Women in Tech Speaker Series with Jen Huffstetler, Chief Product Sustainability Officer at Intel

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0:31 so great to see everyone welcome I'm Hillary weingast I'm head of Corpus

0:36 social responsibility and inclusion and diversity and I'm super excited to welcome you all to the latest session

0:43 for our women in Tech speaker series um huge thanks to Raj for all the

0:49 wonderful women he's had and brought to Juniper as you know or for those of you

0:54 who don't know if this is your first we Spotlight women leaders across the industry have them share their stories

1:00 their Journeys and Empower all of us in the workplace women in the workplace to

1:05 grow and find their unique voice so I'm personally super excited that Raj

1:11 asked me to host today um I'm excited to welcome Jennifer hofstetler to our session Jennifer is

1:18 Chief product sustainability officer and vice president and general manager of future platform strategy and

1:24 sustainability at Intel she's responsible for driving the integration and execution of the

1:30 corporate wide Intel platform Technologies and business strategies to drive future growth and corporate level

1:36 product strategy and action for sustainability Jennifer joined Intel back in 1996 where

1:43 she started as a Fab process engineer she spent most of her career applying

1:49 her extensive Technical and business product experience to lead strategy project management and product marketing

1:55 efforts for a number of core Intel businesses I'm not going to go into all the details

2:01 because I'm going to let Jennifer tell us about that but she's had many different roles

2:07 um most recently she led data center platform strategy she previously held roles spanning

2:14 product management for all data center processor products she drove product and

2:20 segment PLS she was involved in Mobile product launches desktop products Intel

2:25 server boards she's done it all so we have lots of opportunity to ask her tons of questions she holds a bachelor's

2:31 degree in chemical engineering from MIT and an MBA from Babson College so super

2:36 excited from my Boston roots um and I understand that Jennifer

2:42 started work in sustainability at a very early age when in junior high she

2:49 started an environmental Club so looking forward to hearing about that as well

2:54 um we're going to go ahead and take questions at the end for those of you who are here we also are lucky enough to

3:00 have Jennifer afterwards so we can ask her questions as well but I'm going to kick us off Jennifer

3:07 um as we usually do these sessions um start by telling us about your journey

3:13 what inspired you to get into engineering was it sort of a dream you

3:18 always had how did you end up in engineering well Hillary first thank you to all of you Raj for the invitation Hillary for

3:25 hosting me I'm really excited to share my journey with all of you um and you know just to go after that

3:31 first question um maybe like many of you if you're engineers in the room you're good at

3:38 math and science what do you do with that my parents didn't have formal college education and so as I was

3:45 looking at my opportunities I'll actually even call out it was a brochure it from Cornell that really articulated

3:52 visually I'm a visual learner all the different ways that you could apply engineering

3:59 to running shoes to computers to houses and bridges and you know I think I was

4:06 already leaning that way just you know based on my strengths and the the career

4:12 opportunities ahead but really being able to visualize what might I be able to contribute to in the world that

4:19 really helped to cement my my focus there and I love that plug for marketing

4:25 [Laughter]

4:32 I'm an engineer what did you think was it what you expected yeah thank you for that question so when

4:39 I entered College I thought I was going into biomedical engineering just you know in transparency maybe to be a

4:45 doctor and through the classes is where I uncovered the complexity uh within you

4:54 know building semiconductors it was my last lab class that I had and we're

5:00 sitting in a little tiny room making two inch Wafers and you know really getting

5:05 that hands-on experience so that's what led me to Intel through both an internship and then first a role and was

5:14 it what I expected is a great question um so you know you finish engineering

5:20 school you and this probably happened to anybody as you're leaving your you know that school where you're the what's the

5:26 next exam the next problem set and and when I arrived really lots of learning

5:31 right I worked in Process Equipment development it's really partnering with

5:38 the technology development team internally and with the external suppliers to co-optimize the solution

5:44 and select uh the process equipment for the future Generations

5:50 um for me that was I love the learning the culture matters

5:55 and you know I'm sure a lot of the the folks here you know whether women or not like is this a culture that you're going

6:02 to thrive in and you know what I experience in looking around it wasn't

6:09 that there wasn't great work that I was going to be able to contribute I didn't see myself that I was gonna thrive in that you know

6:17 career uh whether it was a manager and a partner organization directly above or

6:22 Beyond and so I really only expected to be until two years by the way

6:29 the plan here I am you know many many decades later um and that gave me this opportunity to

6:36 reach out to my my colleagues my friends at Intel and say hey I think I want to

6:41 make a change what do you do I wasn't quite ready to go back to school yet I'm thinking about the application process

6:47 we all know that takes a little bit of time and it was really through that reach out

6:54 um that I found something that sounded interesting where I'd continue learning uh and I actually call it my tweener job

7:02 and it was the thing that changed the trajectory of my entire career was this

7:08 tweener job where I wasn't even using my engineering skills at all like zero

7:17 and um through that experience I met a manager who pulled me into this product

