Speakers & Tracks

IDTechEx has designed this program to cover the most important and ground breaking topics that should interest you. It covers:

End user perspectives, requirements, case studies

New technology advancements and appraisal of different relevant technologies

Many World first announcements from supplier

Energy Harvesting for Consumer Electronics and Consumer Goods
The Marketing Store	Mr Warren Kronberger R&D Director United States	"Energy Harvesting and the Promotional Marketing Landscape"
Philips Research	Dr Kars-Michiel H Lenssen Director / Principal Scientist Netherlands	"Zero-energy e-Skin for Autonomous Devices"
One Laptop Per Child	Mr Richard Smith Director of Embedded Engineering United States	"Powering Computing Off-the-Grid: Handcranks, Waterwheels and Cows"
InStep NanoPower, LLC	Prof Tom Krupenkin United States	"Reverse Electrowetting - a New Approach to High-Power Energy Harvesting for Mobile Electronics"
Energy Harvesting for Land, Sea and Air Vehicles
Ford Motor Company	Mr Clay Maranville Principal Research Scientist United States	"Waste Energy Recovery from Automobiles - Challenges & Opportunities"
Volvo Technology	Michael Balthasar Technology Area Director for New Technology Sweden	"Energy Harvesting for Commercial Vehicle Applications"
Levant Power Corporation	Mr Zackary A. Anderson COO and co-Founder United States	"Control and Energy Recovery from Oscillations"
Electric Truck, LLC	Mr Woody Neeley CTO United States	"Harvesting Energy from Transportation-Related Vibration, Bumps and Motion"
Falmouth Scientific Inc	Carl Mancuso Sales and Marketing Director United States	"Gatekeeper: An Untethered, Persistent, Self-Powered Gateway Buoy"
Falmouth Scientific	Steven DaSilva Senior Engineer United States
Electric Aircraft Corporation	Mr Randall Fishman President United States	"Energy Harvesting in Aviation: A look at Regenerative Soaring"
Energy Harvesting in the Military and Aerospace
National Institute of Aerospace	Tian-Bing Xu Senior Research Scientist United States	"High Energy Efficiency Piezoelectric Harvesters"
Naval Research Laboratory	Leonard Tender United States	"Energy Harvesting Using Micro-organisms"
Needs and Application in Buildings, Infrastructure & Logisitics
Living PlanIT	Ricardo Ferreira Director	"1 City, 100 Million Sensors"
Osram Sylvania Inc	Sivakumar Thangavelu Engineering Manager United States	"A Case Study on Building Controls with Emphasis on Energy Harvesting and Wireless Sensors"
Cubic Global Tracking Solutions	Mr Paul Berenberg Director, Firmware Engineering United States	"Mesh Network Applied to Logistics: Opportunities and Challenges"
Energy Harvesting in Healthcare
SolarPrint Ltd	Dr Mazhar Bari CEO Ireland	"Collaborative Case Study Highlighting Analog Devices Inc RF101 MCU & RF Chip Set with SolarPrints SP4858 Solar Cell and Power Management Solution for Wireless Energy Harvesting Multi Sensors"
Exponent	Dr Elizabeth Reilly Associate United States	"Energy Scavenging and Battery Power for Long Term Medical Monitoring"
Wireless Sensors Network Development
Millennial Net	Dr Sokwoo Rhee Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer United States	"Dynamic Meshing - Next Gen WSN for the Dynamic World"
Linear Technology/Dust Networks	Ms Joy Weiss President and CEO United States	"Wireless RTLS Mesh Networks: No Wires Required"
The Outlook for Energy Harvesting
IDTechEx	Mr Raghu Das CEO United States	"Energy Harvesting Trends, Challenges and Opportunities 2011-2021"
Georgia Tech	Prof Manos M. Tentzeris Professor, School of ECE United States	"Inkjet Printing, Nanotechnology and Energy Harvesting: The Final Step to Cognitive Intelligence and Ubiquitous Wireless Sensor Networks"
Flexible & Stretchable Energy Harvesting
IDTechEx	Dr Harry Zervos Technology Analyst United Kingdom	"Energy Harvesting for Automotive Applications"
MC10	Mr David A Icke CEO United States	"Fully Integrated Wearable Systems"
Iowa State University	Dr Ravi Hadimani Post-Doctoral Research Associate United States	"Smart Multifunctional Fibre for Energy Harvesting from Nature"
Energy Harvesting Powered Sensor Solutions
MicroStrain	Mr Chris Townsend Vice President United States	"Thermal, Solar, and Vibration Energy Harvesting Applications and System Solutions"
