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  May 8, 2009
  9:00AM -  5:00PM
Symposium 2: Panel Discussion: MEMS Design for Manufacturing, Assembly and Test
  June 8, 2009
  9:00AM -  5:00PM
Symposium 1: Balancing Energy Budget with Wireless Sensor and Actuators
  9:00AM -  5:00PM
Symposium 1: Energy Harvesting for Powering Sensor Applications
Speaker: Keith Abate, Director, North American Business Development, Perpetuum Ltd.
Jérémie Bouchaud, Director - Principal analyst MEMS, iSuppli
Jeremy Frank, President, KCF Technologies
Moderator: Randy Frank, President, Randy Frank and Associates
Speaker: Burkhard Habbe, VP Business Development, Micropelt GmbH
Joe Keating, Applications Engineering Manager, Infinite Power Solutions, Inc
Chris Ludlow, Director of Mechanical Engineering, Mide Technology Corporation
Jeffrey Perkins, General Manager, Yole Développement
Jerry Ruddle, Executive VP and GM, Advanced Cerametrics
Jeff Sather, VP Customer Solutions, Cymbet Corporation
Adrian Valenzuela, MSP430 Product Marketing Engineer, Texas Instruments
Jim Vogeley, CEO, AdaptivEnergy
Rudd Vullers, Principal Researcher, IMEC
Eugene You, Applications Engineering Manager, EnOcean Inc.
Steve Arms, Founder & CEO, MicroStrain, Inc.
  9:00AM -  5:00PM
Symposium 1: Energy Harvesting for Wireless Sensor Nodes and Asset Tracking
  9:00AM -  5:00PM
Symposium 1: Energy Harvesting: From Concept to Reality
  9:00AM -  5:00PM
Symposium 1: Harvester Powered Wireless Vibration Sensors for CBM Cost Savings
  9:00AM -  5:00PM
Symposium 1: Integrated Value Creating Self Powered Sensor Networks
  9:00AM -  5:00PM
Symposium 1: MEMS Energy Harvesters: A Solution Looking for a Problem
  9:00AM -  5:00PM
Symposium 1: Micropower Energy Harvesters for Autonomous Wireless Sensor Nodes: From Lab to Reality
  9:00AM -  5:00PM
Symposium 1: No Batteries Required: Energy Harvesting Applications of the Future
  9:00AM -  5:00PM
Symposium 1: Practical Energy Harvesting
  9:00AM -  5:00PM
Symposium 1: Precious Joules: Designing Power Efficient Energy Harvesting Systems
  9:00AM -  5:00PM
Symposium 1: Selection and Design of Energy Harvesters for Wireless Sensing Applications
  9:00AM -  5:00PM
Symposium 1: Thermal Energy Source Powers Wireless Sensor Nodes in Process Industries
  9:00AM -  5:00PM
Symposium 1: THINERGY Rechargeable Micro Energy Cells Enable Deeply Embedded, Perpetually Powered Wireless Applications
  9:00AM -  5:00PM
Symposium 1: Vibration Energy Harvesters Powering Wireless Sensor Nodes Utilized for Industrial Plant Asset Monitoring
  9:00AM -  5:00PM
Symposium 2: A Generic Environmental Resistant Package for MEMS and Other Semiconductors
  9:00AM -  5:00PM
Symposium 2: Accelerometers at the Olympics
  9:00AM -  5:00PM
Symposium 2: Challenges in CMOS to MEMS Interfacing
  9:00AM -  5:00PM
Symposium 2: High Performance Electronic Drive and Sense System for MEMS Gyro
  9:00AM -  5:00PM
Symposium 2: Integration Issues and Tradeoffs for Microsystems: Strategies and Applications
  9:00AM -  5:00PM
Symposium 2: MCU Interface and Processing Considerations for MEMS Motion Sensor Applications
  9:00AM -  5:00PM
Symposium 2: Media Isolated Pressure Transducer with Calibration Verification
  9:00AM -  5:00PM
Symposium 2: MEMS Energy Harvesting for Wireless Sensor Network Applications
  9:00AM -  5:00PM
