02: Silicon Austria: A Game Changer for Austria as a High-Tech Location?
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in englischer SpracheIn the global race for digitizing economies and the changes in connection with industry 4.0 the ICT/electronics industry has a special role to play: it is of strategic importance for organizing value-added chains, for product and process quality and forms the technological basis for nearly all crucial innovations in most sectors of the economy. Although Austria’s ICT/electronics industry is traditionally well developed, the national ecosystem for this knowledge-intensive sector seems to have room for improvement. Is it the right time for a Silicon Austria?
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Jean-Frédéric CLERC
Vice President, Technological Research Division, CEA - French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission, Grenoble
| 1977-1988 | R&D, Liquid Crystal Displays, CEA-Léti |
| 1988 | Project Leader, Stanley Electric, Japan |
| 1992 | Research Activities, Seiko-TECDIS, Italy |
| Research & Development Activities, Pixtech, U.S.A. | |
| 1995 | Manager, Vice President CEA |
| 2005-2010 | Director, Technological Research Division of CEA |
| since 2010 | Vice President, CEA Technological Research Division |
Dr. Gabriel CREAN
Chief Executive Officer, LIST - Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Esch-sur-Alzette
| since 2015 | Chief Executive Officer, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology |
| 2012- 2015 | Vice-President, Director, Europe of CEAtech, Technological Research of the Atomic Energy and Alternatives Energy Commission, France |
| 2009- 2012 | Scientific Director, Technological Research of CEA |
Dr. Michael LIEHR
Chief Executive Officer, American Institute for Manufacturing of Integrated Photonics; Professor and Executive Vice President of Innovation and Technology, College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, SUNY Polytechnic Institute, Utica, NY
| since 2015 | Chief Executive Officer, State University of New York Polytechnic Institute, College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, Albany, NY |
| 2012-2015 | Executive Vice President for Innovation and Technology, State University of New York Polytechnic Institute, College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, Albany, NY |
| 2012 | General Manager, State University of New York Polytechnic Institute, College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, Albany, NY |
| since 2011 | Vice President for Research, State University of New York Polytechnic Institute, College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, Albany, NY |
| 2009-2011 | Associate Vice President for Business, alliances, and Consortia, State University of New York Polytechnic Institute, College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, Albany, NY |
| 2008-2009 | Executive for Strategic Production Alliances, International Business Machines Corporation, East-Fishkill, NY |
| 2002-2004 | Foundry Technical Enablement Manager, International Business Machines Corporation, Burlington, VT |
Dipl.-Ing. Dr. techn. Stefan POLEDNA
Co-Founder and Managing Director, TTTech Computertechnik AG, Wien
| Dr. Stefan Poledna is co-founder and member of the executive board at TTTech. He is responsible for the company's automotive business, all R&D activities, supply chain and quality management. He has over 30 years of international industry experience in innovative embedded systems development and has authored and co-authored several patents. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degree in computer science with distinction from Vienna University of Technology, where he also lectures on Dependable Computer Systems. |
DI Dr. Martin SCHREMS
Vice President Technology, Research and Development, ams AG, Premstaetten
| over 20 years experience in the semiconductor industry with previous positions held at | |
| TOSHIBA Corporation (Japan), | |
| Siemens Semiconductors (US) | |
| and Infineon (Germany). |
Prof. Luc VAN DEN HOVE
President and CEO, Imec; Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of Leuven
| 1984 | research of silicide and interconnect technologies |
| 1988 | Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of Leuven, Belgium |
| Manager, imec s micro-patterning group | |
| 1996 | Department Director, R&D |
| 1998 | Vice-President, Silicon Process & Device Technology Division |
| 2007 | Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer, imec |
| 2009 | President, Chief Executive Officer, imec |
Dr. Andreas WILD
Former Executive Director, Joint Undertaking ENIAC and ECSEL, Munich
| Dr. Andreas Wild retired from the position of Executive Director of the ECSEL Joint Undertaking, a public-private partnership on nanoelectronics, embedded software and smart system integration established as an autonomous European Union body, following the ENIAC JU. Before working in European institutions, he has been the European R&D Director for Freescale Semiconductor and Motorola Semiconductor Products Sector, and managed Motorola R&D laboratories in U.S.A. and Latin America. He has an MS degree from the University "Politehnica" Bucharest, and a Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Atomic Physics in Bucharest, Romania, authored 28 patents and more than 50 technical publications. He is now consulting. |
Mag. Michael WIESMÜLLER
Head, Department Key Technologies for Industrial Innovation: ICT, Production and Nanotechnology, Austrian Federal Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology, Vienna
| Initially stemming from the humanities and holding a degree in philosophy of science, working several years as scientists in the Humanities and as Management Consultant with A.T. Kearney he joined the Federal Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology (BMVIT) in late nineties. He is currently Head of Department for ICT, Industrial & Nano Technologies and Space. Main responsibility of this department covers the design of Innovation Policies for High-Tech-Industries, national R&D strategies and programs in these domains, and all areas of International R&D Policy and Coordination. Among others he acts as Austrian Delegate to the European ICT-Program, as Governance Board Member of the JTI s ECSEL, as Director of the EUREKA Clusters. ITEA 3 and CATRENE and Austrian Lead Delegate to the Key Enabling Technologies. He represents Austria in various Mirror-Groups of European Technology Platforms and in several European Policy Coordination Initiatives. |
Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. MBA Klaus BERNHARDT
Head, Research, Development and Energy, FEEI - Association for the Electrical and Electronics Industries, Vienna
| 1993-1998 | Assistant Institute for General Electrical Engineering and Electronics, Technical University Vienna |
| 1998 | Quality and process management, Semperit Technische Produkte AG, Wimpassing |
| 1997 | Civil Service, Cardiosurgery Dept.,Center of Biomedical Research, General Hospital Vienna |
| 1998-2000 | Project Management TETRA, FREQUENTIS Nachrichtentechnik GmbH, Wien |
| 2000-2002 | Project Management and Solutions Management for backbone systems, Ericsson Austria AG, Vienna |
| 2002-2004 | Head of the ICT unit and national expert in the European framework programme IST-Committee; BIT (bureau for international |
| research and technology cooperation, which is recently part of the Austrian research promotion agency FFG) | |
| since 2004 | Head Research, Development and Energy, FEEI - Association for the Electrical and Electronics Industries, Vienna |
