27-28 August 2025
Suwon
22-23 October 2025 - Singapore
07:00 – 08:00
Registration & Networking Coffee
08:00 – 08:15
Opening Remarks
Welcome Address by I.S.I.G.
Summit Overview: Key Themes & Objectives
08:20 – 08:50
Keynote: The Future of Fab Operations – Scaling Smart Manufacturing
● Keynote Reserved
08:55 – 09:15
Benchmarking What Matters: Driving Fab Excellence Through Data-Driven Comparison
Ariel Meyuhas
MAX I.E.G. LLC
At the helm of The MAX Group, a global consulting firm serving the semiconductor industry, with over 25 years of experience in the semiconductor industry, Ariel possesses a proven track record of collaborating with leading Front-End and Back-End factories. His expertise encompasses operational turnarounds and business transformations of semiconductor companies such as Atmel, Plessey Semiconductor and more, resulting in substantial financial returns. Ariel excels at motivating teams with a positive attitude and a strong passion for semiconductor manufacturing. Ariel serves as a member of the Board of Directors at Lynceus.ai, SEMI Fab Owners Alliance, and GaAs Power Systems for many years. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering and a Master in Engineering Management from the Ohio State University. Outside of his professional career, he is an avid motorsport enthusiast, actively supporting his son’s racing career in pinnacle GT categories in Europe.
Company Profile
We are MAX, for over two decades we have been creating faster and smarter global operations!
Our business philosophy and our key to success are founded on never taking your business for granted and always following you every step of the journey where everything happens, sharing responsibility for any outcomes. Our expert teams will work in perfect synergy with you, zealously improving your bottom line. Clients credit us for accelerating their factories’ path for demonstrating world-class performance results – higher productivity and output, shortened Cycle Times, and reduced Operational Costs. As tough as the challenge may be, we will bring skills and cutting-edge tools to help you succeed.
The MAX Group is a leading global consulting firm with special expertise in Benchmarking and Operational Improvements in the Semiconductor industry. While primarily focusing on the Semiconductors and Electronics industries, we are proudly serving our Clients operating in wide variety of industrial spaces including Automotive, Aerospace, Bio-Medical and more.
Company Products & Services
We provide services ranging from Manufacturing Efficiency & Productivity Improvements to Management Consulting and Organizational Transformations, M&A, New Facility Design & Build and IT Consulting. The MAX Group has over two decades of experience as change agents improving manufacturing operations from startup phase to a mature factory. Exposure to world-wide organizations and our multi-national professional talent enabled us to develop a unique range of operational solutions that help your business MAXimize profit.
09:20 – 09:40
Presentation (Yield): Optimizing Yield at Scale using Digital Twins
Prashanth Aprameyan
Intel Foundry
Company Profile
Intel’s systems foundry approach offers full-stack optimization from the factory network to software. Intel and its ecosystem empower customers to innovate across the entire system through continuous technology improvements, reference designs and new standards. Intel Foundry is an independent foundry business that meets our customers’ unique product needs, including our industry-leading sort and test capabilities. Whether front-end or back-end design is needed, when integrated with our foundry co-optimized development kits based on industry-standard tools and flows and powerful silicon IPs, the result is true innovation.
09:40 – 10:40
Networking Coffee Break & Business Meetings
10:45 – 11:30
PANEL (Yield): AI & Smart Automation for Yield Breakthroughs
Panelist
Lip Wee Ho
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.
Panelist
Sim Cik Goh
Qualcomm Technologies Inc.
Company Profile
Qualcomm is the world’s leading wireless technology innovator and the driving force behind the development, launch, and expansion of 5G. When we connected the phone to the internet, the mobile revolution was born. Today, our foundational technologies enable the mobile ecosystem and are found in every 3G, 4G and 5G smartphone. We bring the benefits of mobile to new industries, including automotive, the internet of things, and computing, and are leading the way to a world where everything and everyone can communicate and interact seamlessly.
