Jo De Boeck, CTO, imec corporate, will be moderator of:
'Quality of life/medical enabled by MEMS' discussion. 

The panel will explore the cutting edge advances being developed at companies and are intended for integration into existing and revolutionary medical products. The panelists will discuss how MEMS enabling better health/QoL with respect to monitoring, management, rehab and replacement. Experts will discuss leading technologies and growing commercial opportunities in the medical sciences ranging from lab to clinical care to patient monitoring, management, rehab, replacement and drug delivery. They will further explore how MEMS is well suited for new lifesaving and life-enhancing applications that require a high degree of interactivity with the environment in a small package.

Panellist:
Dr. Francois Berger, CEA Leti - Clinatec
Frédéric Neftel, MD, President & CEO, Debiotech SA
Chris Baten, Program Manager, Roessingh Research and Development

Agenda MEMS Industry Group

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Jo De Boeck received his engineering degree in 1986 and his PhD degree in 1991 from the University of Leuven. Since 1991 he is a staff member of imec (Leuven). He has been a NATO Science Fellow at Bellcore (USA, 1991-92) and AST-fellow in the Joint Research Center for Atom Technology (Japan,1998). In his research career, he has been leading activities on integration of novel materials at device level and new functionalities at systems level. In 2003 he became Associate Vice President at IMEC for the Microsystems division and in 2005 started Holst Centre (Eindhoven) and became CEO of IMEC-Netherlands. From 2009 to 2011 he headed imec’s unit Smart Systems and Energy Technology as Senior Vice President in the imec group. Late 2011 he has been appointed CTO of imec corporate. He is professor at the KU Leuven and visiting professor at the TU Delft.