Speakers
Pierre Barnabé
CEO, Soitec
Pierre Barnabé
CEO, Soitec
Bio:
Pierre Barnabé was nominated as Soitec CEO in January 2022 and joined the company four months later.
He was previously Executive Vice-President in charge of Big Data & Cybersecurity at technology group Atos (2015-2021), where he also led the Public Sector & Defense division and manufacturing operations before serving as interim Group CEO in 2021.
Prior to its acquisition by Atos in 2014, Pierre Barnabé was Deputy CEO of Bull. He then served as Bull’s Chairman & CEO from 2015 to 2021, spearheading the company’s evolution into a global leader in cybersecurity services and supercomputing.
From 2011 to 2013, he was Managing Director of the Enterprise branch of SFR, the French telecoms operator, where he launched cloud computing and very high-speed broadband activities.
That followed a 13-year stint during which he held various positions at Alcatel and Alcatel-Lucent, first in sales and later as Chairman & Managing Director of Alcatel-Lucent France (formerly Alcatel CIT) and Group Deputy Managing Director for Human Resources and Transformation.
A graduate of the NEOMA Business School and Ecole Centrale in Paris, Pierre Barnabé began his career in 1994 in Silicon Valley, developing corporate venture capital and capital risk activities for Thales Group. He then moved to Thales headquarters in Paris, where he was in charge of strategy and acquisitions for the Communication and Command division.
A member of the board of the multinational market firm Ipsos, he also served as Chairman of the Board of ENSIMAG Grenoble, the prestigious Grande École specializing in computer science, applied mathematics and telecommunications (2016-2022) and on the board of France’s National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology (INRIA) from 2021 to 2022. Pierre Barnabé is a Knight of the French National Order of Merit.
Franck Paris
Director of the French Office in Taipei
Franck Paris
Director of the French Office in Taipei
Bio:
Born on 30 December 1976, Master’s Degree from the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po), Graduate of the National School of Public Administration (ENA), “Léopold Sédar Senghor” Class, 2004
Conseiller des Affaires Etrangères
- 2001-2002 : Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Southern Africa
- 2002-2004 : National School of Public Administration (ENA)
- 2002 (Internship) : French Embassy in Côte d’Ivoire
- 2004-2006 : Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Great Lakes Region Desk Officer
- 2006-2008 : Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Peacekeeping Operations in Africa Desk Officer
- 2008-2010 : Africa and Development. Permanent Representation of France to the European Union - Brussels (Belgium)
- 2010-2013 : Permanent Representation of France to the European Union – Military Issues/Defence Europe Desk Officer
- 2013-2017 : Adviser to the Defence Minister (Europe and Africa)
- Since 16 May 2017 : Africa Adviser to the President
-August 9, 2023 : Director of the French Office in Taipei
Sébastien Dauvé
CEO, CEA-Leti
Sébastien Dauvé
CEO, CEA-Leti
Bio:
Sébastien Dauvé was named CEO of CEA-Leti effective on July 1, 2021, after more than twenty years of experience in microelectronics technologies and their applications, including clean mobility, medicine of the future, cybersecurity, and power electronics.
Sébastien Dauvé started his career at the French Armament Electronics Center, where he worked on developing synthetic-aperture radar. In 2003, he joined CEA-Leti as an industrial transfer manager and supervised several joint research laboratories, in particular with the multinational Michelin.
In 2007, Sébastien Dauvé became a laboratory manager, then head of an R&D department in the area of sensors applied to the Internet of things and electric mobility. During this time, he supported the dissemination of new technologies in industry, including the automotive industry (Renault), aeronautics, national defense (SAFRAN), and microchips with the industry leader Intel. He played an active role in the creation of start-ups in application fields ranging from health to infrastructure security, leading to dozens of new jobs. In 2016, he became Director of the CEA-Leti Systems Division.