Panelist
STMicroelectronics
Company Profile
At ST, we are more than 50,000 creators and makers of semiconductor technologies mastering the semiconductor supply chain with state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities. An integrated device manufacturer, we work with more than 200,000 customers and thousands of partners to design and build products, solutions, and ecosystems that address their challenges and opportunities, and the need to support a more sustainable world. Our technologies enable smarter mobility, more efficient power and energy management, and the wide-scale deployment of cloud-connected autonomous things. We are committed to achieving our goal to become carbon neutral on scope 1 and 2 and partially scope 3 by 2027. Further information can be found at www.st.com.
Panelist
X-FAB
Company Profile
X-FAB is one of the world’s leading specialty foundry groups for analog/mixed-signal semiconductor technologies with a clear focus on automotive, industrial, and medical applications. As a pure-play foundry, X-FAB provides manufacturing and design support services to customers that design analog/mixed-signal integrated circuits (ICs) and other semiconductor devices for use in their own products or the products of their customers. Its customers worldwide benefit from the highest quality standards, manufacturing excellence and innovative solutions by using X-FAB’s modular CMOS and SOI processes in geometries ranging from 1.0 µm to 110 nm, and its special micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) processes. X-FAB is also the first pure-play foundry to provide comprehensive processing technologies for the wide-bandgap materials silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN). The GaN-on-Si wafers are manufactured in its modern 8” fab in Dresden, Germany, and SiC wafers in the 6” fab in Lubbock, Texas, USA. X-FAB runs six production facilities in Germany, France, Malaysia and the U.S. The company employs about 4,200 people worldwide.
Panelist
UMC
Company Profile
UMC (NYSE: UMC, TWSE: 2303) is a leading global semiconductor foundry company. The company provides high quality IC fabrication services, focusing on logic and various specialty technologies to serve all major sectors of the electronics industry. UMC’s comprehensive IC processing technologies and manufacturing solutions include Logic/Mixed-Signal, embedded High-Voltage, embedded Non-Volatile-Memory, RFSOI and BCD etc. Most of UMC’s 12-in & 8-in fabs with its core R&D are located in Taiwan, with additional ones throughout Asia. UMC has total 12 fabs in production with combined capacity over 800,000 wafers per month (8-in equivalent), and all of them are certified with IATF 16949 automotive quality standard. UMC is headquartered in Hsinchu, Taiwan, plus local offices in United States, Europe, China, Japan, Korea & Singapore, with worldwide total 20,000 employees.
For more information, please visit: https://www.umc.com.
11:35 – 11:45
Presentation (Cycle Time): Lean Automation for Cycle Time Wins
Leon Chan
Alpha X Technology PTE. LTD.
Company Profile
Alpha X Technology is an innovative leader in high-tech manufacturing. We pioneer the integration of advanced automation, cutting-edge transportation systems, and AI-driven solutions to revolutionize traditional manufacturing processes.
Customer-centricity is at the heart of our mission, as we strive to drive digitization and innovation while contributing to the development of future talent. We hold ourselves to the highest standards of integrity, working towards building a robust and sustainable ecosystem for long-term growth.
Company Products & Services
Alpha X Technology is a cutting-edge leader in high-tech manufacturing, specializing in advanced automation solutions for semiconductor manufacturing. Our expertise combines state-of-the-art hardware and software, delivering optimized, data-driven systems that enhance productivity, quality, and reliability. We offer comprehensive solutions, including Equipment Automation Systems (EAS), Real-Time Dispatch Systems (RTD), AI Fault Detection and Classification (FDC), Chat-Based Business Intelligence and Automated Material Handling Systems (AMHS), such as Overhead Hoist Transport (OHT) and Stocker.
11:50 – 12:05
CASE STUDY (Cycle Time): Speeding Up Fab Flow
ams OSRAM
Company Profile
A global leader in innovative light and sensor solutions
At ams OSRAM, we pioneer differentiating light and sensor solutions. Looking back on more than 100 years of industry experience, we combine engineering excellence and global manufacturing capabilities with passion for cutting-edge innovation. Our commitment to pushing the boundaries of illumination, visualization, and sensing has earned us the trust of customers worldwide. Together, we create break-through applications that make our world safer, smarter, and more sustainable.
