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  • Tuesday, Oct 7th
    10:30am - 12:30pm MT
    TechTALKS: Chips Without Borders: Building a Resilient Materials Supply Chain​
    Location: TechTALKS, North Building, 300 Level, Expo Hall B
    TechTALKS
  • Tuesday, Oct 7th
    10:30am - 10:35am MT
    Welcome and Session Overview
    Location: TechTALKS, North Building, 300 Level, Expo Hall B
    Session Moderator (Materials): Paul Besser – Entegris
    TechTALKS
  • Tuesday, Oct 7th
    10:35am - 11:00am MT
    Building a ​ Resilient Materials Supply Chain in 2025
    Location: TechTALKS, North Building, 300 Level, Expo Hall B
    Speaker (Materials): Ajoy Zutshi – Entegris
    TechTALKS
  • Tuesday, Oct 7th
    11:00am - 11:20am MT
    Where Challenge Meets Opportunity: Navigating the Modern Semiconductor Supply Chain
    Location: TechTALKS, North Building, 300 Level, Expo Hall B
    Speaker (Materials): Uli Blankenstein – Materion Corporation
    TechTALKS
  • Tuesday, Oct 7th
    11:20am - 11:40am MT
    Accelerating Materials Development to Enable Next Generation Device Manufacturing
    Location: TechTALKS, North Building, 300 Level, Expo Hall B
    Speaker (Materials): Michael McSwiney – Applied Materials
    TechTALKS
  • Tuesday, Oct 7th
    11:40am - 12:00pm MT
    Materials Markets and the Impact of Changing Supply Chains
    Location: TechTALKS, North Building, 300 Level, Expo Hall B
    Speaker (Materials): Lita Shon-Roy – TECHCET
    TechTALKS
  • Tuesday, Oct 7th
    12:00pm - 12:25pm MT
    Panel Discussion
    Location: TechTALKS, North Building, 300 Level, Expo Hall B
    Panel Moderator (Materials): Kevin J. McLaughlin – KJMcLaughlin Consulting LLC
    Panelist (Materials): Michael McSwiney – Applied Materials
    Panelist (Materials): Uli Blankenstein – Materion Corporation
    Panelist (Materials): Ajoy Zutshi – Entegris
    Panelist (Materials): Lita Shon-Roy – TECHCET
    TechTALKS
  • Tuesday, Oct 7th
    12:25pm - 12:30pm MT
    Closing Remarks
    Location: TechTALKS, North Building, 300 Level, Expo Hall B
    Session Moderator (Materials): Kevin J. McLaughlin – KJMcLaughlin Consulting LLC
    TechTALKS
  • Tuesday, Oct 7th
    2:00pm - 4:35pm MT
    TechTALKS: Driving the Future of Semiconductors with Next-Level Silicon Design
    Location: TechTALKS, North Building, 300 Level, Expo Hall B
    TechTALKS
  • Tuesday, Oct 7th
    2:00pm - 2:05pm MT
    Welcome Remarks and Session Overview
    Location: TechTALKS, North Building, 300 Level, Expo Hall B
    Session Moderator (AdvS): Madhavan Esayanur – MEMC/GlobalWafers
    TechTALKS
  • Tuesday, Oct 7th
    2:05pm - 2:30pm MT
    Keynote: Silicon Design and Manufacturing at Microsoft in the Cloud/AI Era
    Location: TechTALKS, North Building, 300 Level, Expo Hall B
    Speaker (AdvS): Selim Bilgin – Microsoft
    TechTALKS
  • Tuesday, Oct 7th
    2:30pm - 2:50pm MT
    Hybrid Bonding: Key to Future Heterogeneous Integration in the AI Era
    Location: TechTALKS, North Building, 300 Level, Expo Hall B
    Speaker (AdvS): Yi Shi – Intel
    TechTALKS
  • Tuesday, Oct 7th
    2:50pm - 3:10pm MT
    Advances of Photonic Integrated Circuits based on SOI Platform
    Location: TechTALKS, North Building, 300 Level, Expo Hall B
    Speaker (AdvS): Frederic Seve – CEA-Leti
    TechTALKS
  • Tuesday, Oct 7th
    3:10pm - 3:30pm MT
    Scaling AI and cloud optical interconnects with 300mm Silicon Photonics and SiGe BiCMOS innovations
    Location: TechTALKS, North Building, 300 Level, Expo Hall B
    Speaker (AdvS): Amit Shaligram – STMicroelectronics
    TechTALKS
  • Tuesday, Oct 7th
    3:30pm - 3:50pm MT
    MEMS-based Laser Scanning Displays for Augmented Reality
    Location: TechTALKS, North Building, 300 Level, Expo Hall B
    Speaker (AdvS): Ken Diest – Meta
    TechTALKS
  • Tuesday, Oct 7th
    3:50pm - 4:10pm MT
    Powering the Future: Optimized Silicon Substrates for GaN Power & RF devices
    Location: TechTALKS, North Building, 300 Level, Expo Hall B
    Speaker (AdvS): Jim Reed – Okmetic
    TechTALKS
  • Tuesday, Oct 7th
    4:10pm - 4:30pm MT
    Alif Semiconductor - Presentation Title TBD
    Location: TechTALKS, North Building, 300 Level, Expo Hall B
    Speaker (AdvS): Mark Rootz – Alif Semiconductor
    TechTALKS
  • Tuesday, Oct 7th
    4:30pm - 4:35pm MT
    Closing Remarks
    Location: TechTALKS, North Building, 300 Level, Expo Hall B
