Matthew Apanius is the President and Managing Director of SMART Microsystems. He has commercial MEMS product development experience working with applications that include telecom-munications, aerospace, automotive, industrial controls, hand-held displays, biomedical devices, and life science. His work with academic and government research projects include state-change physics in microgravity, anisotropic thermal behavior of nano-materials, and nanomechanical structures for switches and acoustic wave devices.

Prior to launching SMART Microsystems, Matthew was the President of Microfabrication Solutions, Inc., a successful MEMS prototyping company located in Cleveland, Ohio since 2002. Matthew was also a co-founder of a medical device start-up company that utilized microsystem technology for the creation of home-care medical products. He enjoys guest teaching at Case Western Reserve University on topics of entrepreneurship, engineering management, and intellectual property.

Adrian Arcedera joined Amkor in 1997, and has served in various positions in engineering, package platform development, supplier and material development, business development and product management of Amkor's Chip Scale Products -- Chip Array® BGA, Tape Array BGA and Stacked CSP. He has worked on various interconnect and packaging technologies to reduce package sizes, reduce package thickness, improve package cost, and improve thermal performance of chip scale products. Adrian has been granted 2 U.S. patents. Currently, Adrian is responsible for the business and platform development of MEMS, sensors, and PBGA products that service automotive, industrial and consumer markets/applications. Prior to joining Amkor, Adrian worked as Materials Engineer for Motorola Philippines, and earned his degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of the Philippines.

Flavio Bonomi, PhD is a serial entrepreneur, technologist and industry visionary, who helped define a new computing paradigm – “Fog computing”. Before founding Nebbiolo Technologies, Flavio Bonomi was the founder and the Chief Technology Officer at IoXWorks, Inc, involved in consulting and advisory roles with a number of large corporations and startups in the field of IoT. Prior to IoXWorks, Flavio was a Cisco Fellow, Vice President, and the Head of the Advanced Architecture and Research Organization at Cisco Systems, in San Jose, California. He was co-leading the vision and technology direction for Cisco’s Internet of Things initiative. Before joining Cisco in 1999, Flavio Bonomi was at AT&T Bell Labs, with architecture and research responsibilities, mostly relating to the evolution of the ATM technology, and then was Principal Architect at two Silicon Valley startups, ZeitNet and StratumOne. He received an Electrical Engineering degree from Pavia University in Italy, and a Master’s and PhD in Electrical Engineering degrees in 1981 and 1985, respectively, from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

Allen Cowen received the BSCEE degree in electrical and computer engineering from Purdue University and the MSEE degree from Carnegie Mellon University in 1986 and 1989, respectively. After school he began working with MCNC on a process simulator. In 1991, he switched to the field of MEMS and began working on the MUMPs Processes circa 1993. He was a member of the successful startup MEMS company, Cronos, followed by JDS Uniphase and finally MEMSCAP, INC. He currently leads the MUMPs programs at MEMSCAP and manages the test department.

Dr. Peter G. Hartwell is Senior Director of Advanced Technology at InvenSense. Peter has extensive experience in commercializing silicon MEMS products, working on advanced sensors and actuators, and specializes in MEMS testing techniques. Prior to joining InvenSense, Peter spent four years as Architect of Motion Sensing Hardware at Apple. Peter also worked as a Distinguished Technologist at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories. At HP, he was the MEMS lead on HP’s 10 nano-g/rt Hz MEMS accelerometer forming the basis of HP’s Central Nervous System for the Earth (CeNSE), an early vision of what has become the Internet of Things. Peter has over 40 worldwide patents on MEMS and sensor applications. He has a B.S. in Materials Science from the University of Michigan and a Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University.

Babak Jamshidi, Ph.D. is currently Associate Director of Product Technology Marketing at STATS ChipPAC, leading the MEMS and Sensor Product business development for the Company. Before joining STATS ChipPAC, he was a Senior Principal at FormFactor Inc., managing the development of advanced MEMS based wafer probe card solutions. He has over 10 years of experience in semiconductor design and manufacturing, including extensive experience in the field of microfabrication and wafer processing. Dr. Jamshidi received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from University of California, Berkeley and has several journal and conference publications as well as patented inventions in the field of MEMS.

