Overview

Silicon Valley WiE Conference 2020

The 2020 Silicon Valley Women in Engineering (WiE) Conference is structured to provide you with opportunities to learn cutting-edge technical topics and career development skills that you will need to thrive in the workplace. The WiE Conference provides a wealth of opportunities to connect with accomplished women technologists and fellow students for inspiration and support.

Plenary Sessions

The WiE Conference features morning and lunch time plenary sessions. During these sessions, featured keynote speakers will share highlights from their professional experience and personal insights regarding technology trends that impact campus to career pathways for women in engineering.

Concurrent Sessions A, B, and C

You can choose from 12 technical (Emerging Technologies) and 6 non-technical (Professional Development) talks to maximize your 2020 WiE Conference experience. These talks are organized in three rounds of six concurrent sessions (four technical and two non-technical talks per session). Simply choose three talks, one from each round of concurrent session.

Engineering Career Panels

The WiE Conference is an opportune time to ask women leaders for guidance and feedback about the important decisions you face, from campus to career. The WiE Conference offers four Engineering Career Panels featuring distinguished women leaders in an open setting conducive to this type of exchange. This year’s career panels are:

Software and information technology
Microelectronics and semiconductor equipment
Biomedical
Building, infrastructure, and the environment

Choose the panel that is most closely aligned with your major and career interests. Please be prepared to connect and ask questions.

WiE Innovation Showcase and Networking Reception

Come to experience cutting-edge technologies and explore their possibilities in your career aspirations and plans. Connect with peers, potential future co-workers, hiring managers, and mentors, while enjoying good food and music at Silicon Valley’s best conference for women in engineering.

Sponsors

Title Sponsor

Mark and Carolyn Guidry Women in Engineering Program Fund

Carolyn Guidry (1937-2009) was born in Mississippi and spent her childhood in the Deep South. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering at Louisiana State University in 1959. One week after graduation, she married Mark Guidry (1937-2020), a fellow electrical engineering major she met at LSU. Carolyn began her career at Boeing, but soon put her career on hold and devoted 20 years to raising their three children. She returned to school and earned her Master’s degree in Computer Engineering from SJSU in 1979. She joined Hewlett-Packard and was directly responsible for the development of a new flexible interconnect cable and the microcode for a new computer.

In partnership with Mark, Carolyn founded two successful companies in semiconductor design software and semiconductor product development. Both companies were later acquired and became leaders in their respective fields. After the second company was acquired by Integrated Circuit Systems in 1993, she founded the Mark and Carolyn Guidry Foundation and managed all aspects of the organization. She received an Award of Distinction from SJSU Davidson College of Engineering in 2006. Both she and Mark were inducted into the LSU College of Engineering Hall of Distinction in 2001.

Mark was a Louisiana native. After receiving his BSEE from LSU, he took a position at Boeing. He subsequently earned an MSEE from University of Washington and a Ph.D. from Iowa State University. He taught at LSU, where he conducted research in semiconductor technology, laser technology and radio wave propagation. Prior to founding their companies, Mark worked at Fairchild Semiconductor in Palo Alto, a small San Diego company and Texas Instruments in Houston.

All three of Carolyn and Mark’s children graduated with degrees in engineering. The Guidry family strongly believes in the power of education and the importance of developing engineering education in the U.S. for what lies ahead. The Mark and Carolyn Guidry Foundation has been a long-time leader in supporting women in engineering at SJSU. Its commitment and on-going support have made the Silicon Valley Women in Engineering program a model of success for educating new woman innovators regionally and nationally.

Champion Sponsors

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Cisco

75 billion devices are expected to be connected to the Internet by 2025. Each device includes sensors that collect data, interact with the environment, and communicate over a network. The Internet of Things (IoT) is the network of these connected devices. These smart, connected devices generate data that IoT applications use to aggregate, analyze, and deliver insight, which helps drive more informed decisions and actions.

The Cisco IoT portfolio provides an integrated architecture of hardware, software, and security offerings to safely and securely connect our world.

Come visit Cisco at the Innovation Showcase, where we will be showing how the connectivity behind the scenes impacts your everyday life. The demo brings out the different aspects of the Cisco IoT portfolio to connect and monitor devices across connectivity types, and to manage the extraction of data in a secure fashion.

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Google

With the Google Assistant, you can enjoy entertainment, find answers, manage everyday tasks, and easily control smart home devices–all with your voice. Listen to your favorite song, find a delicious brownie recipe, or check your commute to work. Or, prepare for movie night by dimming the lights and streaming the latest blockbuster. The Google Assistant can also help in situations where you may not speak the local language with interpreter mode. Today’s demonstration will give insight into how the Google Assistant is always learning and improving to help get things done faster and easier on the go, the car, and at home.

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NETGEAR

NETGEAR Walkthrough and Summer Internship Program

Since 1996, NETGEAR® (NASDAQ: NTGR) has been the innovative leader in connecting the world to the internet with advanced networking technologies for homes, businesses, and service providers around the world. As staying connected has become more important than ever, NETGEAR delivers award-winning network solutions for remote work, distance learning, UHD streaming, online game play and more. By enabling people to collaborate and connect to a world of information and entertainment, NETGEAR is dedicated to providing a range of connected solutions from easy-to-use high-performance Orbi Mesh WiFi systems, the Nighthawk portfolio of WiFi routers, cable modems and mobile wireless, cloud-based subscription services for enhanced control and security, to smart networking products and video over Ethernet for Pro AV applications.

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TSMC

TSMC Career Talk Sessions

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited engages in the computer aided design, manufacture, packaging, testing, sale, and marketing of integrated circuits and other semiconductor devices. The company is also involved in the research, development, design, manufacture, and sale of solid-state lighting devices and related applications products and systems, and renewable energy and efficiency related technologies and products, as well as manufactures masks. In addition, it provides customer and technical support services; and sells and markets solar related products. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited operates in Taiwan, the United States, Asia, and internationally. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Hsinchu, Taiwan.

TSMC North America is the sales and service organization for the world’s largest semiconductor foundry with headquarters based in Taiwan. TSMC NA works with customers in the technology business that manufactures and sells products that run on our chips and cutting-edge technology.