Autonomous, Connected, Electric and Shared are the key trends for mass market cars. Nowadays all car manufacturers mostly speak about electrification and software. Very often cars are referred to as ‘’sofa or data center or mobile phones on four wheels’’ and the use of sensors is exaggerated, due to an innovation strategy driven by a deliberate technology push. Ferrari instead is profoundly different. Ferrari designs and realizes extraordinarily beautiful luxury sports cars and the key words are experiential, sustainable, personal and culturally relevant.
True and sustainable innovation always starts from human emotions and from the respect of the environment. And sustainability, together with engineering performances, beautiful designs and unique driving thrills, makes our sports cars unique and timeless. This presentation will cover how Ferrari relentlessly pursues innovation by harnessing the new technologies in a unique way.
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Swaminathan Rajaraman received his M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cincinnati (Cincinnati, OH) and his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, GA) respectively. Prof. Rajaraman is a tenured Professor and a successful entrepreneur. He is currently Associate Professor in NanoScience Technology Center (NSTC) and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at University of Central Florida (Orlando, FL) with additional appointments in Electrical Engineering and Biomedical Sciences. Prior to his academic appointment, he has worked in the MEMS industry with Analog Devices (Cambridge, MA) and CardioMEMS (now Abbott Labs, Atlanta, GA) and co-founded Axion BioSystems Inc. (Atlanta, GA), a world-leader in high-throughput Microelectrode Arrays (MEAs) and MEA systems during and after his Ph.D. work. Axion was successfully acquired by the Swedish Private Equity Firm, Summa Equity. Axion spin out BioCircuit Technologies (Atlanta, GA) recently announced an FDA approval for their NerveTape® product. Prof. Rajaraman has also co-founded Primordia BioSystems (Costa Mesa, CA) and serves on the Advisory Board of World Precision Instruments (Sarasota, FL).
His current research interests include in-vitro and in-vivo Microelectrode Arrays (MEAs), hybrid micro/nanofabrication, micro/nanofabrication on novel, biological substrates, microneedles, agricultural microsystems, microfluidic devices, multimodal cell-based nanosensors, 3D printing, embedded biosystems, and implantable MEMS devices. He also serves as the Deputy Director of the NSF I/UCRC, MIST Center at UCF. He has published more than 85 articles in peer-reviewed journals and conferences, holds more than 30 patents/applications, developed several MEA products that are in volume production and has mentored close to 50 graduate students, undergraduate students, engineers, and post-doctoral fellows. Dr. Rajaraman has served/serves on the Technical Program Committee (TPC) of IEEE Sensors, Hilton Head MEMS Workshop, IEEE Transducers, and IEEE MEMS. He is the Program Chair for Hilton Head MEMS Workshop 2024 and was recently elected to be an Associate Editor of IEEE JMEMS.
He received a B.A. in Applied Physics from UC San Diego, 1986, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in EECS from UC Berkeley in 1989 and 1992. Prior to joining the faculty of EECS in 1996, he taught in the Electrical Engineering Department, UCLA.
Professor Pister developed Smart Dust, a project with the goal of putting a complete sensing/communication platform inside a cubic millimeter. For this project, he was awarded the second annual Alexander Schwarzkopf Prize for Technological Innovation, in 2006, from the I/UCRC Association, for developing and successfully commercializing Smart Dust. He has also focused his energies on synthetic insects, which he has characterized as “basically Smart Dust with legs.” Professor Pister was award the Alfred F. Sperry Founder Award in 2009 for his “contributions to the science and technology of instrumentation, systems, and automation.”
Kris is a co-Director of the Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center (BSAC) and the Ubiquitious Swarm Lab.
Lay Lay Lee-Aquila joined Exo Imaging in 2016 as a Production Manager, where she brought extensive experience in semiconductor, sensors, and MEMS assembly, spanning over 35 years. During her time at Exo, she has played a crucial role in providing technical support to build the company’s first product. Subsequently, Lay Lay moved on to a new role as Exo Facility Manager.
Before joining Exo, Lay Lay had an impressive career history, having worked at various companies in the semiconductor and sensor industry, including InvenSense, Transparent Networks, Maxim Integrated Products, Integrated Sensor Solutions, and Nova Sensor.
Weijie Yun is the Founder and Managing Partner of Tyche Partners. As a serial entrepreneur, Weijie brings deep industry domain knowledge to identify investment opportunities and hands-on operating experience to help portfolio companies to grow their business.
