Chief Technology Officer & Senior VP
IMEC, Leuven, Belgium
&
Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering
KU Leuven, Belgium

Thank You, Things

Alternative and advanced use of semiconductor technology enables many 'things'.  Connected things will help us to avoid unwanted situations and augment our lives. We will wake up in a perceptive and responsive home that uses context information as agenda, the weather along our day, the traffic, what is in the fridge and even your emotional and physical state.  The same surrounding support we will find in shopping and leisure, at work, on the road and in all steps of the personal care cycle.  Every thing contributes, through a sense and a signal, to the total picture.  And when our 'total picture' shifts 'out of spec' unnoticed by the daily eye, the crowd of signals develops into a pattern and triggers a preventive signal or send early intervention on it’s way.   Thank you, things.

About the speaker:

Jo De Boeck received his engineering degree in 1986 and his PhD degree in 1991 from the University of Leuven. Since 1991 he is a staff member of imec (Leuven). He has been a NATO Science Fellow at Bellcore (USA, 1991-92) and AST-fellow in the Joint Research Center for Atom Technology (Japan, 1998). In his research career, he has been leading activities on integration of novel materials at device level and new functionalities at systems level. In 2003 he became Associate Vice President at IMEC for the Microsystems division and in 2005 started Holst Centre (Eindhoven) and became CEO of IMEC-Netherlands. From 2009 to 2011 he headed imec's unit Smart Systems and Energy Technology as Senior Vice President in the imec group. In 2011 he was appointed CTO of imec corporate. He is part-time professor at the KU Leuven and visiting professor at the TU Delft.