EnOcean Inc.	Mr Jim O'Callaghan President United States	"Limitless Environment for Developing Wireless and Energy Harvesting Devices for Building Automation"
Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Dr Peter Fuhr Distinguished Scientist United States	"RTLS and Power Harvesting Ubiquitous Sensing System for Energy Efficiency Applications"
Cymbet Corporation	Mr Steve Grady VP Marketing USA	"Zero Power Sensors using Energy Processing and Open Protocols"
Energy Storage: Breakthroughs
Infinite Power Solutions	Mr Joe Keating Applications Engineering Manager United States	"Using DC to DC Buck Conversion to Optimize Stored Energy Usage in Autonomously Powered Devices"
Sharp Laboratories of Europe Ltd.	Dr Emma Kendrick Research Supervisor United Kingdom	"Home Solar Energy Generation and Storage"
MIT	Prof Don Sadoway United States	"Innovation in Energy Storage"
New Energy Storage Materials and Concepts
MIT - Department of Materials Science	Alexie Kolpak Postdoctoral Associate United States	"Chromophore-Derivitized Carbon Nanotubes as High-Energy-Density Solar Thermal Fuels"
National Nanotechnology Lab	Prof Massimo De Vittorio Italy	"Energy Harvesting Devices Based on Piezoelectric AlN Thin Films"
NNL - Universita del Salento	Prof Massimo De Vittorio Italy
Thermoelectric: New Progress
Nextreme Thermal Solutions	Mr Dave Koester Vice President of Engineering	"Creating New Applications and Markets with Thermobility Thin-Film Thermoelectric Energy Harvesting"
BASF Future Business GmbH	Mr Juergen Moors Senior Manager Thermoelectrics Germany	"Thermoelectric Applications - the Reality Check of a Promise on the Road to Commercialization"
Amerigon/BSST LLC	John LaGrandeur Director of Automotive Programs United States	"Heat to Power Using Thermoelectric Engines"
Marlow Industries Inc	Pravesh Parmanand Senior Electrical Engineer United States	"Thermal Energy Harvesting from Solid or Liquid Sources, Optimizing for Maximum Power, Size, or Form Factor at Low ΔT"
Application of Electromagnetic Harvesters
MicroGen Systems	Mr Robert Andosca President and CEO United States	"Vibrational Energy Harvesting Technologies and Applications for 2012 and Beyond"
Perpetuum	Mr Keith J Abate Director Business Development United States	"Powering the New Generation of Industrial Wireless Senor Nodes with Vibration Energy Harvesting"
Magnetostrictive energy harvesters
ETREMA Products, Inc.	Eric Summers VP & Chief Materials Engineer United States	"Energy Harvesters Utilizing Galfenol Technology"
Wireless Power
Leggett & Platt Inc	Mr Peter Hoehne Vice President Sales & Marketing Worldwide Canada	"Wireless Charging: Global Automotive Industry Reception"
WiTricity Corporation	Mr David Schatz Director of Business Development United States	"Wireless Energy: Safe, Efficient, and Over Distance"
Fulton Innovation	Mr David Baarman Director of Advanced Technology United States	"Wireless Power Today and Tomorrow"
Ultra Low Power Electronics & System Design
Microchip Technology Inc	Mr Jason Tollefson Product Marketing Manager United States	"Extremely Low Power MCUs, a Perfect Complement for Harvesters"
Arrow Electronics	Mr Mike Rebane Field Applications Engineer United States	"Implementing Low Power, Wireless Sensor Nodes via Energy Harvesting Power Management Techniques"
Linear Technology Corporation	Mr Brian Shaffer Applications Manager United States
Silicon Labs	Ross Bannatyne MCU Marketing Manager United States
Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS	Mr Peter Spies Senior Research Manager Germany	"Application Optimized Voltage Converters for Energy Harvesting Power Supplies"
Centre for Plastic Electronics	Prof Andrew Holmes Professor of Microelectromechanical Systems United Kingdom	"Energy Harvesting from Air Flow for Wireless Sensor Networks"
Ember	Skip Ashton Chair of the ZigBee Architecture Review Committee and Ember's Senior VP of Engineering United States	"ZigBee Deployments and an Update on Low Power Operations"
Footstep Harvesting for Grid Power Replacement
Powerleap Inc	Ms Elizabeth Redmond President and Director of Product Development United States	"Foot-Powered Occupancy Detection"