7:23 management world um and that was 1998 remember I only graduated school in 96 so I kind of

7:29 quickly like you know was testing you know learning and evolving as I was

7:36 seeking to find my way on my journey and you know I almost would say the rest is history because it was through the

7:43 exposure um to that team that I you know I was

7:48 able to really Thrive and there was there's one little part of that story when the tweener job

7:55 being a role model of who a little bit Echo

8:00 um who I might want to be and aspire to be and there was this business leader

8:05 who is speaking to us in the manufacturing World about the market

8:11 demand the supply you know how important and critical you know Intel's a factory

8:16 right we're not just designing ships building ships and you know how those

8:22 two interplayed and I for the first time you know early in my career said that's the type of role I'd like to have where

8:28 you need to understand the technology very deeply but you're also using your business Acumen as well

8:35 um so that was kind of where I started my journey into product management and you mentioned all the ways uh through

8:42 Intel um I'm happy to say like I was able to work on many inflection points so like centrinos this inflection point

8:50 of pivoting to mobile um the PC being dead working in desktop

8:55 and then in this rise of cloud in the last portion of my career so yeah that's

9:00 kind of it wasn't what I expected it would be but it turned out okay so I have so many questions questions but

9:06 first what was it like making that shift I mean I think a lot

9:12 of us I mean here you went to school you studied like how did you explain that or were you just confident enough at the

9:18 time that I mean I'm just thinking about some of us who when we think about this sort of there's maybe some guilt or you

9:25 know I did all this and now I'm just going to switch Direction what am I doing I mean it was pretty brave so kind

9:30 of how did you how did you work through that or was it easy

9:36 um if it was easy obviously you've invested four years with really hard work to achieve an engineering degree

9:43 and you know not really knowing where that's going to go right you know throughout your your engineering practice you know

9:50 you're you're seeing where it could go but then you don't really know what the work on site it wasn't that the work wasn't

9:56 meaningful or you know challenging problems to solve that that's who I am

10:02 right I think as Engineers we like to solve problems um it was

10:08 it was my desire to keep learning I think that's really what drove me was

10:13 the Curiosity and the desire to keep learning and so I don't know if that that provides the confidence but just

10:20 this desire to keep Reinventing myself um to in even throughout my career as I

10:26 you know you being in a particular domain that's why I came back to the data center actually

10:32 I'll tell that in a second but being in a domain you're becoming an expert but are you still learning are you still

10:37 going to be able to grow Are you standing in the way of others I think as Leaders is something that we really need

10:44 to be cognizant of because you know when I was able to step aside

10:50 to the the strategy role back in 2019 that allowed my entire team

10:55 to step up as we pivoted and that really allowed them to thrive and so even you

11:02 know I'm able to take that experience with me and to contribute in new ways but it also lets the rest of the team

11:09 grow um you know I say domain's critical I mean obviously I've

11:15 never been in networking that's one domain that until I have not been in um but obviously very familiar with it

11:21 being in the data center um but when I went to desktop on this little tour I ran back home literally

11:28 that's what I call it home to the data center um because it is a domain but not everybody has and you know I'm able to

11:35 contribute uniquely there but in different ways and while we're allowing um the other leaders to grow

11:42 nice yeah so you talked about being um the experience of different inflection points you know throughout

11:48 your career and sort of moving around can you give um any advice for sort of how that came

11:55 about or how to how do we how do we sort of think about how do we get those

12:00 opportunities how do we you know what how do we think about that and kind of Reach For That

12:07 uh that's such a great question um I would say they're going to come in many ways right

12:13 um one was that that first manager pulling me into marketing right

12:19 um really seeing the strengths that I had and the potential in me right that was very early in my career

12:26 um so so being willing to follow leaders that see that potential in you

12:32 um maybe take a little bit of a leap of faith um not knowing I mean come on I went to school for chemical engineering

12:39 what is marketing right is is that a domain that I would be able to thrive in

12:45 um so a little bit of a leap of faith also seeing opportunities

12:50 um maybe where there are challenges so I can give a couple examples um of that

12:57 and let's see what what would some good ones be um I had a leader and I was in my career

13:04 maybe in in a part of the business for a little bit long while I was Raising you know small children a little more stable

13:11 career while you know you're figuring out this Parenthood piece and I heard a

13:17 problem statement in the room from a Leader's staff wow she really needs some help

13:24 um there's something a role we have at Intel a technical assistant where you're like technically supporting the GM and

13:31 you know that that was a problem statement but it was an opportunity for me so I just you know called a

13:38 one-on-one with that leader and said I'm hearing that you have these this help that you need would

13:43 you consider me so so some of it's just flipping what others are seeing as a problem into an opportunity could it be

13:50 an opportunity for you could it be a fit for you um yeah I that was just an example to

13:56 share thank you okay so tell us how you became passionate about sustainability

14:04 I I think you know you mentioned early on in middle school I think one of my my biggest mentors as we all think about

14:10 who are those influential people in your life was an eighth grade science teacher and she was one that pulled me into some

