Kedar Mane

Kedar Mane is currently the Director of Hardware Engineering - Silicon Programs at Cisco, focusing on strategy execution within silicon programs. With over 17 years of experience in the silicon industry, Kedar has held key roles at Google, where they led technical program management for AI/ML infrastructure, and NVIDIA, where they served as a technical lead for next-gen CPUs and GPUs. Kedar's career also includes a significant position at IBM as a Senior R&D Engineer. They are pursuing a Master’s in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University and have completed a Bachelor’s in Electronics and Telecommunications.