Calista Redmond is the CEO of the RISC-V International, a global nonprofit association based in Switzerland. Founded in 2015 as the RISC-V International with 29 members, RISC-V is now a truly global organization with over 200 member organizations in more than 30 countries, plus over 300 individual members worldwide. Redmond has over 20 years of senior-level management and alliance experience and significant open source community experience.
In this interview with DW, Redmond walks through the path she took in computer engineering on the road to her leadership role in helping to direct the future development and the adoption of the RISC-V, a free and open ISA enabling a new era of processor innovation through open standard collaboration.