The power of adversity
14:15 - 14:35
Abstract
Adversity is a constant in the semiconductor industry, which routinely faces substantial geopolitical, macroeconomic, and technical challenges. But it is precisely adversity that catalyzes our greatest breakthroughs.
Christine King, the semiconductor industry’s first female CEO, will share her inspirational story and demonstrate how adversity enables our greatest leaps in professional and business success. By taking the audience through her incredible journey from the trailer park to the boardroom, she will reveal the critical lessons for business (and life) success she learned navigating everything from public assistance, to entrepreneurship, to decades of increasing responsibility at IBM, including:
Finding White Spaces of opportunity from the birth of Microprocessors to the Artificial Intelligence era
Thinking boldly and “out of the box” to build businesses from Zero to $1B
Getting unstuck when you can’t just power through
Turning around a struggling semiconductor company to successfully take it public
Chris will highlight universal, but rarely practiced, secrets of business success that are applicable in every industry – from dairy farming to high tech.