Dr. Michael Hack, is Vice-President of Business Development at Universal Display Corporation. He is responsible for developing and commercializing advanced high efficiency next generation OLED products, with a special focus on flexible display applications and solid-state lighting. Prior to joining UDC in 1999, he was associated with dpiX, a Xerox Company, where he was responsible for manufacturing flat panel displays and digital medical imaging products based on amorphous silicon TFT technology. Dr. Hack received his Ph. D. degree from Cambridge University, England in 1981 and in 2007 Dr. Hack was elected a Fellow of the Society for Information Display. In 2014 Dr. Hack was nominated to serve on the board of the U.S. OLED Lighting Coalition to promote the advancement and commercialization of OLED lighting.
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Longjia Wu received his Bachelor degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Wuhan University of Technology (WUT), and then got his Ph.D. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from University of California, Davis (UC Davis) in 2015. After graduation, he joined TCL Corporate Research, engaging in the development of high performance quantum-dot light-emitting diodes for display application.
Norman earned his PhD in Chemical Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) after completing his materials engineering education in Zurich and Sydney/Australia. During his education Norman has developed several patent protected materials and processes. He is winner of the Quadrant Award and the ETH medal for the best doctoral thesis. Norman is in charge for the materials development at Avantama.
Michele is currently Business Development Manager, OLED Technical Marketing at EMD Electronics, a business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, specializing in OLED materials. She has more than 20 years’ experience in the OLED industry, working with manufacturers worldwide. Michele was an integral member of the Kodak team that successfully launched production of the world’s first Active Matrix OLED display. She holds 20 granted US patents in the areas of OLED materials, processes and device architecture and has commercialized new materials.
Experienced Professor with a demonstrated history of working in the research industry. Skilled in Research and Development (R&D) for displays and LEDs incl. optical measurements and system design.
Robert Visser is Appointed Vice President of Engineering in the Office of the CTO at Applied Materials, Inc. He is responsible for creating business opportunities in new and adjacent markets related to advanced displays, optical components for augmented reality, ‘flat optics’
(metasurface based optics) and advanced packaging solutions enabling new packaging strategies for heterogenous integration. He also advises Applied's chemistry group in India at IIT Mumbai and is looking at the role of new materials in quantum technology to explore new growth opportunities for Applied Materials in quantum computing, quantum communication, and quantum sensing.
Dr. Visser’s work in the display industry spans more than three decades. During that time, he helped develop technology that commercialized flat panel display manufacturing and uncovered breakthroughs that will lead to a new generation of flexible and bendable displays. Virtually every OLED display made today uses technology elements that he helped pioneer during his career.
Recently, in 2021, Dr. Brown Joined Schrödinger as Executive Director of Material Discovery. He has a broad background having recently been at Zapata Computing, a quantum computing company, and Rogers Corporation, an engineered materials company, as Director of Platform Innovation with responsibility for the management of the Burlington Innovation Center. He is an expert in OLED Display technology with extensive experience commercializing electronic materials having worked in a variety of roles in the OLED Display industry at Eastman Kodak Company, Kateeva Incorporated, Plextronics Incorporated, and Kyulux.
Over his career, Dr. Brown has demonstrated professional growth and development, evidenced by regular advancement of increasing professional responsibilities. Dr. Brown has been granted 35 US patents (88 globally) with 16 pending US patent applications, 34 publications, and has given numerous presentations spanning topics such as synthetic organic chemistry, organic light emitting diodes, organic photovoltaics, field effect transistors, photochemistry, electron transfer model systems, photographic chemicals, inkjet printing, and Organic Light-Emitting Diodes, process engineering and now quantum computing.
I develop market leading and groundbreaking new products and technologies through rigorous analysis of risks and opportunities, and focused effort on data driven metrics. I currently lead Display Technology including microLED development at Lumileds, reporting to the CTO.
Jerry Kang is the leading analyst for the OLED display market and technology analysis at Omdia. His research areas are OLED, quantum dot, and micro LED displays. As the research manager of the OLED team, he and his team cover the dynamics of the supply chain and the latest technology trends in materials and components.
Before joining Omdia, formerly IHS Markit, in 2011, Jerry was an OLED development engineer at Samsung SDI and Samsung Mobile Display, where he led the company’s research of the OLED technology and the global OLED display market. With more than 18 years of industry experience, Jerry is known for his professional analysis and strategic insights on the technology and the OLED, quantum dot, and micro LED displays markets. He is frequently quoted in the media and is a frequent guest speaker at major conferences worldwide. Jerry holds a bachelor’s degree in electronics engineering from Pusan National University in South Korea.
