Speakers
Michael Tchagaspanian
EVP Strategic Partnership, CEA-Leti
Michael Tchagaspanian
EVP Strategic Partnership, CEA-Leti
Babak Sabi
VP, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Babak Sabi
VP, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Bio:
Dr. Babak Sabi is VP of Technology at AWS/Annapurna Lab. Babak joined AWS in 2024 after 40 years in Intel. Babak was Senior Vice President and the General Manager of Assembly & Test Technology Development (ATTD) at Intel Corporation. Since 2009, he has been responsible for the company’s packaging, assembly, and test process technology development. During Babak’s tenure in ATTD 2.5D and 3D Advanced Packages were developed and ramp to high Volume Manufacturing. Additionally ATTD team made many advancement in Substrate and Test Technology.
Prior to leading ATTD, Babak oversaw Intel’s Corporate Quality Network from 2002 to 2009 where he led product reliability, customer satisfaction and quality business practices.
Babak joined Intel in 1984 after receiving Babak his Ph.D. in solid state electronics from Ohio State University in 1984.
Tim Breen
Chief Executive Officer, GF
Tim Breen
Chief Executive Officer, GF
Bio:
Tim Breen is Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of GF, a position he was appointed to in 2025, having joined the company in 2018.
Prior to becoming CEO, Mr. Breen served as GF’s Chief Operating Officer (COO), overseeing the company’s global operations, including the manufacturing, quality, supply chain and digital transformation teams. Earlier in his tenure at GF he held various executive roles including leading strategy, business transformation and finance. Prior to joining GF, Mr. Breen served as a member of the senior leadership team of GF’s founding shareholder, Mubadala Investment Company (Mubadala). Earlier in his career, he was a partner with McKinsey & Company in Abu Dhabi.
Mr. Breen holds a Master of Business Administration degree from London Business School and is based in New York.
Takaki Murata
Senior Vice President & Executive Board member, MURATA
Takaki Murata
Senior Vice President & Executive Board member, MURATA
Bio:
Takaki Murata has been involved in technology development, accounting, planning, and business management at the Company and its group companies for many years and corporate management as a chief officer at business companies in the United States, accumulating a wealth of experience and a solid record of achievement. He has been elected as a Member of the Board of Directors because the Company expects that he will continue to strengthen the decision-making and supervisory functions of the Board of Directors.
Hajime Shoji
Corporate Executive Officer, Sumitomo Electric Group
Hajime Shoji
Corporate Executive Officer, Sumitomo Electric Group
Bio:
Hajime Shoji received the Ph.D. degree in electronic engineering from the University of Tokyo, and joined Fujitsu Laboratories in 1990. He moved to Eudyna Devices, a joint venture of Fujitsu and Sumitomo Electric in 2004, then after the change in organization, moved to Sumitomo Electric Industries, LTD. in 2009. He has been consistently leading the development of compound semiconductor materials and devices for photonic and microwave communications. Currently, he is serving as a general manager of the Transmission Devices Laboratories, and also as an executive officer of Sumitomo Electric.
Dr. Shoji is a senior member of the IEEE/Photonics Society, and a member of the Japan Society of Applied Physics (JSAP) and the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE). He has been also engaged in the management of many domestic and international conferences as a chair and a member of program/organization committees.
Audrey Charles
SVP Corporate Strategy & President, Lam Capital
Audrey Charles
SVP Corporate Strategy & President, Lam Capital
Bio:
Audrey Charles is senior vice president of corporate strategy and advanced packaging, and president of Lam Capital at Lam Research. In this position, she is responsible for leading the executive management team in the development of strategic priorities and key initiatives that support the company’s long-term profitable growth. She is also responsible for accelerating the company’s market-leading position in advanced packaging to deliver differentiated technology and support to customers. Additionally, Audrey oversees Lam’s Corporate Development team and investment arm, Lam Capital, which invests in disruptive companies that advance the semiconductor ecosystem through next generation industrial automation, technology and product innovation, and new market opportunities. She brings a broad base of experience to her role, including engineering, customer technology management and investor relations. Since joining Lam in 1995, she has served in a range of leadership positions including senior vice president of Global Human Resources and vice president of corporate initiatives. Audrey earned an M.B.A. from the MIT Sloan School of Management and a B.S. in applied physics from Dublin City University.
Bill Chang
Co-founder, President & CTO, Density AI
Bill Chang
Co-founder, President & CTO, Density AI
Bio:
Bill Chang is the Co-founder, President, and Chief Technology Officer of DensityAI, a company focused on making AI infrastructure radically more efficient and sustainably scalable, by building the world's densest AI compute platform, integrating innovations across technology, chip and system architecture, software, and datacenter infrastructure.
Prior to founding DensityAI, Chang served as Chief System Architect at Tesla, where he was responsible for the design and architecture of the Dojo supercomputer, a vertically integrated high-performance AI training system. He led the development of the first production wafer-scale package technology, enabling machine learning training to scale to exaFLOP levels.
Before Tesla, Chang was at Apple, where he managed the transition of the Mac platform to Apple Silicon. Earlier in his career, he held various technical leadership roles at IBM Microelectronics spanning DRAM, CMOS technology development, and manufacturing, building deep expertise in silicon design and semiconductor process engineering.
Len Koh
Senior Executive Director, PSMC
Len Koh
Senior Executive Director, PSMC
Bio:
Len Koh is Senior Director of Project Management at Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. (PSMC), driving innovation at the intersection of AI computing architecture and advanced memory technologies. With over two decades in the semiconductor industry, he has led initiatives in Processing-in-Memory (PIM) and 3D DRAM stacking to overcome data movement bottlenecks in next-generation systems. Holding multiple international patents, Len focuses on redefining the convergence of memory and compute to power the future of intelligent computing. He earned his Master’s degree in Computer Science from National Tsing Hua University
Chih-I-Wu
President of Taiwan Semiconductor Association & VP, ITRI
Chih-I-Wu
President of Taiwan Semiconductor Association & VP, ITRI
Bio:
Dr. Chih-I Wu is President of Taiwan Semiconductor Association (TSIA). He is also the VP and Senior Technology Expert at Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), as well as a professor in Graduate Institute of Photonics and Optoelectronics and Department of Electrical Engineering of National Taiwan University. He was the General Director of Electronic and Optoelectronic System Research Laboratories, ITRI, from 2015 to 2022. His research is mainly on 2D material and devices, organic optoelectronics, metal-semiconductor interfaces, and heterojunctions. Prior to joining NTU, he worked at Component Research Lab of Intel in the US from 2000 to 2004. His work at Intel was mainly on developing the advanced VLSI process technology, such as Cu and low k interconnects, metal gate materials, and atomic layer deposition process.
Dr. Wu got his B.S. degree from National Taiwan University and M.S. degree from Northwestern University, both in Physics. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in Electrical Engineering. Dr. Wu has published more than 200 journal papers, which have been cited for over ten thousand times.
Elliot Mc Namera
SVP & Head of the 3D DUV, ASML
Stuart Knight
Corporate Executive Officer & President, HORIBA UK
Stuart Knight
Corporate Executive Officer & President, HORIBA UK
Bio:
Stuart Knight is President of HORIBA UK Ltd and a HORIBA Group Executive Corporate Officer, with more than three decades of experience in the global semiconductor industry. He began his career in 1992 in Hong Kong, working for a back‑end semiconductor equipment manufacturer, gaining first‑hand experience of high‑volume manufacturing environments in South East Asia.
