Speakers
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
Stephen Su
Senior Vice President, ITRI
Stephen Su
Senior Vice President, ITRI
Bio:
Stephen Su currently serves as Senior VP at ITRI. Previously within ITRI, he was ITRI’s Director of AI Strategy Office, and General Director of both the Industry, Science, and Technology International Strategy Center (ISTI), and the Industrial Economic and Knowledge Center (IEK). He is currently the chair for RTO International Network (RIN) which is part of European Association of Research and Technology Organisations (EARTO). He is also the Senior Committee Member of the High Level Forum(HLF) founded by France.
Before joining ITRI, he was experienced with corporate strategy consulting for the Boston Consulting Group (Hong Kong) and Roland Berger Strategy Consultants (Shanghai). He also developed technical and management career in mobile communications with Motorola Semiconductor (Phoenix), Primax Electronics (Taiwan), servicing global customers including Nokia and Apple. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley; an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology; and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.
Dr. Wei-Chung Lo
Deputy General Director, ITRI EOSL
Dr. Wei-Chung Lo
Deputy General Director, ITRI EOSL
Bio:
Dr. Wei-Chung Lo received his Ph.D. from National Taiwan University(NTU) and joined ITRI in 1997. Currently, He is deputy general director and senior principal engineer in EOSL of ITRI and visiting professor in Graduate School of Advanced Technology of NTU. He serves as Executive Secretary of AI on Chip Taiwan Alliance(AITA), and Chairman of 3D IC/Fan-Out consortium (Ad-STAC, Hi-CHIPS).
He has published more than 85 papers and 27 patent granted. His research interests focusing on Semiconductor Device, Waferlevel System Integration and Advanced electronic/opto-electronic packaging for more than 20 years, including Non-Volatile Memory(MRAM, Computing in Memory), 3D IC/ 3D SiP/ 3D Chiplets Integration, Silicon Photonics & Co-packaged Optics, WBG Power chip(GaN, SiC & Ga2O3), Power packaging and Power module, RF packaging(Antenna-in-package, AiP), and Integrated smart system and Heterogeneous Integration technology.
Sébastien Dauvé
Chief Executive Officer, CEA-Leti
Sébastien Dauvé
Chief Executive Officer, 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).
Dr. Hsiang-Hung Chang
Manager, ITRI EOSL
Dr. Hsiang-Hung Chang
Manager, ITRI EOSL
Bio:
Dr. Hsiang-Hung Chang (Mike) received his Ph.D. degree in the Department of Power Mechanical Engineering from National Tsing Hua University. Since 2002, he has been with the Electronic and Optoelectronic System Research Laboratories (EOSL) at the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), where he serves as a member of the Advanced Packaging Technology Division. His research focuses on wafer bonding processes, thin-wafer handling technologies, process integration, and the development of advanced packaging technologies, including 3D IC, fan-out packaging, and co-packaged optics (CPO).
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.
Laurent Fulbert
Deputy Head of Optics and Photonics division, CEA-Leti
Laurent Fulbert
Deputy Head of Optics and Photonics division, CEA-Leti
Bio:
Laurent Fulbert has been working at CEA-Leti since 1990. After 15 years as a research scientist in the field of solid-state lasers and integrated photonics, he became photonics programs manager, in charge of business development and collaborative projects in the domain of integrated photonics, nanophotonics, sensors and lasers. Since 2014, he has been Deputy Head of Optics and Photonics division, in charge of Strategy and Programs Management. He was also managing director of III-V Lab, a joint R&D laboratory between Nokia, Thales and CEA between 2014 and 2021.
Dr. Pei-Ting Chou
Division Director of the Electronics and Optoelectronics System Research Laboratories, ITRI
Dr. Pei-Ting Chou
Division Director of the Electronics and Optoelectronics System Research Laboratories, ITRI
Bio:
Dr. Pei-Ting Chou has served as Division Chief of the Electronics and Optoelectronics System Research Laboratories at ITRI since 2025. He began his professional career in 2006, with experience spanning both ITRI and the industry, particularly in LED and MicroLED technologies, and later expanding into silicon photonics (SiPh) and advanced optical testing platforms. He is responsible for strategic planning, national laboratory development, and cross-sector collaboration within Taiwan’s photonics ecosystem.
He leads multidisciplinary R&D teams and has received several international awards, including the R&D 100 Award and the Frost & Sullivan Best Practice Award, recognizing excellence in technological innovation and industrial impact.
James Wang
Special Assistant to CEO, Etron Technology
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.
Ming-Shen Chen
Founder & GM, Stek
Ming-Shen Chen
Founder & GM, Stek
Bio:
Mishen – Head of Stek Co., Ltd. With a strong background in TSMC’s lithography department, Mishen founded Stek to focus on advanced mask and wafer process equipment for lithography. The company’s portfolio includes storage systems, inspection for mask and wafer,OHT system for wafer transfer, coating, and development. Mishen holds 40 invention patents and 22 utility model patents, and was recognized as one of Taiwan’s Top 100 Managers in 2019.
Philippe Despesse
Deputy Director of Programs, Systems Division, CEA-Leti
Dr. Pauline Ravinet
Attaché for Science and Technology, French Office in Taipei
Dr. Pauline Ravinet
Attaché for Science and Technology, French Office in Taipei
Bio:
Pauline Ravinet holds a Ph.D. from Sciences Po. She is an expert in talent, science and innovation cooperation. Since September 2023, she has been coordinating the scientific cooperation strategy for the French Office in Taipei. She works with major French and Taiwanese universities and research institutions to strengthen partnerships between science & tech communities in priority domains such as Semiconductor, Quantum, AI, Cybersecurity and Space.
