CareerConnections at TECHCON 2024 

CareerConnections is an intense 2-hour recruiting event. Technical staff and recruiters from SRC member companies are on hand to provide information to our SRC Research Scholars about each company. During this event, resumes and contact information are exchanged, while many companies actively recruit for open and upcoming job and internship opportunities. If you are looking to find a job or fill a job requisition, this is the place to do it!

GOLD Sponsors

GlobalFoundries Inc.
Intel Corporation
MICRON Technology, Inc.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (TSMC)

SILVER Sponsors

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
EMD Electronics (a Merck KGaA affiliate)
Qualcomm
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

BRONZE Sponsors

Analog Devices, Inc.
Arm Limited
ASM
IBM Corporation
MediaTek Inc.
NXP Semiconductors
RTX - Collins Aerospace
RTX - Raytheon
Texas Instruments

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Deirdre Hanford

Chief Executive Officer & Trustee
Natcast

Deirdre Hanford was appointed Chief Executive Officer and Trustee of Natcast in January 2024. In this role, Hanford leads Natcast as a new, purpose-built, non-profit entity created to operate the National Semiconductor Technology Center (NSTC) consortium, established as a key component of the CHIPS and Science Act of the U.S. government. The NSTC is a public-private consortium convening government, academic, and industry organizations across the semiconductor ecosystem. Its mission is to serve as the focal point for semiconductor research and engineering, advancing and enabling disruptive innovation to provide U.S. leadership in the industries of the future.

Prior to Natcast, Hanford served as an executive at Synopsys, a technology and market leader in electronic design automation and semiconductor design intellectual property. Over the span of thirty-six years, Hanford’s roles included being Chief Security Officer, Co-General Manager of the Synopsys Design Group, and leader of a variety of customer engagement, applications engineering, sales and marketing groups.

Well known within the semiconductor ecosystem, Hanford has served on many industry advisory boards, including being a leader in the Department of Commerce Industrial Advisory Committee formed through the CHIPS Act. 

In July 2024, Hanford was selected to receive the 2025 IEEE Frederik Philips Award “for visionary leadership in electronic design automation for secure and energy-efficient microelectronics.” Hanford was additionally awarded the 2024 Brown Engineering Alumni Medal (BEAM) within the Brown University School of Engineering. She has also been named to WomenTech’s 2022 list of Women in Tech Leaders to Watch, VLSIresearch’s 2017 list of All Stars of the Semiconductor Industry, and National Diversity Council’s 2014 list of Top 50 Most Powerful Women in Technology. In 2001, Hanford was a recipient of the YWCA Tribute to Women and Industry (TWIN) Award and the Marie R. Pistilli Women in EDA Achievement Award. 

Hanford earned a B.S. Engineering (electrical engineering) from Brown University and an M.S.E.E. from University of California, Berkeley.

TECHCON is an exclusive event for SRC members only! This unique two-day conference features:

• 160 scholar presentations and posters
• Undergraduate poster sessions
• TechConnect, one of many networking opportunities at the conference
• CareerConnections
• Awards and much more

Get a feel for the conference by reading about TECHCON 2023.