After returning to Europe in 1998, Stuart joined HORIBA, where he helped establish and grow the company’s semiconductor portfolio, delivering process monitoring and control solutions for semiconductor process optimisation to customers across Europe and globally. He spent many years building HORIBA’s presence in the semiconductor segment before moving into senior executive leadership.
Today, Stuart contributes actively to European and global semiconductor strategy for the HORIBA Group, bringing a practical, manufacturing‑led perspective to industry discussions.
Erik Hadland
Director of Technology Policy, SIA
Erik Hadland
Director of Technology Policy, SIA
Bio:
Erik Hadland is the Director of Technology Policy at the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), where he is responsible for the association’s research, development, and technology activities as well as its education and workforce development efforts. In this role, he works with the White House, Federal agencies, and Congress to inform policymakers about the needs and functions of the diverse segments of the semiconductor industry.
Prior to SIA, Erik was a AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow at the U.S. Department of Energy, where he served as Advisor to the Director of the Office of Science—the Nation’s largest supporter of fundamental physical science research and stewarding office of 10 of the Department’s National Laboratories. In this capacity, Erik project managed briefings to the Congress on critical and emergent technologies, advised on matters of place-based innovation and technology transfer, and co-facilitated the Department’s Microelectronics Working Group. Prior to the DOE, Erik was a Senior Logic Technology Development Engineer at Intel, piloting first-of-a-kind annealing modules and processing conditions for Intel’s next generation logic products.
Erik earned his PhD in Solid State Chemistry from the University of Oregon, where he studied novel synthesis schemes for metastable 2D semiconductor compounds.
Laurent Remont
Experienced Executive SVP (Infineon, ST, Philips …)
Dr. Atsuyoshi Koike
CEO, Rapidus corporation
Dr. Atsuyoshi Koike
CEO, Rapidus corporation
Bio:
ATSUYOSHI KOIKE established Rapidus Corporation, a Japanese advanced logic semiconductor company in August 2022. Prior to this role, Koike had served as President of Western Digital Japan since April 2018. Prior to joining Western Digital, he held the position of president and chief executive officer at Trecenti Technologies, Inc., as well as served as corporate chief engineer for Renesas Technology Corporation. Prior to that, he held senior manufacturing management and executive leadership positions at Hitachi, Ltd. Koike received the B.S. and M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from Waseda University and Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering from Tohoku University.
Alexandre Shirakawa
VP of Engineering, SKYWORKS
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).
Jean-René Lèquepeys
Deputy Director and Chief Technology Officer, CEA-Leti
Jean-René Lèquepeys
Deputy Director and Chief Technology Officer, CEA-Leti
Bio:
Jean-René Lèquepeys received an engineering degree in 1983 from CentraleSupélec, a top French graduate engineering school at Paris-Saclay University, France. He taught physics during 2 years in Ouarzazate, Morocco.
He joined CEA, a French Research and Technology Office focusing on applied research, in Paris Saclay in 1985. He first worked at the laboratory of the Central Security Office, on the evaluation of means of detection and intrusion. Two years later, he was promoted head of this laboratory.
In 1993, he moved to Grenoble, France, and joined the System Division of CEA-Leti. He worked on different projects in the field of image processing and telecommunication technologies. In particular, he was responsible for the "Telecom, Communicating Objects and Smart Card" programs from 1999 to 2004.
In 2005, he took the responsibility of the Circuits Design Division at CEA-Leti (200 people). He launched new research activities at CEA such as a new laboratory in Aix-en-Provence, France, on the development of secured chips. In 2000, Jean-René Lèquepeys received the prestigious award from the french Société de l'Electricité, de l'Electronique et des technologies de l'information et de la communication (SEE) "Grand Prix de l'électronique Général Ferrié" for his work in the telecommunications field (he holds 15 patents).
In 2010, he launched a new division at CEA focusing on Electronic Architectures, Integrated Circuit Design and Embedded Software. He established the structure on two sites (Paris and Grenoble) and led the division twice in his career.
He rapidly got involved in the creation of the Silicon Components Division at CEA-Leti, and took the lead of it in 2011 managing 350 people. Division encompasses micro and nanoelectronics (SOI, nanodots, quantum, memories, 3D technologies, substrates), Micro Systems (sensor, actuator, radiofrequency components) and Power Components. He established the French Nano2022 Program for research funding in microelectronics.
In 2019, he was appointed Chief Technology Officer of CEA-Leti, overseeing Science, relations with the European Commission, Industrial Partnership and Strategic Program Management in the scope of the institute (2,000 people, ~€350m budget). He took the responsibility of the Microelectronic Program at CEA level, spearheading technological and upstream research in the field of semiconductor technologies. For the past 2 years, he has been strongly involved in the CEA-Leti Next Gen FD-SOI project in the frame of France2030 and has played a key role in European chips Act pilot line promoting FD-SOI and Gate All Around technologies.
Having dedicated his career to applied research, he is regularly invited as a keynote speaker in international semiconductor conferences.
Jean-René is also Vice President of ACSIEL, a professional trade union gathering industrial companies in the French electronic value chain, member of the Board of EPOSS, the European Technology Platform on Smart Systems Integration, a member of the Board of AENEAS, the Association for Europoean NanoElectronics Activities, and an expert consultant for the European Commission and French Research Agency
Data & Network/Cloud Convergence
Hakima Chaouchi
Head of Digital Sovereignty and Sobriety, Institut Mines Telecom
Hughes Metras
Director of ASIC, Component and Digital Infrastructure French Program Agency
Hughes Metras
Director of ASIC, Component and Digital Infrastructure French Program Agency
Bio:
Hughes Metras has been appointed director of the National Program Agency for Components, Systems and Digital Infrastructures (ASIC) on September 15th, 2025. Previously, he led the IRT Nanoelec, a consortium of industrial and academic members, conducting research in the field of 3D stacking technologies, silicon photonics and embedded components. He also spent 6 years in California, as VP of strategic partnerships for the US region where he established Cea Leti’s commercial office in 2011. He benefits from a technical background in Physics engineering (Ecole Centrale de Marseille) and holds an MBA from the University of Miami (Florida).
The program Agency ASIC has been created 2 years ago to build a strategic vision for the french research ecosystem in the field of HW technologies from material science and engineering to components, systems and network + compute infrastructures. The agency is launching three programs adressing challenges in the fields of (i) AI Accelerators, (ii) IC design methodologies and (iii) Packaging through the engagement of academic and technology research communities.
Edgar Auslander
Serial Entrepreneur & Executive Board Member (META, VC, QUALCOMM…)
Edgar Auslander
Serial Entrepreneur & Executive Board Member (META, VC, QUALCOMM…)
Bio:
dgar Auslander has more than 35 years of experience serving on various Boards of Directors, working at startups, a Venture Capital firm, and Fortune100 companies such as Facebook and Qualcomm. As the Senior Director of Strategic Partnerships at Meta, he has focused on XR, AI, and Wearables, and is Founding Board Member at The AR Alliance. He initiated and drove the partnership with EssilorLuxottica and originated products like Ray-Ban Meta. He is the Founding Managing Partner at Menlo Business Partners, a consulting firm based in Menlo Park and Paris. Edgar was one of the founders of Texas Instruments' Wireless Business Unit, bringing it from scratch to $5B in annual revenue. As a former Faculty Member at Stanford University and the EDHEC Business School, he authored and taught classes on Management of Change and Business Negotiation classes at UC Berkeley Extension. Edgar started his career licensing inventions from Columbia University and has since demonstrated expertise in product management, engineering and marketing team leadership, venture capital, consulting, business development, and mergers and acquisitions. A Senior Member of IEEE, he is co-author of "The Applications of Programmable DSPs in Mobile Communications" (Wiley), published numerous articles, and has delivered several keynotes at industry conferences worldwide. Edgar holds an MBA from Columbia University, and an MEEng. from Cornell University.
