Keynote Speakers

 

Eileen Tanghal 

Talk: Engineer, VC, Mother, Spy - A journey towards investing for the greater good

 

Eileen Tanghal

Eileen Tanghal is a venture capitalist with nearly 20 years of experience. She has been involved with and sat on the boards of over 40 high tech startup companies in the US and Europe as a financial venture capitalist, corporate venture capitalist, and now as Founder and General Partner of Black Opal Ventures. Black Opal is focused on investing in companies looking to revolutionize healthcare through the utilization of advanced technology including Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning, Computing at the Edge, TinyML Digital Twins and Novel Sensors. Prior to Black Opal, Eileen served as the Managing Director of IN-Q-TEL’s London office, and before that, Eileen was Vice President of New Business Ventures at ARM Holdings and Global Head of Applied Matierals in-house venture capital fund, Applied Ventures. Eileen holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT and went on to receive her MBA from London Business School. Outside of being a venture capitalist, she owns and operates theCoderSchool Fremont and theCoderSchool Redwood City. She has a passion for advancing the number of women in the STEM and venture capital fields.

 

 

Dr. Ann Kelleher

Talk: Enabling An Exponentially Better Future: A Look at the Evolution of Moore’s Law Innovation

 

Dr. Ann Kelleher

Dr. Ann Kelleher is the executive vice president and general manager of Technology Development at Intel Corporation. Since 2020, she is responsible for the research, development and deployment of the next-generation silicon, advanced packaging, and test technologies that power Intel’s innovation. She joined Intel in 1996 as a process engineer and has worked in areas spanning from litho, thin films, yield, to managing all of Intel’s Global operations including Fab and Assembly Test factories, supply chain and construction. She did her Ph.D. in electrical engineering from University College Cork in Ireland and her post-doc at IMEC.