Jari Partanen

State Secretary, Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment of Finland

Opening speech by Finnish State Secretary

More information will follow.

Khalil Rouhana

Deputy Director-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology

Keynote speech.

Khalil Rouhana is the Deputy Director-General in DG CONNECT (Communications Networks, Content & Technology) since 1/12/2016. His responsibilities include the policies for digital economy and society and notably for research, innovation and industrial strategies, digital solution for societal challenges and governments as well as cybersecurity. Before that he was Director for "Digital Industry" in DG CONNECT supporting the competitiveness of core digital sectors in Europe and the digitisation of all industrial sectors of the economy. In his previous experiences in the Commission, he was the Director for "Digital content & Cognitive systems", the Head of Unit in charge of ICT research and Innovation strategy, and started as a project officer in the ESPRIT programme in the areas of High Performance Computing and Future and Emerging technologies. Before joining the Commission in 1992, he was for 5 years the director of an institute and school of engineering (Grande Ecole) in France. He started his career as research and development engineer for the aeronautics industry, worked for the French University in Beirut and created also his own engineering company. He has a master degree in electrical and electronic engineering from "Ecole Supérieure d'Electricité" (Supelec, France).

Jean-Marc Chery

CEO of STMicroelectronics, President of AENEAS

Jean-Marc Chery will elaborate on the vision of industry on the future.

Jean-Marc Chery is STMicroelectronics’ President and Chief Executive Officer, and has held this position since May 31st, 2018. He is the Sole Member of ST’s Managing Board and chairs its Executive Committee.

Chery began his career in the Quality organization of Matra, the French engineering group. In 1986, he joined Thomson Semiconducteurs, which subsequently became ST, and held various management positions in product planning and manufacturing, rising to lead ST’s wafer fabs in Tours, France, and later in Rousset, France. In 2005, Chery led the company-wide 6-inch wafer-production restructuring program before taking charge of ST’s Front-End Manufacturing operations in Asia Pacific. In 2008, he was promoted to Chief Technology Officer and assumed additional responsibilities for Manufacturing and Quality (2011) and the Digital Product Sector (2012). In 2014, Chery was appointed ST’s Chief Operating Officer responsible for Technology and Manufacturing operations. In July 2017, Chery was appointed Deputy CEO with overall responsibility for Technology and Manufacturing, as well as for Sales and Marketing operations.

Chery is President of the European microelectronics R&D program AENEAS and is Chairman of the France – Malaysia Business Council at Medef International.

Jean-Marc Chery was born in Orleans, France, in 1960, and graduated with a degree in Engineering from the ENSAM engineering school in Paris, France.

Henrik Ehrnrooth

CEO of KONE

Keynote speech on sustainability

Henrik Ehrnrooth is the President and CEO of KONE, a world leader in the elevator and escalator business. KONE has consistently been the fastest growing global company in its industry as a result of its innovation leadership and focus on delivering the best outcomes for its customers. KONE’s vision is to provide the Best People Flow Experience and it transports around 1 billion people every day. Over 55,000 employees are working towards delivering the company’s vision.
Henrik joined the company in 2009 as Chief Financial Officer and in April 2014 he was appointed President & CEO. Prior to joining KONE, Henrik had a career with several leadership positions in banking, most recently as Managing Director in the Investment Banking Division at Goldman Sachs. He worked at Goldman Sachs from 1998 to 2009 prior to which he worked at UBS from 1994 to 1998.
Henrik serves on the boards of UPM-Kymmene Corporation, the Mannerheim Foundation and the KONE Centennial Foundation. He is also a member of the Foundation Board of the International Institute of Management Development (IMD) and a member of the European Roundtable of Industrialists.

Jens Fabrowsky

Executive Vice-President of Automotive Electronics at Robert Bosch GmbH

At EFECS 2019, Jens Fabrowsky will eleborate on IPCEI on Microelectronics - a strong European Microelectronics industry for the digital future in Europe

Jens Fabrowsky has been Executive Vice President Automotive Electronics of Robert Bosch GmbH since April 2012. Born in Esslingen, Germany, on August 13, 1968, he is married and has three children. He studied mechanical engineering and industrial engineering at the University of Stuttgart (Germany) and the Technical University of Munich (Germany).

