Shlomit Weiss

Weiss was most recently senior vice-president of silicon engineering at Mellanox, now a part of Nvidia. She oversaw the networking chip design group, leading a team of more than 1,000 employees.

Weiss is also an Intel veteran. With 28 years of experience working with Intel, Weiss helped develop its dual-core architecture, for which she won the company’s highest award – the Intel Achievement Award. She then went on to lead the team that developed the Sandy Bridge and Skylake processors.

The Skylake architecture spanned Intel’s sixth to 10th-generation Core processors and multiple generations of server chips.

Weiss, who holds a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology, has registered several patents on microprocessor development. While at Intel, she founded the Intel Israel Women’s Forum.