Cristell Maneux
Director of IMS Laboratory, University of Bordeaux
Semiconductors for Computing
François Andrieu
Head of Memory & Computing Laboratory, CEA-Leti
François Andrieu
Head of Memory & Computing Laboratory, CEA-Leti
Dr. François Andrieu is CEA fellow and the head of Laboratory “Nano-devices for Memory and Computing” at CEA-Leti, Grenoble, France.
He has been strongly involved in the development of the Fully-Depleted-Silicon-On-Insulator (FD-SOI) CMOS technology at Leti and with STMicroelectronics, where he was assigned between 2012-2015 in the process-integration and technology-to-design groups. His fields of interest are: NVM Resistive-RAM, In-Memory-Computing, advanced CMOS transistors, 3D-sequential integration.
He is the author or co-author of more than 34 patents, 240 conference abstracts or refereed journal articles, 11 invited papers and 3 book chapters. He received the IEEE senior grade in 2018, the European ERC consolidator grant in 2019 and the IEEE/SEE Brillouin award in 2018.
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.
Shigeru Kawanaka
Director, Frontier Technology R&D Institute, Kioxia
Juan Rey
CTO, Siemens EDA
Juan Rey
CTO, Siemens EDA
Bio:
Juan C. Rey returned to the Calibre Segment and was appointed as Sr. Vice President, Segment Leader/General Manager for Siemens EDA in April of 2025. Prior to his appointment as GM, Juan led the Central Engineering Solutions Team as part of a government program focused on 3D flows. He Transitioned to Central Engineering Solutions Team after serving as Vice President of Government Programs for Siemens EDA where he was responsible for defining technical programs to support government initiatives since 2023. Prior to his work with Government Programs, Juan held the roll of Vice President of Calibre Engineering. He joined Mentor Graphics in 2001 as Senior Engineering Director for Mentor?s industry-leading Calibre product line, directing all development activities for Calibre products, a role he performed until December 2021. Prior to his time at Mentor Graphics, Juan was Vice President of Engineering at Exend Corporation, managing all software development and quality activities. He joined Extend after serving as Engineering Director of Physical Verification at Cadence Design Systems. Earlier positions include Manager/Developer for Process Modeling and Parasitic Extraction at Technology Modeling Associates, Visiting Scholar/Science and Engineering Associate at Stanford University, Senior Research Engineer at INVAP, Argentina, and Associate Professor at Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Argentina. Juan holds a degree in Nuclear Engineering from Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina. The author or co-author of numerous papers and conference presentations, he serves on the Executive Technology Advisory Board of Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) and the UCLA Center for Domain-Specific Computing.
Sven Beyer
Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Global Foundries
Sven Beyer
Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Global Foundries
Bio:
Sven Beyer received his master’s and Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Hamburg, Germany. He started his career with Infineon as a manufacturing engineer in the etch department in 2003. Joining the integration department of AMD in 2005, he intermediately spent a year in the IBM ASTA alliance 2007 working on the 45nm node. Returning to Dresden, Sven has worked in many roles since then, ranging from integration technology-lead to customer engineering and lasting throughout the separation of GlobalFoundries and AMD. Today he serves as DMTS in GlobalFoundries FAB1 as technology architect (TA), overseeing mainly the eNVM & CMOS roadmap and development in Dresden.
Michael Schaffert
SVP, Robert Bosch GmbH
Michael Schaffert
SVP, Robert Bosch GmbH
Bio:
Michael studied electrical engineering at the Technical University of Stuttgart.
In 1998, he joined Bosch in Stuttgart as hardware development engineer for Engine Control Units. 2001, he joined ETAS GmbH in Stuttgart as a Product Manager for Rapid Prototyping system. He left ETAS 2011, when he was Director for Product Management and Development and responsible for all ETAS HW. After ETAS Michael became Vice President at BOSCH and was the Head of Center of Competence for Vehicle Electrics and Electronics Architecture. In this role he was responsible for future E/E-Architecture’s development incl. responsibility for recognizing and assigning new technologies. In 2015 he moved to BOSCH Japan and was the Head of Customer Engineering responsible for Asian Pacific Engine Control Units & SW Service Business. In 2019 he came back to Germany and became Head of HW Development for Powertrain Control Systems BOSCH. In 2020 he was founding member of the new BOSCH Division XC (Cross-Domain Computing Solutions) and had the role as the head of Product Group responsible for Base-SW and Middleware incl. OS Product & Services. Since 07/2022 he joined BOSCH Tier2 as a SCP responsible for Chiplet.
Abstract:
The CHASSIS initiative marks a transformative step in automotive compute platform design for Software-Defined Vehicles (SDVs). By leveraging chiplet-based architectures, CHASSIS addresses the inherent limitations of traditional monolithic System-on-Chips (SoCs), introducing a modular and scalable approach to semiconductor design. This paradigm shift enables tailored, high-performance computing solutions that accelerate the transition to software-defined mobility and foster competitive innovation across the automotive industry.
Our vision extends beyond technical advancement: CHASSIS aims to restore European technological sovereignty in automotive semiconductor innovation through the creation of a multi-vendor chiplet ecosystem. This ecosystem ensures architectural flexibility, automotive-grade reliability, and freedom from proprietary constraints, paving the way for open, future-proof compute platforms.
By delivering scalable architectures that meet diverse performance requirements,
Cécilia Dupré
Quantum Devices lab Manager, CEA-Leti
Semiconductors for Defense
Rachid Jaoui
Manager of Innovation in Nanotechnologies, Sensors and Components, DGA
Raphael Aubry
Technical Expert, French Ministry for Armed Forces
Alan Peyaud
Senior Research & Development Engineer, CEA-Leti
Mantas Sakalas
RF Group lead, Baltic Institute of Advanced technology
Mantas Sakalas
RF Group lead, Baltic Institute of Advanced technology
Bio:
Dr. Mantas Sakalas received a Master’s degree in electrical engineering from Berlin University of Technology in 2012. He continued his career in the industry working as an engineer in the field of microwave electronics components for radar applications. Since 2018 he is the leader the RF Group in Baltic Institute of Advanced Technologies (BPTI) in Vilnius, Lithuania. In 2024, parallel to his work as the RF group leader in BPTI, he acquired a PhD in Dresden University of Technology in the field of MIMO radars. The main focus of his research is development of MMIC components for radar and EW applications.
Abstract:
Establishing all European supply chain for RF components is one of the key goals in strengthening the European strategic autonomy. This is especially true for defense applications, where Europe is still falling behind and is strongly dependent on overseas supply.
However, there is a number of challenges that need to be overcome for Europe to create its own supply chain for defense systems. A lack, or even absence of commercial, open semiconductor foundries offering services for defense application development, limited technology offering, need for advanced packaging techniques. How can we tackle these challenges? Insights will be shared from European design house point of view.
