Advanced Manufacturing Innovation

Symposium Co-Chairs

Joey Mead
Professor; Director of the Nanomanufacturing Center, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

Chris Menzel
Principal Scientist
Fujifilm Dimatix, Inc.

Special Session: Challenges and Opportunities of Sustainable Micro- and Nanofabrication on an international Scale

Key Speakers

Steffi Friedrichs
Director
AcumenIST

Critical Sustainability: Environmental Social and Governance Programs
Lazaro Gonzalez
Director, Micron Technology, Inc.

Matthew Hull
Associate Director for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI)

Commercializing nanotechnology for environmental benefit; a start-up story
Jamie Lead
Director, Center for Environmental Nanoscience & Risks, South Carolina University

EuroNanoLab: cleanrooms distributed infrastructure providing world-class nanofabrication services and expertise
Michel De Labachelerie
Coordinator, Renatech - Network of French academic nanofabrication facilities, France

Resource Sharing and Collaboration in the National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI)
David Gottfried
Deputy Director, National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI)

Lisa Friedersdorf
Director
US National Nanotechnology Coordination Office

This ½-day session showcases the rapidly growing interdisciplinary field of sustainable nanofabrication, ranging from basic research and scientific discovery of novel building blocks and phenomena on the nanometer scale, to the development, validation and piloting of those products and processes that increasingly form the central elements of a green, sustainable and responsible future of innovation and manufacturing.

The session is organized and presented by the NanoFabNet – a new one-stop-shop for all matters and concerns pertaining to sustainable nanofabrication and its successful incorporation into complex, large-scale high-value commercialization by networking governmental and academic laboratories with large companies and SMEs. The NanoFabNet is a community initiative that aims to bridge the gap between the understanding and large-scale practices of sustainability and that of low-scale, low-volume processes in the high-tech sector.

During this session, experts from the sustainability and nanofabrication communities will provide insights into their organizations' achievements in sustainable nanofabrication, and the opportunities for international collaboration that these provide; invited speakers come from leading institutes and companies in the European Union and the USA.

Advanced manufacturing enables transfer of science and technology into new products and processes. It is particularly pertinent for technologically complex products and for the commercialization of advanced materials such as those highlighted at TechConnect World. This symposium focuses on challenges and success stories in technology development and highlights exciting new approaches to solving manufacturing challenges.