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Wednesday, November 14, 2018
Session	Talent and Leadership in the Digital Economy
14:00	Opening: Talent and Leadership in the Digital Economy
	Emir Demircan, Sr Manager Public Policy, SEMI Europe
14:15	International talent at imec
	Chris Beenders, Talent Acquisition Manager, Imec close International talent at imec Chris Beenders Talent Acquisition Manager Imec Abstract In this presentation, we will focus on two main topics: 1.About imec: expertise, people and culture 2.How imec tries to tackle the workforce challenges in the global digital economy of today, Biography In 2007, Chris graduated as a master in Political Science at the Catholic University of Leuven. One year later she received her second master degree in Human Resource Management at the University Antwerp Management School. Chris started her professional career as a recruiting consultant where she headhunted for different companies. After 3 years, she moved towards internal recruiting at Cegeka Belgium, a European IT consultancy company. Here, she was promoted to Talent Acquisition Manager after two years. In this role she introduced an innovative recruitment strategy and successfully led the recruitment team. One of her main achievements was the foundation of the Cegeka school, where non-IT profiles are being trained to work in the business of Cegeka. In 2017, Chris took on a new challenge as a Talent Acquisition manager at imec Belgium, where her team is responsible for over 350 hires per year on average. She ensures Imec’s growth in a candidate driven labor market by defining a pioneering recruitment strategy and innovative employer branding activities.
14:35	Attract – Engage – Develop. How Cultural Change Influences Talent Management
	Henryk Schoder, Vice President Human Resources, X-FAB Group close Attract – Engage – Develop. How Cultural Change Influences Talent Management Henryk Schoder Vice President Human Resources X-FAB Group Abstract To find and attract the right talent is a key factor for all Semiconductor Companies worldwide. As soon as a new employee was found and enters the company it is essential to develop the skills and personality to increase performance and initiate a sustainable engagement of the individual. People are the essential factor for all semiconductor companies and with the shortage of qualified staff in the future people will become even more a success factor. To be prepared for the future people challenges companies need to change their culture, which means people within the companies should be ready to take their own responsibility to make thinks different. Since 2014 X-FAB has been undergoing a global cultural change process and to share some the ideas, programs and results as an inspiration to think about the future challenges is the content of that presentaion. Biography Henryk Schoder, X-FAB’s global VP HR, was born and raised in the Thuringian town of Jena, where he also completed his Masters in Psychology. Prior to joining X-FAB in January 2014, Henryk worked as HR Manager at Infineon’s Dresden site, as Recruitment Consultant in Brighton (UK), Singapore and Dubai as well as HR and IT Manager for Masdar PV.
14:55	Which skills and competencies enabling Europe to meet the future
	Fabrizio Fama', VP of HR & Corporate Affairs, LFoundry close Which skills and competencies enabling Europe to meet the future Fabrizio Fama' VP of HR & Corporate Affairs LFoundry Abstract “Micro- and nano-electronics, including semiconductors, are essential for all goods and services which need intelligent control in sectors as diverse as automotive and transportation, aeronautics and space. Smart industrial control systems permit more efficient management of electricity generation, storage, transport and consumption through intelligent electrical grids and devices” states the communication from the European Commission about the importance of the Key Enabling Technologies for society and economy. We, at LFoundry, develop the technologies that are behind the development of the industries of interest for Europe, for the new frontier of the Digital Economy and some of the niches, like the Big Science, that can show a dramatic downstream in important sectors for the society, like the medical applications. Having the right set of skills and competencies is the pre-requisite to participate successfully in the development of the economy for our future in Europe and for the role that Europe will play in the world. In the speech we will talk about this tool set and how skills and soft competencies are both necessary to drive and adapt for a future which development must be built by ourselves, imaging the vision we’d like. Biography Fabrizio Famà earned his degree in Physics from the University of Pisa (Italy), on 1990. After spending several years on technical fields, for a stainless steel company and then in the semiconductor business (Texas Instruments and Micron Technology), on 2004 he joined the HR team leveraging on personal interests we was developing over the years. On 2008 he started-up the General Affairs team in Italy, aimed to manage the funding projects and the relation with the institutions. He has been involved on the integration in Italy of Numonyx after the acquisition by Micron. He has been assigned as HR Manager of the sites of Catania and Naples. After the spin-off of Avezzano’s site from Micron on 2013, he joined the management team buy-out in joint venture with LFoundry. On 2014 he has been appointed as member of the board of the new LFoundry, till 2016, when SMIC bought the majority of the shares. Fabrizio is member of the board of the European Semiconductor Industry Association (ESIA) since 2011.
15:15	TBA
	TBA, Applied Materials
15:35	From Data to Disruption - How Tech Talents shape our world
	Dominik Böhler, Head of Entrepreneurship & Tech Education, UnternehmerTUM close From Data to Disruption - How Tech Talents shape our world Dominik Böhler Head of Entrepreneurship & Tech Education UnternehmerTUM Abstract Today's technical talents habe an immense power to customize products & services at very low costs. How can we harness their motivation and skill to shape the world we want to live in? Biography Dominik is Head of Entrepreneurship & Tech Education at UnternehmerTUM. He is responsible for the entrepreneurial and technology-oriented teaching activities for students. This includes curricular courses (Tech Talents) and personal development programs (Manage&More) at TUM and beyond. Focal fields are personality development, design thinking, technology development, and business modeling. Dominik and his team put emphasis on developing new methods in teaching and delivering prototypes in a flipped classroom setting. He received a diploma in business administration and a PhD in information systems from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU).
15:55	Followed by Career Café: networking between leading employers of the electronics industry and students
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