14:19 Project work that she was doing externally in the community and something called National energy education day and so we would you know

14:26 pull together these workshops take them to Local Schools teaching them about renewable energy recycling reuse

14:33 um to children at a very young age and so that was you know that that was very influential

14:39 for me and then with my peers in this in my school it's a very small school I think most schools are like this you can

14:45 start any club you want just you get to organize it and we saw this opportunity around building the first environmental

14:52 club for the school so I'd say that's where where that germ and that seed began um but I haven't consistently followed

14:59 that thread throughout my career um you know you're working on the project the program you know the

15:06 initiative whatever piece you're working on but as as I was working on the cross

15:12 platform strategy work we started to see our customers coming in and asking us in

15:18 an increasing rate you know what is your plan for Net Zero how can you help us lead the industry

15:26 together and what is your product roadmap right those are really the three questions that they came and asked us

15:31 and it was just in such an increasing pace and you know Intel's had this long history

15:37 of environmental health and safety as a manufacturer you've got people looking after this every day and making sure

15:43 that your footprint in the community as as small as it can be right being a good local you know Community member but

15:51 nobody was thinking about it across the products or how those two needed how

15:56 they connect together you know from the manufacturing to the product so that became an opportunity actually that we have

16:04 um I was back from a sabbatical we get sabbaticals at Intel so a couple of weeks and my manager when I returned

16:10 said here's a problem statement that you know is bubbling up can you wrap your arms around it and that was just a year

16:16 ago that I was really able to start refocusing I think Hillary in this space

16:22 nice and how has that been going oh well this is this is um there's so

16:30 much it's everything from regulations right as part of what was driving the customer requests and interests

16:37 um you know the the fast evolving regulations impacting their ability to stand up data centers

16:43 um you know their goals that they had to lower their carbon footprint and

16:51 standing from where I was a year ago I didn't know what role Intel could play in helping our customers to lower their

16:58 carbon footprint today we have a whole strategy and an action plan that we're implementing

17:04 across the company and with the ecosystem that was actually just um where I was before this was meeting with one of our other ecosystem Partners

17:10 about how are we going to unite the ecosystem to lower the footprint together in a couple of the critical

17:16 domains so can you talk to us a little bit about I know Intel's got a goal of reaching

17:22 Net Zero by 2040. so can you talk to us a little bit about the work that you're

17:28 doing you know how you're going to get there absolutely so that was actually like the first decision that we had out

17:35 of me getting engaged in this a year ago was in early q1 making that decision at

17:41 a corporate level to put that bold goal out there that's really around our scope one and two emissions if folks know what

17:47 that is it's kind of like your footprint and the thing that you might most people

17:52 don't know about Intel is because we've been on this journey for decades our current level emissions for scope 1

17:59 and scope 2 are already just in the last decade 75 percent lower than they would

18:05 be otherwise without our investment in action so a long journey tremendous

18:10 leadership in the Silicon manufacturing domain um on carbon Water waste all of those

18:18 areas we have leadership now how do you par parlay what I call

18:23 the last mile so if you've already taken 75 out through you know really prolific

18:29 use of renewable electricity at all of our sites you know reducing energy conservation how do you get to Net Zero

18:37 by 2040 when we are a chemical manufacturing company and some of those

18:43 chemicals to deliver the chips that we all use they require High purification it's very energy intensive so really

18:52 what we identified is this is going to take the entire semi-ecosystem

18:58 together to achieve that and so it's one of those beehags that we've put out that

19:04 we think there is a clear path we can't do it alone but we in the

19:09 semi-organization if you're familiar with that have a work stream where we're partnering to identify additional green

19:16 chemistries what some best practices are you know we already have tons of abatement systems within our facilities

19:22 we consult to anyone that comes and asks us what are you doing on water conservation you know like we we are

19:28 here to share our learnings because we think we're in this unique position in the industry to help drive a sustainable

19:36 Computing for a sustainable future for all of us I think almost somebody shared a data point about like almost all GDP

19:43 is going to be dependent on Computing moving forward and so that's that's a tremendous responsibility for us in this

19:51 ecosystem that stand up the compute Network and storage for all of that

19:56 so you talked about Partnerships and kind of needing to come together to do this and we very much think the same way

20:03 so what um when you're having those conversations what are you telling Tech

20:09 leaders what you know what should we all be doing to solve this problem

20:14 that's great um so when I think of the four areas that together we can

20:22 Drive Improvement for sustainable Computing and networking and storage of

20:27 it all the first is actually in benchmarks and this was this is an area it might that might sound confusing like

20:33 why benchmarks um because today

20:39 the benchmarks aren't optimized to deliver the lowest carbon footprint

20:45 um you know the the way this industry was built like faster you know cheaper

20:50 didn't actually solve for the carbon footprint and so you really need to

20:56 think about the metrics that matter when you are looking at how you're

21:02 measuring the performance of you know your your network solution our Computing

