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Wednesday, November 16, 2022
	Smart MedTech
10:00	Welcome Remarks
	Laith Altimime, President, SEMI Europe close Welcome Remarks Laith Altimime President SEMI Europe Abstract Welcome Note Biography As President of SEMI Europe, Laith Altimime leads SEMI’s activities in Europe and the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Altimime has P&L responsibility as well as ownership of all Europe region programs and events, including SEMICON Europa. He is responsible for establishing industry Standards, advocacy, community development, expositions, and programs. He provides support and services to SEMI members worldwide that have supply chain interests in Europe. He manages and nurtures relationships with SEMI members in the region and globally as well as with local associations and constituents in industry, government, and academia. Altimime has more than 30 years of international experience in the semiconductor industry. Prior to joining SEMI in 2015, He held senior leadership positions at NEC, KLA-Tencor, Infineon, Qimonda and imec.Altimime holds an MSc from Heriot-Watt University, Scotland.
10:10	Keynote
	Semiconductor Companies Shaping the Transformation of the Healthcare Industry with Optical Solutions
	Jens Milnikel, EVP & GM BU Image Sensor Solutions, ams-OSRAM AG close Semiconductor Companies Shaping the Transformation of the Healthcare Industry with Optical Solutions Jens Milnikel EVP & GM BU Image Sensor Solutions ams-OSRAM AG Abstract The medical industry is undergoing a transformation that will impact the way people care about their personal health. In a social environment of an aging but tech savvy population, with birth rates at a minimum in decades, it becomes increasingly important to redefine the way we understand personal health.Emerging technologies and sensors play a key role to bring diagnosis and treatment out of the traditional channels, enabling personalized, participative and predictive medicine in an agile and cost efficient health system.Jens Milnikel will explain his vision on a new era of personal healthcare and how ams-OSRAM sees precision medicine as one of the core pillars of their future strategy, and can shape it with solutions like vital signs monitoring, ultra-accurate temperature measurements, UVC or Bluetooth connected LTF tests amongst others. Biography Jens Milnikel can look back on more than 20 years’ experience in the semiconductor industry. After several years at Roland Berger Strategy Consulting, he joined Infineon Technologies in 2001, holding several management positions.With the photovoltaic industry on the rise, he moved to an international building material conglomerate. As managing director, Jens established and expanded the global solar business within this company. In 2013 Jens joined Philips Lighting, where he shaped the system and service business as well as the transition from conventional to LED lighting.Jens took on his current position as SVP at ams OSRAM in 2019, growing the Business Line Illumination. Since May 2022 he has been managing the Business Unit ISS and is also part of the ams OSRAM corporate managing team.Jens has a degree in Industrial Engineering from the Karlsruhe Technical University.
10:30	Foundry Solutions for Medical Semiconductor Sensors
	Ulrich Bretthauer, Product Marketing Manager Medical, X-FAB Silicon Foundries SE close Foundry Solutions for Medical Semiconductor Sensors Ulrich Bretthauer Product Marketing Manager Medical X-FAB Silicon Foundries SE Abstract Modern medical devices rely on semiconductor technologies for reliable and accurate operation. The application of integrated sensors that record different physiological parameters is of paramount importance. These sensors usually require adaptation to the specific purpose. This presentation will introduce solutions for life-science applications based on CMOS sensor technologies and their targeted expansion to form microfluidic devices. Application specific adjustments must be made in cooperation with the end customer. The variety of medical applications that can be addressed with these semiconductor sensors is huge and the potential that these hold for future product development is exciting. Biography Dr. Ulrich Bretthauer has more than 30 years of experience in the design of analog/mixed-signal integrated circuits for various applications from automotive, industrial and communications.After working on energy-efficient processor technologies in Intel's corporate research group. He joined X-FAB in 2015 as product marketing manager for the medical segment, where he oversees the application of X-FAB’s processes in applications from personal medical devices and medical imaging to Lab-on-a-chip devices.
