Adi Abileah – Planar – USA – “Displays for medical applications”

Adi Abileah is Chief Scientist, Technology Group, Planar Systems, Beaverton, Oregon. His main activity is related to development of active-matrix liquid-crystal display (AMLCDs) and the physics and optics of the displays of several technologies, backlights, and enhancement techniques. He received his B.Sc. in physics from the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology) and M.Sc. in plasma physics from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He also performed two years of research work at the university on high-power CO2 lasers. He developed soil mechanics density sensors at the Negev Institute. His first industry job was in medical imaging (Nuclear Medicine) at Elscint, Israel. He was the head of the electro-optics group at Elbit for several years, and then the manager of EL-OP North Brunch R&D Center in Haifa, Israel. In 1987, he joined OIS-Optical Imaging Systems in Michigan where he became the manager of the optics group and responsible for all related topics in the development of AMLCDs. During this period he became expert in the optics of AMLCDs, testing techniques, and liquid-crystal physics. He served at OIS until the company closed at 1998. Since 1998, he joined Planar. He has 29 U.S. patents, mostly related to displays and backlights and presented many technical papers at SID, SPIE, and OSA conferences. In 2005, he received a Fellow Award from SID.

Bill Taylor – UK – “Why did FEDs not make it to the market?”

 Bill has a global reputation as an innovating technology entrepreneur who has established a number of high technology companies in collaboration with universities and national laboratories.
He has given invited talks on innovation, nano-technology and technology transfer at international conferences in the UK, Europe, USA, Russia, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. He has co-authored technical papers with scientific workers from MIMIV, PFE, Aston University, CERN, FOM and the Harwell Laboratory and is the holder of a number of patents. He has acted as the industrial advisor to the board of the University of Surrey Centre for Research in Ion Beams and Analysis (SCRIBA). He has also worked as a consultant to the European Commission on Framework programmes. He is currently the European Industrial Advisor to the committee of the International Vacuum Nano-electronics Conference (IVNC).
In the 1980’s Bill worked as a group strategic marketing manager for the Darchem Group, advising and supporting operating company CEOs on their plans for organic growth and acquisition, with profitable growth from £40M to £120M, generating 1,500 jobs. During the early 1990’s he gained further extensive experience in small business strategic marketing consultancy and high technology new business formation and development. He has won multiple grant awards (Smart, Spur, EPSRC, Link, EU Framework, TSB) and has raised more than $ 30M in venture capital finance.
Bill has founded or co-founded the following businesses:

The Fin Machine Co. machine tools for automotive heat exchanger manufacture
(Ford, GM, Chrysler, Volvo, Nippon Denso)

Whickham Ion Beam Systems ion implantation equipment for the R&D community
(Imperial College, AEA Harwell, Daimler Benz, AT&T Bell Labs)

Darchem's Automation Division 5 engineering companies supplying global markets

Farmsum Associates Bill's own virtual research & technology organisation that gave birth to PFE (NASA, ESA, CERN, DERA, GEC, EEV)

Teesside Marketing small business marketing consultancy

Marketing Assessments international marketing training

Printable Field Emitters (PFE) field emission flat panel display development and commercialisation based on Aston University science (Fujitsu, LG.Philips Displays, Samsung, Tatung)

MIMIV Group scale up and commercialisation of pFED technology at University of Teesside

Bill holds a BSc (Hons) in Liberal Studies in Science from Manchester University where he first studied the relationships between science, technology, government and innovation, a Diploma in technology from the Open University, a postgraduate Diploma in Marketing from the Chartered Institute of Marketing and an MBA from Durham University Business School.
He has been a member of SID - the Society for Information Display, TII - the European Network of Technology Transfer Consultants and the Surface Engineering, R&D and Licensing Executives Societies. He was in the first cadre of Chartered Marketers and was Chairman of the Teesside Branch of the Chartered Institute of Marketing from 1995 to 1997.

Daniel den Engelsen – ABINFO - Brazil – “Why do we need displays?”

