Seminar: Disrupting bio with specialty silicon
January 27, 2025 | San Francisco, USA
Accelerate your innovation with imec as your design to manufacturing partner
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
- 1:30 PM - Arrivals
- 2:00 PM - Welcome & introduction by Winny Tan, Head of Health Partnerships at imec
- 2:10 PM - Interfacing with imec and how it fits with your life sciences product development by Erik Crawford, Strategic Partnerships Manager Health at imec
- 2:20 PM - Leveraging the power of semiconductor manufacturing for life sciences: solid-state nanopores and structured illumination on chip by Finub James Shirley, Health Researcher at imec
- 2:40 PM - Process platforms for custom silicon: design, prototyping and manufacturing by Philippe Soussan, Strategic Development Director at imec
- 3:20 PM - End-to-end ASIC services with imec.IC-link by Venkat Puntambekar, Director of Business Development North America, at imec.IC-link, imec
- 3:40 PM - 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
- 4:40 PM - Closing remarks by Winny Tan
- 4:45 PM - Networking reception
- 6:30 PM - End
Speakers
Winny Tan - Head of Health Partnerships, imec
Winny Tan is Head of Health Partnerships at imec, where she creates strategic collaborations within the Life Science, Medical Device, and Healthcare sectors. She holds a Ph.D. in bio-microfluidics from UCLA. Winny was the first employee at Momentum Biosciences and has consulted for leading clinical diagnostics companies.
Erik Crawford - Strategic Partnerships Manager Health, imec
Erik Crawford is Strategic Partnerships Manager at imec, working to develop collaborations in healthcare. With over 15 years of experience in life sciences and semiconductor technology, Erik has previously worked as a Biomedical Patent Examiner at the USPTO and has contributed to pharmaceutical research.
Finub James Shirley - Health Researcher, imec
Finub James Shirley is a Health Researcher at imec, focusing on advancing healthcare through the use of semiconductor-based technologies. He works with interdisciplinary teams to explore disruptive applications of photonic integrated circuits in life sciences and healthcare.
Philippe Soussan - Strategic Development Director, imec
Philippe Soussan is Strategic Development Director at imec, overseeing the specialty technology portfolio, including photonics and optics. He has expertise in wafer technology integration and has authored over 100 publications and holds more than 20 patents in these fields.
Venkat Puntambekar - Director of Business Development North America at imec.IC-link, imec
Venkat Puntambekar is Director of Business Development at imec.IC-link, where he focuses on expanding the IC-Link ASIC business in North America. With deep experience in semiconductor systems and business development, Venkat has previously worked at Intel in AI product development and at several Bay Area startups.
Ravi Saxena - VP Hardware Engineering, PacBio
Ravi Saxena is VP of Hardware Engineering at Pacific Biosciences, where he leads the development of advanced chips and instruments for genome sequencing. He has significantly contributed to the development of SMRT™ Sequencing technology and holds over 10 patents in semiconductor design and sequencing technologies.
Andres Fernandez - Fellow in Silicon Engineering, (ex) Twist Bioscience
Andres Fernandez is a Fellow in Silicon Engineering with expertise in nanofabrication, semiconductor devices, and biotechnology. He previously led the integration of CMOS with nanometer-scale devices for DNA synthesis at Twist Bioscience. Andres now consults on early-stage product development in the semiconductor and biotechnology sectors.
Location
Hotel Zelos San Francisco, 12 4th St, San Francisco