Katharine Schmidtke

Katharine is Director of Sourcing for ASICs and Custom Silicon at Meta Platforms, the world’s largest social network and one of the five largest hyperscale-datacenter operators in worldwide. In this role she directs sourcing strategy for Meta’s custom AI/ML accelerator ASICs, and next generation interconnect technology. Katharine obtained a Ph.D. in non-linear optics from Southampton University in the UK and completed post-doctoral research at Stanford University. She has over 25 years’ experience in the Opto-Electronics industry including strategic roles at; New Focus, JDSU Uniphase, and Finisar Corporation.