21:08 Solutions our AI Solutions a GPU solution and that is going to help you get to a better answer I'll give a

21:15 simple example with AI you can apply you know all the power all the compute

21:22 to a particular problem but did it give you the answer you know

21:27 that much better of an answer than you would have had at a much lower power footprint so

21:34 um you know you think about the Precision in in the models like for for that model where do you need you know

21:41 the most Precision so really I think the industry is going to have to Pivot to

21:47 how are we using power in our products and our Solutions intentionally

21:54 so so benchmarks is that first piece um the second piece is around carbon

22:00 accounting and this relates because there's many layers of carbon accounting

22:06 um there's silicon there's the system level there's a data center level if you think

22:13 about that how do you measure the carbon of a Data Center and then the workload so there's really four different domains

22:21 that we need to tackle as an industry because what's happening today and you

22:28 know I'll just use the bottom example of a workload is everybody's trying to solve for this problem to provide their

22:34 customers with the carbon footprint of using my cloud you know here's how much carbon you

22:39 saved and you know most of you probably you know might not be utilizing these but this is just an example of a

22:45 customer pain point that we hear which is you know if I'm I'm at a large

22:50 Enterprise and I have a multi-cloud usage around the globe because I'm a

22:55 global Enterprise they're apples and oranges they're not even apples and oranges it's apples

23:01 oranges and grapes and I don't know bacon it's it's so it's so incomplete

23:08 you know they're not all transparent um so that's actually one of the first things that we're trying to help partner

23:13 on you know the Silicon methodologies obviously through that semi-consortia

23:19 right that's really where you want to drive silicon embodied carbon accounting methodologies

23:25 um so that that would be where we are are convening and uniting the industry this software piece

23:32 um is new and so that's actually one of the things I'm working on with some of the other Tech leaders is and there's a

23:39 lot of appetite you know in this area to drive some some common methodology

23:44 standards take up much longer time um so you know we'll be working on that you'll you'll hear more from us there

23:51 and then those other spaces right I think ocp for for our businesses is a

23:56 good place to convene um around the system level accounting as well as data center level

24:03 like how are what is not only just the Pue of your data center but the hardware efficiency the water efficiency we're

24:10 going to hear a lot more discussion about water um you know I think everybody's seen the news with Lake Mead dentist is lower and

24:17 lower and lower so I think we all really want to be thinking about the water usage not just you know California is

24:24 very ahead in terms of renewable electricity so that's exciting everywhere in the world isn't like that

24:30 so that's actually the third area that I think that we need to unite as an industry is to remember that the rest of

24:36 the world where our customers are doesn't look like California um and you know the problem's not solved

24:43 on what I call Renewables everywhere so everywhere Computing is happening if

24:49 it's at your home I heard that we've got 100 people on on the webcast um do you have renewable energy right how

24:56 are you thinking about that how are our Enterprise customers or Cloud customers thinking about asking for the renewable

25:04 electricity they need from their utilities um that comes with challenges uh which

25:10 this this industry is good at solving technical challenges because when you now bring renewable electricity onto a

25:15 grid it doesn't know how to handle a variable load right it's very used to a

25:21 constant load and so that's going to need some technical Innovation um you know you think about that you

25:27 know there's just a ton of opportunities for us together and then the last piece is that I think about is platform

25:33 advancement and this is again like an area you'll hear us talking about we just released um

25:39 in in partnership with others in ocp materials compatibility spec for

25:46 immersion um cooling liquid cooling is becoming the future uh we think immersion has a

25:54 role to play as well and one of the the really interesting Parts about immersion is energy reuse so you start to think

26:01 about what becomes possible and we have a center in Barcelona with one of our partners where they have taken

26:07 and it's it's very like for us Electronics people I'm gonna put my

26:13 electronics in an engineered fluid well yes there's real reason to do that because you can drive up the density of

26:19 the compute um have less power uh you actually have less you know I talked about the data

26:25 center level in that carbon accounting bucket um concrete is one of the most carbon

26:31 and you know intensive aspects of compute so could you get enough density that you could actually have a smaller

26:36 footprint Data Center overall so there's some really unique things that get unlocked and then with

26:42 that energy reuse um what this this partner submers is the partner in Barcelona did is you can then

26:49 have a constant heat source and depending on where you're at and this is you know a little bit more

26:55 common in Europe you can now put that and use that for district heating so think about you know the energy crisis

27:02 they're in I think the crisis is that we're all going to face they're just gonna keep growing more and more and

27:09 wouldn't it be great to have every single data center or a rack you know

27:14 finding a way to reuse the energy that that we're already consuming to drive the rest of our economy I think you know

27:21 that's that's a lot of why we see some really unique opportunities uh in that space many other areas in platform

27:27 advancement modular modularity uh circularity so when you think about

27:33 modularity how do we um an example in ocp would be a data

27:39 center modular Hardware system dcmhs and it's really starting to

27:44 disaggregate the pieces so that you could um update a component versus the whole

