Speakers
Frédéric Jung
Consul General of France in San Francisco
Rouzbeh Borhani
Head of Semiconductors, Plug and Play Tech Center
Michael Tchagaspanian
EVP Strategic Partnership, CEA-Leti
Michael Tchagaspanian
EVP Strategic Partnership, CEA-Leti
Nicolas Bedouin
VP Partnerships North America, CEA
Jean-Philippe Fricker
Chief System Architect and Co-Founder, Cerebras Systems
Jean-Philippe Fricker
Chief System Architect and Co-Founder, Cerebras Systems
Bio :
Jean-Philippe (J.P.) is Chief System Architect at Cerebras Systems. Before co-founding Cerebras, J.P. was Senior Hardware Architect at rack-scale flash array startup DSSD (acquired by EMC). Prior to DSSD, J.P. was Lead System Architect at SeaMicro where he designed three generations of fabric-based computer systems. Earlier in his career, J.P. was Director of Hardware Engineering at Alcatel-Lucent and Director of Hardware Engineering at Riverstone Networks. He holds an MS in Electrical Engineering from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, and has authored 24 patents.
Frédéric Morestin
VP Marketing Imaging, STMicroelectonics
Philippe Robert
Co-founder & CEO, iNGage
Philippe Robert
Co-founder & CEO, iNGage
Bio :
Philippe Robert is business development manager and senior expert at CEA-Leti for MEMS sensors and actuators activities. He is currently in the process of creating a spin-off from CEA-Leti to produce and commercialize a new generation of high-performance MEMS/NEMS sensors (including accelerometers, gyroscopes, and pressure sensors) for the automotive, consumer, and high-end markets.
After holding various positions in the sensor industry, he joined CEA-Leti in 2001 as a project manager for RF-MEMS research. He was promoted to manager of the MEMS Sensors Group from 2003 to 2013, and served as head of the Microsystems Department from 2013 to 2019.
He holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering and a M.Sc. degree in Optical Electronics from Grenoble-INP.
Jean-Philippe Polizzi
Micro & Nanosystems Project Manager, CEA-Leti
Marc Sansa Perna
Project Manager, Optomechanical Sensors Expert, CEA-Leti
Marc Sansa Perna
Project Manager, Optomechanical Sensors Expert, CEA-Leti
Bio:
Marc Sansa obtained his Ph.D. degree in electronic engineering from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, in 2013. He is an expert in microelectromechanical system (MEMS) sensors, RF MEMS and optomechanics, having co-authored over 50 publications and several patents. He is currently a project manager at the Sensors and Actuators Laboratory of CEA-Leti.
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.
Olivier Fuchs
Healthtech Partnerships Manager, CEA-Leti
Bertrand Szelag
Integrated Photonics Program Manager, CEA-Leti
Umashankar Anandakumar
Senior Director, Intel Corp.
Baudoin Martineau
Head of RF Architecture & IC Design Lab, Senior Expert,CEA-Leti
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.
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.
Philippe Rodriguez
Head of Laboratory, CEA-Leti
Philippe Rodriguez
Head of Laboratory, CEA-Leti
Bio:
Philippe Rodriguez is a research engineer and laboratory manager at CEA-Leti in the Semiconductor Platforms Division.
He received his Ph.D. in 2007 from the University of Lyon 1 in Materials Chemistry for his work on metal organic vapor phase epitaxy growth of B(In)GaAs epilayers. From 2007 to 2009, he worked at the CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research) developing deposition methods on structured substrates for process intensification applications. In 2009, he started his career at the CEA (French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission). First, he worked on the coating and fluidization of dense powders by fluidized bed metal-organic chemical vapor deposition for the development of new nuclear fuels (2009 - 2011). Then, he developed silica permeation barriers by magnetron sputtering for laser megajoule gas targets (2011 - 2013). Finally, he joined CEA-Leti in Oct. 2013. His research activity is mainly focused on advanced contact technologies for electronics and photonics applications. He develops contact metallization for advanced CMOS and photonics devices (Si, Ge(Sn), III-V and GaN materials) and also deals with surface preparation and interface modulation prior to metallization. He led the contact team at CEA-Leti between 2017 and 2020 and became head of the Advanced Materials Deposition Laboratory in February 2020. In Sept. 2022, he joined the Surface and Interface Science and Engineering Department and since Jan. 2023, he is in charge of the Laboratory of Wet Surface Preparation, Epitaxy and Thermal Treatment Processes.
He is the author and co-author of approximately 100 peer-reviewed journal articles, 115 international conference papers, 2 book chapters, and 15 patents.
Sylvie Joly
Partnerships Manager 3D integration & Packaging, CEA-Leti
Sylvie Joly
Partnerships Manager 3D integration & Packaging, CEA-Leti
BIO:
Sylvie Joly is currently working as 3D integration and packaging Partnerships Manager at CEA-Leti. Sylvie received M.Sc. in Microelectronics from ISEP "Institut Supérieur d'Electronique de Paris" in 1989. She completed her education with a Master in Marketing and Innovation at the Grenoble Ecole de Management (GEM) in 2001. Prior to this position, she worked for more than 8 years as display business developer at CEA-Leti. In 2004 as Sr. Marketing Engineer in the CEA's Technology Transfer Department, she built a strong experience in setting up and managing technical marketing surveys. Before joining CEA, she spent 10 years in the industry as an R&D engineer, and 8 years as Sales engineer in several companies including Hewlett Packard and Ericsson.
William Guicquero
PhD Senior Research Engineer, CEA-Leti
Olivier Thomas
Deputy Head of the Digital IC Division, CEA-List
Olivier Thomas
Deputy Head of the Digital IC Division, CEA-List
Bio:
Olivier THOMAS is the deputy head of the Digital IC & System Design Division at CEA-List. He is in charge of partnership strategies and ecosystem growth, leveraging his background in system/design-to-technology co-optimization and product engineering within the field of embedded systems innovation. He is author and co-author of 25 patents and 77 publications. He was a pioneer and co-inventor of multi-VT technology utilizing back biasing for FD-SOI, as well as single p-well SRAM. He got is PhD in 2004 from the doctoral school of Computer Science, Telecommunications, and Electronics of Paris.