10:50	Medtech-Innovation through the Fusion of Microelectronics with Sensors
	Franz Laermer, Bosch Research Fellow - Senior Chief Expert, Robert Bosch GmbH close Medtech-Innovation through the Fusion of Microelectronics with Sensors Franz Laermer Bosch Research Fellow - Senior Chief Expert Robert Bosch GmbH Abstract The „Vivalytic“ system from Bosch is an open platform for the automation of complex molecular diagnostics workflows. It can be used anywhere, at any “point-of-need”, by anybody without requiring extensive training. The combination of microelectronics, microsystems and microfluidics technologies yields a strongly miniaturized and fully automated system at a very reasonable cost. During the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, rapid PCR-tests for the detection of COVID-19 could be integrated onto the platform and brought to market within a very short development time, early enough to fight the global pandemic and help restrict the spread of the disease. Supported by public funding from the BMBF (Acronym: “Vivalytic Light”, 16ME0174/5), new microelectronic solutions were developed for a more efficient “Vivalytic Light Analyzer” optimized for assays of lower complexity, as well as a new generation of “Vivalytic Light Cartridges”, and even faster PCR-workflows to discover SARS-CoV-2-and other infections. In particular, this is preparing for future pandemic outbreaks.Beyond infectious disease cases, molecular diagnostics gives insight into the root-causes of many severe illnesses, including cancer. Guided by genetic profiling, targeted cancer therapies are moving away from a “one drug fits all” to a “the right drug for the individual patient” strategy. Liquid biopsies from cancer-patients’ blood-tests provide an ideal input probe to the “Vivalytic” platform, with novel microstructures performing upfront sample extraction and preparation from blood. In future, combined solutions like that will gain significance for the improvement of quality and outcome of cancer therapies. Biography Dr. Franz Laermer joined the Corporate Sector Research and Advance Engineering of Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart, Germany, in 1990. He started the development of new key technologies and sensor functions for the upcoming field of Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) at Bosch. His activities were mainly focused on new microstructuring, surface-micromachining and sacrificial layer etching technologies, as well as micro-accelerometers, gyroscopes and pressure sensors for the automotive area. Dr. Franz Laermer is the co-inventor of the "Bosch Deep Reactive Ion Etching Process" (“BOSCH-DRIE”) for microstructuring silicon. This key microstructuring technology revolutionized MEMS and is the root of all of today’s silicon-based MEMS. He holds more than 200 patents.Since 2003, he is responsible for TOP-level innovation projects covering new MEMS application fields beyond automotive, including the biomedical area. Since 2009, he is Chief Expert for Microsystems, Microfluidics and Molecular Diagnostics. His newer work laid the foundation for the VIVALYTIC Molecular Diagnostics Platform of the newly founded Bosch Healthcare Solutions Business Division (BHCS GmbH). In 2018 he was established as the first Research Fellow at Bosch.Dr. Franz Laermer was awarded with the prize “European Inventor of the Year 2007 – Category Industry” by the European Commission and the European Patent Office (together with co-inventor Andrea Urban), for the invention, development and sustainable success of the “BOSCH-DRIE”-process. In 2014 he received the “2014 IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal Award” from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), USA, and in 2019 the "Technology Prize of the Eduard-Rhein-Foundation", Germany.
11:10	How Integrated Circuits and AI turn Medical Devices Smart
	Franz Bozsak, CEO, Sensome close How Integrated Circuits and AI turn Medical Devices Smart Franz Bozsak CEO Sensome Abstract Sensome, a clinical-stage start-up, has developed a revolutionary sensor technology that turns invasive medical devices into connected healthcare devices. The company’s patented sensing technology combines the world's smallest impedance-based micro-sensors with machine learning algorithms to instantly identify biological tissues with unequaled predictive reliability. This sensing technology can be integrated into minimally invasive medical devices providing for a novel means of exploring, diagnosing and monitoring the human body. Our first product the Clotild® Smart Guidewire System is a connected neurovascular guidewire to categorize blood clots during the endovascular treatment of acute ischemic stroke. This product is currently undergoing clinical trials. Beyond stroke, this tissue sensing technology can be used in multiple other therapeutic areas, such as peripheral intervention and interventional oncology. Biography Franz obtained a M.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Stuttgart and a Ph.D. from Ecole polytechnique in Biomedical Engineering on the optimization of stents. He is a graduate of the Stanford Ignite/Polytechnique business program. In 2014, he co-founded Sensome and has since brought together a team of renowned scientists, engineers and doctors to realize his vision of connected medical devices. He was named Innovator Under 35 by the MIT Technology Review in 2016.
