Engineering Role Models for Women in Tech With Carlota Salamat | Show Notes for Episode 58 of Women Disrupting Tech

Picture of Carlota Salamat, who works as a Director of Engineering at NXP. She is also a role model at Role It Out. She is a guest on episode 58 of Women Disrupting Tech.

Chips are a crucial part of our lives. They’re everywhere these days.

But what happens when we can’t produce enough of them? What if we don’t have enough skilled people to make them?  And how we can prevent this shortage from happening?

That is where episode 58 of Women Disrupting Tech begins. Tune in to hear the answers from Carlota Salamat, a Director of Engineering at NXP, and a role model for Role It Out.

Press play to tune in to this magical conversation, or read more about the episode by scrolling down.

Engineering Role Models for Women in Tech with Carlota Salamat | Episode 58 of Women Disrupting Tech – Women Disrupting Tech

The Magic You Can Expect in this Episode 🪄

We cover Carlota’s inspiring journey as an engineer at NXP, a Dutch semiconductor company, and find out why diversity is a game-changer in deep tech.

In this lively discussion, Carlotta shares 
🌟The unique advantages of being a woman in tech
👩🏼‍🏫 Her dedication to serving as a role model for young women
🫱🏼‍🫲🏾 Practical actions male allies can take to support women in deep tech

Plus, you’ll hear her surprising answer to what’s needed to boost the number of women in tech.

When you’re ready to listen and learn from Carlota Salamat how women in tech are engineering the future, find episode 58 of Women Disrupting Tech on Spotify, Apple, and YouTube, and hit play ⏯️.

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What makes this episode magical🌟?

Part of the magic in this episode is Carlota’s career, which starts with a female role model in tech. To me, that underscores the importance of role models in increasing the pipeline of women in tech.

But what I find genuinely magical is Carlota’s broad vision of bringing more girls to tech. During our discussion, she clearly describes what each of the stakeholders in the tech ecosystem should do.

For instance, Carlota believes that we need to make education about technology much more practical. And, she explains that this means retraining female teachers to do this and increasing diversity in the teaching staff in primary education.

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“We can be a role model to someone, always.”

Carlota Salamat

About Carlota Salamat

Carlota Salamat is a Director of Engineering at NXP, a Dutch semiconductor company, and a role model at Role It Out. 

Born in the Philippines, Carlota landed in tech through a role model. Through a friend, she learned about the cool work that Ericsson is doing on mobile phones and decided to switch from studying economics to electronics engineering. Later, after her marriage, she started working at NXP and has been working there for 16 years.

In her current position, she manages a team of engineers located in the United States, Mexico, India, China, and Romania.

You can connect with Carlota on LinkedIn. There you can also learn more about her work at NXP and find out if being a role model is something for you.

And if you’d like to learn more about the work that Role it Out is doing, I invite you to listen to this interview with it’s co-founder Núria Barceló i Peiró.

Let me know what you think!

When you’ve finished listening to this episode of Women Disrupting Tech, please let me know what you think about it in the comments.

I’m curious to learn how you view the role of government in creating a pipeline for women in tech. Should the government step in with regulations or leave it to schools and tech companies?

And if you would like to suggest a guest that I absolutely must have on the podcast, send me an email or send me a DM on LinkedIn. 

What’s coming up?

Next week on Women Disrupting Tech, we’ll learn from Sonal Rattan how she is making privacy and security easy for large companies with eXate.

After that, Connie Bloem explains how she is building the future of investing with Mesh.

So stay tuned for more amazing women disrupting tech and their male allies in season three of Women Disrupting Tech!

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Published by Dirkjan Hupkes, Host of Women Disrupting Tech

In my podcast Women Disrupting Tech, I give a platform to the women who work in tech so they can be a role model for others. The goal is to promote more diversity, equity and inclusion in the tech sector. I believe that this will lead to better solutions to the three problems of our time: the climate crisis, exploding demand for healthcare services and poverty.