Cybersecurity
Marion Andrillat
Cybersecurity Strategic Partnership Manager, CEA-Leti
Marion Andrillat
Cybersecurity Strategic Partnership Manager, CEA-Leti
After a Microelectronics Engineer degree at CPE Lyon, Marion Andrillat has started her career at STMicroelectronics as a digital designer of “System On Chip” for the payed TV setup boxes and consumer smartphones. In 2011, with a postgraduate Advanced Master in Marketing and Technological Innovation at Grenoble Ecole de Management, she joined the CEA as Strategic Marketing Manager. Then she moved as Strategic Partnership Manager for Systems Division at CEA Leti. Since 6 years, she is specialized in Cybersecurity Strategic Partnership Management for a wide range of industrial applications such as transports, smart grids, medical, industry 4.0, security & defense… and various devices such as integrated circuits, embedded systems or industrial equipment’s.
Mikael Carmona
Head of the Hardware Security Division, CEA-Leti
Mikael Carmona
Head of the Hardware Security Division, CEA-Leti
BIO:
Mikael Carmona is an engineer (Grenoble INP, 2007), agrégé in mathematics (2007), and PhD in signal processing (Grenoble INP, 2011). Researcher at CEA-Leti from 2011 to 2015 in the field of sensor networks, he co-founded the start-up Morphosense as CTO. He mainly contributes to the establishment and execution of the company's Technological, Product and Operational roadmaps. In 2021, he joined the Cybersecurity department of CEA-Leti and worked in the fields of post-quantum cryptography and random number generators. He took charge of the Component Security Laboratory from 2022 to 2025. He is currently Head of the Cybersecurity department of CEA-Leti.
Xavier Banchelin
R&D and Product Management Director, Thales
Nathalie Feyt
VP Product Security, Schneider Electric
Jean-Luc Triouleyre
Managing Director & Co-Founder, IC'ALPS
Jean-Luc Triouleyre
Managing Director & Co-Founder, IC'ALPS
Bio:
Jean-Luc has been leading IC’Alps since 2018, in both strategic direction and positioning in the rapidly ever changing ecosystem. He started his career working on what will become WIFI (at CANON Research Center) before evolving towards the design of electronic cards (at Compagnie des Signaux) then electronic circuits (T-Sqware spin-off from Matra MHS -> GlobeSpanVirata) for telecom applications (ATM, leased lines, DSLAM). After the explosion of the Internet bubble in the early 2000s, he then created MND Semiconductors, focusing on the design of electronic chips (mono and multiprocessors, with embedded FPGA) before its acquisition by DxO to serve mobile phones applications (video compression, picture / video quality improvements for key OEMs). In 2011, he joined Dolphin Integration as Business Manager notably to develop major mil / aero accounts and overall ASIC/SoC services.
Jean-Luc brings over 25 years of experience in the micro/nano electronics industry, as well as his entrepreneurial spirit, and his desire to always move forward.
Raphaël Collado
Head of the Cybersecurity Testing Laboratory, CEA-Leti
The FAMES Pilot Line
Dominique Noguet
FAMES Pilot Line Project Coordinator, CEA-Leti
Dominique Noguet
FAMES Pilot Line Project Coordinator, CEA-Leti
Bio:
Dominique Noguet holds an engineering degree of the National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA) in electrical engineering in 1992, and a PhD from National Polytechnical Institute of Grenoble (INPG) in 1998. Then, he held several positions at CEA-Leti as a digital IC designer, lab manager and department manager. He led many projects at a national level and in several European frameworks (FP5, FP6, FP7). In January 2023, he was appointed project manager for the France 2030 flagship project NextGen. He is currently the coordinator of the FAMES Pilot Line and reports to CEA-Leti’s CEO. Dominique is a CEA senior expert and an IEEE Senior Member. He has authored or co-authored ~100 scientific papers (several best paper awards), several book chapters and 15 patents. He was a reviewer and a member of scientific committees of many conferences and a member of journal editorial boards. He was conference chair and TPC chair of several international conferences.
Abstract:
The FAMES pilot line has reached a pivotal stage, with highly innovative results obtained on all developed technologies.
These outcomes enable to strengthen FAMES partnerships and further feed other FAMES key initiatives, such as our
open-access and training programs. Moreover, the official inauguration of the Pilot Line earlier this year, was marked by the
launch of a state-of-the-art cleanroom, which is a major asset of the Pilot Line implementation strategy.
Susana Bonnetier
FAMES Pilot Line Open Access Chairperson, CEA-Leti
Susana Bonnetier
FAMES Pilot Line Open Access Chairperson, CEA-Leti
Bio:
Susana Bonnetier is a member of the FAMES Pilot Line management team and leads the Open Access effort with the goal of making « European-grown » advanced semiconductor technologies readily accessible to industry and academia.
An MIT engineer with a background in industry and research in the USA and France, Susana puts all her energy into transferring technological innovation to companies.
Born in Venezuela, Susana spent 9 years in the USA, where she completed her higher education and worked for General Electric Aircraft Engines, designing and building aircraft engines.
In 1991, Susana joined Saint-Gobain in France, first in the Industrial Strategy and Planning department working with 20 manufacturing plants to streamline and modernize their operations, and then at Saint-Gobain Cristaux et Détecteurs as Product and Industrial Market Manager, significantly increasing the profitability of a scintillation detectors product line.
In 2001, she moved to Grenoble, “the land of nano and micro technologies”, and reoriented her career towards the semiconductor industry. She joined Freescale as R&D Engineer and contributed to the successful development of the 65nm and 45nm CMOS technology nodes by the Crolles 2 Alliance.
In 2007, Susana joined CEA-Leti, first as head of a joint laboratory between Leti and a major French optics company, and later as Leti’s Carnot program manager, piloting a 14M€ R&D budget within Leti’s Scientific Directorate. During that time, she was VP of the Carnot Network and a member of its board of directors.
Susana brings a solid industrial and R&D experience to the FAMES Pilot Line project and the aim of contributing to the construction, in concert with the FAMES European Partners and the complementary Chips Act Pilot Lines, of a pan-European semiconductor ecosystem with the best Europe has to offer in microelectronics technologies.
Abstract:
The open-access concept of the FAMES pilot line project continues to be a key annual meeting point.This presentation will assess the responses to the 2025 call for proposals, introduce newly opened topics for 2026, and outline participation pathways. It will also feature a dedicated focus on the availibility of pathfinding design kit to evaluate the performance of the 10nm FD-SOI CMOS technology.
Laurent Fesquet
Deputy DIrector of the TIMA Laboratory (UGA - Grenoble INP - CNRS)
Laurent Fesquet
Deputy DIrector of the TIMA Laboratory (UGA - Grenoble INP - CNRS)
Bio:
Laurent FESQUET received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from
Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France, in 1997. In 1999, he joined the Grenoble Institute of Technology, Grenoble, France, as an Associate Professor at ENSERG (now PHELMA).
His current research at the TIMA Laboratory today covers asynchronous circuit design, computer-aided design (CAD) for event-based systems and non uniform signal processing. He has served as general and program chair of several international conferences. He is currently the Deputy Director of the TIMA laboratory and CIME Nanotech, an academic center supporting microelectronic teaching and research activities
Claire Fenouillet-Beranger
Project Manager, CEA-Leti
Claire Fenouillet-Beranger
Project Manager, CEA-Leti
Bio:
Claire Fenouillet-Béranger joined CEA-Leti, Grenoble, in 1998 where she carried out her PhD. work on the integration and characterization of SOI devices. From 2001 to 2013 she worked as a CEA-Leti assignee in advanced R&D STMicroelectronics center, Crolles, France on FD-SOI (Fully-depleted SOI) technology platform development and characterization. From 2013 to 2020 she worked as the project leader of the low temperature MOSFETs development for 3D sequential integration. From January 2020 to January 2022, she was the LETI SiC pilot line project manager in the frame of the joint development program between SOITEC & AMAT. She is the author and co-author of more than 200 publications in major conferences and journals and of more than 40 patents. She was the co-recipient of the Grand Prix du Général Ferrié in 2012 for her work on FD-SOI. She is in charge of CMOS patent portfolio. Since 2022, she is director of research, and CEA Fellow expert, and co-project manager of the FD-SOI next generation node integration at CEA-Leti.