She previously held the position of Vice-president of the University of Lille, coordinating the university’s European strategy in higher education and research, and the position of Policy officer at the European Commission, contributing to the launch of the European strategy for universities, and of the European Education and Innovation Summit. A former public policy scholar, she studied higher education and research policies, and science diplomacy to address global challenge
Dr. Chun-Ting Liu
CEO & Founder, NanoSeeX
Dr. Chun-Ting Liu
CEO & Founder, NanoSeeX
Bio:
Dr. Chun-Ting Liu is the founder and CEO of NanoSeeX, a deep-tech company developing advanced X-ray metrology systems for semiconductor manufacturing. His work focuses on non-destructive nanoscale characterization using X-ray scattering and reflectometry techniques for advanced logic nodes and emerging transistor architectures, including nanosheet Gate-All-Around (GAA) and future CFET structures. He leads NanoSeeX’s technology strategy and collaborates with international research institutes and semiconductor ecosystem partners on next-generation semiconductor metrology solutions.
Nicolas Fahier
Co-Founder & CTO, IIST
Nicolas Fahier
Co-Founder & CTO, IIST
Bio:
Originally from France, he obtained a Master’s degree in electronic engineering from ISEP Paris in 2013 and worked in R&D before moving to Taiwan to pursue a Ph.D. at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, which he obtained in 2020. His research covered advanced chip design across biomedical electronics, signal processing, and AI systems. Through this multidisciplinary work, he later became involved in cybersecurity challenges for connected devices, leading to research on Physically Unclonable Functions (PUF) for hardware-based digital identity. This work led to the creation of IIST Inc., established in Taiwan in 2022 with government support and financially funded in 2023, developing secure chips and hardware trust solutions for AIoT and network infrastructure.
Vincent Destefanis
Optical Sensors Industrial Partnership Manager, CEA-Leti
Vincent Destefanis
Optical Sensors Industrial Partnership Manager, CEA-Leti
Bio:
Vincent Destefanis is a Partnership Manager for the Optics and Photonic division of CEA-Leti since 2023. Since 2006, he was successively a R&D engineer, a senior technical expert and a partnership manager, this for various leading-edge photonic and CMOS companies (Lynred, STMicroelectronics and IBM).
He holds Master's and Engineering degrees in Electronics, Physics and Materials Science. During his career, Vincent has been successful in creating long-term value in the CMOS and photonic industries, from various valuable contributions to industrial projects and partnerships.
Vincent is now dedicated to the development of industrial partnerships for the development and tech transfer to industry of beyond the state of the art photonic sensing solutions addressing a wide scope of applications.
Abstract:
Global demand for accurate non-invasive glucose monitoring remains unmet, because most wearable technologies fail to deliver the required clinical performance. CEA-Leti offers a device breakthrough with mid-infrared quantum cascade laser (QCL) photoacoustic technology on silicon. Operating in the mid-IR spectrum, it provides the specificity and sensitivity needed for real-time biomarker tracking without invasive sampling.
Engineered for large-scale semiconductor manufacturing, the system ensures cost-effectiveness and significant scalability. Its retunable architecture allows a single hardware design to detect diverse biomarkers across medical and industrial sectors. The institute aims to accelerate time-to-market through this multilateral industrial program.
This initiative reshapes non-invasive monitoring, enabling next-generation smart wearables like smartwatches for sport, wellness, and health. By translating this breakthrough into low-cost devices, CEA-Leti opens pathways for detecting crucial biomarkers and molecules beyond glucose, addressing global consumer demand, while overcoming previous technological limitations.
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.
Abstract:
This program on microLED datalinks addresses the bandwidth‑energy bottleneck limiting AI‑driven supercomputers. By scaling microLED optical links, the project targets sub‑1 pJ/bit energy use and >10.5 Tbps/mm data density over distances up to 10 meters, enabling point‑to‑point interconnects for CPUs, GPUs and HBM stacks.
Combining device, circuit and 3‑D integration expertise hybrid bonding and high‑density TSVs the consortium will manufacture microLEDs on 200 mm wafers using standard foundry technology, with a clear path to 300 mm scalability.
Why it matters: MicroLEDs offer a mature, low‑power alternative to copper or laser‑based interconnects that can deliver orders‑of‑magnitude speed gains, while sharply reducing power draw. Attendees will see the microLED-for-datacom roadmap, learn how the technology can accelerate AI workloads, lower data-center expenses, and open new opportunities for chipmakers, optical‑component suppliers and hyperscalers.
Michael Tchagaspanian
EVP Strategic Partnership, CEA-Leti
Michael Tchagaspanian
EVP Strategic Partnership, CEA-Leti
Jean-Christophe Bonté
Head of the CEA Technological Research Division Office in Taiwan
Jean-Christophe Bonté
Head of the CEA Technological Research Division Office in Taiwan
Bio:
Jean-Christophe Bonté is Head of the CEA Technological Research Division Office in Taiwan. Based at the French Office in Taipei, he leads the development and coordination of strategic industrial and institutional partnerships between CEA and Taiwanese stakeholders, with a strong focus on semiconductors, advanced microelectronics, digital technologies and energy-related innovation.
He previously held responsibilities within CEA’s International Relations Division, contributing to the structuring of international scientific and technological cooperation programs. He also worked within CEA’s Business Development and Technology Transfer Division, supporting the valorization of research results and the development of strategic industrial partnerships.
