North America's largest electronics event for design engineers

Sensors Converge has evolved over nearly four decades as an event focusing solely on sensor technology, to a larger and more diversified event focusing on electronics technologies and embedded systems that work hand-in-hand with sensors. From enabling innovation, to process design & control development, to transforming markets, Sensors Converge covers technologies and applications that are driving smart sensor innovation into the era of sustainable living. 

Iprova and Microsoft partner to launch AI-Assisted Invention Summit

AI-assisted invention pioneer Iprova and  global technology giant Microsoft have joined forces to launch a new conference to look at the successes, issues and challenges in the fascinating and rapidly-developing area of AI-assisted invention.  The new conference, “The AI-Assisted Invention Summit”, brings together technology experts and academics, as well as current and potential future users of the approach. The event takes place on Tuesday 4th June in Lausanne, Switzerland, within the prestigious surroundings of IMD, the leading international business school which is well-known for having an important role in the study and development of innovation. In addition to the key role played by both Microsoft, in jointly organising the event with Iprova, and IMD, by hosting the event, the summit is also supported by leading intellectual property law firm Potter Clarkson and by EPFL Innovation Park, the leading Swiss deep tech innovation hub.

D&R IP SoC Day, Silicon Valley USA

D&R IP-SoC Silicon Valley 2024 Day is the unique worldwide Spring event fully dedicated to IP (Silicon Intellectual Property) and IP based Electronic Systems.

IP-SoC providers, the seed of innovation in Electronic Industry, are invited to highlight their latest products and services and share their vision about the next innovation steps in the Electronic Industry.

IP consumers can view at a glance the latest Technology trends and exciting Innovative IP/SoC products. Through a global view, Electronic systems leaders may identify disruptive innovation leading to new market segment growth.

DEDICATED IC FOUNDRY

TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) created the semiconductor Dedicated IC Foundry business model when it was founded in 1987. In 2023, TSMC served 528 customers and manufactured 11,895 products for various applications covering a variety of end markets including high performance computing, smartphones, the Internet of Things (IoT), automotive, and digital consumer electronics. Annual capacity of the manufacturing facilities managed by TSMC and its subsidiaries exceeded 16 million 12-inch equivalent wafers in 2023. These facilities include four 12-inch wafer GIGAFAB® fabs, four 8-inch wafer fabs, and one 6-inch wafer fab – all in Taiwan – as well as one 12-inch wafer fab at a wholly owned subsidiary, TSMC Nanjing Company Limited, and two 8-inch wafer fabs at wholly owned subsidiaries, TSMC Washington in the United States and TSMC China Company Limited. In August 2023, TSMC announced its plan to jointly invest in European Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (ESMC), in Dresden, Germany, to build a specialty technology fab. ESMC aims to begin construction of the fab in the second half of 2024 with production targeted to begin by the end of 2027. TSMC continues to execute its plan to construct and operate two fabs in Arizona, the United States. Production of the first fab is targeted for the first half of 2025, and construction of the second fab is ongoing. The Company is also building a new fab in Kumamoto, Japan, with production targeted by late 2024.

STARTUP WORLD CUP 

Startup World Cup is a global series of conferences and competitions that bring together the top startups, investors, entrepreneurs and tech CEOs around the world. Starting with regional competitions in nearly 50+ countries across six continents, hundreds of selected top technology startups compete for the chance to move onto the Grand Finale event in San Francisco to win a $1 million investment grand prize. Startup World Cup is organized by Pegasus Tech Ventures in partnership with investors and local sponsors.

Advancing thought, leadership in the global venture community

VC Taskforce strives to identify and be responsive to the ongoing and changing needs of the membership and provides the venture capital community and their portfolio companies a forum for real-time information exchange and dialogue through panels, workshops and roundtable meetings conducted by business/industry experts.

VC Taskforce holds informational and networking events throughout the year to benefit its member community.

Visionary thinking, uncensored questions, and opinionated discussions around pressing issues of the day that face our members are the hallmarks of our events. In addition to great content, VC Taskforce programs also offer great networking to more than 50,000 members, partners, and participants benefiting from VC Taskforce.

This year’s Silicon Catalyst Semiconductor Industry Forum will discuss how the AI era we’ve now entered will impact our industry, our society and most importantly, the world we live in. The panelists will share their thoughts on how best to address some key questions that arise as we look to navigate the years ahead in our new AI wonderland:

The panelists will share their thoughts on how best to address some key questions that arise as we look to navigate the years ahead in our new AI wonderland:

• What are the AI technologies that will create new business models and industries?

• What are the implications to semiconductor industry success for incumbents & startups?

• How do we address the power-hungry AI hyper-scalers’ impact on our energy resources?

• What impact will potential government and industry regulations have on innovation?

Re-Vision and Re-Value

The mobility industry has undergone remarkable innovation in the past decade, and the pace of change is only accelerating.

