Product Manager

SUSS MicroTec

Dr. Gautero has more than two decades of experience in (additive) manufacturing of microelectronics as an innovation leader both academically and professionally. During this time, he covered fields as renewable energies, semiconductors, lighting, and presently printed circuit boards....

R&D Team Leader

imec

Dr. Maarten Cauwe is leading the Flexible Microsystems for Health team at the imec-UGent Center for Microsystems Technology (CMST), and is involved in several projects concerning substrate technologies, chip assembly, medical packaging, and chip embedding....

Senior Hardware Architect

IBM

Mehdi Hamid, graduated from Washington State University in Computational Mechanics and Material Science on 2019 and Joined IBM since then as a Hardware Architect. He led several IBM's mainframe and se...

Director R&D

Siborg Systems Inc

Michael S. Obrecht, Ph.D., Currently with Siborg Systems Inc, Director R&D, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, previously with ECE Department, University of Waterloo, Research Associate Professor. Education: Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia, M.Sc., nuclear physics, 1975, Ph.D., theoretical physics, 1983....

President

Magnalytix

Dr. Mike Bixenman, President of Magnalytix, LLC, is the co-founder of KYZEN Corp., and Magnalytix, LLC. He has over 30 years of experience designing electronic assembly cleaning materials and process integration....

Vice President of Technology

Specialty Coating Systems

Dr. Rakesh Kumar is currently the V.P. of Technology for SCS, Inc., where he leads the R&D group and manages Parylene, Plasma CVD and ALD coatings R&D activities worldwide. He has more than 33 years of extensive experience in advanced materials and their applications in the electronics, & semiconductors areas....

Principal Emg.

JPL

Dr. Ghaffarian has 4 decades of technical and program management experience within JPL, industry, and academia. At NASA/JPL, he has led industry-wide consortia and R&D reliability/assurance evaluation for infusion of advanced electronic packaging technologies, e.g., CCGA in 1998....

R&D Specialist

Pillarhouse International

Dr Samuel J. McMaster is a R&D Specialist at Pillarhouse International. He completed his PhD at the University of Leeds studying the tribology and surface engineering of DLC coatings. Following this he moved to Coventry University and undertook a Knowledge Transfer Partnership project with Pillarhouse....

Senior Director of Materials Science

HZO, Inc.

Sean Clancy is the Senior Director of Materials Science at HZO, an Adjunct Professor in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at the University of Utah, and has over 20 years’ experience in electronics manufacturing, failure analysis, and technology development....

University Professor

University of Waterloo

Sebastian Fischmeister is an esteemed Academic, Professor at the University of Waterloo, and Co-founder and CEO of Palitronica " a company using AI and physics to catch the hardest to identify defects, oversights, and fraud....