Disrupting bio with specialty silicon

Wafer-scale chip processing technologies, and (post-CMOS-processed) specialty features such as integrated photonics, microfluidics and nanopores, are key to creating innovative tools – high-throughput, fast, sensitive and mass-producible – for the life sciences. Imec offers a state-of-the-art flexible fab infrastructure and experts that can translate your idea into a reliable, manufacturable product. Join us at this insightful seminar to learn more about imec’s offering of process technology & material platforms to build your next bio application. Whether you're looking to accelerate your product development or scale up to volume manufacturing, imec is your trusted partner.

Why attend?

Join us for an engaging afternoon, followed by a networking reception, as we explore the latest developments in semiconductor fabrication and manufacturing for the life sciences industry. Imec, as a technology powerhouse, will present its process technology platforms – such as Si/SiN photonics, precision fluidics, nanostructures – with their unique characteristics and usage in innovative health solutions. Discover how imec collaborates with top innovators to drive advancements through its world-class R&D, prototyping, and manufacturing capabilities.

In this seminar you will learn:

• How to determine if specialty silicon is the right choice for your business.
• How Twist Bioscience and PacBio partnered with imec to solve their technical challenges.
• Why imec is the perfect partner to move from a proof of concept – typically developed in a more academic environment – to a product that can be reliably and economically manufactured at scale, meeting high quality standards.
• How imec handles the journey from idea & prototype to manufacturing – supported in this by its extensive network of foundries and by imec.IC-link, imec’s world-class ASIC solutions provider.
• What imec’s ‘toolbox’ of expertise, technology & (non-standard) material platforms looks like, and how it offers a high level of flexibility and adaptability for specialized applications.
• How imec’s state-of-the-art infrastructure offers unique post-processing capabilities, both for 200mm and 300mm wafers.

Agenda

• 13:30 - Arrivals 
• 14:00 - Welcome & introduction by Winny Tan, Head of Health Partnerships at imec
• 14:10 - Interfacing with imec and how it fits with your life sciences product development by Erik Crawford, Strategic Partnerships Manager Health at imec
• 14:20 - Leveraging the power of semiconductor manufacturing for life sciences: solid-state nanopores and structured illumination on chip by Finub Shirley, Health Researcher at imec
• 14:40 - Process platforms for custom silicon: design, prototyping and manufacturing by Philippe Soussan, Strategic Development Director at imec
• 15:20 - Imec.IC-link: imec’s solution provider for custom ASIC - volume manufacturing by Venkat Puntambekar, Director of Business Development North America, at imec.IC-link, imec
• 15:40 - Industry insights: from concept to commercialization of silicon in bio innovation by
  • Ravi Saxena, VP Hardware Engineering at PacBio
  • Andres Fernandez, Fellow, Silicon Engineering, (ex) Twist Bioscience
• 16:30 - Closing remarks by Winny Tan
• 16:35 - Networking reception
• 18:30 - End

Location

Hotel Zelos San Francisco, 12 4th St, San Francisco