2025 Keynote Speakers
John currently manages a team of test architects responsible for defining new DFT methods & test solutions with silicon design and product engineering groups that span a wide spectrum of AMD products. John has been at AMD for 30+ years driving many test innovations from concept to production deployment. From early in the product life cycle, he works closely with strategic test partners to identify new test disruptions and co-develop next generation solutions for the industry. John is an alumni of the University of Texas in Austin with a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering.
Mr. Meade is a distinguished technology executive with more than two decades of experience in high-technology industries. Currently, he holds the position of Executive Director for Strategic Partnerships at the Texas Institute for Electronics. Mr. Meade's educational background includes an MBA from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, as well as a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering and a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Throughout his career, Mr. Meade has exhibited exceptional innovation and leadership in the domains of photonics, packaging, and memory technologies. His contributions to these fields are evidenced by over 120 patents granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), encompassing photonics, semiconductor manufacturing, and emerging memory technologies. As an author or co-author of numerous peer-reviewed papers, his work has garnered over 1,300 citations, resulting in an h-index of 22.
Mr. Meade has played integral roles in several high-profile research initiatives. Notably, he served as the Principal Investigator (PI) for the DARPA Photonically Optimized Embedded Microprocessors (POEM) program, which achieved the significant milestone of demonstrating the first-ever monolithically integrated bulk CMOS Tx/Rx link. Furthermore, his expertise has been utilized in other prominent research endeavors, including his involvement in the DARPA GRYPHON (Co-PI) and ARPA-e ENLITENED (PI) programs.
Andrew Yick, PhD., serves as the Senior Director of Product and Test Engineering at Marvell. Based in Westlake Village, California, he leads Marvell’s Product and Test Engineering teams, driving the production of cutting-edge broadband analog devices such as transimpedance amplifiers and drivers, as well as silicon photonic integrated circuits (PICs). His expertise spans a wide frequency range, from DC to 110 GHz, all the way to light speed. Andrew oversees all aspects of New Product Introduction (NPI) engineering, from initial silicon to mass production, leading teams across the United States, Europe and Asia. Andrew has been in the industry for over 20 years and received his PhD in Electrical Engineering, specializing in Photonics, from the University of Southern California.