Symposium 2: Mixed-Signal CMOS IC-Enabled Relative Humidity and Temperature Sensor
  9:00AM -  5:00PM
Symposium 2: Navigating the Minefield of MEMS and ASICs Integration Options
  9:00AM -  5:00PM
Symposium 2: Packaging and Assembly Issues for MEMS, Microsystems and Sensors
  9:00AM -  5:00PM
Symposium 2: Rethinking MEMS Motion Sensing for Portable Devices
  9:00AM -  5:00PM
Symposium 2: Sensor Integration for Expanding Market Opportunities
  9:00AM -  5:00PM
Symposium 2: Smart Sensors and MEMS for all over Industrial Application Niches
  9:00AM -  5:00PM
Symposium 2: Smart System Integration through Micro and Nanotechnologies
  9:00AM -  5:00PM
Symposium 2: Successful Applications of Thinking Outside the Chip Strategies
  9:00AM -  5:00PM
Symposium 2: Technological Considerations for Highly Integrated Microsystems
  9:00AM -  5:00PM
Symposium 2: The 2009 MEMS Commercialization Report Card: Focus on Design for Manufacturing and Test
  9:00AM -  5:00PM
Symposium 2: Thinking Outside the Chip: MEMS-Based System Solutions: Designs, Tradeoffs and Applications
Speaker: Robert Andosca, Founder, President and CEO, MicroGen Systems
Bert Bruggeman, VP of Operations, SVTC Technologies
Tom Chang, President, CTI Consulting
Darron Collins, VP of Sales and Market Engineering, Symphony Acoustics
Tim Cummins, CEO & Founder, ChipSensors Ltd
Ayman Elsayed, Mixed Signal IC Design Manager, Si-Ware Systems
Christopher Fisher, MPD Applications Engineer, Analog Devices, Inc.
Kenneth Foust, Manager, Customer Technical Support, Kionix, Inc.
Thomas Gessner, Director, Fraunhofer Research Institution
Joseph Giachino, Associate Director, WIMS ERC
Bishnu Gogoi, Director of Technology Development, HVVi Semiconductors
Moderator: Roger Grace, President, Roger Grace Associates
Speaker: Tina Lamers, Director of Marketing, axept
Jay Mitchell, Ph.D., President, ePack Inc.
Jayanth Murthy, Microchip Technology
Khalil Najafi, University of Michigan WIMS
Stefan Nikles, MEMS Design Engineer, MEMSIC
Rick Russell, Sensor Network
Michel Saint-Mard, Managing Director, TAIPRO Engineering
Leland 'Chip' Spangler, Ph.D., Aspen Technologies
Matthias Steiner, Senior Design Engineer - Industry & Medical BU, Austriamicrosystems
Joost van Kuijk, Coventor
Benedetto Vigna, Group VP, General Manager, STMicroelectronics
Reid Wender, Vice President of Marketing, Triad Semiconductor
  9:00AM -  5:00PM
Symposium 3: Design and Tradeoffs for Implementing Wireless Sensor Networks for Distributed Control
  9:00AM -  5:00PM
Symposium 3: Energy Harvesting for Wireless Sensor Networks
  9:00AM -  5:00PM
Symposium 3: IPv6 based wireless sensor networking
  9:00AM -  5:00PM
Symposium 3: Object Oriented Hardware: Designing with Smart Sensors
  9:00AM -  5:00PM
Symposium 3: Rich data types for Sensor Networks
  9:00AM -  5:00PM
Symposium 3: Robustness in wireless sensor networks
  9:00AM -  5:00PM
Symposium 3: Sub Micro-Amp Average Current Measurements and Decisions using Analog Output
  9:00AM -  5:00PM
Symposium 3: Wireless Sensor Networking for Health Care Applications
  9:00AM -  5:00PM
Symposium 3: Wireless Sensor Networking: Design & Trade-offs
Speaker: Vivian Funkhouser, Principal, Global Healthcare Solutions, Motorola
Ralph Kling, Chief Architect, Crossbow
Kris Pister, Founder and Chief Technologist, Dust Networks Inc.
