Strengthening U.S.-Asia Tech Supply Chain Resilience
VIEW EVENT DETAILSOn Aug 22, 2024 from 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. PT, join professionals and scholars in international trade, tech innovation, and sustainability to analyze the vulnerabilities and future of global supply chains, with a special focus on Asia and America. Through an insightful panel discussion, speakers will examine strategies to enhance supply chain resilience, including diversification of sourcing, adoption of digital technologies for supply chain management, and cultivation of international partnerships. Speakers will also address concerns about the impact of future political shifts on supply chain and international trade. This program’s international focus will underscore the imperative for cross-border cooperation in adapting to a fast-evolving technological landscape.
Speakers include Kirti Gupta, Vice President and Chief Economist of Global Technology at Cornerstone Research; Sanchita Banerjee Saxena, Senior Advisor to Article One and faculty at Haas Business School at UC Berkeley; and Tom Quillin, Senior Director of Technology Policy and Global Government Affairs at Intel Corporation. Jacob Ward, technology journalist, will moderate.
Agenda
- 2:00-2:30 Registration
- 2:30-3:30 Panel discussion
- 3:30-4:00 Networking
Location: SC9 Auditorium, 2200 Mission College Blvd, Santa Clara, CA 95054
Speaker Bios
Kirti Gupta is Vice President and Chief Economist of Global Technology at Cornerstone Research and a noted economist and expert specializing in global matters related to technology, antitrust, and intellectual property (IP). Dr. Gupta’s diverse expertise spans engineering, product, litigation, and policy issues in the technology sector. She has more than twenty years of experience working at the forefront of technologies, including mobile/wireless telecommunications, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and semiconductors. She is a leader in Cornerstone Research’s technology, digital economy, and artificial intelligence practice.
Before joining Cornerstone Research, Dr. Gupta was a vice president and chief economist at Qualcomm Inc. In this role, she provided economic analysis and strategic guidance on global technology, IP, antitrust, and macroeconomic policy issues in collaboration with business stakeholders and a global network of experts, economists, attorneys, and policymakers. She worked directly on Qualcomm’s strategic IP initiatives, antitrust investigations in various regions around the world, global litigation matters, mergers and acquisitions, and global trade issues.
During her tenure at Qualcomm, Dr. Gupta provided fact witness testimony in high-profile antitrust and IP litigation matters, including FTC v. Qualcomm. She is experienced in all phases of litigation and regulatory proceedings. In the United States, she has regularly presented to government entities, including the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Department of Justice (DOJ), Department of Commerce (DoC), and National Security Council (NSC), among others. Internationally, she has spoken before various directorates-general (DGs) of the European Commission (EC), Competition Commission of India (CCI), Japanese Fair Trade Commission (JFTC), and World IP Office (WIPO), among others.
At the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), where she serves as a senior adviser, Dr. Gupta chairs the Geoeconomic Council of Advisers. The newly formed Council provides diverse, senior-level perspectives on emerging issues and trends affecting the global economy. In addition, Dr. Gupta is the executive director at the Institute for Business Innovation at the Haas School of Business at University of California, Berkeley. She is also the founding member and executive director of LeadershIP, an industry platform that analyzes complex IP and antitrust concepts and provides data-driven dialogue on innovation and innovation policy issues.
Dr. Gupta has taught and presented at various academic institutions, including Harvard University, New York University, Northwestern University, and the University of Pennsylvania, among others, and served as a visiting professor at National Law University (NLU) in New Delhi. She has been featured in such mainstream media outlets as Bloomberg, CNBC, Forbes, Reuters, and The Economist.
Prior to her work as an economist, Dr. Gupta spent over a decade as a wireless systems-engineering expert for global wireless standards and semiconductors that connect most of the mobile devices in the world today.
Dr. Sanchita Banerjee Saxena holds a PhD in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles and has close to 20 years of experience working on issues related to human rights in global supply chains, with a special focus on the garment industry in Asia. She is currently a Senior Advisor to Article One, a specialized strategy and management consultancy with expertise in human rights, responsible innovation, and sustainability.
Dr. Saxena is also a professional faculty member at the Haas School of Business, the Energy and Resources Group, and the Legal Studies department at UC Berkeley where she teaches classes about business, labor and global supply chains. She is also currently a Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE) at UC Berkeley.
Dr. Saxena is the editor of Labor, Global Supply Chains, and the Garment Industry in South Asia: Bangladesh after Rana Plaza (Routledge, 2020), author of Made in Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Sri Lanka: The Labor Behind the Global Garments and Textiles Industries (Cambria Press, 2014), and author of a number of articles, reports, and research briefs.
She has served as an advisor to a number of organizations including the Human Rights Measurement Initiative, Harvard Law School’s International Human Rights Clinic, Fundacao Getulio Vargas, and the H&M Foundation. She is currently a non-resident Research Fellow at the Institute of Human Rights and Business, serves on the BRAC USA Advisory Council, and is a member of the Research Network on Sustainable Global Supply Chains. In the past, she was a Visiting Researcher at the Copenhagen Business School (2023), a practitioner resident at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center in Italy (2016), and a Public Policy Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington D.C (2010 and 2014). Dr. Saxena frequently gives invited lectures and publishes commentaries in the popular media. Prior to these roles, she was the Executive Director of the Institute for South Asia Studies at UC Berkeley.
Tom Quillin is the Senior Director of Technology Policy and Global Government Affairs at Intel Corporation. He leads supply chain resilience policy for Intel. Tom developed analysis and education in support Congress’s historic, bipartisan passage of the CHIPS Act and its funding measure, and led development of Intel’s comprehensive applications for CHIPS grants. Tom’s deep understanding of software and hardware product lifecycles and supply chains stems from his work in product definition and product security over the course of more than two decades with Intel. Tom joined Intel Corporation in 1998 as a product manager with Intel’s motherboard manufacturing operation. As technology supply chains became global, Tom led collaboration efforts with suppliers and integrators worldwide to balance innovation, trust, and business continuity. Focused on how to increase trust in digital technologies, Tom led Intel’s planning efforts for security capabilities in Intel products. Tom joined the CTO Office at McAfee, working with IT leaders to measure and drive targeted security outcomes. Tom earned a bachelor’s degree from University of Iowa and an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business.
Jacob Ward is a prolific technology journalist. He was formerly an on-air correspondent for NBC News, covering the intersection of technology, human behavior, and social change for Nightly News, The TODAY Show, and MSNBC. He is the former editor-in-chief of Popular Science magazine, and was Al Jazeera’s science and technology correspondent from 2013 to 2018. Ward is a lecturer at the Stanford d.school, and was a 2018-2019 Berggruen Fellow at Stanford University’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, where he began writing The Loop: How AI is Creating a World without Choices and How to Fight Back, out now from Hachette Book Group. The book explores how artificial intelligence and other decision-shaping technologies will amplify good and bad human instincts. Ward has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Wired, and many other publications. In addition to hosting documentaries for Nat Geo and Discovery, he’s the host of the landmark four-hour PBS television series, “Hacking Your Mind,” about human decision-making and manipulation.
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Event Details
SC9 Auditorium, 2200 Mission College Blvd, Santa Clara, CA 95054