Career stages in the Bosch Group

• 1999 Department Head with responsibility for assembly of hydraulic units at the Blaichach plant, Germany Chassis Systems division
• 2000 Technical Plant Manager at the Rutesheim plant, Germany Gasoline Systems division
• 2004 Plant Manager at the Eisenach plant, Germany Gasoline Systems division
• 2007 Executive Vice President with responsibility for Manufacturing Starter Motors and Generators division
• 2012 Executive Vice President with responsibility for Electronic Control Units as well as Manufacturing Automotive Electronics division
• 2017 Executive Vice President with responsibility for the business field Semiconductor Components Automotive Electronics division

Max Schulman

Central Union of Agricultural Producers & Forest Owners (MTK)

Brain-stretching on Agriculture.

Max grew up on his family’s farm which he took over in 1986. Stor-Tötar Gård, is an old farm that combines arable land and forestry in South Western Finland that has been in the family for around 300 years. Continuity that hopefully will go forward since Max is raising three boys together with his Spanish wife Marta. Before taking over the full responsibility of running the farm and having taken a degree in agricultural economics, he became a grain trader for the Finnish Grain Board. After that Max worked in the agricultural machinery sector from 2003 until 2008. This job took him all over the world from America to China. For the last 10 years, he has been working in the Central Union of Agricultural Producers and Forest Owners (MTK) as the Advisor for cereals, oilseeds and protein crops. Max was Chairman from 2013 – 19 of the Cereals Working Group in Copa-Cogeca based in Brussels, member of the EU Arable Crops Market Observatory and since 2018 Chairman of the Civil Dialogue Group, Arable Crops. Owner of Farm-XPort Ltd, grain trading company. Co-founder and member of the board of Grain Sense Ltd, the portable protein and quality analyzer for grain. Chairman of VYR the Finnish Grain Chain.

Prof. Dr. Theo Ruers

Surgeon, Professor at NKI-AVL

Brain-stretching on Health.

Since 2007 I work at the NKI-AVL as head of the division Heelkundige Oncologische Disciplines (HOD). My clinical expertise is focused on liver surgery and colorectal surgery.In this field there are multiple national and international studies supervised by me. Next to the clinical activities research focusses on the development and introduction of new image guided treatment methods. This has the potential to drastically improve the quality of the surgical procedure, while risks are minimized.

I work on these subjects from my position as professor Oncology and Biomedical Imaging at the University of Twente. Since 1994 I work as an oncologic surgeon, I did my training in the Hammersmith Hospital and King's College Hospital, both in London.

Thomas Hammer

Senior Principal Research Scientist for “Energy Systems” at Siemens

Brain-stretching on Energy.

Thomas Hammer graduated in Physics in 1983 and achieved his Doctorate degree in Physics (Dr. rer. nat.) at the Institute of Plasma Physics, University of Hannover, Germany, in 1987. 1988 he joined Siemens Corporate Technology, where 1995 he became Project Manager for R&D projects in Plasma- and Switching Technology. In 2001 he was appointed as a Principal Research Scientist for Plasma Technology addressing environmental and energy applications. From 2004 to 2009 he was responsible as a Principal Research Scientist for Power & Sensor Systems. 2009 he took responsibility as a R&D Program Manager for Energy Conversion Technologies. Since 2014 Thomas Hammer is Senior Principal Key Expert /Research Scientist Having responsibility for R&D strategy in the Technology Field Power & Energy Technologies (until 2016) and Energy Systems (until present). This comprises multimodal energy systems design and operation on all levels of granularity (around the meter, cities and districts, cross regional), energy conversion and storage modules, power grid protection, switching technology for all voltage levels, simulation tools supporting the development of energy conversion units and apps for energy system design, operation and monitoring. Thomas Hammer is the author /co-author of 100 patent families resulting in 171 granted patents (national and international), of 40 reviewed scientific journal papers and more than 70 conference contributions, thereof 10 invited lectures. Among else, he is member of IEEE Power & Energy Society and Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft.