Sokwoo Rhee, Ph.D., Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, Millennial Net
Michael Steffan, Senior Field Applications Engineer, Freescale Semiconductor
Moderator: Shahin Farahani, System Engineer, Freescale
Speaker: Eric Gregori, Embedded Firmware Product Specialist, Freescale Semiconductor
  9:00AM -  5:00PM
Symposium 3: Wireless Sensor Networks: Best Practices of Real-World Applications
  June 9, 2009
  9:00AM -  10:00AM
Keynote: Five Years at Saturn: The Cassini/Huygens Mission
Keynote: Dr. Kevin Grazier, Investigation Scientist & Science Planning Engineer, Cassini/Huygens Mission to Saturn & Titan, NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab
  10:20AM -  11:00AM
1.2.1: Wireless Sensor Networks: A Survey of Design Options
Speaker: Greg Burneske, Trace Technologies, Inc., Consultant
  10:20AM -  11:00AM
1.3.1: Power Reduction Methods in Wireless Sensor Networks
Speaker: Shahin Farahani, System Engineer, Freescale
  10:20AM -  11:00AM
1.4.1: Expanding the Use of Sensing Technology: Practical Applications to Solve Everyday Problems
Speaker: Srinivasan Krishnan, R&D Manager, Unilever
  10:20AM -  11:00AM
1.5.1: Sensing & Monitoring Using Fiber Sensors: Real-Life Applications and Installation Examples
Speaker: Tom Graver, Director, Micron Optics Inc.
Keith Chandler, CEO, Chandler Monitoring Systems Inc.
Alexis Mendez, President, MCH Engineering LLC
  10:20AM -  11:00AM
1.6.1: Advanced Position Sensors: What They Are and How to Use Them
Speaker: Perry Holman, Principal Design Engineer, Honeywell International
  11:10AM -  11:50AM
1.1.2: Integrating Wireless Sensor Technology into Existing Systems
Speaker: Tom Skwara, Director of Technology, Electrochem Solutions
  11:10AM -  11:50AM
1.3.2: TBA
  11:10AM -  11:50AM
1.4.2: Sensor Technology Applied to Critical Global Issues: Public Benefit and Commercial Opportunity
Speaker: Jean-Pierre Auffret, Managing Director, Center for Advanced Technology Strategy
Jeff Matsuura, Vice President - Alliances and Partnerships, Center for Advanced Technology Strategy
  11:10AM -  11:50AM
1.5.2: Current Trends & Analysis of M&A Markets
Speaker: Jim Lavelle, Managing Director, Houlihan Lokey
  11:10AM -  11:50AM
1.6.2: Position Sensor Technology and the Drive to Miniaturization
Speaker: David Henderson, CEO and Chief Technology Officer, New Scale Technologies, Inc.
  1:50PM -  2:30PM
1.1.3: Understanding IT Network Security for Wireless and Wired Measurement Applications
Speaker: Charlie Stiernberg, Product Manager, National Instruments
Malcolm Borgendale, Wireless DAQ R&D Manager, National Instruments
  1:50PM -  2:30PM
1.2.3: Escaping the Sensor Stovepipe
Speaker: Sam Bacharach, Executive Director Outreach, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc (OGC)
  1:50PM -  2:30PM
1.4.3: Sealed Non-Contact Encoders Surviving in Hostile Machine Operating Environments
Speaker: Carl Schrubbe, Engineering Manager, Joral LLC
Sergio Fabris, Engineering Manager, RLS
Grant Vormans, Engineer, Cat Forest Products
  1:50PM -  2:30PM
1.5.3: Compact, Internet-Capable Environmental Monitor
Speaker: Darold Wobschall, President, Esensors Inc.
