Speakers

Speaker: LIU, CL, Sc. D.
Job title: Chairman Company name: TrendForce
Topic: Congratulatory Speech
Dr. 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: Roger Chu
Job title: Research Director Company name: LEDinside (TrendForce Corp.)
Topic: Global LED Market Development Trend in 2014
Roger Chu oversees the Green Energy Business Unit of TrendForce Corp., and specializes in market research on the LED industry, including end-product makers ranging from LED components, lighting, backlight to manufacturers. Additionally, he also handles the research on batteries in the Green Energy Business Unit.

Mr.Chu once was an analyst at DRAMeXchange. He also worked for Hua Nan Securities as an analyst and Qunmao Management Consulting Company as a management trainee. His previous research scope covered DRAM, packaging and testing as well as other electronic industries.

Mr.Chu graduated from the Graduate Institute of Finance, Chaoyang University of Technology


Speaker: Lining Lei
Job title: General Manager Company name: Honglitronic
Topic: The Development Trends of LED Advanced Application
Lining Lei Graduated from Hubei University of Technology (HBUT) with Engineering Master Degree, also he is senior human resources professional. Lining Lei serves as General Manager of Honglitronic and member of the first Board of Directors. He had held important roles in several large-scale Groups like Beijing Fortune Group, SanJiang Yuan Ecological Environmental Protection Co. Ltd. and Lianqiang International Trade (China) Limited Company Lanzhou Branch, who has rich experience of modern management.


Speaker: Dr.Carson Hsieh
Job title: Vice-President of R&D Company name: Epistar
Topic: LED Industry - Innovation Under Massive Amount Mode
Dr. Carson Hsieh joined EPISTAR in 1998, and has served successively in many important positions from a Fabrication Manager, R&D Director to R&D Associate Vice President. Currently, he serves as the Vice President of R&D at EPISTAR. His expertise includes LED structural design, LED process, LED application, as well as thermal dissipation management. He owns more than 100 domestic/overseas patents. Dr. Carson Hsieh received his Ph. D degree in Department of Power Mechanical Engineering from National Tsing Hua University in 1993.


Speaker: Ryoichi Tohmon
Job title: Director of intellectual property Project of Global Marketing and Sales Department Company name: TOYODA GOSEI
Topic: Trends in White LED Patents License and Technology

Ryoichi (George) Tohmon received his B.E., M.E. and Ph.D. degrees from Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, in 1983, 1987 and 1990, respectively.
He joined Minolta Camera Co. (Tokyo, Japan) in 1983, where he was engaged in the development of firmware and digital electronic circuits for color ink-jet printers.
He joined Eastman Kodak Japan (Yokohama, Japan) in 1990, where he was engaged in the research and development of GaAsP LED for use in LED printers.
He joined Anritsu Corp. (Atsugi, Japan) in 1993, where he was engaged in the research and development of InP distributed-feedback laser diodes for use in optical communications
He joined Agility Communications Inc. (Santa Barbara CA, USA) in 2001, where he was engaged in the research and development of InP wavelength-tunable distributed Bragg reflector laser diodes for use in optical communications
In 2003, he joined Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd., Optoelectronic Business Unit, Technical Div No.1 where he was engaged in the research and development of GaN-based blue-LED, white-LED and phosphors for white-LED. In 2009 he transferred to Optoelectronic Planning Div, and has since been engaged in IP issues and licensing programs for GaN-based blue- and white-LED.


Speaker: Willemsen Marten F.C.
Job title: Vice President Global Marketing Company name:

Seoul Semiconductor

Topic: Acrich Technology

Marten F.C. Willemsen received his Masters degrees from HTS-Electronics Zwolle, University of Technology Eindhoven in 1978 and 1983, respectively. Now, he is the Vice President Global Marketing of Seoul Semiconductor, who is a global executive with many years of international experience in the lighting industry, and with global exposure to Product Development, Marketing, China Manufacturing & Government lobby in several Business Development & Change Management functions. Proven skills in leadership & people management in European and Asian region. 1989-1999, he had worked in Philips Lighting Netherlands as Group manager of Central Development Lighting. He transferred Philips Lighting China in 1999, where he had served as Development Manager Asia Fluorescent, Director of Quality of China Sourcing Group, Co-Founder and Chairman of Asia Lighting Compact and Director of Marketing CFL. He joined General Electric China in 2010, and held the position of General Manager of Product Management Asia. In 2013, he joined Seoul Semiconductor, now he serves as Vice President Global Marketing.