27:51 system we know systems are getting upcycled and you know there's with the

27:56 supply chain as it is most things that get decommissioned get you know put into

28:01 use somewhere else where they didn't have access but you know are there other ways that we could provide and you know

28:08 really think about the full life cycle of our products from the day we design

28:13 them I think that's really one of the next challenges for the the tech ecosystem

28:18 thank you so much so much great work and so much still to do but but yeah exciting

28:24 so I want to switch gears a little bit I want to go back to sort of your journey and you know you went from an individual

28:31 contributor to a manager to a leader what advice do you have for managers

28:37 um on you know who want to support their their women employees kind of on their career Journey what what advice would

28:43 you give to those managers um well I guess um certainly know the strengths of the

28:50 individual right I think we all play best when we get a chance to leverage our strengths

28:56 um provide them projects to expand their skills right where do where does that employees want to go what is their

29:02 aspiration and how can you help to augment not only with the work that we need to get done uh which you know

29:09 that's just part of the role but how are you expanding through projects

29:15 um you know it could be a project in another team a coverage like ways to expand the visibility

29:22 um not only of the individual to other organization parts of the organization um and but also to expand their skill

29:27 set and have them continue to learn and learn maybe what works for them or

29:33 doesn't you know so there's there's good to be had on both sides you're going to learn what you like or what you don't

29:38 like what you're good at or what you didn't need but you didn't know you really loved so I would just encourage

29:44 that in my own Journey when I had maternity leaves you know I took I took

29:49 as much time as possible and I actually stepped back from being a manager to being in ic when I went those three days

29:54 a week um probably didn't need to do that so you know as we think about this new and I

30:01 love this phrase there was a corn fairy article I read recently I called it the Blended workday like our new normal is

30:08 Blended right um for you folks at home you are living the this Blended work day right now

30:14 um you know what how can we support you know all the different needs that we

30:20 have and that would be for all of our employees that's not just women um but really you know I think

30:25 specifically in a tech industry we're often finding ourselves the only one in the room and so I think you know giving

30:33 Community Support is something I do a lot of at Intel at all levels

30:38 um you know there's it's at the executive levels the the next deck but then for the whole organization because

30:46 a lot of those common challenges of being heard or of having someone um

30:52 repeat what you just said and you know that was a male and you're in the room and then people say that's a good idea

30:59 that literally is still happening and I was in the room yesterday and one of my

31:05 colleagues he said his his daughter who's just out of college as an engineer and she's experiencing that and she's

31:11 like what do I do dad um so we really need to support one another um you know in the rooms be the voice

31:17 you know Echo what that person said yeah that was a really great idea you know what she

31:24 you know just really yes speak for um one another I think that that is

31:30 really important as well thank you so throughout your your journey did you

31:35 have um did mentorship or sponsorship play any role and can you speak at all about that

31:42 thanks uh I've never so some people have that one person that guided their career

31:48 and helped them make choices uh I've guess I've used a crowdsource model

31:54 as I think about it um and actually I want to give a shout out to my first Mentor actually my first

32:01 buddy when I joined Intel she's here at Juniper and her name is Athena Murphy uh

32:06 so um she would really give me that first experience in the work environment of

32:14 what a mentor was right by by helping to you know give me that context of the

32:20 environment um you know what things were working and not and that was like again very early

32:25 in my career I would say you know throughout I picked up gems from mentors

32:31 either directly or indirectly so I will use another example of you know maybe a

32:37 manager or a behavior that you saw in managers that either wanted to emulate

32:44 or wanted to ensure that you never appeared to be perceived that way

32:49 so um so I think there's those examples and then um you know one that really I

32:57 think changed my mind about my ownership of my opportunities and career

33:03 which is something you know when I joined they say you own your own career I'm like what does that even mean this

33:09 giant company how do I navigate it um so a gentleman named Gregory Bryant he's now over at ADI was my manager and

33:17 he shared with me this how to think differently about my job

33:22 and so even when you're feeling maybe a little stuck or a little plateaued not

33:27 seeing a way to find that next opportunity you can't break through you might be interviewing or things aren't

33:33 available and he told me the story of just this really powerful brand that we have at

33:40 Intel which is segmentation uh you know um and

33:46 he his job was leading a team for a technology

33:51 nobody had imagined what that Technologies could become for

33:57 the Enterprises um and so he he could have just like taken the job done you know

34:04 got the pieces Done Right made sure the software was enabled that there was a little bullet that said this technology

34:10 supported on you know the next Intel Core processor but he really stepped

34:16 back and thought what could this be right and that I think is something we

34:23 all have the freedom to do in our jobs no matter what role you're in or what level is not just taking the role for

34:31 what it is um which has to get done like he needed to ensure that the software was enabled

34:36 the the oems in this case would um understand it would want to Market it as

34:42 a differentiated feature but it actually became so much more and the it's called

34:49 Intel V Pro is really the motion that we have with our Enterprise base

34:57 um and so the sharing of that example really helped me um to see every job and every role that

