Speaker

Vincent Roche

Analog Devices

Biography

As Chief Executive Officer and Chair of the Board of Directors, Vincent Roche leads Analog Devices Inc. (ADI), a leading high-performance semiconductor supplier, to deliver unmatched intelligent edge solutions to several of humanity’s most pressing challenges in areas such as communications, advanced manufacturing, healthcare, sustainable energy, consumer, and transportation. Mr. Roche has extended the company’s prominence in the high-performance analog sector through an unyielding commitment to applied innovation, customer centricity, and operational excellence.

Mr. Roche is the third CEO and second Board Chair to lead the company since its founding in 1965. He began his career at ADI in 1988, progressively gaining responsibility over his tenure. Mr. Roche was promoted to President of ADI in 2012, appointed CEO in 2013, and elected Chair in 2022. During Mr. Roche’s tenure as CEO, the Company’s total shareholder return is 330% (vs. S&P 500 of 217%, or >1.5x the S&P 500 over that time as of March 1, 2022).

Mr. Roche serves on the boards of the Semiconductor Industry Association, the MIT Presidential CEO Advisory Board, and is a member of the Massachusetts High Tech Leadership Council. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Electronic Systems and an honorary Doctor of Science (Eng.) from the University of Limerick in Ireland.

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Vincent Roche - Analog Devices

CEO & Chair of the Board of Directors - Analog Devices

The intelligent edge: Embracing the challenge, pioneering the path
The hardware paradigm of the Information and Communications Technology industry has moved through three epochs since its emergence – mainframes, PC & Internet, and mobile & cloud. Today, we are in the early days of a fourth era – the Intelligent Edge – as the center of gravity for data processing shifts increasingly from the cloud to the edge, thanks to applications like autonomous driving, predictive healthcare, and intelligent factory automation. Companies are reducing system latency, cost, and power requirements by putting computing power closer to where the data is being generated and acted upon.

Achieving the Intelligent Edge era’s full potential will require strong execution and progress along three axes of innovation – semiconductor geometries (“More Moore”), combinatorial hardware technologies (“More than Moore”), and combinatorial non-hardware technologies (“Beyond Moore”). While the first two axes are well-understood and have long histories in the semiconductor industry, the Beyond Moore axis consisting of embedded algorithms, software, and increasingly Artificial Intelligence, is relatively nascent.

Successfully building out the Intelligent Edge offers the tantalizing prospect of solving some of humanity’s most difficult and intractable challenges in productivity, efficiency, safety, and sustainability across virtually all industries.

In this talk, Analog Devices’ CEO and Chair Vincent Roche will discuss the most pressing technological and business challenges in the emerging Intelligent Edge era.