Professor Associate at Wolfson Centre for Materials Processing at Brunel University
Senior scientist at Associação Brasileira de Informática (ABINFO)
Daniel den Engelsen was born on October 14, 1941, in The Netherlands. He studied Chemistry at the University of Utrecht (The Netherlands) and University of Copenhagen (Denmark) and got his Ph.D (Chemistry) in 1968 at the University of Utrecht. He worked in Philips Research (scientist) and Philips Display Components (manager of R&D) from 1968-2004, where he developed CRT-technologies (cathode, vacuum, electron optics, shadow masks, manufacturing technology), FED-technologies, light and electron optics, phosphor technology, solid-state chemistry and physics, ellipsometry, surface science, plasma physics. He retired from Philips in April 2004. He was awarded as Fellow of the SID in 2002. He is a Visiting Professor at Southeast University, in Nanjing (China) and the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, in Chengdu (China), since 2001. He is a Visiting Scientist at the Centro de Pesquisas Renato Archer in Campinas (Brazil), since 2005.

Ernst Lüder – Electro Optical Consultancy – USA – “High performance LCDs and their impact on the information society”

Ernst Lueder was born in 1932. At his graduation from High School he was awarded the ‘Scheffel’-prize for literary achievements. In 1962 he received his doctor’s degree in electrical engineering, and in 1966 his Habilitation, which qualified him to teach at universities in the area of theoretical electrical engineering. From 1968 to 1971 he worked for Bell Telephone Laboratories in Holmdel, New Jersey, USA, researching the design of miniaturized filters and communication systems, especially in thin film technology. He established laws for optimizing the dynamic range and the signal-to noise ratio of two-ports. In 1971 he was appointed a full professor at the Department of Electrical Communications, and named Director of the Institute of Network- and System’s Theory at Stuttgart University. He specialized in the design of hybrid thin and thick film circuits, the development of sensors, thin film transistors and flat panel liquid crystal displays, in the synthesis of circuits, in the theory of communication systems and in the optimization of systems. Since spring 1991 he also headed a new DM 80 million laboratory for the fabrication of flat panel displays. Research activities in this laboratory included TFT-and MIM-addressed LCDs such as TN-,VA-,HAN-, PDLC- and GH-displays, as well as bistable FLC-and PSCT-displays. In 1971 he became a member of the IEEE and an IEEE-Fellow in 1985. As a member of the German Society for Information Technology, ITG, he was for two years a member of the society’s board of directors. He served in the Scientific Advisory group for the Heinrich-Hertz Institute in Berlin, and was chairman of this group for four years. Starting in 1994 he served as a member of SID’s board of directors, as a director of the Mid-Europe chapter, and as vice-president for Europe. Presently he is chairman of both SID’s bylaws committee and of the Display of the Year Awards committee. In addition he is a member of SID's Long Range Planning Committee and of the New York Academy of Sciences. In 1998 he became a Fellow of SID and in 2009 he received SID’s Slottow-Owaki award. Further, he was a member of the SPIE, MRS and ISHM. He is an honorary professor of Jao Tong University in Shanghai. In 1991 he was awarded the order of merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany. In 1999 he retired and wrote a book on 'Liquid Crystal Displays - Addressing Schemes and Electro-Optical effects' published 2001 in the SID series by J. Wiley. Each year since publication, the book is the bestseller in the SID series. Since 2000 he is President of the Electro Optical Consultancy focusing on the display industry.

Gabriel G. Marcu – Apple – USA – “Display Calibration and Characterization”

Gabriel Marcu is Senior Scientist at Apple, where he is responsible for color calibration/characterization of Apple display-based products. His interests are in color reproduction on displays/printers, characterization/calibration, halftoning, gamut mapping, ICC profiling, and RAW color processing. He holds several patens in these areas. He taught courses at various IS&T, SPIE, and SID conferences. Dr. Marcu was Co-Chair of the Electronics Imaging (EI) Symposium in 2006 and he is Co-Chair of the EI Conference on Color Imaging: Processing, Hard-copy, and Applications since 1998. He serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of SID and for the IEEE Trans on Image Processing Journal. He is SPIE Fellow.