Rob O’Reilly, a former Flight Engineer in the US Navy, joined Raytheon Company in 1982 and managed one of the largest Environmental test labs in the country specializing in shock and vibration input and analysis. Rob began his MEMS career with Analog Devices in 1991, first as a consultant, followed by joining the company in a full time capacity in 1995. Developing the first production Shake test systems enabled ADI to take on sensing challenges initially in automotive, but ultimately spanned to the full sensing ecosystem. Currently Rob is exploring Smart Ag as a sensor to cloud strategy which has led to the IoTomato project. While at ADI he has led many groups within the MEMS division including MEMS Applications, Advanced Test, Production Test, Trim and Probe, and Characterization groups. He holds several patents in MEMS test technologies for accelerometer and gyro and combo test platforms. In 2012, Rob was inducted into the MEMS Industry Group’s Hall of Fame and continues to serve on their Technical Advisory, Test Standards and the Accelerated Innovations Subcommittees.

Amrit Panda is Principal Materials Engineer at Molex LLC. Molex is a provider of total electronic solutions, headquartered in Lisle, IL. At Molex, he helps define the materials roadmap, and is actively engaged in exploring and implementing technologies that help enable new applications. In addition he helps in improving the efficiency of existing high volume manufacturing processes. Prior to Molex, Amrit was part of Altera’s Power Business Unit (now part of Intel Corp). While at Altera he helped introduce the first commercial integrated planar magnetic MEMS inductor for power management applications. In his various positions he has worked closely with device and system designers, to fully leverage process advantages while developing and defining product specifications. He holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, is co-author of a book chapter on electroplated materials in the CRC handbook of nanomaterials and several technical papers. He is actively involved in the intellectual property community as an agent registered to practice before the USPTO.

Dino Smajlovic is the Business Development Manager for ACUTRONIC USA Inc. He is the company expert for inertial sensors testing, including MEMS sensors, and is responsible for developing new and maintaining key existing business opportunities, pricing and sales budgets, specifically in MEMS, commercial and industrial markets. Dino has been with ACUTRONIC USA Inc since 2013.

Prior to joining ACUTRONIC, Dino was an Engineering Test Manager for Systron Donner Inertial, a California based manufacturer of quartz MEMS inertial sensors and systems. His duties included engineering team development, NPI, high performance inertial sensors, hardware/software testing, and overseeing verification and validation testing approaches and execution. Dino holds a B.A in Mathematics from Bethel College, Indiana, Master’s in Physics from Bowling Green State University, Ohio, and Master’s in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from Purdue University.

Dean Spicer joined Micralyne in 2006 as a Research and Development Engineer, specializing in Advanced Wafer Bonding processes (eutectic, fusion and anodic). Following a series of leadership roles and responsibilities, Dean currently serves as Director of Engineering.

The emphasis of Dean's current role is enabling the development engineers to bring new customer projects efficiently through to manufacturing. He is also the internal champion of developing process platforms that enable multiple projects to be fabricated from the same processes, saving customers' time and money.

Dean earned a Bachelor of Science in Engineering Physics and a Masters of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Alberta.

Malcolm J. Thompson, PhD, is the Chief Technology Advisor for FlexTech Alliance, where he has shared responsibility for FlexTech’s technical program, and serves as the CEO of the Nano-Bio Manufacturing Consortium (NBMC), a FlexTech managed organization. Dr. Thompson has over 40 years of experience in the semiconductor, telecom and display industries and was a founder of FlexTech (then called USDC) in 1993. Dr. Thompson has served as CEO of several electronics companies, including, dPix, RPO, Vitex Systems and Novalux. He has received multiple recognitions over his illustrious career, including that of Tech Pioneer for the World Economic Forum, and has held numerous advisory roles for both industry and government. He is and has served as a director on several corporate boards, including CDT, LBO, UniPixel and Photon Dynamics, Inc. Dr. Thompson received his PhD degree at the University of Brighton, Sussex, where he studied semiconductors.

Mårten Vrånes is the Director, Consulting Services at MEMS Journal, Inc. where he leads activities for strategic planning, market intelligence, marketing and business development. Mårten has spent over 13 years in the MEMS industry and has a significant track record as an engineer, manager and founder of a VC-backed startup. His career began in Norway, at SensoNor ASA, where he focused on production ramp-up for automotive sensors. At the Bay Area start-up, LV sensors, Inc., Mårten was responsible for sourcing the entire multi-million dollar custom final test production line for TPMS sensors. In 2009, he founded Consensic, Inc. and personally developed several test platforms, for MEMS die and final packaged parts. Mårten holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering (EE) from Agder University, Norway, a Master’s Degree in Computer Integrated Manufacture (CIM) from Swinburne University of Technology, Australia and an MBA from the University of Queensland, Australia.