Abstract:
In the context of 10 nm FD-SOI technology development, new architectural and process building blocks must be implemented to meet the targeted device performance specifications. Strain engineering remains one of the primary performance boosters. Strain can be introduced either at the wafer level or at the device level. Additional process modules are required to further reduce access resistance and enhance overall device performance. In particular, the integration of in-situ doped, faceted raised source and drain regions is critical. Achieving the aggressive contacted poly pitch (CPP) target of 68 nm necessitates the implementation of advanced patterning techniques, specifically Self-Aligned Double Patterning (SADP), to meet density scaling requirements. In this presentation, we’ll dive into each of these levers and explore how they can push FD-SOI to the next level.
Laurent Grenouillet
Integration and Device Engineer - Ferroelectric Memory Group Leader, CEA-Leti
Laurent Grenouillet
Integration and Device Engineer - Ferroelectric Memory Group Leader, CEA-Leti
Bio:
Laurent Grenouillet received the Engineer degree in physics in 1998 from the National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA) in Lyon, France, and the PhD degree in electronic devices in 2001. From 2001 to 2009 he worked at CEA-Leti on Optoelectronics and Silicon Photonics. In 2009, he joined IBM Alliance in Albany, USA to contribute to the development of FDSOI technology and took part to the FDSOI technology transfer to Global Foundries (22FDX) in 2015. Back in France, he joined the Advanced Memory Device Laboratory at CEA-Leti where he worked on resistive switching memory devices. In 2018 he started to work on ferroelectric HfO2-based memories (FeCaps, FeRAM, FTJs) and he is now leading the Ferroelectric Memory group at CEA-Leti.
Abstract:
CEA-Leti research engineers have demonstrated for the first time a scalable Hf0.5Zr0.5O2 (HZO) based ferroelectric capacitor platform integrated into the back-end-of-line (BEOL) at the 22nm FD-SOI technology node. This breakthrough represents a major milestone in ferroelectric memory technology, significantly advancing scalability for embedded applications and positioning ferroelectric RAM (FeRAM) as a competitive memory solution for advanced nodes.
This demonstration opens the door to faster, more energy-efficient, and cost-effective memory solutions in embedded systems such as IoT, mobile devices, and edge computing, and further strengthening Europes's position in both the FD-SOI and the FeRAM Technologies.
Marie Bousquet
Project Manager, CEA-Leti
Marie Bousquet
Project Manager, CEA-Leti
Bio:
Marie Bousquet is a Research Engineer at CEA-LETI, Grenoble, France. She received M.S. and PhD degrees in materials science from the University of Limoges, France, in 2007 and 2010, respectively. After 6 years of academic and industrial experiences, she joined the CEA-LETI, Grenoble, France where her interest is on the integration of piezoelectric materials (LiNbO3 and LiTaO3) in RF acoustic devices (SAW, BAW, Lamb) and management of industrial and academic R&D projects. She has authored and co-authored more than 40 scientific journal and conference papers and contributed to 10 patents on RF acoustic devices.
Abstract:
The FR3 range, from 7.125 to 24.25 GHz, is expected to extend by exploiting an intermediate region between the sub-6 GHz and the millimetric range. Filtering solutions based on Bulk Acoustic Wave (BAW) filters have to adapted for this frequency range. In this talk, we will present the main challenges (design, co-integration, process control, wafer level packaging, and so on) related to the up-scaling of BAW technologies for this frequency range. This will be exemplified by preliminary results based on AlScN and LiNbO3 BAW devices for this frequency
Tuomas Pensala
Principal Scientist—MEMS Team, VTT
Sandrine Catrou
VP Marketing and Strategic Partnership, CEA-Leti
Sandrine Catrou
VP Marketing and Strategic Partnership, CEA-Leti
Bio:
Sandrine Catrou holds an Electrical Engineering degree and a Master degree in microelectronics both obtained in Bordeaux, France, in 1991.
She spent her first 15 years in chips design, alternatively at European Silicon Structures, Rousset, France, ATMEL Corporation, and STMicroelectronics, Grenoble, France.
In 2011, she joined CEA Technology Transfer Office in Grenoble, France, supervising market studies in microelectronics. She got involved in the launch of a dozen CEA deeptech startups in France.
In 2015, she joined CEA-Leti CTO office as Strategic Marketing Manager to provide semiconductor market insights. In particular, she got involved in major national strategic investment plans in microelectronics.
In 2020, Sandrine started developing CEA-Leti international industrial partnerships with semiconductor industrial leaders. She got involved in the High Level Forum to foster international collaborations between innovative clusters. She also got involved in the development of technological collaborations between Grenoble Silicon Valley and the K-Belt.
Abstract:
Insights into the semiconductor and electronics industries will concentrate on the latest market and technology trends. This analysis will explore design opportunities unlocked by innovative semiconductor technologies, with a special emphasis on FD-SOI technology, covering its current adoption status and market outlook. Driven by the promising advantages of FD-SOI transistors—ideally suited for a wide range of next-generation electronic applications—a new industrial ecosystem has emerged, fostering increased design wins and accelerating technology adoption.
Piotr Wisniewski
Head of Intelligent Semiconductor Systems Division, CEZAMAT
Piotr Wisniewski
Head of Intelligent Semiconductor Systems Division, CEZAMAT
Bio:
In 2014, he received his MSc. Eng. degree in microelectronics, photonics, and nanotechnology, and in 2020, a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Warsaw University of Technology (WUT). Currently is the Head of the Intelligent Semiconductor Systems Department (SEMINSYS) and an assistant professor at the Centre for Advanced Materials and Technologies CEZAMAT WUT, responsible for managing the department's semiconductor technology line and R&D activities. He has been actively involved in several national and international projects related to microelectronics and photonics as a researcher and principal investigator.
Abstract:
This presentation explores the design of cybersecurity-oriented applications leveraging FD SOI technology, with a particular focus on RRAM integration. The integration of RRAM further enhances system security by providing non-volatile, scalable memory suitable for secure key storage, physically unclonable functions, and in-memory security primitives. It enables robust, low-power, and cybersecurity architectures, making them highly attractive for next-generation secure IoT, embedded, and edge computing applications.
Jean-Frédéric Christmann
R&D Engineer, CEA-Leti
Jean-Frédéric Christmann
R&D Engineer, CEA-Leti
Bio:
Jean-Frédéric Christmann received the M.S and PhD degrees in Electronics from the Grenoble Institute of Technology in France in 2009 and 2013. Since 2009, he is a research engineer at the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA). He first was with the Digital Circuits and Systems Department where he worked on mixed-signals systems modelling, multicore processor assembly and functional validation, low power microcontrollers architectures, asynchronous processors logical synthesis and physical implementation, and In-Memory Computing controllers. From 2018 to 2022, he has been the digital technical leader for a world-class mixed-signals pressure sensor design. Since 2022, he is with the Silicon Component Department where he works on standard cells design automation and advanced technologies benchmarking.