  1:50PM -  4:10PM
1.6.3 - 1.6.5: Sensor Interfacing Strategy
Speaker: Ayman Elsayed, Mixed Signal IC Design Manager, Si-Ware Systems
Ayman Ahmed, Mixed Signal IC Design Manager, Si-Ware Systems
  2:40PM -  3:20PM
1.2.4: Benefits and Advantages of Using IP-Enabled Smart Objects
Speaker: Geoff Mulligan, Chairman, IPSO Alliance
  2:40PM -  3:20PM
1.3.4: Wireless Sensor Power Supplies: Selecting the Right One
Speaker: Roy Freeland, CEO, Perpetuum
  2:40PM -  3:20PM
1.4.4: Diamond-Based Microsensors in Extreme Environments
Speaker: Stephen Horowitz, Lead Engineer - Micro and Nanosystems, Miltec Corporation
  2:40PM -  3:20PM
1.5.4: Development of a Tunable Diode Laser Absorption Spectroscopy Moisture Analyzer for Natural Gas
Speaker: Frank Liu, Lead Design Engineer, GE Sensing
  3:30PM -  4:10PM
1.1.5: How Ultra-Low Power WiFi Technology is Changing the Self-Healing Mesh Network Landscape
Speaker: Dan Piroli, Senior Vice President, Point Six Wireless
  3:30PM -  4:10PM
1.2.5: Code Free Test Creation: The New Reality of Test Automation
Speaker: John Obermeyer, North America Sales Manager, QualiSystems
  3:30PM -  4:10PM
1.3.5: Implementing Wireless Power Platforms for Sensors Networks Using Inductive Power Transfer
Speaker: Fady Mishriki, CEO / Business Development & Co-Founder, PowerbyProxi
  3:30PM -  4:10PM
1.5.5: Operational Experience of a Subway System with a Chemical Detection System
Speaker: Anthony Policastro, Chief Scientist, PROTECT, Smiths Detection, Inc.
  11:10PM -  11:50PM
1.3.2: The Importance of and Issues with Low-Power People Sensing and Activity Monitoring
Speaker: Anish Arora, Chief Technology Officer, The Samraksh Company
Kenneth Parker, V.P. for Market Strategy, The Samraksh Company
  June 10, 2009
  9:00AM -  10:00AM
Keynote: A World of Interconnected Sensors
Keynote: Beth Wozniak, President of Sensing & Control, Honeywell Automation & Control Solutions
  10:10AM -  10:50AM
2.1.1: State-of-the-Art Short-Range Wireless Sensor Networking Standards
Speaker: Shahin Farahani, System Engineer, Freescale
  10:10AM -  10:50AM
2.2.1: It’s All in the Application: Sensor Integration and Expanding Markets
Speaker: Peter Stephenson, Ph.D., Principal Scientist, Emerging Technology Group, Innovation Center, Humana Inc.
Kenneth Foust, Manager, Customer Technical Support, Kionix, Inc.
  10:10AM -  10:50AM
2.3.1: Wireless Power for Battery-Free Wireless Sensors
Speaker: Harry Ostaffe, Sr. Market Manager, Powercast
  10:10AM -  10:50AM
2.4.1: Green Enabling: Energy Management under Your Own Control
Speaker: Joel Young, CTO, VP of Research and Development, Digi International
  10:10AM -  10:50AM
2.5.1: Passive RF Sensing: Selecting the Best Technology and Operating Frequency
Speaker: Norman Mottram, VP Business Development, Phase IV Engineering
  10:10AM -  10:50AM
2.6.1: Displacement as a Vibration Parameter
Speaker: Renard Klubnik, Applications Engineer , Wilcoxon Research
  11:00AM -  11:40AM
2.1.2: Wireless Sensor Networks: How Application Requirements are Driving Protocols
Speaker: George West, President & Senior Analyst, West Technology Research Solutions
  11:00AM -  11:40AM
2.2.2: Interface Circuit Requirements to Reduce Noise in Sensor Applications
Speaker: Youbok Lee, Technical Staff Engineer, Microchip Technology Inc.
  11:00AM -  11:40AM
2.3.2: Wireless & Energy Harvesting Technologies for Energy Inefficient Buildings
Speaker: Eugene You, Applications Engineering Manager, EnOcean Inc.