“Sense the power of light” – our success is based on our deep understanding of the potential of light. We harness its full spectrum – visible and invisible – to illuminate our surroundings as well as gather information from them. By adding intelligence to light, we enable our customers to drive transformative applications.
Our distinct portfolio of advanced light and sensor technologies sets us apart in our industry. It includes high-quality semiconductor-based light emitters, sensors, CMOS ICs and software as well as a range of traditional lighting technologies for automotive and special applications.
Our around 20,000 employees worldwide focus on innovation alongside the societal megatrends of digitalization, smart living, energy efficiency, and sustainability. Our light and sensor technologies are setting industry standards in the automotive, industrial, medical and consumer electronics markets. This is reflected in our global portfolio of some 14,000 patents and patent applications. Headquartered in Premstaetten/Graz (Austria) and Munich (Germany), the group achieved EUR 3.6 billion revenues in 2023.
12:05 – 13:05
Networking Lunch
13:10 – 13:55
PANEL (Cycle Time): Smart Fabs & the Future Workforce
Panelist
GlobalFoundries
Company Profile
GF is one of the world’s leading semiconductor manufacturers and the only one with a truly global footprint. We are redefining innovation and semiconductor manufacturing by developing feature-rich process technology solutions that provide leadership performance in pervasive high growth markets. As a steadfast partner, with a unique mix of design, development and fabrication services, GF works collaboratively alongside our customers to bring a broad range of innovative products to market. With a global customer base, a talented and diverse workforce and an at-scale manufacturing footprint spanning three continents, GF is delivering a new era of more.
Panelist
NXP Semiconductors
Company Profile
NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ: NXPI) brings together bright minds to create breakthrough technologies that make the connected world better, safer and more secure. As a world leader in secure connectivity solutions for embedded applications, NXP is pushing boundaries in the automotive, industrial & IoT, mobile, and communication infrastructure markets while delivering solutions that advance a more sustainable future. Built on more than 60 years of combined experience and expertise, the company has approximately 34,200 team members in more than 30 countries and posted revenue of $13.28 billion in 2023. Find out more at www.nxp.com.
Panelist
Infineon Technologies AG
Company Profile
Here at Infineon, we combine entrepreneurial success with responsible action to make life easier, safer, and greener. Barely visible, semiconductors have become an indispensable part of everyday life. We play a key role in shaping a better future – with microelectronics that link the real and the digital world. Our semiconductors enable efficient energy management, smart mobility, as well as secure, seamless communications in an increasingly connected world. Infineon designs, develops, manufactures and markets a broad range of semiconductors and system solutions. The focus of its activities is on automotive and industrial electronics, communication and information technologies, IoT, sensor technology and security. The product range comprises standard components, software, customer-specific solutions for devices and systems, as well as specific components for digital, analog, and mixed-signal applications.
Panelist
SilTerra
Company Profile
SilTerra, a pure-play wafer foundry, offers various CMOS technologies from 180nm to 110nm nodes. It serves a wide range of end-market applications, including IoT, power management, consumer electronics, medical and communication products. Besides CMOS technologies, SilTerra also provides MEMS foundry services, unique and patented MEMS-on-CMOS technologies, silicon photonics, bio-photonics, and power. Its excellent customer service team helps customers realize working prototypes from proof of concept to high volume manufacturing.
Panelist
Sandisk
Company Profile
Sandisk, a global Flash and advanced memory technology innovator, understands how people and businesses consume data and relentlessly innovates to deliver solutions that enable today’s needs and tomorrow’s next big ideas. With a rich history of groundbreaking innovations in memory and storage semiconductors, we keep people and businesses moving forward with inspired innovations to actualize their potential.
As Sandisk embarks on its journey with its new corporate branding, the company continues to keep aspirations moving and pushing possibility forward, empowering people and businesses with data everywhere. We do this through the balance of our powerhouse manufacturing capabilities and our industry-leading portfolio of products that are recognized for innovation, performance and quality.
