Priya Almelkar is CIO and SVP of IT Manufacturing & Product Engineering at Wolfspeed Inc, a leader in silicon carbide semiconductor manufacturing. She has over 20 years of experience leading core IT functions across a variety of verticals, including telecommunication, retail, semiconductor manufacturing, and brings deep expertise in implementing large-scale digital transformations. She is passionate about driving innovation and leading change. She was recognized with a STEP Ahead award for leadership in manufacturing and has partnered with MIT for podcasts on Analytics in Cloud. Priya is an engineer by education graduating from Oklahoma State University in Management Information Systems.
Session: Running first-of-a-kind-fully automated 200mm SIC Fab
Building the 1st ever and World’s largest 200mm SiC Factory is a unique challenge. We will explore how we use MES to run fully automated 1st of a kind fab at a large scale and talk about major points about collaboration between Business and IT, understanding the business needs, developing architecture together, and overcoming many 1st of a kind challenges.