    Session Moderator (AdvS): Madhavan Esayanur – MEMC/GlobalWafers
    TechTALKS
  • Wednesday, Oct 8th
    10:30am - 12:35pm MT
    TechTALKS Next-Gen Photonics: Powering Tomorrow’s Technologies
    Location: TechTALKS, North Building, 300 Level, Expo Hall B
    TechTALKS
  • Wednesday, Oct 8th
    10:30am - 10:35am MT
    Welcome Remarks and Session Overview
    Location: TechTALKS, North Building, 300 Level, Expo Hall B
    Session Moderator (Photonics): Pushkar Apte – SEMI
    Session Moderator (Photonics): Gity Samadi – SEMI
    TechTALKS
  • Wednesday, Oct 8th
    10:35am - 11:05am MT
    A Roadmap to Enhanced Efficiency and Power Density via GaN and Diamond
    Location: TechTALKS, North Building, 300 Level, Expo Hall B
    Speaker (Photonics): Srabanti Chowdhury – Stanford University
    TechTALKS
  • Wednesday, Oct 8th
    11:05am - 11:25am MT
    Advanced Semiconductor Materials for Silicon Photonics
    Location: TechTALKS, North Building, 300 Level, Expo Hall B
    Speaker (Photonics): Glen Wilk – ASM
    TechTALKS
  • Wednesday, Oct 8th
    11:25am - 11:45am MT
    OPTA X: Innovating Precision Sputtering for Advanced Thin-Film Applications
    Location: TechTALKS, North Building, 300 Level, Expo Hall B
    Speaker (Photonics): Daniel Radach – VON ARDENNE North America
    Speaker (Photonics): Michael Schneider – VON ARDENNE GmbH
    TechTALKS
  • Wednesday, Oct 8th
    11:45am - 12:30pm MT
    Panel Discussion: Semiconductors in Arizona's Photonics Industry
    Location: TechTALKS, North Building, 300 Level, Expo Hall B
    Panel Moderator (Photonics): Katie Schwertz – Edmund Optics
    Panelist (Photonics): Robert Walker – Leonardo Electronics USA
    Panelist (Photonics): Liesl Folks – University of Arizona
    Panelist (Photonics): Manny Teran – IRLabs
    Panelist (Photonics): JP Debray – Cactus Materials
    TechTALKS
  • Wednesday, Oct 8th
    3:55pm - 4:00pm MT
    Closing Remarks
    Location: TechTALKS, West Building, 100 Level, Room 101A
    Session Moderator (MEMS): Paul Carey, PhD – SEMI
    TechTALKSMEMS
  • Wednesday, Oct 8th
    2:00pm - 4:20pm MT
    TechTALKS: Sensing Tomorrow: Emerging Applications for MEMS & Sensor Technologies
    Location: TechTALKS, North Building, 300 Level, Expo Hall B
    TechTALKSMEMS
  • Wednesday, Oct 8th
    2:00pm - 2:15pm MT
    MSiG Welcome
    Location: TechTALKS, North Building, 300 Level, Expo Hall B
    Session Moderator (MEMS): Paul Carey, PhD – SEMI
    TechTALKSMEMS
  • Wednesday, Oct 8th
    2:15pm - 2:35pm MT
    Emerging MEMS Tech - A View from the World's Leading Pure-Play MEMS Foundry
    Location: TechTALKS, North Building, 300 Level, Expo Hall B
    Speaker (MEMS): Tim Brosnihan – Silex Microsystems
    TechTALKSMEMS
  • Wednesday, Oct 8th
    2:35pm - 2:55pm MT
    An inertial measurement unit with a wide operating range accelerometer and in-sensor compute
    Location: TechTALKS, North Building, 300 Level, Expo Hall B
    Speaker (MEMS): Matteo Fusi – STMicroelectronics
    TechTALKSMEMS
  • Wednesday, Oct 8th
    2:55pm - 3:15pm MT
    MEMS Sensors for Mixed Reality and Smart Glasses
    Location: TechTALKS, North Building, 300 Level, Expo Hall B
    Speaker (MEMS): Venkataraman Chandrasekaran – Meta
    TechTALKSMEMS
  • Wednesday, Oct 8th
    3:15pm - 3:35pm MT
    Infrared-AI™: Turning Waste to Worth
    Location: TechTALKS, North Building, 300 Level, Expo Hall B
    Speaker (MEMS): James (Jae-Hyung) Lee – Stratio
    TechTALKSMEMS
  • Wednesday, Oct 8th
    3:35pm - 3:55pm MT
    Automotive Sensors and Autonomous Driving
    Location: TechTALKS, North Building, 300 Level, Expo Hall B
    Speaker (MEMS): Yeh-Jiun Tung – Waymo
    TechTALKSMEMS
  • Wednesday, Oct 8th
    3:55pm - 4:15pm MT
    Boston Dynamics - Sensors in Robotics
    Location: TechTALKS, North Building, 300 Level, Expo Hall B
    Speaker (MEMS): John Weiler – Boston Dynamics
    TechTALKSMEMS
  • Thursday, Oct 9th
    10:30am - 3:30pm MT
    TechTALKS: Manufacturing Process Innovations to Accelerate the AI Era
    Location: TechTALKS, North Building, 300 Level, Expo Hall B
    TechTALKSAdvanced Manufacturing
  • Thursday, Oct 9th
    10:30am - 10:35am MT
    Welcome Remarks and Session Overview
    Location: TechTALKS, North Building, 300 Level, Expo Hall B
    Session Moderator (AdvMfg): Debra Vogler – Instant Insight Inc.
