Call for Abstracts

Industry Meets Innovative Ideas

Call for Abstracts for Industry meets Innovative Ideas Session: 

You are now invited to submit your abstract for the 2024 Fab Management Forum: 

The Session “Industry meets Innovative Ideas” will give the opportunity to entrepreneurs, start-up companies, graduates and newcomers to present their research and early-stage products to fab managers. With this session, we want to bring to the spotlight new talent interested in our industry and provide them with insights for a successful career launch in the semiconductor industry. 

We want to hear from:

• Young Engineers that started their career in the semiconductor industry 

• Early start-ups spinoffs 

• Ph.D. and MSc students and their professors 

• Postgraduate researchers 

• Researchers working in academic and research institutes 

• Professors working on new concepts 

Topics of interest:

• Advancing Smart Manufacturing Solutions - Explore the dynamic shift towards smarter, more efficient operations, with AI-driven tools eliminating the need for manual inspections and optimizing scheduling through pattern recognition and reinforcement learning 
• Europe's Environmental Transition: Stability to Sustainability - In pursuit of environmental sustainability the importance of renewable energy adoption, PFAS concerns, enhancing electrical grid stability strategies for risk mitigation and water recycling that becomes critical for the semiconductor industry. 
• Next-Gen Core Technologies for Future Fabs - Optimization of multiple technologies with SiC, Future of Photonics and Quantum computing in order to facilitate and support the future industry growth. 

We are particularly interested in solutions for:

• Equipment Control
• Substitute controllers
• Modified tools / Tool Upgrades
• Automation solutions
• Sensor solutions
• Hardware solutions e.g. 3D
• Smart tools – digitized
• Extending life of tools
• Advanced Data Analysis (for prediction or prevention) 

How to participate:

• Please submit your abstract, biography and a photo through our link selecting FMF.
• Select your solution / method to showcase how your solution / method impacts semiconductors fab manufacturing and organizations.
• The deadline has expired and submission will no longer be accepted. We thank all authors who have submitted their abstracts. 
• Selected authors will be notified in August 2024. 
• Each finalist has 3- 5 minutes to present their product on stage, followed by a networking poster session.
• Talents (e.g entrepreneurs, start-up companies ,students, postgraduate researchers, researchers) should do the oral presentation on stage. 

Selected presenters will receive:

• One complimentary pass to the Fab Management Forum and SEMICON Europa 2024
• For students, an additional pass will be given to their professor
• 3-5 minutes presentation slot to pitch the audience
• Space for your poster to be displayed at the exhibition area of the Forum and take advantage of onsite networking with senior professionals. Guidelines for the poster will be given to selected presenters. 

Committee Members:

• Infineon Technologies, Joerg Recklies
• X-Fab Erfurt, Mario von Podewils
• NXP, Carsten Deuper
• STMicroelectronics, Simone Alba
• Texas Instruments, Klaus Schimpf
• Robert Bosch GmbH, Juergen Schmidt
• ams-OSRAM International GmbH, Jörg Schäfer 

Questions?

Please contact SEMI Europe Programs Team at [email protected]