Sandisk is on a journey to be an industry leader in sustainability, building from a strong foundation. Our commitment to environmental, social and responsible business has always been an integral part of Sandisk’s DNA. These focus areas guide the company to make meaningful decisions that benefit the business and have a positive impact on the environment, society, and key stakeholders.
Company Products & Services
Sandisk operates in several key sectors: Cloud & Data Center, Client Compute, Consumer & Gaming as well as Automotive, Mobile & IoT. These industries are central to the company’s broad portfolio, which includes storage solutions ranging from high-performance memory cards to enterprise-level data management, serving cloud providers to enterprises to consumers.
14:00 – 14:10
CASE STUDY (Cost): Cutting Costs Without Compromise
Reserved
14:15 – 15:00
PANEL (Cost): Sustainability & Sustainable Cost Control
Panelist
Henri Berthe
Schneider Electric
Henri Berthe, a seasoned professional with 20 years of experience at Schneider Electric, leads the global Semiconductor Segment, driving sustainability and digitization. Previously, he was VP of Universal Enclosures, overseeing a global business focused on high-quality, standard, and connected enclosures. Before that, he served as VP of Digital Energy in MENA and Africa, deploying digital technologies and electrification solutions. Henri’s expertise spans energy management, digital power, and building management systems. He holds a master’s degree in Sales and Marketing from ESTA Belfort, France. In May 2024, he joined the Regional Advisory Board of SEMI South-East Asia and the Global Counsel of the Semiconductor Climate Consortium.
Company Profile
Schneider Electric is the global industrial technology leader, driving sustainable impact.
We are a powerhouse of electrification, automation, and digitization. The unique combination of our electrical and automation technologies intersect with our leadership in software, services and sustainability to rapidly accelerate sustainable impact.
Schneider’s purpose is to create Impact by empowering all to make the most of our energy and resources, bridging progress and sustainability for all. At Schneider we call this Life Is On.
Our mission is to be the trusted partner in Sustainability and Efficiency.
Company Products & Services
Energy management, Industrial Automation, Sustainability and Consulting Services, Industrial Software.
Panelist
Analog Devices Sdn Bhd
Company Profile
Analog Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADI) is a global semiconductor leader that bridges the physical and digital worlds to enable breakthroughs at the Intelligent Edge. ADI combines analog, digital, and software technologies into solutions that help drive advancements in digitized factories, mobility, and digital healthcare, combat climate change, and reliably connect humans and the world. With reported revenues of more than $12 billion in FY22 and more than 24,000 people globally working alongside 125,000 global customers, ADI ensures today’s innovators stay Ahead of What’s Possible. Learn more at www.analog.com and on LinkedIn and Twitter.
Panelist
UTAC
Company Profile
UTAC is a leading independent provider of assembly and test services for a broad range of semiconductor chips with diversified end-use applications including communication, consumer, computing, automotive, security, industrial and medical. Our customers include fabless companies, integrated device manufacturers and wafer foundries.
UTAC is headquartered in Singapore with more than 12 production facilities. Our global sales network is widely focused on five regions: the United States, Europe, China and Taiwan, Japan and the rest of Asia with sales offices located in each of these regions.
Panelist
ASE
Company Profile
ASE is the leading global provider of semiconductor manufacturing services in assembly and test. With a proven track record spanning almost 40 years, ASE today is at the forefront of flexible, powerful, integration technologies that achieve criteria for improved power, performance, area, and cost requirements. Our comprehensive toolbox leveraging innovative technologies, such as die interconnection, wafer level fan out, embedded devices, conformal and compartmental shielding, integrated antenna, and others, are being refined and enhanced to support future generations of system integration. Heterogenous Integration through SiP is enabling significant innovation across dynamic application areas including AI, 5G, automotive, mobile, IoT and more. Our industry is driven by innovation, and through ASE’s miniaturization technologies, we are enabling transformative solutions that are literally changing lives, from health to transportation, from Robotics to AI, from IoT to 5G.
