Speakers

IDTechEx has designed this programme to cover the most important and ground breaking topics in the technology.

New speakers will be regularly added to this list. To be involved, please email the programme coordinator, Corinne Jennings:

Automotive
Volvo Technology	Ms Mikaela Ohman Chairman, Sensor Technology Sweden	"Challenges of Energy Harvesting Solutions in Automotive Sensor Applications"
Systems Integration
ABB	Dr Kai Koenig Scientist Germany	"Integrated and Modular Energy Harvesting for the Process Industry"
TRW Conekt	Mr Roger J Hazelden Technology Leader Sensors & Optoelectronics United Kingdom	"Automotive and Aerospace - Challenges in Common for Wireless Sensors"
Energy Harvesting & WSN in Build Environments
Libelium Comunicaciones Distribuidas SL	Ms Alicia Asin Perez CEO Spain	"Major Challenges in Smart City Projects: What Does a 1,000 Node Deployment Require"
Large Scale Harvesting and Storage
Sharp Laboratories of Europe Ltd.	Dr Emma Kendrick Research Supervisor United Kingdom	"Solar Energy Harvesting and Storage"
Cella Energy	Stephen Voller CEO United Kingdom	"Safe, Low-cost Hydrogen Storage"
Eco Wave Power	Mr David Leb Founder Israel	"Wave Energy Generation Difficulties Solved by Eco Wave Power"
Saft Batteries	Mr Wayne Pitt New Business Development Manager France	"Energy Storage at the Heart of WSN"
Display Technologies
Philips Corporate Technologies	Dr Kars-Michiel H Lenssen Director /Principal Scientist Netherlands	"Zero-energy e-Skin for Autonomous Devices"
Agaidi	Sami Kalliokoski Business Development Director Finland	"GAIDI - Location Aware Ultra Low Power Mobile Display"
Low Power Electronics and Energy Management
Infinite Power Solutions	Mr Timothy Bradow VP, Marketing United States	"Bluetooth Low Energy Enables Personal Sensor Networks Powered Using Energy Harvesting"
Centre for Plastic Electronics	Prof Andrew Holmes Professor of Microelectromechanical Systems United Kingdom	"Power Electronic Interfaces for Energy Harvesting Devices"
AnaGear BV	Mr Guus Dhaeze VP Sales & Marketing Netherlands	"Smart Power Management in Battery Supplied Applications and Self-powered Wireless Sensor Nodes"
Canova Tech	Dr Gian Marco Bo Senior Project Leader Italy	"ETA IP Platform: Power Manager, Configurable Analog Front-End for Sensors Interfaces and Ultra Low Power Scheduler in a Single Demonstrator IC, for Energy Harvesting Applications"
Microchip	Harald Traub Senior Field Applications Engineer United Kingdom	"Take Your Energy Source Life to the Extreme! eXtreme Low Power PIC® Microcontrollers"
Energy Micro	Juergen Hoika Vice President Sales & Marketing EMEA Norway	"Most Energy Friendly 32Bit Microcontroller Enable Complex Tasks at Lowest Energy Consumption"
Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting
Hanyang University	Mr Daniel Song PhD Candidate Korea	"Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting System for Application of Korea Train eXpress (KTX)"
iBULe Photonics	Sang-Goo Lee CEO Korea	"Piezo Generator Based on PMN-PT Single Crystal"
Arveni	Mr Jean-Frederic Martin CEO & Founder France	"Mechanical Energy Harvesting: Still an Emerging Market?"
Meggitt Sensing System	Dr Michele Guizzetti Senior Researcher Engineer Denmark	"Performance of Fully Integrated Vibrational Energy Harvesting Devices"
ALGRA AG	Dr Venkatesh Sivasubramaniam Research & Development Switzerland	"Dynapic Wireless - World's First Piezo Wireless Switch: No Battery, No Cable, No Wear"
Heat Energy Harvesting