Abstract:
To evaluate the performance of the 10nm FD-SOI CMOS technology process, FAMES offers a pathfinding design platform targeting both analog and digital design. Offering multiple devices, the compehensive PDK featuring DRC, LVS, PEX and Virtuoso support allows exploration of advanced process features. Moreover, 50+ combinational and sequential cells are derived in 16 standard cells libraries with Verilog, Spice, Liberty, and LEF descriptions, which enables the implementation of complex digital architectures and hence system-level benchmarking.
Régis Hamelin
CTO / aCCCEss coordinator, Blumorpho
Régis Hamelin
CTO / aCCCEss coordinator, Blumorpho
Bio:
Régis Hamelin earned an engineering degree in materials science and a PhD in Electronics from the University of Lille, where he researched semiconductor lasers with the IEMN optronics team in 1993. He spent seven years at CEA-LETI as a process engineer and program manager in optronics, developing expertise in compound semiconductor photonic components and packaging. In 2003, he co-founded Intexys Photonics, serving as CTO and board member in launching active optical cables for high-end supercomputers. In 2010, he joined the “COWIN” support action under FP7, leading to the foundation of BLUMORPHO, which he joined as CTO in January 2015. As BLUMORPHO’s Chief Technology Officer, he directs deep-tech innovation and helps European ecosystems advance in semiconductors, IP generation, and technology transfer.
He is currently coordinator of the aCCCess CSA coordinating the Competence Centers Activity.
Sana Ibrahim
Research Engineer in Microelectronics Design, Grenoble INP
Sana Ibrahim
Research Engineer in Microelectronics Design, Grenoble INP
Bio :
Sana Ibrahim received the M.S. degree in Wireless Integrated Circuits and Systems from Grenoble Alpes University (UGA), Grenoble, France, in 2020, and the Ph.D. degree in Nanoelectronics and Nanotechnologies from TIMA Laboratory, UGA, Grenoble, France, in 2024. In 2025, she joined Grenoble Institute of Technology (INP), Grenoble, France, as a research engineer at Phelma within the European project FAMES. During her doctoral studies, her research focused on the design of a wideband, low-power RF front-end based on N-path mixers in 28nm FD-SOI technology.
Her current work involves on developing and contributing to a comprehensive curriculum covering both analog/RF and digital design flows, aimed to provide designers with the foundational knowledge needed to develop integrated circuits using FD-SOI technology.
The RESOLVE Initiative
Bruno Paing
VP Europe & International Public Affairs, CEA-Leti
Bruno Paing
VP Europe & International Public Affairs, CEA-Leti
Bio:
Mr Paing has a substantial international (15 years abroad) and mixed public/private experience in private companies (Orange, Sagemcom), in the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (scientific attaché in Taiwan in 1998-1999 and in Hanoi, Vietnam from 2002 to 2005) and in CEA since 2005.
He first promoted MINATEC innovation campus in Grenoble and then became CEA-Leti VP Industrial Partnerships to develop R&D programs with Industry. He also developed R&D partnerships with Japanese and American companies in Tokyo and California (Caltech, Pasadena) from 2013 to 2021, and then became International Relations Deputy Director at CEA Head Office in Paris-Saclay from 2021 to 2023. He now serves as CEA-Leti VP Europe & International Public Affairs in Grenoble.
Mr Paing is graduated from the French “CentraleSupelec” Engineering School (Master of Science in Engineering), from Lyon Business School / EM Lyon (Executive MBA), and he is an auditor of CHEAD (French Diplomatic Academy) in 2025.
Anne Van den Bosch
Vice President Public R&D Policies & Programmes, Imec
Anne Van den Bosch
Vice President Public R&D Policies & Programmes, Imec
Bio:
Anne Van den Bosch obtained her PhD degree at the Catholic University of Leuven in 2003 in the area of current steering digital-to-analog converters. She is the first author of 17 publications and the co-author of 5 publications. From 2001 until 2008, she worked for the Flemish funding agency, where she headed the micro-electronics and photonics team and represented the agency in the MEDEA+/CATRENE and ENIAC public authorities board. She is now working at imec as Vice-President Public R&D Policies and Programs and leads all imec activities related to Flemish, European and international public research policy and funding programs. She is also responsible for the contractual collaborations with international universities and research institutes. Since the beginning of 2023, she is executive Vice-President of the European Association of Space Technology Research Organizations. She is a member of several boards, management commissions, and steering committees.
Patrick Bressler
Director for International Cooperation, Fraunhofer Microelectronics Group
Patrick Bressler
Director for International Cooperation, Fraunhofer Microelectronics Group
Bio:
Dr. Patrick Bressler is the director for international cooperation, emerging technologies and innovation at the Fraunhofer Microelectronics Group / FMD (Research Fab Microelectronics Germany) in Berlin, Germany. Responsibilities include technology evaluation, developing partnerships for research, innovation and work force development, and advancing European and international R&D&I programmes. Patrick is a member of several European technology advisory boards and scientific committees. Since September 2024 Dr. Bressler also serves as the Secretary General of the European Materials Research Society, E-MRS.
Patrick is a physicist by training. Earlier career stages include:
Managing Director of the Fraunhofer Microelectronics Office in Berlin, Germany,
Executive Vice President of Fraunhofer USA, in charge of research operations at the seven Fraunhofer R&D centers, Plymouth, MI, USA,
Adjunct professor at Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA,
Director of Fraunhofer Brussels, Brussels, Belgium,
Head of Unit for Physical Sciences and Engineering of the European Science Foundation, Strasbourg, France (2004-2008),
Member of the E-MRS Governing Board (2005-2015) and Chairman of the European Materials Science and Engineering Expert Committee (MatSEEC, 2012-2015) and Senior scientist and Head of Unit at the Berlin Synchrotron BESSY, Berlin, Germany.
Sven Beyer
Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Global Foundries
Sven Beyer
Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Global Foundries
Bio:
Sven Beyer received his master’s and Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Hamburg, Germany. He started his career with Infineon as a manufacturing engineer in the etch department in 2003. Joining the integration department of AMD in 2005, he intermediately spent a year in the IBM ASTA alliance 2007 working on the 45nm node. Returning to Dresden, Sven has worked in many roles since then, ranging from integration technology-lead to customer engineering and lasting throughout the separation of GlobalFoundries and AMD. Today he serves as DMTS in GlobalFoundries FAB1 as technology architect (TA), overseeing mainly the eNVM & CMOS roadmap and development in Dresden.
Startups & Investments
Startups & Investments
Sylvain Colomb
Startup Program Manager, CEA-Leti
Sylvain Colomb
Startup Program Manager, CEA-Leti
Bio:
Sylvain Colomb began his career as a Marketing Engineer within CEA’s technology transfer division, where he spent eight years supporting laboratories and emerging startups. In 2010, he co-founded Ethera, a startup specializing in indoor air quality fueled by disruptive nanomaterial technology. After successfully scaling the company and its integration into the SEB Group, he returned to the innovation ecosystem. Since 2019, Sylvain has served as the Startup Program Manager at CEA-Leti, where he currently leads entrepreneurship initiatives and spearheads strategic support for new startup creation from CEA-Leti's laboratories.
Laurence Petit
Director for Innovation, CEA
Laurence Petit
Director for Innovation, CEA
Bio:
Laurence Petit is a graduate engineer (MSc) from the École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Paris (Chimie Paristech). She also holds a PhD in quantum chemistry from the University of Grenoble. She has been certified as a Project Management Professional by the PMI since 2015.