Giancarlo Abbate - Italy - “Present research in Liquid Crystal Optics for display applications and others”

Professor of Physics at the University of Naples Federico II (NU-F) Italy
• on 19/12/1973 he got the laurea degree (MPh) in Physics with honours at Naples University Federico II (NU-F)
• 1974-1975 guest researcher at Laboratoire de Chemie Teorique at University of Marseille (France)
• 1976-2001 fellow, Assistant Professor, and Associate Professor of Physics at NU-F
• 2001-now Full Professor of Physics of the Matter at NU-F

Participation and management of scientific societies and organizations
• from the foundation (1994) Member of the INFM (Italian Institute for the Physics of the Matter) and of the SICL (Italian Liquid Crystal Society)
• from 1997 Member of the executive committee of the SICL
• 1998-2004 Member of the Board of Directors of the International Liquid Crystals Society ILCS
• 1997-2006 Italian National Representative in the COST Technical Committee on Physics and Italian Delegate in the COST Action P2 on applications of nonlinear optical phenomena
• from 1999 Member of the International Scientific Advisory Board of the biannual Conference Optics of Liquid Crystals OLC. Chairman of the Advisory Board in the period 2005-2007.

Sientific management
• Chairman and local organizer of about 10 international conferences and workshops. He has been and is in the Organizing and/or Scientific Committee or International Advisory Board of more than 20 International and 10 National conferences.
• 1997-2000 Scientific co-ordinator of the European Commission BRITE thematic network on Liquid Crystal based Photonic devices, "LC Photonet" with 19 partners and 8 industrial groups.
• Local responsible in other European Commission projects of the 4th, 5th, and 6th FP
• He is in the pool of reviewer of the ESF (years 2007/2008)
• He is an independent expert, selected by the European Commission for the evaluation and monitoring of proposals and running projects, for INTAS Programme, as well as for Italian scientific programmes.
• National and local scientific responsible of several National and regional projects
• at present he is scientific co-ordinator of a NATO project, an INTAS project, an Italy-Spain project
• Co-ordinator of the International Doctorate in Novel Technologies, active at the University of Naples.

Scientific Activity
He is author of more than 140 papers on international journals and 160 communications at international conferences, (47 invited) and 1 patent. He is serving as referee for most of the major journals (European and American) in Optics, Opto-electronics, Soft Matter, and Physics in general. GA’s scientific activity is mainly experimental even though often he afforded some theoretical, modelling, and numerical aspects, related to the performed experiments. His recent activity deals with design, realisation and characterisation of materials and devices, both passive and active, for photonic applications, mainly based on liquid crystals and polymer-LC composites.

Gopalan Rajeswaran – Moser Baer India Ltd – India – “OLED lamps”

Dr. Gopalan Rajeswaran (Raj) received the B.E, M.Tech and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering in 1976, 1978 and 1983 from the University of Madras, the Indian Institute of Technology and the State University of New York, respectively. He joined Brookhaven National Laboratory in 1982 as a staff scientist, and was involved in the early years of amorphous silicon solar cell development. In 1985 he joined Eastman Kodak Company as a group leader & technical coordinator within the semiconductor laser and LED fabrication group. In 1991, he became a senior staff engineer in the area of LED array printhead development and the manufacturing of writer subsystems for high-speed digital copiers and printers. In 1996 became the program manager of OLED technology development and commercialization at Eastman Kodak Company, where he established the Kodak-Sanyo joint development alliance that resulted in the world's first active matrix OLED displays. He served as the Vice President of SK Display Corporation, Gifu, Japan from December 2001 until January 2004. In 2003, Kodak introduced the first commercial digital cameras containing SKD manufactured AMOLED displays. From 2004 until 2007, he returned to Kodak and Kodak Japan as Vice President for Advanced Development & Strategic Initiatives in the OLED business unit where he was charged with promoting OLED business alliances among major display companies in Japan, Korea & Taiwan. Simultaneous with business responsibilities, Raj held the position of Senior Research Fellow in the Eastman Kodak Research Laboratories. In 2007, he joined Moser Baer Photovoltaic Ltd (New Delhi, India), a wholly owned subsidiary of Moser Baer India Ltd, as its President & Chief Technology Officer. From 2008, he assumed a broader technology role as the Group Chief Technology Officer of Moser Baer India Ltd and the CEO of Moser Baer Technologies Inc, a newly created business unit for nurturing new business initiatives in the fields of sustainable energy technologies. Over the past 25 years, Raj has been actively engaged in international conferences by delivering several invited seminars, tutorials and short courses in the fields of Photovoltaics and OLEDs. In 2009, he was elected as the Director of the India Chapter of SID and promoted to Senior Member grade.

