This event is co-hosted onsite at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering.
The CSIS Renewing American Innovation program and University of California-San Diego (UCSD) are hosting a half-day symposium that feature experts panels highlighting the region’s dynamism and how the private sector, public sector, and academia in the San Diego area work together to make it the world-renowned high-tech landscape that exists today.
Organized as a series of panel discussions, the event draws together the local policy and economic development community, leading researchers from UC San Diego's Jacobs School of Engineering, and semiconductor industry participants to explore the region’s assets and capabilities and the challenges and opportunities for cooperation. Speakers will lay out the benefits of the San Diego region, and what has contributed to its status as a distinguished center for semiconductor design amid a rapidly advancing global technological competition.
This event is made possible in part by support from Qualcomm.
Andrea Tao, Associate Dean for Students, Jacobs School of Engineering, UC San Diego
Navin Girishankar, President of the Economic Security and Technology Department, CSIS
Address from the Office of the Mayor of San Diego
Remarks from the Office of Senator Adam Schiff (D-CA)
Sujai Shivakumar, senior fellow and director of Renewing American Innovation, CSIS
Moderator: Charles Wessner, Senior Advisor, CSIS Renewing American Innovation
Caroline Freund, Dean of the UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy
Nikia Clarke, Chief Strategy Officer, San Diego Regional Economic Development Corporation (EDC)
Kathy Hayashi, IEEE Director of Region 6 (Western Region of the United States) and a member, IEEE Board of Directors
Lauryn Williams, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, CSIS Strategic Technologies Program
Moderator: Kathleen Kingscott, Senior Advisor, CSIS Renewing American Innovation
Monique Rodriguez, Vice President of Government Affairs, Qualcomm
Luke Murry, Head of Government Affairs, Marvell Technology
Valentina Bonito, Head of U.S. Public-Private Partnerships, ASML
Andrew LaForge, Head of EUV Source Functions, ASML
Moderator: Bill Lin, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Associate Dean for Research, UCSD
Patrick Mercier, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering at UCSD
Ramamohan Paturi, Professor, Computer Science and Engineering at UC San Diego
Tajana Šimunić Rosing, Fratamico Endowed Chair of Computer Science and Engineering and Electrical Engineering, Director for PRISM Center and the System Energy Efficiency Lab, UC San Diego
Moderator: Sujai Shivakumar, senior fellow and director of Renewing American Innovation, CSIS
Charles Wessner, Senior Advisor, CSIS Renewing American Innovation
Kirti Gupta, Senior Advisor, CSIS Renewing American Innovation
Kathleen Kingscott, Senior Advisor, CSIS Renewing American Innovation
