Imec Technology Forum 2011

The Forum provides a venue for international networking and learning. It is a meeting place for international company leaders from the nanoelectronics, healthcare, energy, wireless communications and embedded systems industries.



Science and technology affect each and everyone of us. Just look at how our welfare and well-being has changed at an amazing speed in the last 20 years. No doubt, the results of scientific advances and technological developments have been very beneficial. Unfortunately, our way of living has also resulted in huge challenges, e.g. global warming, the rising cost of our healthcare system, sustainable development of our cities and our mobility. But the leaders of high-tech companies worldwide are convinced that science and technology can provide the solutions and tools to tackle these challenges.



ITF 2011 brings an exciting mix of renowned speakers from world-leading companies in nanoelectronics, healthcare, energy, wireless communications, smart systems, as well as imec executives and top researchers. They will give firsthand insights in future developments, technological challenges and recent findings straight out of the labs.



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Sessions ITF 2011:

. Smart integration for next generation smart systems

. Towards extremely powerful ICs

. Smart vision and communication systems

. Clever power

. Medicine without borders



Keynotes ITF 2011:

Semiconductors, core of a sustainable amazing world

(Luc Van den hove, President and CEO, imec)



The smartphone “phenomenon” – a Qualcomm perspective

(Steve Mollenkopf, Executive Vice President and Group President, Qualcomm)



Technology for GPU/CPU

(John Y. Chen, Vice President of Technology and Foundry Management, NVIDIA)



Bridging photonics and computing

(Mario J. Paniccia, Intel Fellow and Director Photonics Lab, Intel)



The New Normal

(Peter Hinssen, Co-Founder, Across Group and CEO, Across Technology)



Innovations for the emerging world: India’s experiences (Vijaya Kumar Ivaturi, Chief Technology Officer, Wipro)



The silicon PV roadmap

(Richard M. Swanson, President Emeritus, SunPower Corporation)



Overcoming the last barriers to mass adoption of LEDs in illumination

(Jy Bhardwaj, Vice President Technology R&D, Philips Lumileds Lighting Company)



In addition: Keynotes by:

Chilhee Chung, Executive Vice President and General Manager

Semiconductor R&D Center, Samsung Electronics



Jan-Willem Brands, Chief Technology Officer, Barco



Andrew M. Thompson, Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Proteus



Sohrab Emami, Chief Architect and Co-Founder, SiBEAM