Speakers

Speakers are listed by topic order.


Speaker's Name C.L. Liu
Job title Chairperson Company name TrendForce Corp.
Topic Welcoming Speech
C.L. Liu received his Sc.D. degree (1962) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was on the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1962-72) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1972-98), and served as President and Professor of Computer Science at the National Tsing Hua University in Hsinchu, Taiwan from 1998 to 2002. In addition, he serves as Board member and consultant at a number of high tech companies in Taiwan, and is active in educational as well as charitable services on a worldwide basis. His expertise is in the semiconductor area, particularly in the design and manufacturing aspects. He is a member of Academia Sinica, a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.

Speaker's Name Sean Yang
Job title Assistant Vice President Company name TrendForce Corp.
Topic NAND Flash Market Outlook
Sean Yang, assistant vice president at DRAMeXchange, is research head of NAND Flash research Division. Besides the NAND Flash market analysis, Sean also covers downstream hardware from mobile PC, tablet PC, smartphone and other consumer electronics. Before joining TrendForce, He served at Etron Technology as an investor relationship administrator and a finance administrator. Mr. Yang received his MBA degree from University of California, Riverside in 2007.

Speaker's Name Christopher Bergey
Job title VP and GM of Mobile,
Tablet and Wearable Solutions,
Mobile and Connected Solutions,
SanDisk
Company name SanDisk
Topic Storage Trends for Mobile Devices
Chris Bergey is SanDisk’s vice president of mobile, tablet and solutions at SanDisk. He is responsible for developing and driving SanDisk’s embedded product strategies in the mobile and connected market segments, which include smartphones, tablets and wearable devices. Prior to joining SanDisk, Bergey served as Vice President of Marketing for Luxtera, an industry leader in silicon CMOS photonics. Bergey also spent nine years at Broadcom, where he established and managed Broadcom’s WLAN combo business, growing it into one of Broadcom’s largest lines of business. Additionally, Bergey has held sales and marketing roles at Multilink Technology Corporation and Advanced Micro Devices. Bergey holds a master of business administration degree from the University of Maryland and a bachelor’s degree in electrical and computer engineering from Drexel University.

Speaker's Name Avril Wu
Job title Assistant Vice President Company name TrendForce Corp.
Topic DRAM Market Outlook
Avril Wu, Assistant Vice President at DRAMeXchange, is in charge of DRAM industry market analysis, with a focus on upstream wafer suppliers, DRAM makers, module packaging and testing industries. Before joining TrendForce, she has worked at ASUSTek and department of strategic marketing at SK Hynix . She received a Master of Internal Management Degree (2006) from Portland State University and is currently attending the GMBA program at National Taiwan University.

 

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