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Audacity Wins: Presentations from ITAC/GSA Conference Available
Posted April 22, 2009
Maybe it was “audacious” to turn over so much of the program to pure science and next generation microelectronics applications, but the feedback from participants at the Third Annual ITAC/GSA Microelectronics Conference suggests that this was precisely what they wanted. All of the respondents declared that the Conference was either above average or fully excellent.
Taking advantage of the strong science and technology resources in the host region Kitchener-Waterloo, the Conference kicked off with tours of DALSA’s Applications Lab and the labs of the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo. Conference sessions picked up after a joint ITAC Board of Governors dinner featuring IQC Director Raymond Laflamme and RIM Co-CEO Mike Lazaridis. Lisa Tafoya of GSA and Flint Pulskamp of IDC provided their perspectives on the health of the global semiconductor marketplace. Then Dr. Arthur Carty returned the proceedings to advanced science detailing the explorations underway at the University of Waterloo’s Institute of Nanotechnology. Dr. Johanna Schmidtke, who tracks the global solar power marketplace for Lux Research in Boston, outlined the impact of the current over-supply in solar capacity on the semiconductor market. And Louis Ross, President of Pittsburg’s Virtus Advanced Sensors outlined trends in MEMS technology. As strong as these keynotes were, two panels of home-grown Canadian microelectronics executives may have been even more illuminating. For example, Brian Doody, CEO of DALSA, Paul Kempf, VP Silicon at RIM, Gerry Remers, President and COO of Christie Digital and Robert Tong, VP Medical Products Group for ON Semiconductor, provided a dazzling view of Star Trek-like technologies their companies are at work ranging from intuitive, gesture driven computer interfaces, to medical scanners, to holodecks, to sensors that actually guide modern day space exploration. The afternoon panel composed of Cameron Hay, President and CEO of Unitron, Paul Lem, CEO of Spartan Bioscience, Kirk Mandy, President and CEO of Zarlink, Dan Mathers, President and CEO of eSight Corporation and Ian Roane, President of Sound Design Technologies, explored the breakthroughs microelectronics are enabling in the restoration of sign and hearing and in advanced diagnostics. Presentations from the Conference “The Audacity of Imagination” are here.
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