Wolfgang Dettmann

Director Funding Projects & Coordination at Infineon

Infineon

Large Enterprise view on collaborative projects.

Dr. Wolfgang Dettmann, obtained his Ph.D. in the area of biophysics at the University Munich, Germany. In 2000 he joined Infineon, and covered positions from technology development for lithography to structured product development processes. Since 2009 he is responsible for collaborative projects on European and national level. He links business line related innovation at Infineon to funding programs.

He is representing Infineon as member of the Technical Expert Group in PENTA and within the EPoSS community in the Executive Committee and Transport Working Group. He is involved since the start of EGVIA (H2020 PPP European Green Vehicles Initiative) as EPoSS Delegate in the Industrial Board and since 2016 he is EGVIA Board member, Vice Chair of the Smart Systems Industry.

Focus areas are funding projects on sensor technologies, electric mobility and energy efficiency.

He contributes with technical content to several ECSEL SRA chapters and is chapter co-lead for the chapter “Energy”. Since 2019 he is member of the scientific advisory board of the Instituto de Microelectronica de Barcelona (IMB-CNM, CSIC).

Date of birth: November 6th, 1968
Marital status: Married since 2006, 2 daughters, born in 2006 and 2008

Education: Technical University Munich, Physics, diploma in 1996
Ph. D. degree in1999 (Ludwig Maximilians University Munich)
1996-1999 : Ph.D. at the Institute for Applied Physics, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich
Ph.D. thesis: “Dynamic force spectroscopy: from receptor-ligand pairs to cell-cell interactions”
Employment: since March 2000 at Infineon Technologies AG.

Since March 2014 Head of the R&D Funding Innovations and Systems Support group at Infineon:

• focus on technology demonstrators and wireless sensor networks
• PhD topics and academic cooperation on WSN, security, sensors and machine learning
• Representation of Infineon in ETPs and funding related organisations.

Frans List

ASML

Large Enterprise view on collaborative projects.

Frans List is currently engaged with ASML in the role of Seniors Project Manager Strategic Technology Program in which he creates and coordinates the More Moore “Collaborative Innovation” projects: TAKE5, TAKEMI5, TAPES3, PIn3S and IT2. Frans received his Master degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Twente, the Netherlands in 1984. Ever since he has been involved in semiconductor product development in roles varying from Integrated Circuit Design, Project-, Program- and R&D management with professional engagements in the Netherlands, England, Italy and Taiwan, leading product development projects, teams and development departments in Philips Research, STMicroelectronics and NXP. In the past he setup and coordinated industrial consortia collaborating on Non-Volatile Memory technology development in European context as part of Medea and Medea+ programs.

Andreas Eckel

TTTech

Large Enterprise view on collaborative projects.

Grants Projects (EC & national): Initiate consortia, proposal lead and generation, conduct of large-scale R&D projects for high-tech community in the field of ICT/data communication and control computing for aerospace, space, automotive, off-highway and industrial domains. Cooperating in projects with more than 100 partners and larger than 100M€ overall budget. Cooperation in writing MASP/MASRIA for ARTEMIS & ECSEL programs. Close cooperation with universities and research centers as well as industrial organizations of all scales throughout Europe.

Business development including setting-up of new customer relations, tender preparation and sales (Strong skill in approaching relevant contacts and highly ranked decision makers at international companies such as Airbus, EADS, Thales, Safran, General Electrics, BAe, Diehl, Audi, Volvo, Bosch, Continental, NXP and many others);

Management of complex, high-tech projects for international customers focused on keeping schedule, cost and profit goals balanced at high quality levels (including requirement capture, reporting and budgeting tasks; coordination, management and proposal preparation of commercial and large EC funded R&D projects);

Handling European cultural differences resulting from working with customers in different countries like France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Portugal, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands);

Bert de Colvenaer

Executive Director of ECSEL Joint Undertaking

Cooperation in 2020 and beyond is discussed.