Website: ase.aseglobal.com
15:05 – 16:05
Networking Coffee Break
16:10 – 16:25
CASE STUDY (Output): Dynamic Simulation-Enabled Prescriptive Analytics for Maximizing Output in the AI-Driven Autonomous Factory of the Future
Peter Lendermann, Ph.D.
D-SIMLAB Technologies Pte Ltd
Company Profile
D-SIMLAB Technologies is a software company providing high-performance, AI-enabled, simulation-based Digital Twin solutions for business analytics and decision support in asset-intensive industries, with a focus on Semiconductor Manufacturing (D-SIMCON suite) and Aviation Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul industries (D-SIMSPAIR suite).
D-SIMLAB is a spin-off company from the Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology (SIMTech) under the Agency for Science Technology and Research (A*STAR). The head office is in Singapore, and D-SIMLAB also has representations in Germany, the US, Malaysia and China.
D-SIMCON solutions have been implemented with more than 10 IDM/Foundry/DRAM/LED customers operating more than 30 fabs worldwide, both 150mm/200mm and 300mm, as well as Assembly & Test. D-SIMLAB’s success lies in deploying production-ready solutions portraying many domain-specific characteristics, essential for the generation of operationally feasible plans and schedules, enabling customers to extract immediate value.
Company Products & Services
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.
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.
16:30 – 16:45
CASE STUDY (Output)
Yvonne Keil
GlobalFoundries
Yvonne Keil is Senior Director of GF Operations Malaysia & India, leading all Manufacturing Hubs of Globalfoundries, the world’s largest US based semiconductor foundry with manufacturing sites in Singapore, Europe and US. She is located in Penang.
With her roots in Europe Yvonne joined the board of the German high-tech-cluster Silicon Saxony beginning 2021 and was part of the advisory board of SEMI Europe from 2021-2024.
Yvonne brings over 20 years of semiconductor experience in Manufacturing, Automation, Global Supply Chain and Procurement.
The graduate engineer studied electrical engineering at the TU Dresden and the KTH Stockholm with a focus on automation technology, machine learning and artificial intelligence. She has worked at AMD since 2005 and joined GlobalFoundries 2012.
Company Profile
GF is one of the world’s leading semiconductor manufacturers and the only one with a truly global footprint. We are redefining innovation and semiconductor manufacturing by developing feature-rich process technology solutions that provide leadership performance in pervasive high growth markets. As a steadfast partner, with a unique mix of design, development and fabrication services, GF works collaboratively alongside our customers to bring a broad range of innovative products to market. With a global customer base, a talented and diverse workforce and an at-scale manufacturing footprint spanning three continents, GF is delivering a new era of more.
16:50 – 17:05
Case Study: What’s Next for AI in Semiconductor Manufacturing
Reserved
17:10 – 17:55
Panel: Redrawing the Lines – The Strategic Role of Fabless Companies in Shaping Fab Collaboration
Panelist
Reserved
ARM
Panelist
Reserved
AMD
Company Profile
For 50 years, AMD has driven in high-performance computing, graphics, and visualization technologies – the building blocks for gaming, immersive platforms, and the datacenter. Hundreds of millions of consumers, leading Fortune 500 businesses and cutting-edge scientific research facilities around the world rely on AMD technology daily to improve how they live, work and play. AMD employees around the world are focused on building great products that push the boundaries of what is possible. For more information about how AMD is enabling today and inspiring tomorrow, visit AMD (NASDAQ:AMD) on their website, blog, Facebook and Twitter pages.
Panelist
Reserved
NVIDIA
Company Profile
Since its founding in 1993, NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) has been a pioneer in accelerated computing. The company’s invention of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market, redefined computer graphics, ignited the era of modern AI and is fueling the creation of the metaverse. NVIDIA is now a full-stack computing company with data-center-scale offerings that are reshaping industry.
Panelist
SkyeChip
17:55 – 18:10
Closing Remarks
18:10 – 21:00
Cocktail Reception & Dinner
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