35:03 I get as more than what you know that first ask was when they said I need you to go drive this you know so I'd invite

35:11 you all to take a little ownership of your own space and think what else could I be doing with partners with colleagues

35:19 um that if you have a vision there might be others in your network in your you

35:24 know that you work with today that might also see that shared vision and you could help build something even greater

35:30 for Juniper than you're already delivering it

35:35 so hearing you talk I I know um but you're also a certified coach

35:41 and I'm not surprised I'm just hearing you give us advice but but how did you how did you decide to become certified

35:47 and then you talked a little bit about sort of all that you're doing generally at Intel but I'm curious to hear a

35:53 little bit about that yeah thanks for asking um in sometimes in your career on your your

36:00 leadership Journey um you might get the offer to have this we actually have internal coaches until

36:07 I'm one of them which is the second part of the comment that you made but I had this unique opportunity maybe it was

36:13 like 14 years ago to get an external coach and it was somebody that and people now

36:21 get trained and they can provide that for you inside as well but um it really helped me understand the power

36:29 of stepping back from what I'm doing right that daily it kind of are getting in the swirl of

36:35 what's next or you know there's roadblocks here and there and it was such a powerful tool that as I

36:43 progressed in my career I realized that I felt like I needed more Tools in my manager toolkit

36:50 to unlock the potential of the entire employee base my colleagues my peers and

36:56 even my managers right we are also coaches to our managers so don't don't forget that you have a role to play in

37:02 their ongoing Learning Journey and Leadership Journey as well um and so that's what really motivated

37:08 me to enter that program um you know I you obviously get a lot of

37:13 even incremental self-awareness through the program uh and then that that helps

37:19 you to really transfer that to your team and communicate in a new way with them

37:25 so that's kind of why I got into that that certification program nice okay so one more question and I'm

37:32 going to turn it over everybody else so you talked about having children you talked about the incredible work you're

37:38 involved in what if any balance right we always hear that question how do you what do you do

37:44 for fun how do you figure that out how does that all play into all that we've heard

37:50 yeah that's a great question um yeah I think it I don't know about

37:55 the rest of you for me there's Ebbs and flows right there's times when work requires more attention

38:02 and you're you might not have your best work-life balance but I think on average we must strive for it right um what

38:08 works best for you uh for me every day uh waking up getting my exercise done I

38:15 am now able to be in the mindset of resilience for everything that I'm gonna you know handle in my personal in my

38:22 work life for the rest of the day um you know what works for you I think really deeply understanding what kind of

38:28 puts you in your best place is critical um and for me it's it's no fun to just

38:35 work hard right you have to play hard too and so you know things I do for fun play on a volleyball team you know my

38:43 husband enjoys watching sporting events so so we'll do that um just seeing friends running

38:50 um yeah just different ways to connect um both with colleagues um you know as well as friends outside

38:56 of work so those are a few of the things but I think it takes some intentionality

39:01 to not let ourselves get overrun um we're in corporations right there's always something that needs done 24 7

39:08 but if you're not carving that time out for yourself to take care of you your

39:14 family you know those needs you're not bringing your best self to work

39:19 um and you're not going to be as productive if you're not recharging in the ways that you need to during covid

39:25 one of the things that I really loved about working from home was I could just step out my friend or and walk and I did

39:33 not realize how much I needed that fresh air and you know the mental break even if I

39:40 was on a phone call I could take you know say hey do you have slides to share with me I'd love to take a walk we can either look at them at the beginning or

39:47 the end um and just that also reinvigorates me

39:52 throughout the day to provide the balance and again then you know when the day's done and we're dealing with all

39:58 the the children in the evening and the events and my kids are in you know Sports and events on the weekends that's

40:04 a lot so we really need to to take care of ourselves for both our family you know and in our work lives

40:11 thank you thank you for sharing loved hearing all of it I want to give others an opportunity

40:17 um to ask Jennifer questions

40:38 thank you Jennifer this was so insightful and inspiring um you talked about uh changing your

40:44 career Lanes like pretty early in your career like two years what would your

40:50 advise be to someone who's like into the career maybe 10 years

40:56 and now thinking of changing lanes does it play out well what what would your advice be yeah thank you for the

41:03 question um I mean I see lots of people changing lanes throughout their career so I think

41:09 it depends on what you want to get into [Music] um you know even as I mentioned we're

41:16 technology companies right so technical Acumen is required for most of the roles

41:22 you know at our companies right I think Intel is probably like 85 Engineers as

41:28 it goes um so you actually can parlay that technical experience into different

41:35 places um you know you have me thinking not knowing which Lanes you're talking about if it's from technical to business or I

41:42 have one of my proteges that we we have it until she wanted to go from Hardware

41:48 to software right the world is increasingly software defined and Hardware enabled and so you know really

41:54 you know just some examples for you to think about um you know later in your career um pairing I paired her up with one of

42:01 our software experts right and he he could be a better Mentor in that area

42:06 right and really helping her get on that Journey um she had a lot of self-learning

