Speakers
Frederic Seve
VP North America, CEA based at the Consulate General of France in San Francisco
Frederic Seve
VP North America, CEA based at the Consulate General of France in San Francisco
Originally from Valence in the Rhône Valley, Frédéric Sève was appointed in September 2024 as Vice President for North America at the CEA (Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique), a leading French and European research organization specializing in nuclear energy, health, and semiconductor innovation.
He holds an M.Sc in Applied Physics from Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA, 1998) and an M.Sc in Optics from Institut d'Optique Graduate School (Paris Saclay, 2000, ranked 1st French university in the Shanghai Ranking). He began his career in Montreal’s telecom industry, working in photonics.
After holding various positions in healthcare (DNA chips) and optical design, he transitioned to the space industry, where he led the engineering and quality assembly of the COROT scientific space telescope—a mission dedicated to exoplanet research for CNES, the French space agency.
Frédéric created his own business in 2007, developing optical engineering for the space and car industry with a global and international business approach (i.e.: ELT Telescope, Car Industry Lighting Innovation).
Following over 20 years in the private sector, Frédéric joined the CEA in 2022 as an Industrial Partnership Manager, focusing on strategic areas such as RF communications, autonomous sensors, and technologies for Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF).
In September 2024, he was appointed as strategic VP North America, based at the Consulate General of France in San Francisco.
Frédéric is married and the father of two teenage daughters attending the International School of San Francisco. Passionate about jazz music, alpine activities, and sailing, he balances his professional commitments with his love for adventure and culture.
Constance Bost
Director, French American Chamber Of Commerce
Frank Marchetti
Consul General of France in Huston
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).
Jim Anderson
VP NA Partner Ecosystem and Channels, Google
Stephen Davis
Director, Economic Development & Tourism, Texas CHIPS Office
Vygintas Jankus
MicroLED Partnership Manager, CEA-Leti
Vygintas Jankus
MicroLED Partnership Manager, CEA-Leti
Bio:
Vygintas Jankus is responsible for industrial partnership for MicroLED & OLED technologies at CEA-Leti in Grenoble. He helps partners to develop these technologies for optical & data communication, AR/VR, automotive, and other applications.
Eric Mercier
Telecom Line Director, CEA-Leti
Eric Mercier
Telecom Line Director, CEA-Leti
Eric Mercier is Telecom Line Director at CEA-Leti as well as Deputy Head of the Wireless Unit. He is active in industrial partnership developments towards technology transfer and also in managing internal CEA-Leti program, amongst which the FAMES WP10 dedicated to demonstrators. Graduated from ENSEEIHToulouse, France, in 1991, and with a 1st experience in the Optical Test Equipment at Wavetek (1992 – 1998, now VIAVI), his main focuses of interest have covered activities from Low-Power IoT transceiver solutions as Marketing & Application Manager for Atmel (1999 – 2006, now Microchip), and later as Project Manager & Laboratory Head Manager at CEA-Leti from 2006. As a promoter of CEA-Leti RF/mmW research activities, he is committed to market & societal needs for next Telecom generation towards new technologies development, understanding how forthcoming scientific developments can be valued to that end.
Olivier Faynot
EVP, Head of Silicon Component Division, CEA-Leti
Olivier Faynot
EVP, Head of Silicon Component Division, CEA-Leti
Bio :
Olivier Faynot received the M.Sc and Ph.D. degrees from the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, France in 1991 and 1995, respectively. His doctoral research was related to the characterization and modeling of deep submicron Fully Depleted SOI devices fabricated on ultrathin SIMOX wafers.
He joined CEA (CEA-Grenoble, France) in 1995, working on Partially Depleted and Fully Depleted SOI technologies development in the frame of Industrial Partnerships.
From 2008 to 2017, he managed various teams focussed on advanced CMOS, memories and 3D technology integration and was assigned on manufacturing sites to implement FDSOI technologies.
During that period, he was engaged in the transfer to production of 28nm and 22nm FDSOI technologies with industrial partners. Those technologies are now available in production.
From 2017 to 2019, he managed the Patterning department at CEA-LETI, within the Silicon Technology division.
Since 2019, he is managing the whole Silicon Component division at CEA-LETI.
He is author and co-author of more than 400 scientific publications in journals and international conferences, and was successively in the committees of the main international Semiconductors conferences like International Electron Device Meeting (IEDM), the symposium on VLSI Technology, the IEEE International SOI conference, the EUROSOI network, the Solid State Device and Materials (SSDM) conference and the International S3S conference.
He received the ‘Général Férié’ award in 2012 and the ‘Electron d’Or’ award with CEA-Leti, ST Microelectronics and SOITEC in 2017.
He has been elected as an IEEE Fellow in 2024 for leadership in CMOS technology development.
William Magro
Director and Chief Technologist, High Performance Computing, Google
Thomas Barber
Vice President, Communications Infrastructure and Datacenter, Globalfoundries
Laurent Pain
Sustainable Electronics Program Director, CEA-Leti
Laurent Pain
Sustainable Electronics Program Director, CEA-Leti
Bio:
Laurent Pain is graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Physique de Grenoble in 1992. He received his Ph D after his work on DUV resists study. He joined CEA-Leti in 1996 to work on infra-red technology, and then came back to STmicroelectronics in 1999 working on 193nm and e-beam lithography technologies.
From 2008 to 2014, Laurent Pain leaded the lithography laboratory of the silicon technology division of CEA-Leti. He was also managing in parallel the industrial consortium IMAGINE dedicated to the development of multibeam lithography with MAPPER lithography BV.
Since July 2014, within the CEA-Leti Silicon Technology Division, he is now in charge of the business and the partnerships developments of the Silicon Technologies Platform Division.
Michael Tchagaspanian
EVP Strategic Partnership, CEA-Leti
Michael Tchagaspanian
EVP Strategic Partnership, CEA-Leti
