Speakers
Sébastien Dauvé
CEO, CEA-Leti
Sébastien Dauvé
CEO, CEA-Leti
Bio:
Sébastien Dauvé was named CEO of CEA-Leti effective on July 1, 2021, after more than twenty years of experience in microelectronics technologies and their applications, including clean mobility, medicine of the future, cybersecurity, and power electronics.
Sébastien Dauvé started his career at the French Armament Electronics Center, where he worked on developing synthetic-aperture radar. In 2003, he joined CEA-Leti as an industrial transfer manager and supervised several joint research laboratories, in particular with the multinational Michelin.
In 2007, Sébastien Dauvé became a laboratory manager, then head of an R&D department in the area of sensors applied to the Internet of things and electric mobility. During this time, he supported the dissemination of new technologies in industry, including the automotive industry (Renault), aeronautics, national defense (SAFRAN), and microchips with the industry leader Intel. He played an active role in the creation of start-ups in application fields ranging from health to infrastructure security, leading to dozens of new jobs. In 2016, he became Director of the CEA-Leti Systems Division.
From sensors to wireless communication, Sébastien Dauvé has played an active role in the digital transformation, focused on coupling energy frugality and performance. He has made cross-disciplinary approaches central to innovation by harnessing the expertise of talented teams with diverse backgrounds. Their goal is to provide technological tools for meeting the major societal challenges of the future.
Sébastien Dauvé is a graduate of the French Ecole Polytechnique and the National Higher French Institute of Aeronautics and Space (ISAE-SUPAERO).
Jim Anderson
VP NA Partner Ecosystem and Channels, Google
Vygintas Jankus
MicroLED Partnership Manager, CEA-Leti
Vygintas Jankus
MicroLED Partnership Manager, CEA-Leti
Bio:
Vygintas Jankus works at CEA-Leti, France, as MicroLED and OLED Partnership Manager. He is connecting all the relevant actors in order to accompany the innovative microLED and OLED technology idea through all the necessary steps towards the commercialization in optical communication, datacom, AI, VR/AR, smartwatch, smartphone and other markets.
Eric Mercier
Telecom Line Director, CEA-Leti
Eric Mercier
Telecom Line Director, CEA-Leti
Eric Mercier is Telecom Line Director at CEA-Leti as well as Deputy Head of the Wireless Unit. He is active in industrial partnership developments towards technology transfer and also in managing internal CEA-Leti program, amongst which the FAMES WP10 dedicated to demonstrators. Graduated from ENSEEIHToulouse, France, in 1991, and with a 1st experience in the Optical Test Equipment at Wavetek (1992 – 1998, now VIAVI), his main focuses of interest have covered activities from Low-Power IoT transceiver solutions as Marketing & Application Manager for Atmel (1999 – 2006, now Microchip), and later as Project Manager & Laboratory Head Manager at CEA-Leti from 2006. As a promoter of CEA-Leti RF/mmW research activities, he is committed to market & societal needs for next Telecom generation towards new technologies development, understanding how forthcoming scientific developments can be valued to that end.
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.
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.
Laurent Pain
Sustainable Electronics Program Director, CEA-Leti
Laurent Pain
Sustainable Electronics Program Director, CEA-Leti
Bio:
Laurent Pain is graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Physique de Grenoble in 1992. He received his Ph D after his work on DUV resists study. He joined CEA-Leti in 1996 to work on infra-red technology, and then came back to STmicroelectronics in 1999 working on 193nm and e-beam lithography technologies.
From 2008 to 2014, Laurent Pain leaded the lithography laboratory of the silicon technology division of CEA-Leti. He was also managing in parallel the industrial consortium IMAGINE dedicated to the development of multibeam lithography with MAPPER lithography BV.
Since July 2014, within the CEA-Leti Silicon Technology Division, he is now in charge of the business and the partnerships developments of the Silicon Technologies Platform Division.
Michael Tchagaspanian
EVP Strategic Partnerships, CEA-Leti
Michael Tchagaspanian
EVP Strategic Partnerships, CEA-Leti
Frederic Seve
VP North America, CEA based at the Consulate General of France in San Francisco
Frederic Seve
VP North America, CEA based at the Consulate General of France in San Francisco
Originally from Valence in the Rhône Valley, Frédéric Sève was appointed in September 2024 as Vice President for North America at the CEA (Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique), a leading French and European research organization specializing in nuclear energy, health, and semiconductor innovation.
He holds an M.Sc in Applied Physics from Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA, 1998) and an M.Sc in Optics from Institut d'Optique Graduate School (Paris Saclay, 2000, ranked 1st French university in the Shanghai Ranking). He began his career in Montreal’s telecom industry, working in photonics.
After holding various positions in healthcare (DNA chips) and optical design, he transitioned to the space industry, where he led the engineering and quality assembly of the COROT scientific space telescope—a mission dedicated to exoplanet research for CNES, the French space agency.
Frédéric created his own business in 2007, developing optical engineering for the space and car industry with a global and international business approach (i.e.: ELT Telescope, Car Industry Lighting Innovation).
Following over 20 years in the private sector, Frédéric joined the CEA in 2022 as an Industrial Partnership Manager, focusing on strategic areas such as RF communications, autonomous sensors, and technologies for Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF).
In September 2024, he was appointed as strategic VP North America, based at the Consulate General of France in San Francisco.
Frédéric is married and the father of two teenage daughters attending the International School of San Francisco. Passionate about jazz music, alpine activities, and sailing, he balances his professional commitments with his love for adventure and culture.