42:12 um in terms of you know if there's technical to business uh having run so many product management teams some of

42:19 the most passionate people about the products are the people that were just designing them or you know doing the

42:24 engineering work um so that's really great to have that technical breadth and

42:31 you know expertise when you're speaking to a customer because you actually understand the

42:36 product um different than you know teaching a business person the depth of the layers

42:43 right so I think there's there's many opportunities I've seen it happen many times

42:48 um I was unique but I've certainly you know hired many people in my career deep that you know are at a different point

42:55 in their career yeah

43:11 thanks for joining us today Jennifer um question you mentioned um green chemistry the work on green

43:18 chemistry Intel is doing could you just tell us a little bit about who's included in teams that work on green

43:24 chemistry at Intel and then maybe very quickly I think I'm familiar with the

43:30 open compute project but I imagine some people here aren't and a super quick tidbit on what the open QQ project is

43:37 might be helpful for the group yeah thank you for the questions um so the green chemistry is really

43:44 being led out of our TD so it's our technology development so thank you for catching with me on tlas if I if I

43:51 forgot um and so they're the ones that are building our future processes and this

43:56 is led by Ann Kelleher um just this fabulous leader in the the semiconductor industry uh and it's in

44:03 partnership with Academia right again you're talking about 50 year old industry if I call it the last mile

44:12 um so you know they're so it would be Folks at Intel Labs as well as uh in our

44:17 technology development lane and then the manufacturing organization because you're going to need to partner with those suppliers that I worked with at

44:25 the beginning of my career that's where my my career came full circle is I've now like worked across the company start

44:30 and I'm now working with Manufacturing and supply chain almost every day

44:35 um and so you're going to need to drive some of that change in partnership with

44:40 the Fab equipment suppliers as well so all of those folks convene in this

44:45 consortia called semi um for the open compute project this is

44:53 really something that was led first by the hyperscalers for driving standard

44:59 specifications for what they um needed for their hyperscale data

45:05 centers a very large scale if you've ever seen these they're incredible and so they started convening to drive

45:12 system level requirements Rock level requirements management requirements there's both software and Hardware

45:19 um and I would say they are less standards but more like you know specifications that they put forth that

45:27 people align to and adopt it just happens to be a really great place to convene as an industry there is a

45:34 networking component of it admittedly it's not very robust yet today and we Nick when we

45:43 talked about open compute project with Nick and Sachin who are your you know key partners

45:49 yeah and Mohan Mohan is my my key sustainability architect uh technologist

45:54 lead that I work with as well um but we think there's more opportunity for the network domain and then as I was

46:01 just talking with the lead before I came here there's no place their client convenes

46:07 or system levels specifications so that's actually something that I've been

46:12 offering and will be encouraging that we at least provide some place you know the

46:18 world looks to this right the hyperscale data centers are a large part of the market so when you're building

46:23 motherboards if you can drive some Innovation specifications whether it's

46:29 around like bio-based boards the modular pieces these are things that could be picked up by the ICT industry at large

46:35 so I really think together we have a big opportunity to share what we learn more

46:42 more globally across all of the ICT industry but thank you for that that question and uh clarification

46:55 so I have a question about carbon neutrality like Juniper as well as many companies buy carbon offsets uh where

47:03 you pay somebody and they plant trees or something but I tend to be a little bit skeptical of that approach I want to get

47:09 your opinion does that really have an impact on achieving sustainability

47:15 yeah it's a good question Raj um I think everybody's trying to figure

47:20 this out right now I think everybody wants to get to Net Zero carbon neutrality as fast as possible

47:27 um but we also know that there's no really good way today I talked about

47:32 standards are missing in this industry there really isn't a carbon offset standard like a gold standard that we

47:38 could all know that if you had that um mark then we it was known good uh you know I

47:45 think of like the organic label or something like it has known what's inside that doesn't exist for carbon

47:51 offsets people are are marketing uh and providing some of that and you know I'm sure many of you have seen articles

47:57 about the skepticism where things are said to be carbon offset but it was really a preserve that the trees were

48:02 never going to be cut down anyway um you know did that was that really additive and I would say sort of our our

48:08 position on it is you know if there is something that's going to be used like make sure it's truly additive and that

48:15 requires diligence right and really understanding what's behind it

48:21 um so we'll be we'll be working more in this area with uh our our Tech Partners um we know you know everybody's going to

48:28 look at it I think the global community wants to see real reductions they don't

48:35 want to see offsets so I think you know the real answer is how do we get it down to as little as possible

48:41 by all other means and then look for ways to offset that's really our strategy with our 2040 goal

48:49 um but it's gonna be hard right that's all we all have a lot of work to do um but I think that's going to unlock a

48:55 lot of innovation though as well especially out of this community okay Jen we have a question from someone

49:03 who's attending online um the question goes you've been talking about opportunities in sustainability

49:09 for Intel what are a few of the key risks to achieving sustainability goals