Ingrid Heynderickx – Philips Research Laboratory and Technical University of Delft – The Netherlands

Ingrid Heynderickx received her PhD degree in physics at the University of Antwerp in December 1986. In 1987 she joined the Philips Research Laboratories in Eindhoven, and meanwhile worked in different areas of research: optical design of displays, processing of liquid crystalline polymers and functionality of personal care devices. Since 2005 she is research fellow in the group Visual Experiences, where she is heading the project on Visual Perception of Display and Lighting Systems. She is member of the Society for Information Displays (SID), and for the SID, she was chairman of the Applied Vision subcommittee, and currently is guest editor for a special issue on Display Characterization for the Journal of the SID. In 2005, she is appointed Guest Research Professor at the Southeast University of Nanjing (China) and Part-time Full Professor at the University of Technology in Delft (the Netherlands).

Janos Veres – AdvanFlex - USA – “Organic Semiconductors and LEDs”

Dr. Janos Veres is a technology specialist with 18 years experience in the field of flexible, printed and organic electronics. He is currently advising a number of startups in the field, in particular lighting, photovoltaic and battery technologies as well as government supported development centers and agencies in the US and UK. He is also active in establishing a lighting company. Dr. Veres is well connected with major electronic and printing companies and trends in the US, Japan, Korea and Europe. He worked extensively with US and EU consortia as a member of the Technology Board of FlexTech (formerly United States Display Consortium) and the Center of Advanced Microelectronics Manufacturing (CAMM) and is connected with the United Kingdom Displays Lighting Network (UKDL), the Organic Electronics Association (OEA), numerous European Framework, UK Department of Trade and Industry and German Government funded projects. His professional experience covers material, process and application technology R&D and management. He was involved in the development for organic transistors, light emitting diodes (OLED) for displays, e-paper as well as printed RFID. Between 2006 and 2009 he was Program Manager of Printed Electronics at Eastman Kodak, bringing together Kodak’s Industrial Imaging, Flexographic Printing, Roll Coating and Displays units to build on their synergies in the field of Printed Electronics. Prior Kodak, he worked at Merck Chemicals (formerly Avecia) as a Business Research Associate (1998-2006). At Merck, he played a key role in establishing and project managing several parallel JDA agreements with major electronic and printing OEMs, generating direct revenue. Between 1995-1998, he was responsible for Organic Photoreceptor development at Gestetner (GBL) and setting up a unique coating production line. He is a native Hungarian and graduated at Lvov Technical University (USSR) with an MSc in Solid State Electronics. He holds a PhD in the Physics of Organic Photoreceptors from Imperial College, London (1994). He has British and Hungarian citizenships, is a resident of the US and has many international ties. Fluent in English, Hungarian, Russian, Portuguese, Polish, Ukrainian, some Spanish, conversational Japanese and currently learning German. He lives in Rochester, NY with his Brazilian wife, Adriana and daughters, Julia and Clara.

