.:.:. Nanotechnology in Northern Europe Congress and Exhibition, Helsinki 26-28 April, 2005 .:.:.

Speakers Bio

Keynote speakers

Alan J. Heeger , Professor, Physics & Materials Engineering, University of California at Santa Barbara , 2000 Nobel Laureate,
Plastic Electronics and Optoelectronics

Winner of the 2000 Nobel Chemistry Prize, Dr. Heeger and his colleagues at the University of California, Santa Barbara, have done pioneering research in the area of semi-conducting and metallic polymers. His current research group focuses on issues related to the fundamental electronic structure of this novel class of materials and carries out studies of light-emitting diodes (LEDs), light-emitting electrochemical cells (LECs), and lasers all fabricated from semiconducting (conjugated) polymers.

Tero Ojanperä , Chief Strategy Officer, Nokia
How does nanotechnology change mobile industry?

As Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer of Nokia, Tero Ojanperä is responsible for corporate strategy and development, research, venturing, intellectual property rights, business infrastructure, quality and business improvement services.

Tero has played a defining role in the research and development work of Nokia's business groups since joining the company in 1990. Throughout his career Tero has consistently shown an ability to balance the strong elements of his scientific background with Nokia's broader business strategies. In 2002 he took the helm of the Nokia Research Center, a corporate research unit driving Nokia's technological competitiveness and renewal. He is a member of the Group Executive Board of Nokia, effective January 2005.

A highly respected authority on radio access technologies, Tero spearheaded several radio systems research efforts around wideband CDMA, GSM and US TDMA mobile protocols within Nokia. He also led industry-wide radio interface research and standardization projects and initiatives, including the EU 4th Framework Program project (FRAMES), which laid the foundation for today's third-generation (3G) technologies.

Tero is the Chairman of Nokia Foundation, supporting the development of scientific competence and educational capabilities in information and telecommunications technologies. He is a member of the IEEE and he has held positions on several technology organizations and committees. He is also a member of the steering group of European Technology Platforms in Nanoelectronics. Tero sits on the IST Advisory Group (ISTAG), which advises the European Commission on issues including research strategy and the technologies and trends that shape the world's Information Society.

He is a highly respected industry commentator and author of the book "WCDMA for Third Generation Mobile communications" (1998) and its second edition "WCDMA: Towards IP Mobility and Mobile Internet" (2001). He has also authored several conference and journal papers and contributed chapters to industry reference works including "The Mobile Communications Handbook, second edition" (1999).

He holds a master's of science degree from the University of Oulu, Finland and a Ph.D degree from Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands.

Jukka Kivinen , Vice President, UPM New Ventures
Nanotech - opportunity or threat for paper industry?

UPM is one the biggest paper companies in the world with over 35 000 employees and production plants in 16 countries. UPM's main products are magazine, newsprint, office and speciality papers as well as converted products like label materials. As an outcome of UPM's venturing activity UPM Rafsec has become one of the globally leading producers of RFID tags.

Jukka Kivinen heads UPM's New Ventures that follows and develops new significant business opportunities for UPM. The team has a special focus on new technologies like roll-to-roll and printable electronics as well as active and functional materials. Nanotechnology is one promising development area for both traditional paper making and new technology roll-to-roll applications.

Jukka has held several managerial positions in paper products marketing and e-business within UPM, both in Finland and the UK. He holds a Master of Science degree in forest products marketing from University of Helsinki.

Matthew Nordan , Vice President, Research, Lux Research
Commercializing nanotechnology

Matthew Nordan heads Lux's research organization. He leads a team of analysts who advise corporations, startups, financial institutions, and governments on the impact of nanotechnology and related emerging technologies.

Matthew joins Lux with seven years of experience in analyzing emerging technology at Forrester Research, where he held a variety of senior management positions. Most recently, Matthew headed Forrester's North American project consulting line of business. Earlier, Matthew spent four years based in the Netherlands growing Forrester's operations in Europe, where he launched and led research practices in retail, mobile commerce, and telecommunications. Matthew also built Forrester's European consulting line of business and partnered with trade publishers in three countries to measure corporate technology spending on the continent.