Weijie’s passion is to identify and invest in visionary entrepreneurs with breakthrough technologies in the hard tech space, such as IT infrastructure (big data, storage and networking), IoT and wearable devices, 3D printing, autonomous driving, consumer electronics, and semiconductor. Currently, he is serving as a board member/observer at Crossbar, Formlabs, Latticework, mCube, Motiv, Pavilion, and Qumulo. His other investments include Aeye, Basebit, Desktop Metal, Ripcord, Shoof, and SpinLaunch.
Before founding Tyche Partners, Weijie was an entrepreneur with proven track record of combining his technical insights and market intuition to maximize companies’ value. He was the founder and CEO of Telegent Systems, AIP Networks and SiTek. Currently, he is a member of the Board of Trustees at UC Berkeley Foundation, and a founding board member of M.E.T. program at UC Berkeley. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from UC Berkeley.
Susumu Kaminaga, born in 1946, graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1969 after he studied Mechanical Engineering. He joined Sumitomo Precision Products Co., Ltd. (SPP), Japan immediately after he finished the study and was president of the company since June 2004 until June 2012 for eight years. He established his own company, SK Global Advisers Co., Ltd. in 2012 which provides companies, SMEs and venture business with advice and consultancy from the viewpoint of technology and management. He lived in Germany for six years in 1980s and in UK for four and a half years in 1990s. He was Executive Senior Adviser & Chairman of the Steering Committee of SPP Technologies Co., Ltd. (SPT), an affiliate of SPP from 2012 to 2024.
Among SPP’s diversified technology-oriented business established through its 100-year history, he pioneered MEMS (Micro Electro Mechanical Systems) related business, starting in 1988 and played a major role to develop and commercialize Deep Reactive Ion Etching (DRIE) technology. During his initial work of developing the technology and business for MEMS, he was instrumental to run Surface Technology Systems (STS) in Wales, UK, which was a subsidiary of SPP since the acquisition in 1995. Under his management at site until 1999, STS developed and commercialized state-of-the-art technology, DRIE for the first time in the world. The DRIE technology, as widely perceived, has enabled MEMS world to expand rapidly in the last decades, especially in the automotive application, smart phones and IoT world. He was further involved as the main driver in forming SPP Process Technology Systems (SPTS) in Wales, UK in 2009 to integrate STS and the newly acquired Aviza business, which later became SPTS Technologies (SPTS) with local management after MBO he accepted in 2011. Nowadays, SPTS in Wales, UK and SPT in Japan together contribute a lot to the exciting smart phone industries and IoT world with the unique technologies. The major applications include automotive and medical/healthcare services. As a result of his career with MEMS for many years, he started to work to promote “Trillion Sensors Initiative” together with Janusz Bryzek in 2013. He was inspired by the visionary, “Janusz Bryzek” and involved in organizing all the TSensorsR (Trillion Sensors) summits in the US, Europe and Japan in the next few years.
He is Fellow of JSME (The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers) and a member of JSAP (The Japan Society of Applied Physics), IEE (The Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan) and IEEE (The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers). He is Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society (FRAeS) and was Member of the External Advisory Board of Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of California, Berkeley from 2007 to 2014 as well as Visiting Professor at the University of Hyogo in Japan. He has been an outside director at Toray Industries, Inc. since 2020 and was an outside director at Olympus corporation until 2022.
He received 2024 IEEE EDS Robert Bosch Micro and Nano Electro Mechanical Systems Award for development and commercialization of Deep Reactive Ion Etching Technology.
Magnus Rimskog has worked with the development of technology in both an engineering and a business capacity for 27 years. The last 20 of which have been at Silex Microsystems. He holds an M.Sc. in physics from The Lund Institute of Technology. Originally, he specialized in Optics, but then switched over to the MEMS industry. In his current position, Magnus has overseen a variety of different products from their concept through to volume manufacturing. He has also seen Silex grow from 20 to around 400 employees. He is passionate about the development of new technology, and especially about how these technologies help improve people’s quality of life. He was inducted into the MEMS & Sensors Industry Group’s Hall of Fame in 2014.
Dr. Evgeni Gousev is a Senior Director of Engineering in Qualcomm Research. He leads HW R&D org in the Silicon Valley Center and is also responsible for developing ultra low power embedded computing platform, including always on machine vision AI technology. He has been with Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. since 2005 after joining from IBM T.J. Watson Research Center where he drove projects in the field of advanced silicon technologies. Evgeni serves as the Chairman of the Board for tinyML Foundation. In 2020, Dr. Gousev was inducted into the “Hall of Fame” of SEMI MEMS and Sensors Industry Group.
From 1993 to 1998, Dr. Gousev held academic professorship appointments with Rutgers University and Hiroshima University (1997). Evgeni holds a M.S. degree in Applied Physics and a Ph.D. in Solid-State Physics. He has co-edited 24 books and published 163 papers and is an inventor on more than 60 issued and filed patents.