Jean-Noël Perbet – Thales Avionics – France – “Avionic Displays”

Graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télecommunications (Paris) in 1975. In 1977, he joined the Display lab. of the Central Research Laboratory of Thales (Orsay) and Thales Avionics (Bordeaux) in 1986. He led the Advanced Studies team who introduced the LCD technology for cockpit applications and developed advanced cockpit concepts. Then he promoted future avionics systems both for cockpit and cabin in the USA in 94-97 (Seattle). He now belong to the Engineering Directorate of the Cockpit Display System Division of Thales Avionics (Bordeaux), to support future cockpit Display systems for major with airplane manufacturers in collaboration with European partners. He is as member of the SID France- Club Visu since 1984 where he held various positions: Director of the French Chapter 91-94, Regional Vice President Europe 94-96, Chapter Formation Chair 97-98, Long Range Planning Committee Chair 98-99

João Alziro Herz da Jornada – Inmetro – Brazil – “Metrology in Brazil”

After graduating in Physics at the Federal of the Rio Grande Do Sul in 1971, he received his Masters in Physics from the Federal University of the Rio Grande Do Sul in 1973, his Doctorate from the University in Sciences for the Federal University of the Rio Grande Do Sul in 1979 and his Post Doctorate from the National Institute of Standards and Technology in 1984. He is currently President of the National Institute of Metrology and Quality Control and Normalization in Rio de Janeiro. He has experience in the area of Physics, with emphasis in Physics of Condensed Material.

John Jacobs – Display Search – USA – “Display Market Trends”

DisplaySearch, and NPD Group Company, Director of Notebook PC Market Research (2004 – Present). Responsibilities include: Conducting original market research and analysis on the Notebook PC and Mini-Note PC market, including identification, evaluation and analysis of potential influences to the notebook PC marke,Authoring monthly report on large area TFT LCD panel pricing. Conducting custom market research and consulting projects. Press: Quoted as a display industry expert in leading publications (Business Week, C|Net, eWeek, Forbes, Handelsblatt, IDG, InfoMoney, Information Week, Investors Business Daily, Laptop Magazine, MSNBC, PC World, Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Technology Review, TechTarget, TWICE, The Wall Street Journal). Apple Inc. Global Supply Manager (2000 – 2004): Strategic sourcing decisions, pricing, negotiations and the investigation of emerging technologies for the company's flat panel display products. Under my watch, Apple's LCD product line grew from four systems and four suppliers to more than a dozen displays and ten suppliers. Advise senior management and executives on critical product issues Work cross-functionally with Display Engineering Team on the development and sourcing of displays for existing and new systems development, and coordinating supplier selection to maintain lowest cost/highest performance solutions. Quantum Inc., Sales Business Analyst (1999 – 2000): Managing weekly supply and demand business risks and opportunities; monthly forecast process, and demand plan. Conceptualization and preparation of ad-hoc marketing analyses and management of cross-functional projects. Development of business metrics, business trend forecasting, tracking and analyses, market research. Supported sales force and corporate marketing. Viking (FedEx) Freight Inc., Senior Marketing Analyst (1996 – 1999): Business trend forecasting, tracking and analyses, market research, and development and maintenance of direct marketing database. Conducting competitive market segmentation, industry penetration, and sales force allocation analyses.Developed statistical analysis of all marketing and customer satisfaction surveys and data. Conducted various ad-hoc analyses and projects to support executive team. Ohlone College, Institutional Research Analyst (1995 – 1996): Managed research for Matriculation and Instruction Divisions. Planned and implemented a variety of research projects, individually, and in coordination with managers, faculty, and staff. Collected and analyzed data for government mandated and internal reports. Development and administration of various surveys. Initiation of program and process review and strategic planning. EDUCATION: M.A., San Jose State University, San Jose, CA 6/1994; B.A., University of California Davis, Davis, CA 5/1988

Kenneth I. Werner – Insight Media – USA – “Displays for eBooks”

