MEF 2025 Program Schedule

SMART Society Driven by MEMS

Wednesday, April 16 - Thursday, April 17, 2025

KFC Hall, Ryogoku, Tokyo

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Wednesday, April 16 (Japan time, UTC+9)

Time	Presentation Title	Speaker
09:00-09:10 Opening Remarks
09:00-09:10	Opening Remarks	Prof. Shuji Tanaka MEF Steering Committee Chair Professor, Tohoku University, Japan
09:10-10:40 Session 1: Latest trend of MEMS-1
09:10-09:50	Keynote speech: Unveiling the Future: Exploring the Transformative Power of Hearables and Wearables	Dr. Stefan Finkbeiner CEO Bosch Sensortec, Germany
09:50-10:15	Invited Speech: MEMS for CHIPS and CHIPS for MEMS	Dana Weinstein Professor, Elmore School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Purdue Univ., USA
10:15-10:25	Break
10:25-11:55	Exhibitors' Flash Presentation
11:55-12:30	Lunch & Exhibit
12:30-13:25	Exhibit Hour
13:25-14:15 Session 2: Latest trend of MEMS-2
13:25-13:50	Invited Speech: Dynamics and trends of the MEMS and PiezoMEMS market	Mr. Jerome Mouly Deputy Director, More than Moore Business Line YOLE GROUP, France
13:50-14:15	Invited Speech: MEMS Directional Microphone – from research to products	Dr. Wan-Thai Hsu Chief Technology Officer Soundskrit, USA
14:15-15:00	Exhibitors' Flash Presentation
15:00-15:30	Exhibit Hour
15:30-16:45 Session 3: Sensors and materials
15:30-15:55	Invited Speech: Breaking the Cost-Size Barrier: Next Generation Miniaturized CO2 Gas Sensors	Dr. Kaitlin Howell Product Manager, Marketing and Sales Sensirion AG, Switzerland
15:55-16:20	Invited Speech: Wafer-level integration of 2D materials for back-end of line applications	Dr. Arne Quellmalz CEO In2great Materials, Sweden
16:20-16:45	Invited Speech: Advanced Packaging materials for MEMS	Dr. Takenori Fujiwara Chief Research Associate Toray Industries, Inc., Japan
16:45-17:35 Session 4: Panel Discussion Driving MEMS Innovation: Bridging Government, Academia, Industry, and Start-Ups
17:35-18:05	Break
18:05-19:35	MEF Networking Party

Thursday, April 17 (Japan time, UTC+9)

oTime	Presentation Title	Speaker
08:30-10:05 Session 5: What's new from North America
08:30-08:35	Opening
08:35-09:15	Keynote Speech: My 50 Years in MEMS	Dr. Kurt Petersen Silicon Valley Band of Angels, USA
09:15-09:40	Invited Speech: MEMS Role in Emerging Infrared Sensing and Imaging Applications	Mr. Paul Pickering Managing Partner Silicon Catalyst, USA
09:40-10:05	Invited Speech: Evolution of a MEMS Foundry for the Future	Mr. Collin Twanow Director of Technology Teledyne MEMS, Canada
10:05-10:15	Break
10:15-11:30 Session 6: Biomedical applications
10:15-10:40	Invited Speech: The Role of MEMS in the Burgeoning Brain Computer Interface Industry	Dr. Kara Zappitelli Foundry Director Science Foundry, USA
10:40-11:05	Invited Speech: The Ongoing Journey of CellFiber Technology from Lab to Industry	Dr. Yu Yanagisawa Representative Director, CEO CellFiber Co., Ltd., Japan
11:05-11:30	Invited Speech: SPU X GPU to Enable Health Future	Dr. Cheng-Hao (Kevin) Ko Associate Professor, Graduate Institute of Automation and Control National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
11:30-12:35	Exhibitors' Flash Presentation
12:35-13:15	Lunch & Exhibit
13:10-14:05	Exhibit Hour
14:05-15:45 Sessio 7: What's new from Asia and Europe
14:05-14:30	Invited Speech: MIS process---A versatile MEMS batch fabrication technology for transducers	Prof. Xinxin Li Director, State Key Lab of Transducer Technology Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
14:30-14:55	Invited Speech:	Dr. Florian Schuster Product Management, MEMS Sensors Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany
14:55-15:20	Invited Speech: Nanoimprint performance Improvement for High Volume	Mr. Tsuyoshi Arai Senior Engineer, Semiconductor Production Equipment NGL Development Div. 3 Canon Inc., Japan
15:20-15:45	Invited Speech: Latest Trend of Silicon Capacitor	Mr. Naoaki Shirakawa Senior Manager, Product marketing section, Thin film device department, Passive device division, Component business unit Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Japan
15:45-16:25	Exhibit Hour
16:25-17:15 Session 8: Acoustic applications
16:25-16:50	Invited Speech: The X Factor in MEMS Innovation: Breakthroughs Across Three Product Lines With a Single Platform	Mr. Mark Wood VP xMEMS GK, Japan
16:50-17:15	Invited Speech: Transition of Nisshinbo Micro Devices' MEMS microphone business and cutting-edge MEMS microphones	Dr. Hiroyuki Kuchiji Advanced Specialized Manager, Element Device Development Department, New Business Development Division Nisshimbo Microdevices, Japan
17:15-17:55 Session 9: Final Keynote
17:15-17:55	Keynote Speech:	Mr. Benedetto Vigna CEO Ferrari, Italy
17:55-18:00 Closing Ceremony
17:55-18:00	Closing Remarks	Prof. Taeko Ando MEF Steering Committee Vice Chair Professor, Ritsumeikan University, Japan