Agenda


Overview

Several notable industry leaders have expressed serious concerns about the future competitiveness of our industrial infrastructure with the rapid globalization of high-tech innovation and manufacturing.  It is widely accepted that the United States must focus on developing innovative products and manufacturing technologies for the sustained growth of our electronics industry.  iNEMI is convening this Innovation Leadership Forum for key industry, government, university and business leaders to discuss these issues and develop recommendations to ensure that leadership companies develop the innovative technology required to maintain the growth of the electronics industry during the next decade.

The 2004 iNEMI Roadmap identified a number of key technology and business challenges that will occur in the electronics industry over the next decade.  If these challenges are not urgently addressed with innovative solutions, the continued viability of the US electronics manufacturing industry will weaken over the next decade.  For example, it is forecasted that most of today’s semiconductor and electronic packaging technologies are not capable of meeting the needs of the industry in 2015.

Objectives

The meeting is intended to:

• Highlight the need for a coordinated initiative on stimulating innovation and manufacturing research for the electronics industry.
• Develop a research vision that will help focus the limited resources available.
• Based on the research vision, develop a set of priorities, recommendations and potential funding mechanisms for innovative technologies that will enable companies to retain leadership in new technologies, products and services.

Who should attend

• Leading innovators and research decision-makers
  -   Technology executives  (e.g. CTOs) of major electronic firms
  -   Chief executives (e.g. CEOs/COOs/CTOs) of emerging high tech firms
  -   Policy setters in key government organizations
  
• Product/market strategy setters for innovative electronic firms
  -   Key current markets:  mobility, consumer, communications, computing, automotive
  -   Key emerging markets:  medical devices, sensors, RFID, system in package (SiP)
  -   Key future markets:  nanotechnology, MEMS, energy and disruptive technology
  

Registration

• Attendance is by invitation
• Restricted to 150
• $295 registration fee (non-member); free for iNEMI members
• Click here for registration form

Press releases

     iNEMI Schedules Innovation Leadership Forum September 15-16
     Congressman Frank Wolf to Open iNEMI Innovation Leadership Forum

Agenda

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Session 1:  Key Markets
Session 2:  Emerging Markets
Dinner Session:  Emerging Efforts in Government & Industry
Session 3:  Disruptive Technologies, Academic Research & Conclusions

Thursday, September 15

Session 1:  Key Markets, Chair:  Jim McElroy, iNEMI
8:00 am—noon

8:00 am        Introduction
                     Jim McElroy, iNEMI CEO

8:10 am       Opening Remarks
                    U.S. Representative Frank R. Wolf, 10th District of Virginia
                    Chair, House Appropriations Subcommittee on Science, State, Justice & Commerce

8:20 am       Keynote:  Innovation Vision
                    Brian Halla, Chairman and CEO, National Semiconductor

9:00 am       Semiconductor Innovations for Consumer Electronics
                    Justin Rattner, Senior Fellow and Director of Corporate Technology Group, Intel

9:30 am       Innovation for the Growth of the IT Industry
                    Curtis H. Tearte, General Manager, Systems and Technology Group, IBM

10:00 am     Break

10:20 am     Motoinnovation
                    Iwona Turlik, Corporate Vice President, Motorola

10:50 am     Driving Innovation in Automotive Electronics
                    Dave Wohleen, Vice Chairman, Delphi Corporation

11:20 am     Panel Discussion:  Prioritization

12:00 noon  Lunch

Session 2:  Emerging Markets, Chair:  Sundar Kamath, Sanmina-SCI 
1:00-5:00 pm

1:00 pm       Emerging Markets
                    Brian Swiggett, Managing Partner, Prismark Partners

1:30 pm       Sensors and RFID
                    Martha Sullivan, Vice President and General Manager - Sensors, Texas Instruments Incorporated

2:00 pm       Device Technology from the ITRS/SIA Roadmap
                    Robert Doering, Senior Fellow, Texas Instruments Incorporated

2:30 pm       Design and Globalization
                    Vasudevan Moorthy, Vice President for VLSI & Systems Design, Wipro

3:00 pm       Break

3:30 pm       Government Programs for Innovation and Manufacturing
                    Ben Wu, Assistant Secretary for Technology, Department of Commerce

3:50 pm       Advanced Materials & Industrial Research
                    Uma Chowdhry, Vice President, Central R&D, DuPont

4:20 pm       Panel Discussion:  Prioritization

5:00 pm       Social Hour


Dinner Session:  Emerging Efforts in Industry, Chair:  Jim McElroy, iNEMI
6:00-8:00 pm 

7:30 pm       Industry Consortia and other Partnership Potentials
                    Mary Good, Donaghey University Professor and Dean, University of Arkansas at Little Rock


Friday, September 16

Session 3:  Disruptive Technologies, Academic Research & Conclusions, Chair:  Katharine Frase, IBM
8:00 am—noon

8:00 am        Summary of Priorities from Day 1
                     Sundar Kamath, Bob Pfahl

8:15 am        Transforming and Responsible Nanotechnology Research and Development
                     Mike Roco, Chair, National Nanotechnology Initiative (NSF)

8:45 am        Emerging Manufacturing Processes
                     Keith Blakely, CEO, NanoDynamics, Inc.

9:15 am        Bio-MEMS, Sensors, Energy Storage
                     Marc Madou, Chancellor's Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, UC Irvine

10:00 am      Break

10:30 am     Academic Research and the Future of Innovation
                    Linda Katehi, Dean, Purdue University

11:00 am     Panel Discussion:  Prioritization

11:30 am     Forum Summary

12:00 noon  Lunch

Benefits & deliverables

Area hotels

Directions to iNEMI

For more information

Watch this page for additional details.  If you are interested in attending, contact Bob Pfahl (+1 703-834-2083; bob.pfahl@inemi.org) or Linda Anderson-Jessup (+1 703-834-2086; linda.jessup@inemi.org).