Kenneth I. Werner is Senior Analyst for Insight Media, which provides display intelligence through newsletters, research reports, conferences, and consulting services to companies in the information display and related industries, and to companies using, integrating, and selling displays. He is the founder of Nutmeg Consultants, whose personnel and programs became part of Insight Media in 2005, and was the Editor of Information Display Magazine from 1987 to 2005. Currently, he is Editor of Insight Media’s Display Watch and HDTV Retailer. Mr. Werner has become recognized as an authority on the display industry. He regularly addresses technical and trade organizations in North America, Europe, and Asia, and is routinely consulted by brokers, analysts, members of the international press corps, and companies entering or repositioning themselves in the industry. He speaks frequently with senior corporate and technology executives of large, mid-sized, and small display-related companies in Asia, Europe, and North and South America, as well as government officials and academic researchers. At BRDisplay II (July 2004, Recife, Brazil), he served as a consultant to the working groups developing a national strategy for the growth of display-related industry in Brazil and wrote the introduction to their report. Mr. Werner began his career as a semiconductor device design engineer for RCA. He holds a B.A. in physics from Rutgers University and an M.S. in solid-state physics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and has taken graduate management courses at the University of Connecticut. He has been an active participant in the display industry since 1987. In the last few years Mr. Werner has given keynote presentations at MicroDisplay 2001 (Westminster, Colorado), LCD/PDP International 2001 (Yokohama, Japan), and InfoDisplay VI (October 2003, Fortaleza, Brazil), and invited presentations at the winter Consumer Electronics Show 2002 (Las Vegas, Nevada), the International Display Manufacturing Conference 2002 (Seoul, Korea), the SID Korea Chapter Seminars (August 2002, Seoul, Korea), the Liquid Crystal Institute (November 2002, Kent, Ohio), and BRDisplay I (April 2004, Campinas, Brazil). His most recent invited paper at an international conference was “Current Strategies for Eliminating Motion Blur in LCD Television,” presented at IMID 2005 in Seoul, Korea. He was one of the referees for the Display Invention Competition held in August 2003 in Korolev, Russia, and he moderated the evening panel sessions at ASID 2004 (Nanjing, China) and ADEAC 2004 (Fort Worth, Texas). Mr. Werner is a founding partner of Chorus Consulting, a government-registered Korean company dedicated to forging mutually productive technology and business relationships among Asian, American, and European display-related companies. He is a member of the Society for Information Display and IEEE, and is Chairman of the Advisory Board for the award-winning IEEE Circuits & Devices magazine.

Manju Rajeswaran – Kodak – USA – “Materials for OLEDs”

Dr. Manju Rajeswaran is a Senior Research Scientist in Eastman Kodak Company. Manju received her B.S. in Chemistry, M.S. in Analytical chemistry and Ph. D. in Biophysics from Delhi University; Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India and Roswell Park Memorial Institute (graduate division of SUNY/Buffalo) respectively. Subsequently, she held 2 postdoctoral fellowships at SUNY/Stony Brook and at the University of Rochester. Manju joined Kodak in 1999 and is currently the technical leader in the analytical single crystal X-ray laboratory responsible for crystallography related activities and other analytical methods pertaining to polymorphism in materials science. She is experienced in wide range of analytical techniques vital for characterization and development of display materials. She has been an invited speaker at various national and international conferences.

Margarida Baptista – BNDES – Brazil – “Opportunities for display industry in Brazil”

Olivier Bonnaud - Université de Rennes - France

Prof. Olivier Bonnaud is professor at University of Rennes 1 and Supelec (Engineering School among the “Grandes Ecoles”). He is director of doctoral studies at the University of Rennes 1, France and director of a doctoral school in the electrical and information engineering field. His main research and teaching activities are in the field of microelectronics technology and devices. Prof. Bonnaud is a member of IEEE, EAEEIE, and the EIE Surveyor Network, a European Thematic Network in the ERASMUS programme.

Pedro Alem – ABDI – Brazil – “Roadmap for high tech industry in Brazil”

Engenheiro Civil graduado pela USP, com especialização em Gerência de Projetos pela FGV-RJ e mestrado em Engenharia de Produção, com tema ligado a políticas públicas para a indústria eletrônica, pela UFRJ.

Foi chefe dos Departamentos de Planejamento da Área de Indústrias e de Tecnologia da Informação e Serviços da FINEP.