EADS Astrium	Thierry Abensur Expert France	"Application of High Energy Density Nanotechnology Colloids: Thermal Energy Harvesting to Power Wireless Systems"
AIST	Kouji Suemori Researcher Japan	"Thermo-electric Conversion Films Fabricated Through Printing Process"
Nextreme Thermal Solutions	Mr Dave Koester Vice President of Engineering United States	"Integration of Thin-Film Thermoelectrics in New Energy Harvesting Applications"
STMicroelectronics	Onoriu Puscasu Advanced Devices Technology/Process Integration France	"HEATec - an Innovative Technology for Thermal Energy Harvesting"
Marlow Industries Inc	Pravesh Parmanand Senior Electrical Engineer United States	"Thermal Energy Harvesting and Power Management for Today's Sensor and Actuation Applications"
Wireless Sensor Networks
Micropelt GmbH	Mr Burkhard Habbe VP Business Development Germany	"Lowest Power FRAM MCU + Thermoharvesting Enable 'Lean WSN'"
Texas Instruments	Mr Horst Diewald Chief Architect MSP430 MCUs Germany
Linear Technology/Dust Networks	Ms Joy Weiss President United States	"Low Power WSN Made Practical"
EnOcean	Dr Wolfgang Heller Product Line Manager Germany	"Data Security in Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Networks"
Fraunhofer IIS	Mr Henrik Zessin Project Manager Germany	"Multi-energy, Self-powered Wireless Sensor Network"
CEA	Mr Sebastien Boisseau Research Engineer - Energy Harvesting Expert France	"Mechanical Energy Harvesting: How to Enable WSN Deployment in an Industrial Context?"
Millennial Net	Mr Dieter Schill President & CEO United States	"No Constraints - What are the Real Limits of Today's WSN Technology"
E-Senza	Amit Shah Founder & CEO Germany	"Wireless Monitoring to Improve Energy Efficiency in Buildings"
Nanotron Technologies	Dr Thomas Foerste VP Sales & Marketing Germany	"Protect and Find - Easy to Use High-throughput RTLS Applications"
Tyndall National Institute	Dr Ningning Wang Staff Researcher Ireland	"Power Management and Optimization for Energy Harvesting in Ultra-low Power Wireless Sensor Networks Applications"
Energy Harvesting Product Innovation
NEC Italia	Ugo Govigli VP European Smart Grid Solutions of NEC Italy	"NEC Green Vision"
MSX Technology	Mr Albin Smrke Consultant Slovenia	"MSX Smart, Green Cooking with Energy Harvesting Cooking Sensor"
Magnetic Energy Harvesting
Wroclaw University of Technology	Prof Jerzy Kaleta Head of the Continuum Mechanics Division Poland	"Solid-state Harvesters Based on Magnetic Methods for Selected Mechanical Applications"
Solar Harvesting
Nokia	Mr Matti Naskali Technology Manager Japan	"Nokia Solar Charging Pilot"
SolarPrint Ltd	Mr Roy Horgan Business Development Director Ireland	"The Emergence of Next Generation Self Powered Multisensors"
Analog Devices	Mr Brendan Daly System Applications Engineer Ireland
Fraunhofer IZM	Dr Robert Hahn Head of Portable Power Supply Group Dept. Germany	"Power Supply for Wearable Applications Based on 3D Solar Module Technology"
Market Forecasts
IDTechEx	Dr Harry Zervos Technology Analyst United Kingdom	"Energy Harvesting: Analysis of Trends, Markets and Opportunities 2012-2022"
Metrology Standards
NPL	Dr Mark Stewart Senior Research Scientist United Kingdom	"Improving Energy Harvester Performance Through Metrology"
Energy Harvesting and Wireless Sensor Networks for Medical Applications
Microsemi	Reghu Rajan Technical Marketing Manager United States	"Wireless Sensors and Energy Harvesting in Medicine"
Conculding Remarks
IDTechEx	Mr Raghu Das CEO United Kingdom	"Lessons, Profitability and What is Coming Next"