Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) Events

Date and Location

April 14 - 15, 2009

Delta Hotel
105 King Street East
Kitchener Waterloo
Ontario, Canada

Program

April 14, 2009
11:30 a.m.	Registration at Delta Hotel
12:30 p.m.	Transportation from Delta Hotel to DALSA Applications Laboratory
1:00 p.m.	Welcome and Opening Remarks David Lynch, Senior Vice President, Marketing and Sales, Sigma Designs, Inc. and Chairman, ITAC SMC Lisa Tafoya, Vice President of Global Research, GSA
1:15 p.m.	Lunch
2:00 p.m.	Tour of the DALSA Applications Laboratory
3:30 p.m.	Tour of the Institute for Quantum Computing
5:30 p.m.	Networking Reception at Delta Hotel
6:30 p.m.	ITAC Board of Governors Dinner at Delta Hotel Professor Ray Laflamme, Director, Institute for Quantum Computing Download Presentation Mike Lazaridis, President and co-Chief Executive Officer, Research In Motion Presentation Not Available
April 15, 2009
8:00 a.m.	Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30 a.m.	Welcome and Opening Remark Presentation: Semiconductor Industry Will Innovate its Way Out of the Downturn Download Presentation Lisa Tafoya, Vice President of Global Research, GSA
9:00 a.m.	Keynote: IDC Semiconductor Update: Semiconductor Industry Downturn Prolonged by Economic Reality Download Presentation Flint Pulskamp, Program Manager, Wireless Semiconductors, IDC
9:45 a.m.	Keynote: Small World Large Impact: A WIN Perspective on the Potential of Nanotechnology Download Presentation Dr. Arthur Carty, Executive Director, Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology
10:30 a.m.	Networking Break Sponsored by ON Semiconductor
11:00 a.m.	Panel Discussion: Living With Star Trek Technologies: Advanced Microelectronics at Work and Play Download Presentation Moderator: Peter Middleton, Principal Analyst, Gartner, Inc. Panelists: Brian Doody, Chief Executive Officer, DALSA Corporation Paul Kempf, Vice President, Silicon, Research In Motion Gerry Remers, President and Chief Operation Officer, Christie Digital Systems Canada, Inc. Robert Tong, Vice President, Medical Products Group, ON Semiconductor
12:00 p.m.	Lunch
1:00 p.m.	Keynote: Solar Power: Not Free but Affordable and Renewable Download Presentation Dr. Johanna Schmidtke, Analyst, Lux Research
1:45 p.m.	Panel Discussion: Emerging Healthcare Technologies: Meeting the Challenge Presentation Not Available Moderator: Ian McWalter, President, CMC Microsystems Panelists: Cameron Hay, President and Chief Executive Officer, Unitron Hearing Ltd. Paul Lem, Chief Executive Officer and Founder, Spartan Bioscience, Inc. Kirk Mandy, President and Chief Executive Officer, Zarlink Dan Mathers, President and Chief Executive Officer, eSight Corporation Ian Roane, President, Sound Design Technologies
2:45 p.m.	Keynote: Commercialization of MEMS Technology: Current Trends Download Presentation Louis Ross, President and Chief Executive Officer, Virtus Advanced Sensors
3:45 p.m.	Closing Remarks Bernard Courtois, President and Chief Executive Officer, ITAC
4:00 p.m.	GSA MEMS Interest Group Kick-Off Meeting Louis Ross, President and Chief Executive Officer, Virtus Advanced Sensors Lisa Tafoya, Vice President of Global Research, GSA

Attend the MEMS Interest Group Kick-Off Meeting

Date: Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Time: 4:00 p.m. (After the Closing Remarks)

Location: Delta Hotel

GSA has collaborated with MEMS leaders in creating an interest group to collaborate and drive solutions to the challenges faced by MEMS today. Academic leaders who have helped facilitate the commercialization of MEMS technology as well as companies that play an integral role in the industrial food chain, including semiconductor companies (Fabless and IDM), foundries, equipment manufacturers, OEMs, component suppliers, etc. should take part in this exciting kick-off meeting and be a part of a dynamic team of experts.

MEMs Interest Group Objective:

The GSA MEMS Interest Group will explore how the semiconductor industry has increasingly entered into the MEMS field as a potential future growth area as the industry experiences unprecedented restructuring. Many companies are considering changing their business model and investigating high-value/high-growth market opportunities moving forward. The Group seeks to help promote and support the continued commercialization of MEMS as a critical enabling technology.

In the context of commercialization, the Group will explore the interaction between various companies in the MEMS user/supplier networks of select industries, while also following how this important enabling technology is being adopted by a wide variety of industries. This will include the growth of start-up companies in this area and how they interact with large established firms. The GSA MEMS Interest Group’s goal is to be a leading market intelligence source to provide market and industry knowledge from a global perspective.

For more information, visit our MEMS Portal.

Guided Tours Included

DALSA Applications Laboratory

With revenues of over $200 million in 2008, DALSA is a true world leader in high performance digital imaging and semiconductors. On April 14th, as part of the ITAC and GSA Conference, take an up-close look at the company's operations in Waterloo. Tour the R&D labs and manufacturing facility, and speak to the engineers, scientists, and executives who have put DALSA clearly on the international technology map.

Institute for Quantum Computing

“Seeing is believing”

You will be guided through 4 labs investigating:

• Integrated quantum devices where the goal is to develop a unique test bed for characterization of superconducting and photonic quantum devices and circuits;
• Nuclear magnetic resonance where a successful a 12-spin benchmark has just been completed.
• Photonic entanglement where the first photon anti-bunching curve was obtained with a pulsed laser, a single photon source has been demonstrated and single quantum dots emission lines have been observed on a CCD camera.
• Quantum key distribution where the goal is to create a continuously operating quantum key distribution link between the Institute for Quantum Computing at one end and the Perimeter Institute at the other!

Registration & Pricing

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