Symposium: ISS 2025
January 12, 2025 - January 15, 2025
Join us at the Ritz-Carlton in Half Moon Bay, CA to get the latest insights on economic trends, market drivers, geopolitics, technology, and what these will mean for the near future to help drive your business forward. The cooperative platform of ISS and its tremendous collective assets will serve to help power your strategies for the coming months and years.
READY, SET, RAMP!
Building upon last year’s theme “Ready, Set, Ramp? “ of readiness and anticipation, this year marks a bold declaration of action and confidence as we propel forward with vigor and purpose.
“Ready, Set, Ramp! serves as a call to action for industry stakeholders to navigate these uncharted waters with agility and strategic vision.
It replaces the question marks of uncertainty with the exclamation points of determination and readiness!
As the semiconductor industry accelerates towards the monumental trillion-dollar milestone, it’s crucial to explore strategies for coping with the rapid acceleration. Understanding and maneuvering through the dynamic landscape becomes paramount for sustained prosperity.
ISS delves into the multifaceted dimensions of this journey, encompassing technological innovations, burgeoning demand, market diversification, global integration, R&D investments, workforce shortage, and sustainable practices. Addressing challenges and harnessing opportunities necessitates a holistic approach, requiring collaborative efforts from industry stakeholders, governments, and research institutions.
- What are the demands and challenges inherent in this accelerated growth?
- How is the industry allocating resources to facilitate this ramp-up?
- How do we set the stage for all-time highs in semiconductor revenue and Wafer Fabrication Equipment (WFE) Investment?
- Exploring the impact of emerging technologies and market diversification on the ramp-up trajectory.
- Accelerated computing powering a new industrial revolution–Are we prepared?
- What collaborative efforts and partnerships are necessary to overcome challenges and capitalize on opportunities as we surge toward the trillion-dollar milestone?
By engaging in these critical key questions and through collaborative discussions, ISS attendees gain actionable insights and strategies for capitalizing on the industry’s upward trajectory while mitigating risks and challenges along the way, positioning themselves for success in the race toward the trillion-dollar milestone.
KEYNOTES
- AMD—Ramine Roane, Corporate VP, AI
- KLA—Oreste Donzella, Executive Vice President – Electronics, Packaging and Components (EPC) Group
- TSMC—Kevin Zhang, PhD, Senior Vice President of Business Development & Global Sales and Deputy Co-COO
SPEAKERS
- AMD—Rajit Seahra, Senior Fellow
- Applied Materials—Manish Ranjan, Head of Business Management, Heterogeneous Integration
- ASML—Peter Vanoppen, PhD, Executive VP, Head of Business Line High NA EUV
- Center for Automotive Research (CAR)—Ravi Puvvala, General Manager, Strategic Business Unit
- Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)—John J. Hamre, President and CEO
- Dell Technologies—Alyson Freeman, PhD, Innovation Lead, Sustainability and ESG
- Exyte—Herbert Blaschitz, Executive Vice President of the Global Business Unit Advanced Technology Facilities (ATF)
- Gartner—Bob Johnson, Vice President
- Google—Bernard Kress, Director, Optical Engineering, AR Hardware
- Google Cloud—Ali Arsanjani, Director of Applied AI Engineering
- IDC—Mario Morales, Group Vice President, Enabling Technologies and Semiconductors
- Intel Corporation—Kevin Hogatt, Director of State Government Affairs for Ohio
- Intel Corporation—Rahul Manepalli, PhD, Intel Fellow & Director of Substrate TD Module Engineering
- Linx Consulting—Mark Thirsk, Managing Partner
- Macquarie Group—David Doyle, Managing Director, Head of Economics
- McKinsey & Company—Henry Marcil, Partner
- Micron Technology—Akshay Singh, PhD, Vice President of Advanced Packaging Technology Development
- MilliporeSigma—Will Kools, Head of Technology Pioneering Group
- MUFG Americas—Lucia Greenblatt, Managing Director, Head of Semiconductors & Electronics
- Nvidia—Bahareh Banijamli, Advanced Technology Group, Packaging
- TechInsights—Scotten Jones, President Semiconductor Manufacturing Economics and Senior Fellow
- TechSearch International—Jan Vardaman, President
- Wolfspeed—Joseph Roybal, Senior VP, Global Backend Operations
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