Atualmente exerce a função de Especialista Sênior na ABDI, responsável pelas áreas ligadas às tecnologias da informação e comunicação (TICs). Está envolvido com a Política Industrial, Tecnológica e de Comércio Exterior (hoje Política de Desenvolvimento Produtivo) desde 2003. Exerce também as funções de membro da Comissão de Coordenação do Programa CI-Brasil, membro vogal do Conselho Deliberativo do Fórum para Implementação do SBTVD-T e dos Grupos de Coordenação das Ações para implementação do SBTVD-T do MDIC e do MCT. É coordenador do subgrupo B - cooperação para a indústria eletrônica - do Grupo de Trabalho Conjunto (GTC) Brasil-Japão para implentação do SBTVD-T.

Ricardo Teixeira – CERTI – Brazil – “Digital TV in Brazil and in the rest of the world”

With more than 10 years of experience on leading innovative R&D projects, has a strong technical background from its graduation on Electrical Engineering School at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina - Brazil and complemented by a number of executive specialization courses such as “Complex product design” from MIT – SLOAN. Today is the Director of the Digital Convergence Center at CERTI Foundation Institute in Brazil and also the responsible for coordinating projects with Philips Labs in Brazil. Considering Digital TV activities, took a key role on the development of major projects such as: Instinct Project (2004 to 2006), an European consortium project grouping 23 companies worldwide, focusing on the development of convergent scenarios for Digital TV and 3G cellular networks; The development of the Brazilian Digital TV Standards (2006 to 2008) working as a member of the technical groups responsible for the standard development; On 2007 coordinated technical and marketing activities by leading teams on Brazil, Singapore, France, US for the launching of the first Philips family of Digital TV Terrestrial receivers for Brazil, includes a set-top box and a Integrated TV.

 Robert Withnall – Brunel University – UK – “Phosphors for displays and lamps” 

Professor Robert Withnall takes up the position of Chair in Materials Science and Engineering at Brunel. He has substantial expertise in performing vibrational and electronic spectroscopies, and he has published close to 200 research papers in international refereed journals in these areas. He has regularly given invited lectures on phosphors and the applications of laser Raman spectroscopy to a range of international audiences. He is also Adjunct professor in Chemistry at the University of Syracuse, New York.

Scott Birnbaum – Samsung Semiconductor, Inc. – USA - Green LCD Takes Off in a Whirlwind of VIDification

Scott Birnbaum is vice president of the LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) Business at Samsung Semiconductor, Inc., responsible for sales operations throughout the Americas. In this capacity, he focuses on working closely with customers to develop new applications for LCDs, while building strategic OEM relationships in the TV, PC monitor, notebook and cellular phone sectors. Birnbaum brings with him a thorough “hands on” understanding of all aspects of the electronics value chain, leveraging more than 20 years of leadership in sales, marketing and operational management roles within the LCD, semiconductor, electronic manufacturing services and distribution industries. Birnbaum previously served as senior vice president of global business development at All-American Semiconductor, the fourth largest semiconductor distributor in North America. Before that, he served for four years in global and national sales positions at Sharp Electronics. Earlier, he held a number of sales and marketing management positions at Texas Instruments over a 10-year span. Birnbaum holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the Ohio State University.

Tom Munters - Phillips - Belgium - "OLED Lamps"

Experience in project management, innovation management, product development, multi-company complex development projects and system architectures.During my MBA thesis i worked on strategic repositioning of an innovative product leader.Like to realize things in challenging, new, inmature environments. Always like to use a multi-disciplinary approach to bring innovative products sucessfull to the market.

