09:00 – 09:30
Keynote
GenAI in Semiconductor Manufacturing
Breakthrough in AI capabilities will revolutionize every aspect of human life, from autonomous vehicles, healthcare, natural disaster prediction to smart manufacturing. As AI model parameters increase, the model capability and accuracy increases, but the complexity requires more memory for training. Micron’s high bandwidth memory products lead the industry for AI workloads. Moreover, Micron is harnessing the power of AI to transform our business. From close to 10 years of AI/ML journey, Micron has demonstrated significant gains across manufacturing operation and business functions use cases, e.g., AI powered scheduling and simulation, AI assisted virtual engineer, image analytics for process control and yield improvement and AI powered productivity solutions, etc..
Koen De Backer
Micron Technology, Inc.
Koen De Backer is the Corporate Vice President of smart manufacturing and artificial intelligence at Micron Technology. He is responsible for driving Micron’s smart manufacturing initiatives and digital operations including capabilities with IoT, artificial intelligence, advanced analytics, cognitive computing and machine learning to enhance our business, global operations and product development.
Prior to joining Micron, Koen led large-scale operations projects for more than a decade to help clients reduce inefficiencies and achieve excellence in manufacturing, procurement, supply chain and support functions. Most recently, Koen was a Partner at McKinsey & Company where he steered the semiconductor consulting practice in Southeast Asia and was one of the firm’s leading experts on applying artificial intelligence and automation techniques across operations and support functions such as finance, human resources and procurement. Additionally, Koen consulted with high-tech global clients while working at Deloitte Consulting, Altran Europe and CSC.
Koen holds a master’s degree in business administration from INSEAD and master’s degrees in both industrial management and electromechanical engineering from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
Micron Technology, Inc.
Company Profile
Micron is a world leader in innovative memory solutions that transform how the world uses information. For over 40 years, our company has been instrumental to the world’s most significant technology advancements, delivering optimal memory and storage systems for a broad range of applications.
