Françoise Chombar
Chief Executive Officer
Melexis

Biography
Françoise Chombar is Chairwoman and co-founder of Melexis. She has been the CEO of Melexis for 18 years. She has held executive positions with a number of tech companies. Ms Chombar is currently member of the Board of Umicore, the Board of Soitec and the advisory Board to Byteflies.She is equally president of the STEM platform, an advisory board to the Flemish government, aiming to encourage young people to pursue a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics education.Françoise Chombar’s long-term commitment to actively advocating more STEM and more gender balance is driven by the profound belief in their positive societal impact.She is the recipient of numerous awards including the Vlerick Award, the Global Prize for Women Entrepreneurs of BNP Paribas, ICT-Personality of the Year by Datanews, Science Fellowship at the VUB, Honorary Award by the Flemish Community, the Computable Lifetime Achievement Award and a Honorary Award by the KUL.Ms Chombar holds a Master’s Degree in interpreting (Dutch, English and Spanish) from Ghent University.

Felix Rohn
Policy Officer
European Commission

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Bernd Deutschmann
Head of IFE team
Institute of Electronics, TU Graz

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Patrick Bressler
Head of central office Fraunhofer Group for Microelectronics
Fraunhofer Mikroelektronik

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Michael Reeve
General Manager EMEA
Edwards Vacuum

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Henryk Schoder
Vice President Human Resources
X-fab

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James Amano
Sr Director, Int'l Standards and EHSS
SEMI

Biography
James Amano is Senior Director, International Standards & Environment, Health, Safety, and Sustainability at SEMI. Prior to joining SEMI, he worked as the Silicon Valley sales engineer for Matsusada Precision, and as a trade specialist for the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO). He holds degrees in Economics and Environmental Conservation from the University of Colorado at Boulder.