The theme of the Mobility Innovation Forum, Re-Vision & Re-Value is a reminder that the mobility ecosystem is on an exciting and challenging journey of transformation.

Join the 8th Mobility Innovators Forum where the brightest minds in the mobility ecosystem will impart their valuable insight on emerging mobility innovations and highlight why now is the crucial moment to reevaluate the visions and values of the modern day to generate a greater significant impact in the industry.

This upcoming October, Samsung Memory will host a Tech Day in San Jose, CA. The event will feature keynotes, tech sessions, and a networking reception. We are inviting our global partners and customers to share insights and innovative technologies to build a strong memory ecosystem under the theme of ‘Memory Reimagined’. Together, we’d like to reimagine memory innovations and discover opportunities to collaborate for mutual growth.

We are excited to announce our inaugural tech sessions, featuring a diverse range of compelling subjects including computing memory solutions, tiered memory strategies, reimagining storage hierarchies, future of storage technology, automotive innovations, and system infrastructure.

Silicon Catalyst is the world's only incubator + accelerator focused on semiconductor solutions, including Photonics, MEMS, sensors, IP, materials and Life Science. We accelerate startups from idea through prototype, and onto a path to volume production.

We have engaged with more than 900 semiconductor startups worldwide and have admitted 97 exciting companies.

Our companies participate in a 24-month customized incubation program. Each is guided closely by a Silicon Catalyst partner. This includes a semiconductor focused curriculum and over 45 events worldwide each year.

Silicon Catalyst’s ecosystem provides everything our startups need to design, fabricate, and market semiconductor solutions:

D&R is glad to announce a series of attractive 2023 IP Centric events.

• IP-SoC Silicon Valley 2023 on April 24th, 2023

• IP-SoC China 2023 on September 7th, 2023

• IP-SoC Conference 2023 on December 4th - 5th, 2023

IP SoC events have as goal to be the premier worldwide meetings between IP (Silicon Intellectual property) providers and IP consumers

• Like previous years IP SoC Days will be held all around the world in a single hotel large room comprising demo tables in the back to facilitate live exchanges.

• Filtered audience can freely attend D&R IP SoC days as long as they are really implied in the IP exchange as IP consumers. This free entry intends to attract a large, very specialized audience in terms of IP consumers especially from local companies.

• Visionary talks are given by high level IP specialists especially :

• Fabless IC vendors or Electronic system houses using external or internal IPs

• Foundry IP portfolio managers

• EDA Vendor IP portfolio managers

• Experienced IP providers reporting about their vision of the market evolution as well as the innovation embedded in their IP.

• External IP Managers or Internal Reuse Managers in large companies.

GOMACTech was established primarily to review developments in microcircuit applications for government systems. Established in 1968, the conference has focused on advances in systems being developed by the Department of Defense and other government agencies and has been used to announce major government microelectronics initiatives such as VHSIC and MIMIC, and provides a forum for government reviews.

Join experts on AI, Enterprise Transformation, and Corporate Innovation,
and explore the innovation impact of Generative AI.

Generative AI has captured the imagination of executives, investors, and entrepreneurs alike. Consumers are amusing themselves with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which Microsoft is integrating into its products. Google has responded with Bard. The applications of Generative AI and Foundation Models overall seem endless, and the limitations are not well understood. In this session we will examine Generative AI and how it can accelerate innovation.

We will discuss:

• The origin and inner workings of Generative AI

• Innovation application areas

• Generative AI in the Enterprise

• Organizational Transformatio

• Overcoming limitations of Generative AI

• Implications for work and organizational cultures

DECEMBER 8
SANTA CLARA CONVENTION CENTER

GSA recognizes semiconductor companies that have demonstrated excellence through their success, vision, strategy and future opportunities in the industry at its annual Awards Dinner Celebration. It is an honor to be selected as a nominee and an even more distinguished achievement to win a GSA Award.

The winner of the Grand Finale will receive US $1,000,000 prize in investment. It will either be in exchange for a portion of equity related to the most recent round of funding or a convertible note, depending on the size of the company and how much funding they have raised.

• They will also receive global exposure through media recognition from all of the journalists covering the event.

• Select sponsors will also be providing additional prizes to be announced. Last year included $30k in free legal services from Orrick and a Salesforce software package for the finalists.

Data Driven Invention Forum 2022

The use of data and analytics is already changing the very fundamentals of how inventions are created. Join our forum to find out how invention is changing from a serendipitous activity based on chance information discovery to one which is proactive, systematic, efficient and robust

Experience for yourself our latest invention toolset in an interactive workshop Get a sneak preview of what the future holds in store for the automation of invention Join other leading technology companies from around the world to share best practice And learn how data and analytics are already being used to shape products which reach over 80 of the world’s population