She began her career in 2007 at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, where she completed a one-year postdoctoral fellowship for TOTAL.
From 2008 to 2019, Laurence Petit worked at the French National Agency for Radioactive Waste Management (Andra). She first worked in R&D, and in 2010 she took charge of managing Andra’s “Investissements d’Avenir” (Investing in the Future) programme (€75M), a position she held until 2019. Starting in 2016, she became Head of Innovation at Andra, and in 2019 she was appointed Deputy Director of Development, Innovation, and International Relations Division.
Laurence Petit joined CEA at the end of 2019 as Technical Innovation Advisor to the Chairman and CEO, François Jacq, a role she held until the end of 2021. She has been Director for Innovation at CEA since 2022. She is specifically responsible for the strategic and operational management of all CEA's start-up support programs (10 to 15 spinoff creations each year) and for managing CEA Investissement subsidiary.
Damien Bretegnier
Investment Director, Supernova Invest
Damien Bretegnier
Investment Director, Supernova Invest
Bio:
Damien has been part of the team since 2020 as Investement Director. He has more than 10 years of experience in innovation and operations.
From 2013 to 2019, Damien led the ICST & Engineering department at SATT Lutech where he invested in more than 30 deep tech start-up projects that came out of government research.
Before that, he spent 14 years in the semiconductor industry, mainly in management program roles, at Soitec, Altis Semiconducteurs, and Infineon Technologies. He also spent three years, from 2003 to 2006, working in Bengaluru, India, where he created a memory component design team for Infineon Technologies. Damien is a graduate of ISEP (Institut supérieur d’électronique de Paris). He is on the boards of Cailabs, Lighton and Upmem.
Pierre Garnier
Managing Partner, Jolt Capital
Pierre Garnier
Managing Partner, Jolt Capital
Bio:
Pierre Garnier has over 30 years of operational and C-suite experience across large corporates and scale-ups, in sectors such as semiconductors, hardware, software and cybersecurity. Prior to joining Jolt Capital, Pierre was most recently President of e2v-semiconductor, a leader in the semiconductor market for aerospace & defence where he accelerated growth of 15% in less than a year before its sale to the Teledyne Group in 2017.
Preceding this, Pierre served as COO of Inside Secure (EUR: INSD) where he led its transformation from a semiconductor player into an embedded software security leader. Pierre has also held various other top executive roles including VP & General Manager of the Wireless BaseBand Business Unit at Texas Instruments (TI), CEO at Everbee Networks, and General Manager of the Broadband Chipset Business Unit at Alcatel Microelectronics (now part of ST-Microelectronics). Pierre holds an Engineering degree from École Supérieure d’Électricité (Supélec), and a Master of Solid State Physics from UPMC (Pierre and Marie Curie University).
Pierre is currently on the boards of Interel, MicroOled, Dolphin Semiconductor and P2i, as well as an observer on the boards of EfficientIP and Tehtris. Pierre led the exit process of UnitySC to Merck (ETR:MRK).
Steven Konsek
Investment Director, Applied Ventures
Steven Konsek
Investment Director, Applied Ventures
Bio:
Steven Konsek is an Investment Director at Applied Ventures where he focuses on photonics and displays in addition to supporting investments and startup ecosystem engagement in Europe and Israel.
Prior to joining Applied Ventures in 2022, Steven spent nearly two decades working with and funding deep-tech startups in the U.S. and Europe. He was most recently Director of Business Development at Aledia, a French photonics startup. Prior to Aledia, Steven led innovation programs at the U.S. National Science Foundation, where he ran NSF’s portfolio funding startups in the semiconductor, photonics, advanced materials, and IoT sectors as well as leading the Innovation Corps program for deep-tech startups. Prior to NSF, Steven held leadership positions in several semiconductor/photonics startups, including Illumitex, Glo/Qunano, and Nantero.
Steven has a PhD in Physics from the University of Washington and BS in Mathematics from Purdue University. He is based in Geneva, Switzerland.
Bernard Aspar
Silian Partners / Ardian
Bernard Aspar
Silian Partners / Ardian
Bio:
Bernard Aspar, Partner of Silian Partners, contributes over 30 years of industry experience and is a recognized world expert in semiconductor materials. He entered Silian Partners coming from his COO position at Soitec which he joined in 2006 during the acquisition of Tracit Technologies, a company he founded in 2003. Tracit Technologies was a spin-off of CEA-Leti, where he spent 10 years in semiconductor research.
Shaping What’s Next
Michael Tchagaspanian
EVP Strategic Partnership, CEA-Leti
Michael Tchagaspanian
EVP Strategic Partnership, CEA-Leti
François Legrand
Communication Manager, IRT Nanoelec
Makoto Motoyoshi
President & CEO, Tohoku-MicroTec
Makoto Motoyoshi
President & CEO, Tohoku-MicroTec
Bio:
Dr.Motoyoshi is the semiconductor expert with more than 25 years of experiences at technology and business in Memory device and 3D Stacking LSI. He is former President & CEO of ZyCube, Inc., the leading 3D Stacking LSI for CMOS image sensor in Japan. He has presented seminars, lectures and invited presentations at domestic and international societies associated with 3D Stacking LSI over 40 times.
1982: Master of Electronic Engineering,
Tohoku University, Japan
1982: Hitachi Ltd., Musashi Works
1989: Kawasaki Steel Corp, LSI Research Center
1992: Sony Corp, LSI div.
2005: ZyCube, Inc., Director of Engineering
2006: ZyCube, Inc., Executive vice president
2008: ZyCube, Inc., President & CEO
Swan Gerome
RF & Telecommunications Industrial Partnership Manager, CEA-Leti
Swan Gerome
RF & Telecommunications Industrial Partnership Manager, CEA-Leti
Bio:
Swan GEROME is Technology Partnership Manager within the Systems Department, with a focus on RF and Telecommunications at CEA-Leti.
He holds a degree in Marketing and Sales Management from Grenoble IAE and has over 15 years of experience in the semiconductor industry across materials, design, and research companies.
From 2008 to 2014, he served as Sales Manager at Dolphin Integration, developing business for ASIC design, analog silicon IP, and libraries for foundries, fabless companies, design houses, and OEMs. He also managed a team of sales coordinators in Asia (Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan) as well as in Europe.
He joined CEA-Leti in 2015 as Industrial Partnership Manager for the Systems Department, covering sensor integration, energy management, embedded data processing, and RF telecommunications (antenna design and integration, protocols development, and RFIC design). In this role, he developed partnerships with national and international companies, ranging from startups to Big Tech.
Between 2022 and 2023, he was Product Marketing Manager for the Connect-SOI Business Unit at Soitec, where he developed the roadmap for engineered silicon substrates for RF applications and launched new products to address market requirements.
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.
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.
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.
Optical Interconnects
Eléonore Hardy
Silicon Photonics Partnership Manager, CEA-Leti
Eléonore Hardy
Silicon Photonics Partnership Manager, CEA-Leti
Éléonore Hardy joined CEA-Leti in 2018 as a partnership manager specializing in silicon photonics. She holds a Master’s degree in Engineering and has completed a Master of Science in Management & Innovation. With over 20 years of experience in the optics and photonics industry, Éléonore has held key positions at Philips in the Netherlands and Varioptic, a business unit of Corning, in China.