Bert De Colvenaer was appointed Executive Director of the ECSEL Joint Undertaking as of January 1st 2016. ECSEL is a public-private partnership on nanoelectronics, embedded software and smart system integration established as an autonomous European Union body through the merger of ENIAC and ARTEMIS JUs.

As Executive Director, he is the legal representative of the ECSEL JU and is the chief executive responsible for its day-to-day management. Prior to his appointment he was Executive Director of the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking (FCH JU) mandated to bring the FCH technology to the point of market readiness. Bert De Colvenaer has been involved in the automotive industry for more than 20 years, in the field of power-train production engineering and advanced research. He has been working on fuel cell research from the early 90's and was involved in high level group activities and major EU research projects. In 2002 he established and led the Advanced Technology Division of Toyota Europe, focusing on breakthrough research in the field of fuel cell and hydrogen, robotics and new automotive production technologies. Prior to Toyota, he worked for Volvo. His academic background is in mechanical engineering and in industrial management.

Colette Maloney

Head of Unit Competitive Electronics Industry at DG CONNECT of European Commission

Cooperation in 2020 and beyond is discussed.

Colette Maloney heads the Competitive Electronics Industry unit at the European Commission's Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology. The unit is charged with doubling the value of production of semiconductor components in Europe and strengthening the competitiveness of the electronics value chain, from equipment and material up to microsystems and smart objects and devices.

From 2004-2008 she was Head of Unit Cognitive Systems and Robotics, thereafter ICT for Sustainable Growth (from 2008), Smart Cities and Sustainability (from 2012), and Photonics (during 2016). Prior to this she held various assignments in the Commission in the field of ICT, from microelectronics, to telecommunications and digital content.

Before joining the Commission in 1994, she held research positions in Ciba, Switzerland and Dartmouth College, USA. She has a BSc in Mathematics and Physics (summa cum laude) and a PhD in Physics (1982 and 1986 respectively) from Trinity College Dublin.

Luuk Klomp

Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy of the Netherlands - Deputy Director Innovation and Knowledge

Cooperation in 2020 and beyond is discussed.

Luuk Klomp is Deputy Director of the Innovation and Knowledge Department of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy of the Netherlands. His main responsibilities cover public-private partnerships on R&D and innovation, financial instruments for SMEs, and strategy and analysis. Luuk Klomp has been working in different functions for the Ministry of Economic Affairs since 2002, both in policy departments and in the predecessor of Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO in Dutch). Prior to joining the Ministry, he was responsible for R&D and Innovation at Statistics Netherlands, and an active member of two expert groups on the Community Innovation Survey led by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. From 1987 to 1998, Luuk Klomp served as Assistant Professor of Economics and Statistics at the Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR). He studied Economics at the EUR, obtaining a PhD in 1996. He has co-authored around 60 scientific papers and contributed to some 10 academic books.

Yves Gigase

Head of Programmes at ECSEL Joint Undertaking

Yves Gigase elaborates on the different funding instruments available for R&D&I of Electronic Components and Systems.

Dr. Yves Gigase is the Head of Programmes of the ECSEL Joint Undertaking, before which he held the same post for the ENIAC JU. Before that he occupied manager and/or researcher positions in several companies active in optoelectronics, electronic consumer goods, consulting and telecommunication.

Yves Gigase holds an MSE in Applied physics and a PhD in Optoelectronics, both from the University of Gent. He completed two postdocs; one at the IBM Research Labs in Zurich and one at the Optical Computing Systems Centre at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is an IEEE member.

Francisco Ibanez

Deputy Head of Unit Competitive Electronics Industry at DG CONNECT of European Commission

Francisco Ibanez elaborates on the different funding instruments available for R&D&I of Electronic Components and Systems.