Matthew has been invited by news outlets including CNN and CNBC to comment on emerging technology markets and has been widely cited in publications such as The Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times. He has delivered advice to clients and presented at conferences in North America, Europe, Southeast Asia, Japan, Australia, and South Africa. Beyond the corporate sphere, Matthew has participated in developing public-sector technology strategy for organizations including the World Economic Forum, the European IT Observatory, and the Dutch transportation ministry.

Matthew is a summa cum laude graduate of Yale University, where he conducted cognitive neuroscience research on the neural pathways mediating emotion and memory.

Brian Dillman , Vice President Global Marketing, Wilson Racquet Sports
Nanotechnology in marketing consumer goods

Brian Dillman, formerly Global Marketing Director, was promoted to his current position as Vice President of Global Marketing for Wilson Racquet Sports in May 2003.

Wilson is the leader in the global racquet sports industry with a 36% share in global tennis rackets and a 25% share in global tennis balls. Dillman manages all facets of the racquet sports business, which includes product development, manufacturing, marketing, and distribution.

Wilson Sporting Goods is celebrating its 90 th anniversary in this year of 2004. In May 2003, the company underwent a major restructuring and Dillman assumed the leadership position. Since then, Wilson has launched nCode technology, a revolutionary new racket design combining progressive nano-technology and the most innovative industrial design in the industry. Consequently, profits for Racquet Sports are up significantly in 2004 vs. 2003 and the company is positioned to make major moves over the next three to four years.

As Global Marketing Director from 2000 to 2003, Dillman launched the revolutionary TRIAD racquets, the first racquets designed in three pieces. TRIAD was an immediate success, and the TRIAD 3.0 quickly became the No. 1 selling racquet in the country. Additionally, Wilson introduced Double Core, the first tennis balls to last twice as long thanks to a “second” core (derived from another process utilizing nano-technology) that maintains ball pressure much longer--yet another key technology launched during this time. Furthermore, early success has been seen on the Professional Tour with the prevailing #1 ranked Roger Federer winning Wimbledon and the US Open with his new nCode Six-One Tour.

Dillman, a competitive tennis player, was a nationally ranked player and also earned the title of captain of the men’s tennis team at the University of Illinois, where he was selected to the All Big 10 team in his senior year. He has also been a certified tennis professional with the classification of USPTA P1 tennis pro since 1990.

Key theme speakers

Mobile Devices and Nanoelectronics

Magnus Berggren, Linköping University, Sweden
Organic electronics - connecting electronics and materials

Magnus Berggren graduated at Linköping University with a PhD degree in applied physics 1996 with the thesis title: "Organic Light Emitting Diodes". Then, he continued as a postdoctoral fellow at Bell Laboratories, from 1996 to 1997, and explored novel resonators including organic excitation transfer complexes as the active gain medium. 1997, he started the Thin Film Electronics AB company, supported by Opticom ASA. As the managing director, he guided the work of developing organic memories based on ferroelectric polymers. After this, he joined Acreo institute and Linköping University and as the project manager he initiated and guided the paper electronics project called PAELLA. Since 2000, he is the professor in Organic Electronics at Linköping University and the prime research interest today is bioelectronics and printed electronics based on organic materials. In addition, Magnus is research fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Thomas Björnholm, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Bottom-up opportunities - the promise of molecular electronics

Professor Thomas Bjørnholm (1960) is Director of the Nano-Science Center at the University of Copenhagen. He is coauthor to more then 100 publications in international Journals and member of the Danish Natural Science Academy, The Danish Academy of Technical Sciences, the Royal Danish Academy for Sciences and Letters and teh Danish Natural Science Research Council. His research interest include molecular electronics, supra molecular surface chemistry and bionanotechnology.Thomas Bjørnholm has received several research prizes including Direktør Ib Henriksen Fondens prize in 2004.

Russell Cowburn, Imperial College, London, UK
Spintronics using nanomagnetic logic gates

Russell Cowburn obtained his PhD in condensed matter physics from the University of Cambridge in 1996. He then joined the nanoscale science group in Cambridge University, where he worked as a staff member for 4 years, before being appointed to a faculty position at the University of Durham , UK in 2000. In January 2005 he became Professor of Nanotechnology at Imperial College London, where he leads a large research group studying applications of nanotechnology to computer memory and logic, cancer treatment and fraud prevention. He has published over 60 papers, has given around 50 invited talks at internation conferences and has filed 12 patents. He is director of two high technology spin-out companies working in nanotechnology.

