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LOPEC Conference Board
Technical Session Chairs
Scientific Board
Strategic Advisory Board

The LOPEC Conference is the world's leading specialist Conference in the field of printed electronics. Its significance is not least reflected by the level of experience shared by the individual LOPEC boards. The members of these boards come from all over the world and work in a wide range of specialist fields.

LOPEC Conference Board

Chair	Name	Company, Position
General Chair	Wolfgang Mildner	MSW (DE), Founder and CEO
Business Conference Chair	Dr. Kerry Adams	Ventoux Ltd (UK), Director
Technical Conference Chair	Dr. Richard Price	PragmatIC Semiconductor Ltd. (UK), CTO
Scientific Conference Chair	Prof. em. Donald Lupo	Tampere University (FI)
Short Course Chair	Dr. Bertrand Fillon	CEA Tech (FR), Vice President of European Affairs
Exhibition Chair	Andrea Glawe	KROENERT GmbH & Co KG (DE), Regional Sales Director

Technical Session Chairs

Session	Name	Company, Position
3D structural electronics	Prof. Jörg Franke	Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (DE), Insitute for Factory Automation and Production Systems
Biomedical and healthcare applications	Dr. Giorgio Mutinati	AIT - Austrian Institute of Technology (AT), Project Manager
Circular economy and green electronics	Dr. Jérôme Gavillet	CEA-Liten (FR), Printed Electronic Program Director
Energy generation & storage	N.N.	N.N.
User interfaces, Displays, and Lighting	Dr. Pälvi Apilo Dr. Edzer Huitema	TactoTek Oy (FI) Director, Foresight & Research E Ink Corporation (US), CTO
Functional materials	Dr. Carla Negele	Henkel AG & Co. KGaA (UK), Head of Product Development Printed Electronics
Smart and hybrid systems	Dr. Jeroen van den Brand	Holst Centre (NL), Head Of Department – Printed Electronics
Wearables and smart textiles	Marina Toeters	by-wire.net (NL), Designer in Fashion Technology
Substrates and encapsulation	Dr. Manuel Gensler	Fraunhofer IAP (DE), Group Leader
Upscaling production and manufacturing processes	Dr. Juho Paavola	VTT (FI), Lead Flexible electronics and photonics

Scientific Board

Chair	Name	Company, Position
Scientific Conference Chair	Prof. em. Donald Lupo	Tampere University (FI)
Program Chair America	Dr. Chloe Bois	Printability and Graphic Communications Institute (CAN), General Manager and NSERC Industrial Research Chair at ICI
Program Chair Asia & Oceania	Prof. Dongjin Lee	Konkuk University (KR)
Program Chair Europe	Dr. Barbara Stadlober	Joanneum Research (AT), Head of Research Group
Short Course Chair	Dr. Bertrand Fillon	CEA Tech (FR), Vice President of European Affairs

Scientific Board Members

Name	Institution, Position
Prof. Paul Berger	Ohio State University US), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and IEEE Fellow
Prof. Paul Blom	Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (DE), Managing Director
Prof. Antonio Facchetti	Northwestern University Flexterra (US), Adjunct Professor Co-Founder and CTO
Prof. Jörg Franke	Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (DE), Institute for Factory Automation and Production Systems
Prof. Jong Min Kim	University of Oxford (UK)
Dr. Cheng-Chung Lee	ITRI (TW), Deputy General Director of Display Technology Center
Prof. Shlomo Magdassi	The Hebrew University (IL)
Prof. Yong-Young Noh	Dongguk University (KR), Editor of IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices Associate Professor, Department of Energy & Materials Engineering
Dr. Henning Richter	Nano-C Inc. (US), Vice President, Research and Development
Prof. Takao Someya	University of Tokyo (JP)
Dr. Eleni Stavrinidou	Linköping University (SE) Senior Associate Professor of Bioengineering
Prof. Ronald Österbacka	Åbo Akademi (FI), Full Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Physics Solutions for Health
Prof. Fabrizio Toricelli	University of Brescia (IT), Associate Professor, Department of Information Engineering
Prof. Chang-Qi Ma	Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics (SINANO) Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN) Professor, Division of Interdisciplinary Research

LOPEC Strategic Advisory Board

The Strategic Advisory Board represents our exhibitors. It helps us optimize LOPEC to meet the current needs of the market.

LOPEC Strategic Advisory Board