Speaker: Ray Chock
Job title: Director of Market & Business Development Company name:

Philips Lumileds

Topic: Beyond Lumen Per Dollar

Ray Chock holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Davis, he is the Sr. Director of Market & Business Development. He has worked in the optoelectronics industry for over 15 years. He is responsible for driving new business opportunities and establishing the product requirements for emerging applications. Prior to joining Philips Lumileds, Chock had held various executive management and business development positions at Hewlett-Packard, Sharp andZilog.


Speaker: Terri Wang
Job title: Analyst  Company name:

 LEDinside (Trendforce)

Topic: Analysis on Behavior of LED Lighting Internet-consumers

Mainly responsible for specification and price survey of LED packaging and light source, also conduct the research on oversea lighting market like policy standar and enterprise dynamic. Terri Wang has kept track of global lighting market and lighting-use pakaging LED market dynamic, observing the changes of LED lighting industry in view of globalization, continually providing accurate price and market dynamic for LED industry.


Speaker: Michael Schmitt
Job title: Regional Marketing Director, Solid State Lighting Company name: Osram
Topic: Market condition of commercial lighting and residential lighting

Michael Schmitt is Regional Marketing Director of Solid State Lighting at OSRAM Opto Semiconductor based in Shanghai. Prior to that position he worked in several positions in Quality Management and Product Marketing in Germany, USA and Japan. He is with OSRAM Opto Semiconductors since 15 years and holds a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering from Technical University Munich.


Speaker: Tang Guoqing
Job title: General Manager for China Company name: SAMSUNG
Topic: The New Normal of LED in a New Era of Lighting

Guoqing Tang, a senior economist, now serves as the General Manager China of Samsung LED Department. He is a senior expert in domestic semiconductor lighting and one of the first batch of members in National Semiconductor Lighting Project (2003). His additional posts include secretary general of Lighting China Semiconductor Lighting Technology and Application Professional Committee, the vice chairman of National Semiconductor Lighting Project R & D and Industry Alliance, and the chairman of SEMI Chinese LED Lighting Industry Committee.

Previously Mr.Tang was vice general manager of Shanghai Semiconductor Company, and the chief representative of National 909 Project (Chinese first large scale integrated circuit, Hua Hong NEC project). He successively occupied prestigious positions in Shanghai Jinqiao Export Processing Zone, Mitsui High-Tech (Shanghai), COTCO Optoelectronics, Shanghai Cree. He was awarded the Shanghai Model Worker.


Speaker: Figo Wang Job title: Senior Analyst  Company name: LEDinside (Trendforce) Topic: China LED Market Development Trend in 2014 Primarily responsible for research and analysis of China LED lighting market development trend. Figo Wang has years of work experience in LED industry, who has continued to focus upon the research of advanced LED technology, LED industry development trend and enterprise competition strategy.
Speaker: lawrence Lin
Job title: General Manager of Lighting Devision Company name:

MLS Lighting

Topic: The trend and capacity of Chinese lighting market channels

Mr. Lawrence Lin is a graduate of NCCU, Taiwan, majored in Chinese Literature. He has worked in the LED industry for more than 16 years, and joined MLS in 2011, now serves as Marketing & Sales General Manager. Since 2012, Lin has started to build the MLS lighting products distributing channels in China, America, Europe and Asia. Right now MLS lighting already has more than 5000 retail shops & 100 Agents. As one of the well-known company in the LED retrofit lamps, MLS ships over millions units of TLED & Bulb per month.



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