Dan Wright, Electrical Engineer, Leviton
  11:00AM -  11:40AM
2.4.2: Saving Energy, Enabling Demand Management with Wireless Sensor Networks
Speaker: John Schwartz, Technology Strategist, Digi International
  11:00AM -  11:40AM
2.5.2: Thin Printed Batteries and RFID Sensor System Innovation
Speaker: Matt Ream, Vice President of Marketing, Blue Spark Technologies
  11:00AM -  11:40AM
2.6.2: Advanced Digital High Temperature Sensors & Silicon Carbide Electronics Development
Speaker: Gordon Taylor, VP Engineering, Inprox Technology
  11:50AM -  12:30PM
2.1.3: Compact Application Protocol (CAP): Expanding The Scope of ZigBee Beyond 802.15.4 to any IP-Enabled Device
Speaker: Wei Hong, VP Engineering, Arch Rock Corporation
  11:50AM -  12:30PM
2.2.3: Silicon Integrated Solutions for Industrial Wireless Applications
Speaker: Khanh Tuan Le, Strategic Marketing and Systems Engineering, Texas Instruments
  11:50AM -  12:30PM
2.3.3: TBA
  11:50AM -  12:30PM
2.4.3: Wireless Mesh Sensor Networks Take the Chill Out of Energy Challenges
Speaker: Sheng Liu, Co-founder and VP of Professional Services, Millennial Net, Inc.
Michael Hanssmann, President, AltaStream, Inc.
  11:50AM -  12:30PM
2.5.3: Managing Assets with Sensor-Based Technology
Speaker: J. Booth Kalmbach, Jr., Chief Technology Officer, Entigral Systems
Doug Frost, Vice President / Senior Director, PaRR Inspections
  11:50AM -  12:30PM
2.6.3: Low-Cost Dielectric Sensors for Measuring Moisture in Porous Materials and Liquids
Speaker: Gaylon Campbell, Senior Scientist, Decagon Devices, Inc.
  2:30PM -  3:10PM
2.1.4: Novel, Low-Cost Conductive Material and its Applications
Speaker: Tom Ales, Research Scientist, Kimberly-Clark Corporation
  2:30PM -  3:10PM
2.2.4: Sensor Interface Design for Secure Wireless Remote Sensing
Speaker: Steven Bible, Applications Engineering Manager, Microchip Technology Inc.
Youbok Lee, Technical Staff Engineer, Microchip Technology Inc.
  2:30PM -  3:10PM
2.3.4: NanoBioPores: Basic Nano/MEMS Structures for Electrochemical Analysis of Chemical and Biochemical Reactions
Speaker: Johannes Herrnsdorf, Dipl.-Phys., MiNaCon
  2:30PM -  3:10PM
2.4.4: State-of-the-Art Methodologies and Tools for Sensor Applications in Predictive Maintenance
Speaker: Xiangdong Zhu, Sr. Project Engineer, Fluid Connectors Group, Parker Hannifin
  2:30PM -  3:10PM
2.5.4: Location Sensing Using Short-Range Wireless Networking: Methods and Trade-Offs
Speaker: Shahin Farahani, System Engineer, Freescale
  2:30PM -  3:10PM
2.6.4: Novel Multiple-Range Technology Applied to a Highly Controllable Weight-Based Dispenser
Speaker: Alex Arzoumanidis, Director, Psylotech
Mick Popa, Engineer Associate, Ecolab
  3:20PM -  4:00PM
2.1.5: Embedding and Manufacturing Smart Materials and Sensors into Metallic Matrices with Ultrasonic Consolidation
Speaker: Ken Johnson, President, Solidica
  3:20PM -  4:00PM
2.2.5: Sensor Fusion Algorithm for 2 Axis Gyro, 3 Axis Accelerometer, and 3 Axis Magnetometer
Speaker: Tyler Bryant, Physicist, PNI Sensor Corporation
  3:20PM -  4:00PM
2.3.5: Next-Generation Biosensors Made Possible with Digital Multiplexing Potentiostat
Speaker: Neil Gordon, CEO, Early Warning Inc.
Walter Bacharowski, System Application Manager, National Semiconductor
  3:20PM -  4:00PM
2.4.5: TBA
  3:20PM -  4:00PM
2.6.5: Novel, Solid-State, Hydrogen-Specific Sensors for Safety and Process Monitoring
Speaker: Prabhu Soundarrajan, Chief Scientist and Director of Applications Development, H2scan Corporation
 



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