mAm 2012 Final Speaker Program

Sunday 22 January 2012
18:00	Registration open Welcome drink at the hotel (dinner afterwards on your own)
Monday 23 January 2012
09:00-09:30	Welcome Session Edward Byrne, Micronarc Project Manager David Tolfree, Vice President Mancef - Africa/Europe Vincent Rivier, President, Micronarc Steering Committee Sandy Wetzel, Project Manager, Office for Economic Affairs, Canton of Vaud
09:30-10:15	Invited Keynote : Microproducts I Nico de Rooij Vice-President of CSEM SA, Microsystems Technology Division. Professor and Director of EPFL's Institute of Microengineering (EPFL IMT), (Switzerland). Product Innovation enabled by MEMS
10:15-10:45	Coffee & Exhibition
10:45-12:15	Micro-manufacturing of Si MEMs Keynote: Benedetto Vigna, Corporate Vice President General Manager, Analog, MEMS and Sensors Group, ST Microelectronics (Italy/Switzerland) Mastering Art and Science for MEMS Leadership Daniel Rosenfeld, VP Manufacturing, poLight (Norway) The challenges behind scaling-up a new optical MEMS technology to very large volume production. Sean Neylon, CEO, Colibrys (Switzerland) Colibrys. A European based Silicon MEMS foundry for high end, harsh environment or high reliability applications
	» 5-minute Exhibitor Elevator Pitch : MINAM
12:15-14:00	Lunch in the hotel
14:00-15:30	Micro-manufacturing of Plastics and Ceramics Keynote : Dr. Erol Harvey, CEO, Minifab (Australia) Lessons learnt in manufacturing millions of nanolitre-scale polymer devices. Dr. Luc Federzoni, Research program Manager, CEA/LITEN (France) Poudrinnov, the platform for a new generation of multimaterial µ-devices Dr. Volker Piotter, Group Leader, Process Engineering, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany) Micromoulding of Metals and Ceramics
15:30-16:00	Coffee & Exhibition
16:00-17:30	Micro-manufacturing of Metals Keynote : Prof. Dr. Holger Reinecke, Director of HSG-IMIT and Professor in Microsystems Engineering, IMTEK (Germany) Micromanufacturing of Metals by Electro Discharge and Electro Chemical Machining Dr. Thomas Gietzelt, IMVT-KIT (Germany) Issues of Mechanical Micromachining of Metals Using Geometrical Determined Cutting Edges
	» 5-minute Exhibitor Elevator Pitch : Lyncée Tec
18:30-22:30	Adjourn for the day (dinner on your own)
Tuesday 24 January 2012
09:00-09:45	Invited Keynote : Microproducts II Prof. Dr.-Ing. Joachim Burghartz, IMS CHIPS Stuttgart (Germany) Ultra-thin chips – a new paradigm in silicon technology
09:45-10:15	Coffee & Exhibition
10:15-12:00	Assembly and Automation Keynote : Dr. Marcel Tichem, Dept. of Precision and Microsystems Engineering, Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands) Micro-assembly processes exploiting potential of micro-scale fabrication Alain Codourey, Managing Director, Asyril SA (Switzerland) Challenges in sorting and handling micro-parts Dr. Matthias Krieger, Marketing Manager, Marketing & Business Development, CSEM SA (Switzerland) Tileye - A self-learning optical inspection system for complex production environments
	» 5-minute Exhibitor Elevator Pitch : KNMF
12:00-14:00	Lunch in the hotel
14:00-15:30	Micro-Factories Keynote : Akiko Browne, Managing Director, Nippon SCHNEEBERGER KK (Japan) Microfactories - working towards a smaller production footprint Prof. Philippe Lutz, FEMTO-ST Institute, Automatic control and Micro-Mechatronic Systems Department (France) Microfactories - mechatronic tools to increase their performance
	» 5-minute Exhibitor Elevator Pitch : microTEC Südwest
15:30-16:00	Coffee & Exhibition
16:00-17:30	Test Equipment Keynote : Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Osten, Institute of Technical Optics, University of Stuttgart (Germany) Prospects and Challenges for the Optical Inspection of Micro- and Nano-Structures Dr. Benoît Dagon, CEO, Imina Technologies (Switzerland) The miBot - a mobile robot for efficient manipulation and sensing under microscope Dr. James Claverley, National Physics Laboratory (United Kingdom) Micro-co-ordinate metrology at NPL: current and future work Christian Janko, Head of Sales, Alicona (Austria) Integrated Optical 3D Measurement Technique for Laser Structuring of Surface
17:30	Adjourn for the day
19:00-22:30	Conference Dinner - Meet at hotel entrance at 19:00
Wednesday 25 January 2012
09:00-10:30	Printing Technologies Keynote : Dr. Martin Raditsch, Managing Director Business of InnovationLab GmbH (Germany) Printed Electronics for Innovation & Growth in a Green Environment Prof. Dr. Stéphanie Lacour, Laboratory for Soft Bioelectronic Interfaces, EPFL (Switzerland). Microplotting on silicone rubber Dr. Mathias Borella, Sales and Business Development Manager, Ceradrop (France). Towards a workflow and tools dedicated to inkjet for printed electronics
10:30-11:00	Coffee & Exhibition
11:00-11:45	Invited Keynote: Future of Micro-manufacturing Dr. Frank Stietz, Managing Director, Carl Zeiss Nano Technology Systems (Germany) Innovative 3d nanopatterning
11:45-12:00	Final Remarks Prof. Dr. Volker Saile Chief Science Officer, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany), President Elect, Mancef
12:00	Conference adjourns Farewell reception