11:20	Panel discussion MedTech as the new European Superpower: From Value Chain to Patient
Panelists	Franz Laermer, Bosch Research Fellow - Senior Chief Expert, Robert Bosch GmbH close Franz Laermer Bosch Research Fellow - Senior Chief Expert Robert Bosch GmbH Biography Dr. Franz Laermer joined the Corporate Sector Research and Advance Engineering of Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart, Germany, in 1990. He started the development of new key technologies and sensor functions for the upcoming field of Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) at Bosch. His activities were mainly focused on new microstructuring, surface-micromachining and sacrificial layer etching technologies, as well as micro-accelerometers, gyroscopes and pressure sensors for the automotive area. Dr. Franz Laermer is the co-inventor of the "Bosch Deep Reactive Ion Etching Process" (“BOSCH-DRIE”) for microstructuring silicon. This key microstructuring technology revolutionized MEMS and is the root of all of today’s silicon-based MEMS. He holds more than 200 patents.Since 2003, he is responsible for TOP-level innovation projects covering new MEMS application fields beyond automotive, including the biomedical area. Since 2009, he is Chief Expert for Microsystems, Microfluidics and Molecular Diagnostics. His newer work laid the foundation for the VIVALYTIC Molecular Diagnostics Platform of the newly founded Bosch Healthcare Solutions Business Division (BHCS GmbH). In 2018 he was established as the first Research Fellow at Bosch.Dr. Franz Laermer was awarded with the prize “European Inventor of the Year 2007 – Category Industry” by the European Commission and the European Patent Office (together with co-inventor Andrea Urban), for the invention, development and sustainable success of the “BOSCH-DRIE”-process. In 2014 he received the “2014 IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal Award” from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), USA, and in 2019 the "Technology Prize of the Eduard-Rhein-Foundation", Germany. Uwe Weitzel, Direct. Strat Innov R&D, Merck Healthcare KGaA close Uwe Weitzel Direct. Strat Innov R&D Merck Healthcare KGaA Biography Uwe Weitzel joined Merck in 2010. Since then, he held various Management positions, e.g., he was heading Global Finance & Controlling Healthcare R&D, Strategy & Operations at TIP Immuno-Oncology, Scientific Competitive Intelligence within Healthcare R&D before being appointed as Director Strategic Innovation R&D.Prior to joining Merck, Uwe run his own business and held various positions with companies in international Finance and Controlling functions at Aventis Pharma and SAP AG. In addition, he worked at KPMG Consulting as a Senior Consultant mostly for chemical and pharmaceutical companies. Uwe studied organic chemistry and completed his PhD studies in biochemistry at the University of Freiburg. He holds a master’s degree in Business Administration of the Technical University of Braunschweig and is a Certified Management Accountant. Marcel Zevenbergen, program manager, imec the Netherlands close Marcel Zevenbergen program manager imec the Netherlands Biography Dr. Marcel Zevenbergen obtained his MSc from Delft University of Technology in 2005 and a PhD from the same university in 2009. Afterwards, he joined imec the Netherlands where he developed novel sensor platforms for various applications, in close collaboration with industrial partners. Current position is program manager both at imec@HolstCentre and imec@OnePlanet leading the advanced sensor development for various applications ranging from precision agriculture and food production, water quality and bioprocessing monitoring.
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