    TechTALKS
  • Thursday, Oct 9th
    10:35am - 10:55am MT
    Lithography Technology Enabling the AI era
    Location: TechTALKS, North Building, 300 Level, Expo Hall B
    Speaker (AdvMfg): Michael Lercel – ASML
    TechTALKS
  • Thursday, Oct 9th
    10:55am - 11:15am MT
    Building Future Generations of Advanced AI Accelerators Through Integration of Scalable Chiplet Building Blocks
    Location: TechTALKS, North Building, 300 Level, Expo Hall B
    Speaker (AdvMfg): Deenesh Padhi – Applied Materials
    TechTALKS
  • Thursday, Oct 9th
    11:15am - 11:35am MT
    Accelerating the future of computing: technology and cost implications of the coming inflections
    Location: TechTALKS, North Building, 300 Level, Expo Hall B
    Speaker (AdvMfg): Nelson Felix – IBM Research
    TechTALKS
  • Thursday, Oct 9th
    11:35am - 11:55am MT
    Overcoming the big challenges in patterning small features
    Location: TechTALKS, North Building, 300 Level, Expo Hall B
    Speaker (AdvMfg): Rich Wise – Lam Research
    TechTALKS
  • Thursday, Oct 9th
    11:55am - 12:15pm MT
    A Versatile NbTiN Superconducting Platform: Challenges and Opportunities
    Location: TechTALKS, North Building, 300 Level, Expo Hall B
    Speaker (AdvMfg): Ankit Pokhrel – imec
    TechTALKS
  • Thursday, Oct 9th
    12:15pm - 12:30pm MT
    Audience Q & A
    Location: TechTALKS, North Building, 300 Level, Expo Hall B
    Session Moderator (AdvMfg): Debra Vogler – Instant Insight Inc.
    TechTALKS
  • Thursday, Oct 9th
    1:30pm - 1:35pm MT
    Welcome Remarks and Session Overview
    Location: TechTALKS, North Building, 300 Level, Expo Hall B
    Session Moderator (AdvMfg): Debra Vogler – Instant Insight Inc.
    TechTALKS
  • Thursday, Oct 9th
    1:35pm - 1:55pm MT
    Challenges & Opportunities For Developing Quantum Computing Hardware
    Location: TechTALKS, North Building, 300 Level, Expo Hall B
    Speaker (AdvMfg): Raymond W. Simmonds – National Institute of Standards & Technology
    TechTALKS
  • Thursday, Oct 9th
    1:55pm - 2:15pm MT
    Photonics/Electronics Convergence Leveraging Advanced Packaging: New Paradigms for AI and HPC
    Location: TechTALKS, North Building, 300 Level, Expo Hall B
    Speaker (AdvMfg): Stéphane Bernabé – CEA LETI
    TechTALKS
  • Thursday, Oct 9th
    2:15pm - 2:35pm MT
    Process Technologies Enabling Device Scaling
    Location: TechTALKS, North Building, 300 Level, Expo Hall B
    Speaker (AdvMfg): Vivek Yadav – Tokyo Electron America
    TechTALKS
  • Thursday, Oct 9th
    2:35pm - 2:55pm MT
    AI-Based Decision-Tree Concept to Fabricate Active Waferscale Fabric for Heterogeneous Chiplet Integration
    Location: TechTALKS, North Building, 300 Level, Expo Hall B
    Speaker (AdvMfg): Rabindra Das – MIT Lincoln Laboratory
    TechTALKS
  • Thursday, Oct 9th
    2:55pm - 3:15pm MT
    Glass Core Substrates: Driving Scalability for HVM Through A Versatile Process Control Solution
    Location: TechTALKS, North Building, 300 Level, Expo Hall B
    Speaker (AdvMfg): Monita Pau – Onto Innovation
    TechTALKS
  • Thursday, Oct 9th
    3:15pm - 3:30pm MT
    Audience Q & A
    Location: TechTALKS, North Building, 300 Level, Expo Hall B
    Session Moderator (AdvMfg): Debra Vogler – Instant Insight Inc.
    TechTALKS