Dr. Alissa M. Fitzgerald is the founder and CEO of A.M. Fitzgerald & Associates, LLC, a MEMS product development company located in Burlingame, CA. Dr. Fitzgerald has over 25 years of engineering experience in MEMS design, fabrication and product development. She now advises clients on the entire cycle of microelectronic product development, from business and IP strategy to supply chain and manufacturing operations. Earlier in her career, Dr. Fitzgerald worked in engineering and management positions at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Orbital Sciences Corporation, Sigpro, and Sensant Corporation, now part of Siemens. She received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from MIT and her Ph.D. from Stanford University in Aeronautics and Astronautics. Dr. Fitzgerald is co-author of MEMS Product Development: From Concept to Commercialization, has numerous journal publications, holds ten patents, and is a frequent invited speaker at professional meetings. She is a member of the SEMI-MSIG Standards Committee and served as a board director on the MEMS Industry Group (MIG) Governing Council from 2008-2014. In 2013, she was inducted into the MIG Hall of Fame. She is currently a board director for Rigetti Computing (Nasdaq: RGTI), the Transducer Research Foundation, and the IEEE Spectrum Editorial Advisory Board.
Roger H. Grace is president of Roger Grace Associates, a Bonita Springs Florida-based technology marketing consultancy, which he founded in 1982 and which provides market research, strategic marketing communications and business development services to the MEMS, sensors and capital equipment industry…from startups to nations. His background includes over 40 years in high frequency analog circuit design engineering, application engineering, project management, product marketing and technology consulting. He was a founding member of MANCEF and currently is its VP of the Americas.
Specializing in microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and sensors for over 35 years, he is considered a pioneer in this field. Authoring over 40 technical feature articles; organizing, chairing, and speaking at over 30 international conferences, he is frequently quoted as an industry expert in major international technical and business publications.
He was a recipient of the 2004 Outstanding Engineering Alumni of the Year by Northeastern University and was bestowed the inaugural Sensor Industry Impact Award by Sensors Magazine in 2016. He was visiting lecturer at the University of California at Berkeley from 1990 to 2003. His educational background includes a B.S.E.E. and M.S.E.E. (as a Raytheon Company fellow) from Northeastern University, and the MBA program at Haas Graduate School of Business at U.C. Berkeley.
Dr. Mary Ann Maher received her PhD from Caltech in 1989 in the area of semiconductor device modeling developing a new charge-based transistor model. At Caltech, she conducted research in the area of neuromorphic systems, analog circuits and transistor modeling. She pursued post doctoral studies at the CSEM in Neuchatel, Switzerland, where she studied analog memories and low power analog ICs with on-chip sensors for artificial vision applications. At Tanner Research she began the simulation and modeling group and launched Tanner’s T-Spice analog circuit simulator product. She then became the Software Architect responsible for specifications for layout, routing, simulation, analysis, schematic and viewing design tools. As Director of Advanced Products, she brought to market Tanner’s MEMS Pro microsystem and MCM Pro multi-chip module and packaging design tool suites. Moving to MEMSCAP, she became the company’s CTO and later the General Manager and Executive Vice President of the Design Automation Business Unit. In 2004, she started SoftMEMS, LLC, the maker of the popular microsystems design tools – MEMS Pro and MEMS Xplorer, where she serves as CEO.
Dr. Brian Bircumshaw is Exo’s Vice President of Product Engineering and an expert in the design, process, and foundry commercialization of micro-mechanical integrated circuits (MEMS) sensors. He brings more than 15 years of experience in the MEMS field, having worked on the design and fabrication of piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducers (pMUTs), pressure sensors, accelerometers, gyrometers, resonators, micromirrors, surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS), and magnetometers. He has helped deliver millions of chips into consumer devices, brought to market a field test for heroin, and developed one of the most accurate tire pressure monitoring systems (TPMS). He has experience with a large cross-section of the semiconductor/MEMS industry. Prior to Exo, Brian was Director of MEMS at Fairchild / ON Semiconductor, responsible for operations and MEMS Process for the FIS series of 6DOF products. At ThermoFisher Scientific, he served as Principal Engineer, heading MEMS chip manufacturing for the microPHAZIR NIR spectrometer and the heroin testing SERS strips for the TruNarc narcotics analyzer. Brian was also the Senior MEMS Design Engineer at LV Sensor. Brian holds a Ph.D. in MEMS from the University of California, Berkeley, an M.Phil. from Cambridge University in England, and a B.S. with honors from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). He has served as a Churchill Scholar, Rotary International Ambassador, and a Department of Defense (DoD) National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellow.