Managing Talent in a VUCA World

James Robson

Corporate Vice President

Applied Materials Europe

Agenda

▪ Applied Materials Overview

▪ Today‘s VUCA World

▪ Talent Management

‒ Hiring

‒ Training & Developing

‒ Retaining

▪ Summary

How the Semiconductor Industry Began…

Gordon

Moore

C. Sheldon RobertsEugene Kleiner

Robert NoyceVictor Grinish

Julius BlankJean Hoerni

Jay Last

1959

Monolithic IC patent

1960

First planar IC fabricated

1962

Planar manufacturing patent

1965

Moore’s law formalized

1967

Applied Materials founded

1976 – 1982

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iPhone® is a trademark of Apple Inc. Apple logo is a trademark of Apple Inc.

Cray–1 SupercomputerCost: $8M CPU:160M FLOPS

Weight: 5.5 Tons Apps: 1

iPhone® Xs MaxCost: >$1099

Weight: 7.34oz

2018

CPU: >600,000 MFLOPS

Apps: >2M

Taking a Closer Look…

… It is A LOT more complex

6.9 billion

transistors

14 layers

stacked wiring

>10 billion

connections

100 km

wiring

85 mm2

die size

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Global leader in

Creating, modifying and analyzing

materials at an atomic level on an

industrial scale

MARKETS WE SERVEWHAT WE DO

Semiconductor

Display

materials engineering

$1.8 billionR&D spending

~19,500 employees

in 18 countries

$14.5 billionrevenue

2017 = RECORD YEAR

>11,500patents

3 PER DAY

Applied Materials Today

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2018 TOP 5 GLOBAL

COMPANIES* 2008 TOP 5 GLOBAL

COMPANIES*

*By market capitalization in 3rd quarter.

Source: Financial Times Global 500

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EXAMPLE: TODAY’S SUPPLY CHAIN

Germany

Israel Taiwan

Austin

KallispellGloucester

Singapore

2x increase in

new materials

in last 10 years

Introduction of New Materials

>45nm materials

Additional

materials at 10nm

Periodic Table of Elements

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TODAYYESTERDAY

Project B

Project C

Project D

Project A

Attract, Develop, and Retain Talent

attract develop retain

▪ Candidates who can adapt, learn

rapidly from experience and can go

with the flow

▪ Diverse workforce

▪ Desire to travel to different regions

▪ Talent that wants to continue to

learn and develop themselves

▪ 40 hours of non-technical

training per year

▪ Technical training at purpose

built centers around the world

▪ Applied Global University with

over 500 courses offered

▪ Provide financial assistance to

complete Masters and Ph.Ds'

▪ Technical Career ladder to allow

employees to continue to be

promoted in technical role

▪ Payments made for successful

Patent filings

▪ Competitive compensation and

benefits package

▪ Ability to travel extensively and

also move countries for

assignments

▪ Work on cutting edge technology

with colleagues around the globe

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BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

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Integration & start-up engineer

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CUSTOMER

QUALITY ENGINEER

GLOBAL PRODUCT

SUPPORT ENGINEER

ACCOUNT

TECHNOLOGIST

Technology

Consultancy

IT SERVICE MANAGEMENT

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Safety engineer

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Supplier Engineer

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Careers at Applied Materials

Applied Materials Europe

R&D for Display and Adjacent Markets

MANUFACTURINGfor Display and Adjacent Markets

SALES and SUPPORT for >140 customer factories

13countries

11primary sites

>1,300employees

20,000m² Technology Center

Sales, customer

support or other

offices

Manufacturing

and/or R&D site

Treviso

CapanagoBernin

Reading

Kildare

Hoofddorp

Nijmegen

Alzenau

Avezzano

Catania

Milan

FRANCE

GERMANY

UNITED

KINGDOM

IRELAND

ITALY

NETHERLANDS

DresdenLeuven

Munich

Dresden

Munich

Alzenau

GERMANY

Applied Materials Germany 18

Applied Materials GmbH Dresden

Applied Global Services

Semiconductor

Display

Applied Materials WEB Coating GmbHApplied Materials GmbH & Co. KG.

Applied Materials GmbH Operating Site Feldkirchen

ICT GmbH Heimstetten

AKT Operating Site Feldkirchen

Darmstadt

Mecatronix GmbH

Exciting VUCA Times Ahead

Semiconductors and Displays have

changed the way we live, work and play

Chip performance has increased 106 x

since 1960s…and no slowing down

To enable future technologies, we need

materials engineering solutions

Will You Join Me?