Konstantin Likharev , Stony Brook Univ., USA
CMOL: The new concept for Nanoelectronics

Konstantin K. Likharev is a Distinguished Professor of Physics of the Stony Brook University (State University of New York). He received a Candidate (Ph.D.) degree in Physics from Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russia) in 1969, and the habilitation degree of Doctor of Sciences from the Higher Attestation Committee of the U.S.S.R. in 1979. From 1969 to 1988 Dr. Likharev was a Staff Scientist of Moscow State University, and from 1989 to 1991 the Head of the Laboratory of Cryoelectronics of that university. In 1991 he assumed a Professorship at Stony Brook (Distinguished Professor since 2002). During his research career, Dr. Likharev worked in the fields of nonlinear classical dynamics, quantum dynamics and statistics, and low-temperature solid-state physics and electronics, notably including nanoelectronics. He is an author/co-author of 2 monographs, 55 review papers and book chapters, 230+ original publications, and 18 patents. Prof. Likharev is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. Additional information, including the full publication list and links to major papers, is available online at http://rsfq1.physics.sunysb.edu/~likharev/personal/.

Dorothea Wiessman, IBM Research
Millipede: A complete scanning-probe storage system

Paper

Rosa Carceller, Pulp and Paper Chemicals, Kemira, Finland
Influence of polymer nanostructures on the surface of AKD-sized paper

Dr. Rosa Carceller is a researcher at Kemira Oy, Pulp and Paper division in Vaasa, Finland. Since joining Kemira in 2001 she has worked on the improvement of existing commercial products as well as on the development of new ones, such as the nanoparticles of acrylate copolymer to be presented in this Congress.

Over the last 20 years she has conducted research in the development and improvements of molecular structures and her work on Synthesis and Reactivity of Carbon and Nitro gen-ylides, earned her a PhD Cum Laude at University of Alcala, Madrid, Spain in 1991. Her involvement in polymers began in 1993, when the Spanish Government awarded her a Fellowship for the Research in Emulsion Polymers at the Maurice Morton Institute of Polymer Science of the University of Akron, in the USA, where she studied with Professor Emeritus Dr. I. Piirma. At the end of her appointment, Dr. Carceller moved to Birmingham, England, to work on a European Commission project for the development of biodegradable polymers for food packaging and biomedical applications, work carried out under the European Community Programme Brite-EuRam for Advanced Chemistry Research at Aston University with Professor A. J. Amass.

Dr. Carceller's work has been presented in numerous international conferences and recently published in Paperi ja Puu, a leading journal for the Pulp and Paper industry in Finland.

Patrick A.C. Gane, Head of global Research and Development,
Omya AG, Switzerland
A new coating structure strategy for designed absorbtion and optimized adsorption: A study of the use of novel pigments with nano-surface features on micro-particles.

Graduated BSc and Associate of the Royal College of Science in mathematical physics from Imperial College, University of London in 1976. Researched the crystal structure of penicillin compounds in collaboration with Beecham Pharmaceuticals, whilst teaching at the University of Plymouth, gaining his PhD in 1979. Continued his study as Research Fellow at the University of Exeter into methods of determining the two-dimensional crystal structures of liquid crystal mesophases- including, at that time, a number of new Smectic structure discoveries. In 1981, he joined the Central Research Department at English China Clays and over the following 13 years developed scientific and practical applications for minerals particularly for the paper industry. During this time he became Leader of the Paper Science Group.

To further a keen interest in maintaining his activity in the paper and printing fields, he left ECC International to follow his ideas in developing novel methods for characterising Ink-Paper interactions. Together with a long time colleague, he founded the instrument and consulting company SeGan Limited in the UK producing print test instrumentation.

Mid 1995 saw him join the OMYA Plüss-Staufer Technology Centre at Oftringen in Switzerland. He has formed within that organisation a new research team to underpin the work of development within the OMYA worldwide minerals business by establishing a Fundamental Research Approach to product development and functionality. Within the new Omya structure he is Head of global Research and Development.

He is credited with contributing to more than 90 scientific publications and patents and continues to be a regular contributor at Conferences and Seminars in both industrial applications and in academic research and is a Tappi Divisional Award winner.