Francisco J. Ibanez holds university degrees in Engineering and Solid-State Physics (Autonoma University, Madrid) and Masters in Communication Networks and Signal Processing (Polytechnic University, Madrid), Business Administration (Catholic University of Leuven) and Information Society and Knowledge (Open University of Catalonia).

Prior to joining the European Commission, he was active in semiconductors research (Bell Labs, US) and had a number of industrial assignments, including process and product engineering in microelectronics design and fabrication (AT&T Microelectronics, Lucent Technologies).

At the European Commission he had responsibilities in different R&D areas, including Networks and Communications and Future and Emerging Technologies. He is currently Deputy Head of the Competitive Electronics Industry unit within DG CONNECT. He is involved in the ICT part of the EU Research and Innovation Programme (Horizon 2020) with main interest on micro-nano electronics and integrated microsystems.

Peter Connock

PENTA Director at AENEAS, Board Chairman of memsstar Limited

Peter Connock elaborates on the different funding instruments available for R&D&I of Electronic Components and Systems.

Peter Connock has been working in the semiconductor industry for over 40 years with a wide range of responsibilities in development, customer service, marketing and management. He has held long-term positions at Edwards, Applied Materials and memsstar in locations around the world. In his current role, Penta Director at AENEAS, he is responsible for the management of the EUREKA cluster Penta – a public private partnership focussed on catalysing Research Development & Innovation in the micro and nanoelectronics enabled systems and applications sector in Europe. PENTA will launch its 5th annual call at EFECS 2019.

This complements his long-term Board Chairmanship of memsstar, Europe's premier semiconductor equipment remanufacturer and services provider. It also serves the global MEMS marketplace, offering etch and deposition expertise, experience, proprietary and remanufactured systems and know-how to deliver innovative products and services for research, commercial R&D and production.

He has further augmented his operational activities by providing support to industry representative bodies such as SEMI - serving on the ISS and Secondary Equipment committees in Europe for many years.

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Knut Hufeld

Director Research and Development Funding, Infineon Technologies AG (DE)

The Industry4.E Lighthouse

Knut Hufeld has been working for Infineon Technologies AG and the former Siemens Semiconductor Division since 1995. He received his diploma in electrical engineering/informatics (M.S. degree) from the Technical University of Ilmenau, Germany, in 1993. Knut Hufeld worked in several research departments on system process control, parallel processing and algorithmic characterisation of parasitic effects in circuit design at Siemens Corporate Research and later Infineon. Since 2001 he coordinates funded research programs on European and national scale for Infineon.

Knut Hufeld was active in the Artemis SRA discussion since the beginning and had become a member of the Artemis-IA Steering Board in 2012 and of the Artemis-IA Presidium in 2017. He is also representing Infineon in national and European expert groups as a counterpart to the German and European PAs. As coordinator of funded research programs for Infineon Technologies AG, Knut Hufeld is personally involved in several H2020 and ECSEL projects like Productive4.0 or EPI- the European Processor Initiative for Low power High Performance Computing. In 2017 Knut Hufeld became a member of the Advisory Board, the LIASE, of the ECSEL lighthouse initiative Industry4.E on Digital Industry. Knut Hufeld has a long-term experience on PPP activities, representing the Infineon Technologies AG in several strategic research initiatives and organizations like eNova, the strategy platform for e-mobility and autonomous driving of the German Automotive Industry or as steering board member of ETP4HPC, the European Technology Platform for High Performance Computing.

