08:55 – 09:05
Empowering Europe’s Semiconductor Future – chances and challenges
The presentation provides a comprehensive overview of Europe’s semiconductor landscape, emphasizing the continent’s efforts to strengthen its position in the global microelectronics market. It highlights strategic initiatives such as the EU Chips Act, regional cluster collaborations, and investment in sustainable manufacturing and innovation ecosystems. While referencing Silicon Saxony as a leading example, the focus lies on broader European opportunities and challenges, including supply chain resilience, talent development, and technological sovereignty. Attendees will gain valuable insights into how coordinated efforts across Europe can empower the semiconductor industry to drive economic growth and secure technological leadership in a competitive global environment.
Frank Bösenberg
Silicon Saxony
Frank Bösenberg is the Managing Director of Silicon Saxony, one of Europe’s largest semiconductor clusters and the current chairman of Silicon Europe.
Based in Dresden, he has steered the organization for over a decade, connecting more than 600 members across industry, research, and government. As Chairman of the Silicon Europe Alliance, Bösenberg leads initiatives to foster innovation and strengthen the European semiconductor ecosystem. Deeply committed to Saxony’s, Germany’s and Europe’s economic growth, he promotes cooperation in microelectronics, smart systems, and digital technologies, helping position the region as a global high-tech leader.
Silicon Saxony
Company Profile
With over 600 members, Silicon Saxony is the largest high-tech network in Saxony, one of the largest ICT clusters in Germany and the largest microelectronics cluster in Europe. Completely self-financed, Silicon Saxony has been connecting manufacturers, suppliers, service providers, colleges/universities, research institutes, public institutions and industry-relevant start-ups in Saxony and beyond since its foundation in 2000.
The thematic focus of the cluster is on the technological trends of the present and future – e.g. artificial intelligence, robotics, automation, Internet of Things, sensor technology, energy efficiency, neuromorphic or edge computing. As a close cooperation partner of the Dresden Smart Systems Hub and the Leipzig Smart Infrastructure Hub, Silicon Saxony also offers direct access to the topics, projects and locations of the Digital Hub Initiative of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology.
