Wednesday, August 5, 2009

GSA announces 16th Annual Expo & Conference

SAN JOSE, USA: The Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) announces the 16th annual GSA Emerging Opportunities Expo & Conference, being held on October 1, 2009, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, Calif.

The conference will feature seven keynotes by industry executives addressing emerging opportunities in the semiconductor ecosystem.

In today’s market, innovation has become paramount to the growth and development of new applications leading to emerging opportunities for the semiconductor community.

This conference will highlight the pivotal topics at the forefront of the industry including smart grids, cloud computing, 3G wireless gaming, energy harvesting, medical applications, home networking and the innovation business model. The expo will host more than 75 exhibiting companies along with attendees from fabless, IDM, OEM, supplier and service provider companies.

Distinguished keynotes include:
Doug Grose, chief executive officer, GlobalFoundries
“The Innovation Imperative” Business Model

Peter Henry, vice president and general manager, Power Management Group, Analog Devices Inc. (ADI)
Energy Harvesting

Murugavel Raju, AEC Catalog Microcontrollers End Equipment marketing manager, Texas Instruments
Small Footprints SoC Enables Precision Portable Medical Instrumentation

Dr. Francis Ho, senior director, Business Development, Inphi Corporation
Opportunities for High Performance Semiconductor Solutions in Cloud Computing

John Rizzo, chief executive officer, Zeebo
Enabling 3G Wireless Digital Distribution In Emerging Markets

Vinay Gokhale, senior vice president, Marketing & Business Development, Entropic Communications
Home Networking: Opportunities and Challenges

Robert Dolin, vice president and chief technology officer, Echelon
Smart Grids

The 2009 platinum sponsors are Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Inc., GlobalFoundries, i2 Technologies and TSMC. Gold sponsors include Mentor Graphics and Siliconaire. Wipro Technologies, Inc. is an Event Program Sponsor, with EDA Café and Inside Chips as media sponsors.

Complimentary registration is available online through September 25, 2009, and on-site registration is $25.

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