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The 19th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference

Session BK  Banquet & Banquet Keynote
Time: 18:30 - 21:00 Wednesday, January 22, 2014
Location: Flower Field Hall, Gardens by the Bay
Chair: Mashiro Fujita (University of Tokyo, Japan)

BK-1 (Time: 19:30 - 20:00)
Title(Keynote Address) The Art of Innovation - How Singapore Will Continue to Drive the Progress in Semiconductor Technologies
AuthorUlf Schneider (Managing Director, Lantiq Asia Pacific/President, SSIA, Singapore)
AbstractSince the mid 1960’s Singapore has been an important pillar of the worldwide semiconductor industry, reinventing its portfolio, focus and strategy a few times to keep up with overall trends. Preparing for the next decade, Singapore’s industry, research and academia has to put up again the right directions and strategy to keep up with the pace in a more and more competitive global environment. The talk will cover some of the really unique opportunities which Singapore has in this aspect.