Katrina Sichel

Moderator/Presenter, Communications Specialist

Wit and Word Communications

Katrina studied languages at Oxford University and speaks Russian, French and a (smattering of) German in addition to her native tongue. Having started out as a steel trader in Africa for one of London’s leading trading companies, she has accrued around 20 years’ experience in the communications arena as a moderator/presenter, voiceover artist and communications campaign director for clients in the public and private sector. Formerly Director of a London-based TV PR company, she produced news packages for the BBC, Sky News, Channel 4, Reuters and other broadcasters featuring interviews with high-profile figures from the worlds of art, sport, film, fashion, business and politics. Having brought her skills to Brussels in 2007, she has been working on the design and roll out of many multimedia campaigns and projects, covering different topics and policy areas, for the EU institutions and private sector clients. Alongside her communications work, she moderates debates, workshops and Round Tables, World Café-style events and high-level conferences and congresses featuring various ‘VIPs’ from the political sphere. These span all sorts of topics, from fisheries and agriculture to energy and the environment; digital, finance and sustainable transport, to urban planning, R&D, development and human rights. Interests include choreography, Bikram yoga, the cartoons of Gary Larson, rowing, MGM musicals, and chocolate.

Ronald Dekker

Senior Research Scientist Philips/Prof. TU Delft

Health Lighthouse

Ronald Dekker received his MSc in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Eindhoven and his PhD from the Technical University of Delft. He joined Philips Research in 1988 where he worked on the development of RF technologies for mobile communication. Since 2000 his focus shifted to the integration of complex electronic sensor functionality on the tip of the smallest minimal invasive instruments such as catheters and guide-wires. In 2007 he was appointed part time professor at the Technical University of Delft with a focus on Organ-on-Chip and bioelectronics medicines. He published in leading Journals and conferences and holds in excess of 60 patents.

Gereon Meyer

Deputy Head of Department Future Mobility and Europe VDI/VDE

Mobility Lighthouse

Dr Gereon Meyer is the Deputy Head of Department Future Mobility and Europe at VDI/VDE Innovation + Technik GmbH, a research program management agency and consulting firm based in Berlin (Germany). Being a physicist by education, he was a fellow of the Alexander-von-Humboldt foundation and a post-doctoral research associate at Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA (USA) and a visiting scientist with Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, San Jose, CA (USA) as well as Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA (USA). At VDI/VDE-IT, which he joined in 2007, Dr Meyer is an expert for the electrification and automation of the automobile and the transformation of the mobility system. He is the chairman of the annual International Forum on Advanced Microsystems for Automotive Applications (AMAA), and he is leading the activities of the Working Group Transportation of the European Technology Platform on Smart Systems Integration (EPoSS). He also is a member of the European Commission’s Industrial Advisory Group for the PPP European Green Vehicles Initiative, the head of the office of the eNOVA Strategy Board on Automotive Future in Germany, and the editor of the Springer book series Lecture Notes in Mobility. Dr Meyer frequently serves as rapporteur, evaluator, as well as moderator and speaker at conferences worldwide. Recently, he edited the roadmaps on the Electrification of the Transport System and on Connected and Automated Transport for the European Commission’s Strategic Transport Research and Innovation Agenda (STRIA), and he co-organized and moderated the third German-American Future Mobility Dialogue that was held in San Francisco, CA (USA).

Lucilla Sioli

Director Artificial Intelligence and Digital Industry

ECS Enabling sustainability: Agriculture, Health and Energy

Ms Lucilla Sioli is the Director for "Artificial Intelligence & Digital Industry" within Directorate-General Communications Networks, Content and Technology. The mission of the Directorate is to strengthen Europe's competiveness ensuring that any industry in any sector in Europe can make the best use of digital innovations to grow, compete on a global scale, and create jobs. She is responsible for the coordination of the European digitisation of industry strategy. The directorate also supports R&D&I in key digital industrial technologies including microelectronics, embedded software, photonics, robotics and AI. It is responsible for the Public Private Partnerships in these fields including the Joint Technology Initiative ECSEL and for the policy development in the area of artificial intelligence. Previously, she was Head of Unit for "Digital Economy and Skills" at DG Connect, responsible for the publication of the Digital Economy and Society Index and of the annual Europe's Digital Progress Report as well as for the management of digital skills policy through the Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition. Lucilla holds a PhD in economics from the University of Southampton (UK) and one from the Catholic University of Milan (Italy) and has been a civil servant with the European Commission since 1997.