Speakers:

Speakers are currently being recruited for the WNEC India program.

If you wish to be a speaker at the WNEC India, please contact either Paramjyothi Chowti (Yashnanotech) at jyothi.chowti@cientifica.com, or Dexter Johnson at dexter.johnson@cientifica.com.

Speakers at the World Nano-Economic Congress India 2006:

§ Mr. Kwyro Lee, Executive Vice President, LG Electronics
§ Prof. Ashok Misra, Director, IIT Bombay
§ Mr. Robert Kisrchbaum, Vice President of Innovations, DSM Venturing Co.
§ Dr. Gerhard Goldbeck-Wood, PhD, Nanotechnology Consortium Director, Accelrys
§ Dr. Jens Greiser, Strategic Marketing Manager, FEI Company
§ Mr. Tim E. Harper, CEO Cientifica, co-founder Nanosight Ltd, Executive Director
§ Dr. David Reisner, CEO, Inframat Corp.
§ Dr. Peter Hatto, CEO, IonBond Ltd. UK
§ Dr. R Chandra Srivastava, Scientist G, SERC - Department of Science & Technology, India
§ Dr. V M Naik, Deputy Head of laboratory, Hindustan Lever Research Centre and Unilever Research India.
§ Dr. Murali Sastry, Chief Scientist, Tata Chemicals Ltd., India
§ Dr. RamGopal Rao, Head, Centre for Research in Nanotechnology & Science, IIT Bombay
§ Dr. G U Kulkarni, Nanomaterial Group Member, JNCASR Bangalore
§ Prof. Peter Cookson, Research Academic, Deakin University Australia
§ Dr. Yau Shan Szeto, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
§ Mr. Marcel Halbeisen, EMPA, Materials Science and Technology
§ Dr. Rajah Vijay Kumar, CEO, Centre for Advance Research & Development
§ Dr. Joseph Asantraj, CEO, VelbioNanotech
§ Dr. Jayesh Bellare, Project NanoBiosciences, IIT Bombay
§ Mr. Aymeric Sallin, Founder & Partner, NanoDimension AG
§ Dr. Wayne Mozer, Veeco Instruments, Inc, USA
§ Dr. Marek Michalewicz, CEO, Quantum Precision Instruments Asia Pte Ltd.
§ Dr. Sanjay Mathur, Head CVD Technology, Leibniz-Institut fur Neue Materialieng GmbH
§ Mr. Ankush Oberai, Vice Prseident Sales & Marketing, Knight Technology
§ Dr. Arup Chatterjee, Research Scientist - Nanotechnology, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd.

Past Speakers at WNEC Events

Speakers at the World Nano-Economic Congress Singapore 2005:

§ David Eaglesham, New Business and New Products Group, Applied Materials (USA)
§ Dr. Sining Mao, R/D Director of Advanced Devices Development, Seagate (USA)
§ Jung Jae Kim, CTO & Vice President, cDream Corporation (USA)
§ Bala Padmakumar, President, Nanoconduction Inc. (USA)
§ Dr. Anna Kluczewska, Head of Diagnostics, pSivida (Australia)
§ Dr. Kevin Matthews, CEO, Oxonica (UK)
§ Dr. Hubert Kostal, Vice President Marketing and Sales, NanoOpto Corp. (USA)
§ Dr. Vivek Soni, Adjunct Associate Professor, BJM School of Biosciences and Bioengineering, IIT Bombay (India)
§ Prof. Wei Zhou, Associate Professor, Deputy Director, Precision Engineering & Nanotechnology Centre, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)
§ Prof. Bryan Ngoi, Director of Nanoscience & Nanotechnology Corridor, Nanyang Technological University, and Director, NanoFrontier (Singapore)
§ Xie Hong, Research Scientist, Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (Singapore)
§ Marek Michalewicz, CEO, Quantum Precision Instruments Pty Ltd. (Australia)
§ Sarah Cooper, CTO, Biophan (USA)
§ Dr. Jimmy Yun, CEO, Nanomaterials Technology (Singapore)
§ Roy Tan, CEO, Water and Environment Technologies Pte Ltd (Singapore)
§ Dr. Tao Guihe, Section Head, Centre for Advanced Water Technology Division of Singapore Utilities International Pte. Ltd. (CAWT/SUI) (Singapore)
§ Dr. Adrian Burden, CEO, Singular ID Pte. Ltd. (Singapore)
§ Dr. Wei-xian Zhang, Professor Civil and Environmental Engineering, Lehigh University (USA_
§ Dr. Eric Mayes, CEO, NanoMagnetics Ltd. (UK)
§ Dr. Yee-Chia Yeo, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore (Singapore)

