Appendix A
Agenda
Flexible Electronics for Security, Manufacturing, and Growth in the United States
September 24, 2010
The Keck Center of the National Academies
500 Fifth Street, NW
Room 100
Washington, DC
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| 9:00 AM | Welcome Charles Wessner, The National Academies |
| 9:05 AM | Introduction Michael Andrews, L3 Communications |
| 9:15 AM | Panel I: The Flexible Electronics Opportunity and Industry Challenges: Perspectives from Industry Moderator: Sridhar Kota, White House OSTP |
| The Promise and Potential of Flexible Electronics Ross Bringans, PARC |
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| Impact of a Flexible Form Factor for Displays and Lighting Julia Brown, Universal Display Corporation |
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| Roll-to-Roll Fabrication of Transistor Arrays for Sensing and Display Applications Carl Taussig, Hewlett-Packard |
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| 10:30 AM | Coffee Break |
| 10:45 AM | Panel II: The U.S. Interest: Security, Manufacturing, and Growth Moderator: Jon Epstein, Office of Senator Jeff Bingaman |
| Army Applications for Flexible Displays John Pellegrino, U.S. Army Research Laboratory |
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| The DARPA Role Devanand Shenoy, DARPA |
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| The Technology Innovation Program: An Early Investor Michael Schen, NIST |
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| A State’s Initiative: Advancing Flexible Electronics in Ohio Byron Clayton, NorTech |
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| 12:15 PM | Lunch |
| 1:15 PM | Panel III: What Is the Rest of the World Doing? Moderator: Pradeep Fulay, National Science Foundation |
| A Global Perspective Andrew Hannah, Plextronics |
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| German Policy Initiatives Christian May, Fraunhofer Institute, Dresden |
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| Taiwan’s Flexible Electronics Program John Chen, Industrial Technology and Research Institute of Taiwan |
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| Korea’s Initiatives Changhee Lee, Seoul National University |
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| 3:00 PM | Coffee Break |
| 3:15 PM | Panel IV: What is Needed? Opportunities for Collaborative Activity Moderator: Nick Colaneri, Arizona State University |
| Roadmapping for Flexible Electronics Dan Gamota, iNEMI |
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| The Consortium Opportunity Malcolm Thompson, RPO |
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| Cooperating on The Manufacturing Challenge Thomas Edman, Applied Materials |
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| 4:15 PM | Panel V: Roundtable—Key Issues and Next Steps Forward Moderator: Don Siegel, University at Albany, SUNY |
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Ananth Dodabalapur, University of Texas at Austin Stephen Forrest, University of Michigan James Turner, Association of Public and Land Grant Universities |
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| 5:00 PM | Closing Remarks Charles Wessner, The National Academies |