Victor P. Mammana – CTI – Brazil – “Transparent tablet and blackboard for teaching”

Victor Pellegrini Mammana has a Bachelor degree in Physics from IFUSP (1993), MSc from IFUSP (1996) and Doctorate Degree in Sciences from IFUSP (2000). He worked in Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, California, from 1998 to 2000, where he contributed in the development of new processes and new materials for field emission. He was a collaborative researcher at the Center of Research Renato Archer (CenPRA), of Campinas, SP, from 2001 to 2002, where he initiated a program of research and development in field emission displays (FEDs). He was a researcher of International Technology Center (ITC), in Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA, from 2002 through 2004, leading projects in the area of flexible displays, FEDs and in advanced materials. Currently he is the Chief of the Display Division at CTI (earlier CenPRA) where he leads projects in flexible displays, field emission displays, touch screens, solar cells, their materials, processes, equipment and applications, including in education and ergonomics. He was a member of the Brazilian evaluation committee for the Projects OLPC (One Laptop Per Child), led by Media Lab/MIT and “UCA” of the Brazilian Government. Since 2008 he leads the committee for the implementation of the Productive Development Policy of Brazil for Displays (PDP Program 3) with MCT, ABDI, BNDES and MDIC. He is the Chairman of the Latin American Chapter of the Society for Information Display to which creation he contributed. He is referee of several scientific periodicals. He is author of several scientific papers and patents. His paper on new structures for field emission displays got the “Best Poster Award” in Asia Display 2001, in Nagoia, Japan.

Vladimir Chigrinov – University of. Hong Kong – China – “LCDs: What's New”

1973- Graduated From Faculty of Applied Mathematics, Moscow Electronics Institute, the Diploma of Engineer-Mathematician;
1978- Defended PhD Thesis: "Instabilities in Nematic Liquid Crystals in Electric Fields", Institute of Crystallography, USSR Academy of Sciences;
1988-Defended Doctoral Thesis: "Theory of Electro-optic Effects in Liquid Crystals", Institute of Crystallography, USSR Academy of Sciences;
Head of Division, "Fine Chemistry for Electronics" in Organic Intermediates and Dyes Institute, Scientific-Research Center of Russia (1988-1996);
Leading Scientist of the Shubnikov Institute of Crystallography, Moscow, 117333, Russia (1996-present);
Expert in Flat Panel Technology in Russia, recoginzed by World Technology Evaluation Centre, 1994;
A Member of Editorial Board of "LIQUID CRYSTAL TODAY" (1996-present);
Short Course Lecturer in "PHOTONIC WEST", Conference (USA, California, 1995,1996);
Tutorials in ASID’04 in Nanjing, China, February; 2004, ASID’07 Shanghai, China, March, 2007, Eurodisplay 2007, September 2007 in Moscow, Russia.
Vice-President of Russian SID Chapter (1997-present).
3 books, 14 reviews and book chapters, 151 journal papers, 333 Conference presentations and 55 patents and patent applications in the field of liquid crystals and displays since 1974.
10 PhD students and 4 Mphil students have defended their theses since 1987, including 5 PhD students and 4 Mphil students in HKUST since 2004.
12 grants in HKUST since 1999, including 4 RGC grants, total amount more than 4,5 mln HK$
Visiting Associate Professor in EEE Dept, HKUST, Hong Kong since 1.06.99
Associate Professor in EEE Dept, HKUST, Hong Kong since 1.07.02
Senior Member of the Society for Information Display (SID) since 10.10.04
Associate Editor of J. of SID since 06.2005
The Board member of The Open Crystallography Journal since 11.2007.
Outstanding poster awards in IDW’03 and IDW’06 Conferences in Japan (annual largest display Conference in Japan)
SID Fellow since 01.08
Professor in ECE Dept, HKUST, Hong Kong since 1.07.08

Yoocharn Jeon – HP – USA – “Roll to roll technology”

Dr. Yoocharn Jeon is working on color reflective displays in HP Labs of Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA. He received his PhD from Seoul National University, Korea, where he studied on deposition and characterization of dielectrics and polycrystalline silicon thin films and fabrication of thin film transistors using them. He is a co-inventor of Metal-Induced Lateral Crystallization (MILC) process – a famous low-temperature poly-Si process. He joined LG Semicon (Currently Hynix) and developed processes for high-k dielectric capacitors for DRAMs and ferroelectric capacitors for nonvolatile memories. Dr. Jeon also worked on MEMS process development at University of California, Berkeley as a postdoctoral researcher. After he joined HP Labs, his research had been focused on direct methanol fuel cells for portable applications until he was engaged in the display research again.