From sensors to wireless communication, Sébastien Dauvé has played an active role in the digital transformation, focused on coupling energy frugality and performance. He has made cross-disciplinary approaches central to innovation by harnessing the expertise of talented teams with diverse backgrounds. Their goal is to provide technological tools for meeting the major societal challenges of the future.
Sébastien Dauvé is a graduate of the French Ecole Polytechnique and the National Higher French Institute of Aeronautics and Space (ISAE-SUPAERO).
Tuo-Hung Alex Hou
Director General TSRI, Chair Professor NYCU
Clark Tseng
Sr. Director of Market Intelligence, SEMI
Martin Gallezot
Deputy Head Silicon Components Division, CEA-Leti
Martin Gallezot
Deputy Head Silicon Components Division, CEA-Leti
Bio:
Martin Gallezot graduated from Ecole Supérieure d’Electricité, Paris, France in 1993 with a Msc in Electrical Engineering. He is responsible for technology transfer in the Silicon Components Division at CEA-LETI. Before that he held several technical and business positions in semiconductor IP companies operating in the cybersecurity, high speed interconnect and flat panel display industries.
Sylvie Joly
Partnerships Manager 3D integration & Packaging, CEA-Leti
Sylvie Joly
Partnerships Manager 3D integration & Packaging, CEA-Leti
BIO:
Sylvie Joly is currently working as 3D integration and packaging Partnerships Manager at CEA-Leti. Sylvie received M.Sc. in Microelectronics from ISEP "Institut Supérieur d'Electronique de Paris" in 1989. She completed her education with a Master in Marketing and Innovation at the Grenoble Ecole de Management (GEM) in 2001. Prior to this position, she worked for more than 8 years as display business developer at CEA-Leti. In 2004 as Sr. Marketing Engineer in the CEA's Technology Transfer Department, she built a strong experience in setting up and managing technical marketing surveys. Before joining CEA, she spent 10 years in the industry as an R&D engineer, and 8 years as Sales engineer in several companies including Hewlett Packard and Ericsson.
Benoit Charbonnier
Research engineer, CEA-Leti
Benoit Charbonnier
Research engineer, CEA-Leti
Bio:
Benoit Charbonnier received his engineering degree in 1994 from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Paris and received his Ph.D. degree in 1997 on 40 Gbps soliton transmission from the same institution. In 1997, he joined Nortel Network in Harlow, UK, in the Advanced Communications group where he worked on 80 Gbps long haul transmission and then, in 2001, joined Marconi Communications to develop an Ultra-Long Haul 10 Gb/s based transmission products. In 2004, he joined Orange Labs as a research engineer, focusing on next generation optical access networks and particularly on digital signal processing applied to optical communications. In 2015, he moved to CEA-Leti, Grenoble, leading the photonics program within the French Institute of Technology Nanoelec, developing industrial partnerships to promote silicon photonics technologies. He is now in charge of neuromorphic photonics applications within the silicon photonics lab.
Abstract:
Computing with light is gathering interest recently with prospects of ultra high speed computations hence at very low power consumption per operation. Leti's Silicon Photonics Platform with integrated IIIV, Phase Change Materials and Barium Titanate is well suited to deliver high performance low power circuits for computing as well as inference.
Michael Tchagaspanian
EVP Strategic Partnerships, CEA-Leti
Michael Tchagaspanian
EVP Strategic Partnerships, CEA-Leti
Olivier Thomas
Deputy Head of the Digital IC Division, CEA-List
Olivier Thomas
Deputy Head of the Digital IC Division, CEA-List
Bio:
Olivier THOMAS is the deputy head of the Digital IC & System Design Division at CEA-List. He is in charge of partnership strategies and ecosystem growth, leveraging his background in system/design-to-technology co-optimization and product engineering within the field of embedded systems innovation. He is author and co-author of 25 patents and 77 publications. He was a pioneer and co-inventor of multi-VT technology utilizing back biasing for FD-SOI, as well as single p-well SRAM. He got is PhD in 2004 from the doctoral school of Computer Science, Telecommunications, and Electronics of Paris.