Throughout her career, Éléonore has demonstrated a proven track record of creating long-term value. She successfully developed laser technologies in France, China, and India for Quantel (now Lumibird) and advanced spectrometer solutions in Europe and Asia for Resolution Spectra Systems (now part of Merck).
Currently, Éléonore is focused on identifying and developing new business opportunities in silicon photonics, with a particular emphasis on high-speed optical interconnects, high-performance computing (HPC), 3D sensing, and advanced computing technologies such as neuromorphic computing and quantum photonics.
Frédéric Hameau
Research Engineer & Project Manager, CEA-Leti
Frédéric Hameau
Research Engineer & Project Manager, CEA-Leti
Bio:
Frédéric Hameau received the M.S. degree from ENSEIRB, Bordeaux, France, in 2001. He joined CEA-LETI, Grenoble, France, as a radio-frequency research engineer. Over the past 23 years, he has contributed to the development of radio-frequency system-on-chip (SoC) technologies, covering ultra-low-power, ultra-wideband, and millimeter-wave applications. In this field, he is the author or coauthor of more than 28 conference papers, four IEEE journal articles, and 12 patents. He currently leads the optical-link activity within the CEA Radio-Frequency Laboratory, where he contributes to the development of application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) for high-speed, low-power optical communications.
Sylvie Gellida
Optical and RF Foundry Division General Manager, STMicroelectronics
Francesco Manegatti
CO-founder & CEO, NcodiN
Francesco Manegatti
CO-founder & CEO, NcodiN
Bio:
Francesco is co-founder and CEO of NcodiN. He is a scientist, entrepreneur and innovator in the field of nanophotonics. With a PhD in optoelectronic nanodevices and over eight years of experience in cutting-edge photonics research, he has worked at the forefront of silicon photonics, optical memories, light amplification and III-V on silicon nanostructures. His journey has taken him through prestigious institutions such as CNRS, IBM, and C2N (Centre de Nanosciences et de Nanotechnologies), where he contributed to groundbreaking advancements in the field.
Originally trained as an electrical engineer, Francesco combined his technical expertise with a visionary approach to innovation. He has played a key role in developing ultra-small, high-efficiency lasers that are set to transform data processing and communication.
Passionate about pushing the limits of technology, Francesco is dedicated to solving some of the most pressing challenges in AI hardware and high-performance computing, enabling systems that are faster, more efficient and infinitely scalable.
Yvain Thonnart
Senior Researcher, CEA-List
Yvain Thonnart
Senior Researcher, CEA-List
Bio:
Yvain Thonnart received the MS degree from Ecole Polytechnique and an engineering diploma from Telecom Paris, France in 2005. He then joined the Technological Research Division of CEA, the French French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission, within the CEA-Leti institute until 2019, then within the CEA-List institute. He has led the development of several large research projects for on-chip communications, focusing on the maturation of novel concepts towards industrial adoption, such as communication between multiple voltage and frequency domains, 3D-stacked circuits, and optical on-chip interconnects, leading to more than 70 publications and 10 patents. He is now senior expert on communication and synchronization in systems on chip, and scientific advisor for the mixed-signal design lab. His main research interests include asynchronous logic, networks on chip, physical implementation, emerging technologies integration such as photonics, cryoelectronics and interposers. He is currently serving in the technical program committee of the ISSCC.
Henri van Helleputte
Head of Business Development Europe and Unites States, ASML
Henri van Helleputte
Head of Business Development Europe and Unites States, ASML
Bio:
Henri is part of ASML’s Customer Team EU/US technology organization, focusing on technology strategy and business development for mainstream TWINSCAN lithography systems. In this role, he partners with customers across Europe and the United States on future technology roadmaps, application challenges, and operational requirements, working with the broader ASML organization to translate customer needs into improvements in products and services.
Since 2019, Henri has led business development for ASML’s dry TWINSCAN systems, building on earlier contributions across different business line —including significant growth in the 200 mm TWINSCAN business.
Prior to ASML, Henri spent 18 years at Philips in the Netherlands and the United States, holding management roles in Research, Design & Engineering, and Sales. He joined ASML in 2006 and has worked on PAS5500 and TWINSCAN platforms.
Henri obtained an MSc in Physics (Drs.) from Utrecht Rijks University (the Netherlands).
Disruptive Digital Interfaces
Philippe Caillol
Director of Innovation, CEA
Philippe Caillol
Director of Innovation, CEA
Bio:
Philippe Caillol is a professional in innovation and technological foresight with over 20 years of experience. After several years in the construction and media sectors within the Bouygues Group developing new products and services, he joined the CEA (A French Research and Technology Organisation) in 2012 to lead technology exploration teams. Since 2024, he has been the Director of Innovation within the CEA's Technological Research Division, where he oversees a team conducting multidisciplinary prospective studies and innovation projects exploring future uses of advanced technologies.
Laurent Filhol
Deputy Director of the Innovation Division
Laurent Filhol
Deputy Director of the Innovation Division
Bio:
Laurent FILHOL has been Deputy Director of the Innovation Division within the CEA's Technology Research Department for three years. Prior to this, he worked for various international companies in the field of information technology and data centers before joining the CEA in 2016 to work on IT and digital projects.
Johannes Zellner
Head of Roadmap Technology, Zeiss
Edgar Auslander
Serial Entrepreneur & Executive Board Member (META, VC, QUALCOMM…)
Edgar Auslander
Serial Entrepreneur & Executive Board Member (META, VC, QUALCOMM…)
Bio:
dgar Auslander has more than 35 years of experience serving on various Boards of Directors, working at startups, a Venture Capital firm, and Fortune100 companies such as Facebook and Qualcomm. As the Senior Director of Strategic Partnerships at Meta, he has focused on XR, AI, and Wearables, and is Founding Board Member at The AR Alliance. He initiated and drove the partnership with EssilorLuxottica and originated products like Ray-Ban Meta. He is the Founding Managing Partner at Menlo Business Partners, a consulting firm based in Menlo Park and Paris. Edgar was one of the founders of Texas Instruments' Wireless Business Unit, bringing it from scratch to $5B in annual revenue. As a former Faculty Member at Stanford University and the EDHEC Business School, he authored and taught classes on Management of Change and Business Negotiation classes at UC Berkeley Extension. Edgar started his career licensing inventions from Columbia University and has since demonstrated expertise in product management, engineering and marketing team leadership, venture capital, consulting, business development, and mergers and acquisitions. A Senior Member of IEEE, he is co-author of "The Applications of Programmable DSPs in Mobile Communications" (Wiley), published numerous articles, and has delivered several keynotes at industry conferences worldwide. Edgar holds an MBA from Columbia University, and an MEEng. from Cornell University.
Agnieszka Thonet
Senior Director of Technology, HP
Agnieszka Thonet
Senior Director of Technology, HP
Bio:
Agnieszka has over 23 years of digital transformation and product innovation experience. Recognized as a thought leader in emerging technologies and trends, she has a strong track record of managing and aligning global high performance multicultural teams to deliver strategic value.
Over the past 16 years she has held multiple technical and management roles across HP businesses. As Senior Engineering Director, she drove the delivery of full stack software on devices and to Enterprise customers. As Head of Innovation Partnerships, she gathered and led cross-industry, multidisciplinary research experts to create open collaboration models that unleashed impactful innovation. Her breadth of knowledge ranges from electronics and communication systems to digital manufacturing and complex cyber-physical architectures.
Fluent in four languages, she holds a MSc in Communication Systems Engineering from the University of the Basque Country in Spain.