As a senior market and technology analyst at Yole Développement, Eric contributes to the development of LED, OLED, and display activities at Yole. He has authored a large collection of market and technology reports as well as multiple custom consulting projects on subjects including business strategy, identification of investments or acquisition targets, due diligence, market and technology analysis, cost modelling and technology scouting. Thanks to his deep knowledge of the LED/OLED and display industries, Eric has spoken at more than 30 industry conferences worldwide over the last five years. He has been interviewed and quoted by leading media all over the world.
Previously Eric has held various R&D, engineering, manufacturing and business development positions with the Fortune 500 Company Saint-Gobain, based in France and the United States.
Dr Eric Virey holds a PhD in Optoelectronics from the National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble.
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Raymond Reyes earned his Bachelor of Engineering (BE) degree in Mechanical Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology and his Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Villanova University, where he was inducted into Beta Gamma Sigma as a top 20% graduate business student in the world. He has held positions in the light shaping optics, railroad software and controls, and high-voltage electrical component industries. He has experience in both pre- and post-sales customer project support as well as product management. He is currently a User Experience (UX) Consultant at OLEDWorks.
Dr. Amal Ghosh was appointed as Chief Operating Officer in January 2020, Chief Technology Officer in 2018 and Senior Vice President of Research and Development in 2009. Prior to joining eMagin Corporation, he was with Eastman Kodak Company as Program Manager, involved with the development of OLED display technology. Dr. Ghosh also contributed to numerous programs involving semiconductor technology and LCD displays while at IBM Corporation, both at the T. J. Watson Research Center and at the Microelectronics Division. He has more than 30 years of industrial experience and has held numerous technical and management positions.
In 2019, Dr. Ghosh received the Karl Ferdinand Braun Prize from Society for Information Display (SID), which is the highest level of award given out by SID for technology innovation. In 2009, he received the SID Mid-Atlantic Chapter award for leadership, dedication and service to the chapter and was also elected a Fellow of the society. In 2003, he received SID’s Special Recognition Award for his work in the field of OLEDs and FEDs.
Dr. Ghosh was the President of SID during 2014-2016. He was a member of the Board of Directors of SID from 2006 through 2018. From 2017-2019 he was an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University’s department of Electrical Engineering. He obtained a Ph.D. degree in Physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.
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Jason Hartlove joined Nanosys in 2008 with a proven track record of turning emerging technologies into successful commercial products. He previously developed the Optical Mouse which has sold more than one billion units worldwide and is a standard feature in all PCs. Hartlove also pioneered and developed key technologies used in CMOS image sensors in smartphone cameras, high capacity lithium-ion battery technologies and solid-state inverter technology used in solar and electric car charging systems.
His vision for Nanosys has led the company to successfully pioneer and develop Quantum Dot based display technologies. Today, Nanosys maintains a nearly 100% market share for materials used in these ultra-bright displays with lifelike colors sold by companies including Samsung, Vizio, Hisense, TCL, Acer, Asus and Sharp.
Prior to joining Nanosys, he was president of the Imaging Solutions Division of MagnaChip Semiconductor in Seoul, South Korea, where he turned an internally focused semiconductor group into a multinational company on track for an IPO. Before MagnaChip, Hartlove was vice president and general manager of the Sensor Solutions Division of Agilent Technologies, and previously held management and development positions at Hewlett-Packard.
Jang Jin Yoo is currently research fellow at LG Display. He received his BS and MS in chemistry and physics at Sogang University, Korea, in 1993 and 1996. He also studied color science at Leeds University, UK, for his PhD. He has more than 25 years of research experience in display technologies and display picture quality. Specialty areas include picture quality evaluation, enhancement and display standardization in IEC, ICDM, VESA, UHDA etc.
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Results driven Silicon Valley deep technology leader who loves building new products by evangelizing emerging technologies and thereby delivering new revenue streams and increased profitability for companies. Functional experience in areas of engineering, strategy, operations and ecosystem partner development. Domain expertise in areas of displays, image sensors, advance optics, IoT edge intelligence, AI based Insights within B2C and B2B businesses. Self-starter, risk taker and team player that thrives in ambiguities and recognized for excellent communication and high EQ. Recipient of 70 patents, 20+ journal publications with recognized industry expert in technical field. Kunjal has background masters degree in electrical engineering and Exec-MBA from University of California at Berkeley.
Peter Palomaki is the owner and chief scientist at Palomaki Consulting, LLC, where he consults with companies around the world on understanding, characterizing, and implementing QD and other nanomaterial technologies. He holds a PhD in chemistry from Rensselaer and has developed QD enabled optical technologies at National Renewable Energy Laboratory along with multiple companies, including QD Vision. He has become a trusted speaker, writer, and QD industry veteran on whom clients rely for his problem-solving capabilities and deep network in the display industry.
