Chazelle, Xavier

After 27 years in high tech electronic and Aeronautics, Xavier Chazelle joined Veolia Environnement in 2005 where he is deputy Director of Research and Development. He is in charge of international R&D management, R&D organisation, intellectual property management and development (patents, copyrights, etc.) and acts as an administrator for various French / international companies and organisations.
With ten other European companies, he created the EUREKA Cluster for water and related in 2009. Today, he is the chairman of this cluster.

Delage, Sylvain

Dr. Sylvain Delage obtained his PhD from University Paris VII in 1985 for his work carried out at CNET-Meylan on the demonstration of first monolithic Si/CoSi2/Si Metal Base Transistor grown by molecular beam epitaxy. Afterwards he was for 2 years with IBM T.J. Watson Research Center as research staff member, where he did participate to the first demonstration of Si/SiGe HBT, which have been later on developed and manufactured worldwide by major semiconductor companies.
In 1988, he joined the Central Research Laboratory of Thomson-CSF, now Thales Research and Technology, where he was in charge of the Power Transistor Programme for Microwave Applications. This work carried out with a team of about 15 people gave rise to the first demonstration of InGaP/GaAs HBT devices and microwave circuits. This technology has been successfully transferred to UMS, a Thales-EADS GmbH joint venture dedicated to the production of microwave components. He is now working with the Alcatel Thales III-V Lab, where he is in charge of the Microelectronics Group, which includes about 25 permanent scientists working on GaN and InP materials and devices. These technologies are mostly developed for wireless telecommunications, professional electronics, optical fiber network and power switching electronics. He has been in charge or strongly involved in various European or French projects: AIMS, Andro, Korrigan, GAMMA, UltraGaN, MIGHT, EURONIM, TERAGAN, UltraGaN, MORGaN, TOPOGaN, E3Car, Attitude 4G+, etc. Sylvain Delage was formerly Member of the French National Committee of Research and a member of the Technical Program Committee of the EuMIC conference. He contributes to more than 100 publications and 25 international patents.

Dubarry, Cécile

Cécile Dubarry graduated from Ecole Normale Supérieure and from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des télécommunications (ENST). Between 1993 and 2002 she held different leading positions at the Ministry of Industry, Posts, Telecommunications and Foreign and the Autorité de Régulation des Telecommunications. From 2002 to 2005 she was Director of the Service for Development and Information Society at the Directorate for Media Development (DMD) and in 2006 became Deputy Director of the DMD. Since April 2009, she has been the Director of the Service for Communication and Information Technologies at the General Directorate for Competitiveness, Industry and Services (Ministry of Economy, Industry and Employment). 

Marquette, Gabriel

Docteur-Ingénieur in Acoustics (UTC, Compiègne, France), Gabriel Marquette joined the Schlumberger Montrouge Research Centre in 1992 as Project leader after eight years with Bertin engineering. In 1996, he moved to the Schlumberger European Affairs Department, in charge of external funding for trans-national collaborative R&D. As Director of Collaborative R&D, he has been in charge of the European Affairs team from 2001 until 2008 to further promote University-Enterprise partnership. Since 2009 he is Director EU & Industry Relations, his mission being to develop collaborative research and partnerships with academia and other industries with a focus on CCS, Geothermal Services and Unconventional Gas.

His involvement in external bodies includes CNRS Scientific Council (Earth & Universe), ERA Working Group, IEA GHG R&D Programme ExCo.

He is also President of EUROGIA+, the EUREKA Cluster for Low Carbon Energy Technologies since its foundation (2004).

Dr. Bruno Nicolas graduated in 1991 as electrical engineer at the University of Munich/Germany. He obtained Ph.D. Degree in 1996 of the Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse/France. He is currently in charge of project management for power electronic systems and components within Continental Engineering Services France for hybrid/electric vehicles and non-automotive applications (more electrical aircraft, industry, defence).

Dr. Opper is the Chief Scientist in the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labour of Israel. Before his appointment, Dr. Opper was a partner at Giza Venture Capital, after a 27 year career at Rafael, Israel's leading armaments development authority. In the last decade in Rafael he held the positions of Chief of Staff, VD of R&D, VP of Advanced Topics and General Manager of the Electronic Systems Division.

Dr. Opper served as a member of numerous professional committees, published papers and is lecturer in the areas of computers, communications, electronics, R&D and management at academic institutions and professional seminars all over the world. He has served as a director and chairman of many companies and as a member of the boards of public organizations.

Dr. Opper held, while at Rafael, a research degree equivalent to a full Professor and holds B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering, from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, as well as a PhD in Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.

Sylvain Paineau is with Schneider Electric since 2004 where he is in charge of managing innovation project portfolio and R&D partnerships. He is also coordinating strategic cooperation between Schneider Electric and a major European research centre.
He represents Schneider Electric in the “petale” committee, the Grenoble Alps Incubation organisation. He is also member of micro-nano evaluation and orientation committee of MINALOGIC competitiveness pole and member of ANR P3N evaluation committee.
He held several innovation management positions in the industry during these last 25 years and managed several R&D European projects.
He was in charge of MEMS lab in Thales (1997-2001) and more recently Marketing and Technical Director of PHS MEMS (2001-2004) a start-up in MEMS foundry business.
Sylvain Paineau holds an optronic engineering degree from Paris XI University.

Carmelo Papa is Executive Vice President and General Manager of STMicroelectronics’ Industrial & Multisegment Sector, which comprises power and analog devices, microcontrollers, MEMS, as well as discrete, special non-volatile memory and smart card products, and has held this position since January 2007. He is a member of the Corporate Strategic Committee.

Papa started his professional career with ICL (International Computers Limited). He joined SGS Microelettronica, a predecessor company to STMicroelectronics, in 1983, and three years later was promoted to Director of Product Marketing and Customer Service for Transistors and Standard ICs. Over the time, Papa made key contributions to the growth of ST’s operations in Catania, Italy. In 2000, Papa was appointed Corporate Vice President, Emerging Markets, comprising Africa and the Middle East, India, Latin America, Russia and the Eastern European countries. In 2005, he was chosen to lead the Micro, Power and Analog Group, serving a broad customer base in a large variety of applications with a special emphasis on the industrial segment.

Prof. Rao Tummala is a Distinguished and Endowed Chair Professor, and Founding Director of NSF ERC at Georgia Tech, the largest Academic Center in Microsystems pioneering System-On-Package (SOP) vision, since 1994. Prior to joining Georgia Tech, he was an IBM Fellow, pioneering such major technologies as the first plasma flat panel display based on gas discharge, the first and next three generations of multichip packaging based on 35-layer alumina and 61-layer LTCC with copper and copper-polymer thin film, and materials for ink-jet printing and magnetic storage.

Prof. Tummala is a Fellow of IEEE, IMAPS, and the American Ceramic Society, and member of the National Academy of Engineering in USA and in India. He was the President of both IEEE-CPMT and the IMAPS Societies. He has received many industry, academic and professional society awards.