Speakers at the World Nano-Economic Congress Ireland 2005:

§ Dr. Gary Liversidge, Senior Director, Project Planning and Management, Elan Corporation (USA)
§ Dr. Sining Mao, R/D Director of Advanced Devices Development, Seagate (Ireland)
§ Dr. Erich Ruetsche, Manager, Business Development & Relations, IBM Zurich Research (Switzerland)
§ Dr. Gerhard Goldbeck-Wood, PhD, Nanotechnology Consortium Director, Accelrys (UK)
§ Dr. Jun'ichi Sone, Executive Director & General Manager, Fundamental and Environmental Research Laboratories, NEC Corporation (Japan)
§ Robert J. Klein, Technical Manager - Plastics Additives, Elementis Specialties, Inc.
§ Dr. Uwe Albrecht , Head of Corporate Fund, Siemens Venture Capital GmbH (SVC) (Germany)
§ Jenny Patterson, Nanotechnology Program Manager, Intel Ireland Ltd. (Ireland)
§ Dr. Jake Reder, Manager of New Business Development, Cabot Corporation (USA)
§ Dr. Feargal Ó Móráin, (Chairman) Executive Director Science & Innovation, Enterprise Ireland (Ireland)
§ Dr. Donald Fitzmaurice, Professor of Physical Chemistry, University College Dublin & Venture Partner, Draper Fisher Jurvetson (Ireland)
§ Dr. Rob Fastenau, General Manager Europe, FEI Company (Netherlands)
§ Dr. Jens Greiser, Strategic Marketing Manager, FEI Company (Netherlands)
§ Dr. Stephan Altmann, Polymer Physics, BASF AG (Germany)
§ Prof. Joseph A. Put,VP Performance Materials R&D, DSM Research (Netherlands)
§ Michael Weiner, President and CEO, Biophan (USA)
§ Dr. Frans Kampers, Program Manager Bio-NanoTechnology, Wageningen UR (Netherlands)
§ Kevin Matthews, CEO, Oxonica (UK)
§ Dr. Martin Lyes, Head of Programmes & Directorate, Enterprise Ireland (Ireland)
§ Dave Corr, Chief Technology Officer, Ntera (Ireland)
§ Patrick Lundstrom, CEO, Obducat (Sweden)
§ Dr. Joerg Wiesmann, Managing Director, Incoatec GmbH (Germany)
§ Prof. Werner J. Blau, Research Director, Sami Nasr Institute for Advanced Materials, Trinity College (Ireland)
§ Dr. Rodger Duffin, Particle Toxicologist, Centre for Inflammation Research, University of Edinburgh (UK)
§ Tim E. Harper, CEO Cientifica, co-founder Nanosight Ltd, Executive Director European NanoBusiness Association (Spain)
§ Dr. Bart Gremmen, Professor, Wageningen Agricultural University (Netherlands)
§ Robert Kwan, CEO, JR Nanotech (UK)
§ Barry Drayson, CEO, NanoComposites Inc. (USA)
§ Justin Hall-Tipping, Founding Partner, NanoHoldings LLC (USA)
§ Henk Leeuwis, Executive Vice President, Marketing & Sales, LioniX BV (Netherlands)
§ David N. Guedj, Ph.D., European Commission - Information Society & Media Directorate General - INFSO (Belgium)
§ Reinhard Kriegbaum, Sales and Marketing Manager, Electrovac GmbH (Austria)
§ Handol Kim, Vice President of Business Development, D-Wave Systems Inc. (Canada)
§ Dr. Susanne Arney, Director, Microsystems and Nanotechnology Research, Bell Labs Lucent Technologies (USA)
§ VJ Morris DSc, Research Scientist, Institute of Food Research, Norwich Research Park (UK)
§ Dr. Gustaaf Borghs, Director of Novel Materials and Components, Interuniversity Micro Electronics Center (IMEC)
§ Pete Conley, Managing Partner, Analytiq Group
§ Dr. Andrew Dunn, Senior Analyst, Cientifica Ltd.
§ Magnus Gittins, CEO, Advance Nanotech, Inc. (USA)
§ Dr. John Magan, Assistant Director, European Commission - Information Society & Media Directorate General - INFSO (Belgium)
§ Dr. Anantha Sethuraman, Vice President of Product Marketing, FEI Company (Netherlands)