49:15 uh it's a great question online um we'll face online

49:21 um the risks to achieving it so I think the the difficulty right so this risk of

49:27 maybe folks thinking they're done or not doing the work and tying carbon offsets like that I think that's missing the

49:34 point um for us as a community and it's not just for Intel right I really want to

49:40 encourage we are um you know this this Computing this ICT industry

49:46 um so I would say the risks are we're not moving fast enough the renewable some people think Renewables are done

49:52 that that is done um and it's not I want to be the first

49:57 one outside of California and maybe Finland right there's there's spots in the world where it is and so

50:04 um how do we help I guess what's the word uh make that

50:09 accessible everywhere around the planet right um and everybody has different means and I

50:16 was reading somebody had just sent an article as we were coming coming in from outside it's like uh actually one of the

50:23 partners was Amazon is contributing to usaid to help unlock

50:29 some of the economic potential in other parts of the globe and I think that's that's actually one of the problems we

50:35 need to to think about as well um is you know how do we provide equal access to Sustainable Solutions

50:43 um you know for for the global community at Large it was about probably be the the key

50:48 risks that come to mind and that we're not moving fast enough so how do we move faster

50:54 okay we've got time for one more question and we've got another one from online the question goes

51:01 how can we use ESG to push more sales achievements through Partners to end

51:12 customers okay I apologize hold on

51:19 start more sales more sales achievements thought Partners to end Enterprise

51:26 customers yeah so I think I think it's a really great question right and that's why when I introduced myself right like

51:33 my mission is to help our customers lower their carbon footprint and so I think when you Orient yourself that way

51:41 um you're going to think about the problem differently and you know again really excited to have this opportunity

51:47 to talk with partners with customers with um you know folks we we go to market with which is I think was in in

51:54 part of the the question as well I think when you have that frame of how are we

51:59 going to lower the carbon footprint of our customer together you're going to come to a different

52:05 solution space right you're going to think about how are we together utilizing the technology so that we're

52:13 you know I like to say no transistor Left Behind like you know in our products we have accelerators like

52:19 little accelerators if you're not using them you're wasting energy right you're not utilizing the Innovation that's in

52:25 there um to achieve the best energy footprint

52:30 for it so I think when you put your your frame like that you'll be able to unlock

52:37 some of the solutions right this is really you know the third pillar of where our strategy is really around the

52:42 manufacturing the products and then the solutions with the industry so that's really what I hear this question asking

52:48 about and you know when you see that as your problem statement how can I help

52:55 um you know one example of these frequently uh the kddi is a Japanese Telecom provider

53:00 um they're setting up a 5G Network through their POC by utilizing like

53:06 built-in accelerators Telemetry on the platform I'm sure there's there's corollaries so I'm sharing this because

53:12 like there's probably corollaries in your product um you know software Solutions

53:18 they were able to lower the power by 20 you know that directly contributes you

53:24 know there's carbon you know you can use um sites like watt times and figure out

53:29 the carbon reduction of that that's actually what customers are Enterprises that we're selling to

53:36 um they're looking for if you can help provide them with this is the estimated carbon savings they can take that to

53:43 their um you know ESG lead at their company uh like Hillary right they can you know to

53:49 their board we are taking actions to lower our footprint and I we're even working with Enterprises today

53:55 that you know based depending on the industry they're in they're not looking for cost savings

54:01 they're looking for carbon savings and even more so in emea right where this is all moving a lot faster than it is here

54:08 in the US um so we we have this top you know Global customer looking for a carbon

54:15 business case for our solution um so we're going to build that for them

54:20 how do we help to build a carbon business case for one of our product offerings and I think you know you might

54:25 have the same thing um you know this example for them is around granulate which basically helps

54:31 you lower your public Cloud footprint and on any processor not just Intel and

54:38 today we provide cost and Energy savings but they really want that carbon business case so how do you how do you

54:43 take that and then like flip it to your customers your products your Solutions your software

54:50 um you know and really start to to think about helping your customer to lower their carbon footprint

54:58 yeah it's great yeah agreed so thank you so much Jennifer B for being here

55:05 um yeah any last thoughts to leave folks with

55:14 I guess you know my one ask is you know we had this little moment on

55:19 sustainability and I would just love for everybody to think about like is there one thing you could do in your personal

55:26 life um it could be simple it could be a water bottle right do you carry a bottle of water bottle around or coffee mug

55:32 versus use it um so that would be my ask one thing in your personal life and one thing in your work life like what might

55:39 I do differently if I were to think about my role whether you're motherboard design you know product design software

55:46 design to consider the carbon impact of of my role

55:53 and you might not know yet the answer yet but if you start thinking about it I think together we're going to get to this place where we're going to be

55:58 designing architecting for our Hardware our software solutions to be carbon aware and really drive towards the

56:06 sustainable future together so I really appreciate the time the invitation Raj great conversation Hillary and thank you

56:13 for the questions I really appreciate it thank you

56:26 we have Jennifer a little bit longer so feel free come up the stage um for those of you