Dr. Katharine Schmidtke is Director of Sourcing for ASICs and Custom Silicon at Facebook. Over the past five years she led Facebook’s Optical Technology strategy and worked closely with OCP to specify the 100G-CWDM4-OCP optical transceiver optimized for data center applications. Katharine obtained a Ph.D. in non-linear optics from Southampton University in the UK and completed post-doctoral research at Stanford University.