Jukka T Heikkinen, Manager, Product Development,
Metso Paper Inc., Finland
Nanotechnology in paper machine parts and components - Possibilities and Challenges

Jukka Seppälä , Professor, Department of Chemical Technology,
Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Nanostructured polymers: New materials for paper technologies

Mika Vähä-Nissi, Senior Scientist, KCL, Finland
Is there room for nano in paper industry?

Born 26.9.1969 in Tampere, Finland. Mika got his M.Sc (Eng.) in 1994 and D. Tech in 1998, both from Tampere University of Technology (TUT), Finland. He joined KCL as senior scientist December 2000. His expertice areas include coating and converting. Before joining KLC Mika had a university career at Paper Converting Institute, TUT starting as research assistant in 1994 and ending up as senior researcher before joining KCL. His research areas were barrier coatings and barrier properties, and converting of specialty papers. Mika has also worked as lecturer in converting, packaging and surface phenomena. He has authored/co-authored approximately 30 conference papers, articles and other publications.

Printed Electronics

Howard Berke, Chairman, Chief Executie Officer and Founder,
Konarka Technologies Inc., USA
Solar cells: DSSC and OPV

Howard Berke has over 25 years hands-on management experience launching, building and leading both public and private technology companies. This includes 18 years of general management with full P&L responsibility for eight start-up companies and nine years of business development and marketing focusing on emerging technologies.

Mr. Berke has founded or co-founded 12 start-up companies and has initiated and completed numerous corporate acquisitions, mergers and R&D joint ventures in the US, Europe and Asia. He continues to advise start-up companies and entrepreneurs in a wide range of fields including medical, biotech, software, networking, telecon and energy technology.

Mr. Berke received his MBA from the University of Chicago and his BA from Yale University. His academic training includes finance, accounting. operations, corporate law, architecture and physics.

Ghassan Jabbour, Professor, Arizona State University, USA
The Road to Roll-to-Roll Fabrication of Organic and Hybrid Electronics and Photonics

Ghassan E. Jabbour is the Technical Area Leader of Optoelectronic Materials and Devices at the Flexible Display Center (FDC) and a Professor of Chemical and Materials Engineering at Arizona State University. He is also the Technical Advisory Board Leader on Optoelectronic Materials, Devices and Encapsulation at FDC. He has been selected to the Asahi Shimbun 100 New Leaders of the USA and he received the Presidential Award for Excellence from the Hariri Foundation in 1997. Professor Jabbour is the Associate Editor of the Journal of the Society for Information Displays (JSID). He was the Track Chair of the Nanotechnology Program for the SPIE Annual Meeting (2001-2004), and the Secretary General for the Materials Secretariat of the American Chemical Society (2001). Professor Jabbour is a guest editor for the MRS Bulletin issue on Organic Photovoltaics to appear in 2005. Professor Jabbour is the chair and/or co-chair and on the committees of over 50 conferences related to photonic and electronic properties of organic materials and their applications in displays and lighting, transistors and solar cells, hybrid photosensitive materials, and hybrid integration of semiconducting materials. He has more than 300 publications, invited talks and proceedings. Prof. Jabbour’s research interests are related to: flexible-roll-to-roll-electronics and displays, smart textile, moisture and oxygen barrier technology, transparent conductors, organic light emitting devices, organic and hybrid photovoltaics, organic memory storage, organic thin film transistors, combinatorial discovery of materials, nano and macro printed devices, micro and nanofabrication, biosensors, and quantum simulations of electronic materials His work has been highlighted in national and international journals and magazines including Nature, Science, PC Magazine, Wired Magazine, LA Times, Boston Globe, Financial Times (London), USA Today, and many others. Professor Jabbour attended Northern Arizona University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and the University of Arizona. Prof. Jabbour is an SPIE fellow.

Iain McCulloch, Senior Project Manager, Organic Electronics,
Merck Chemicals, UK
Development of high mobility organic semiconducting polymers for printed electronics

Dr. Iain McCulloch is a Senior Project Manager at Organic Electronics, Merck Chemicals, UK. His talk will focus on the following issues:
- Optimisation of new solution processable semiconducting polymers
- Fabrication of field effect transistors with liquid crystalline polymerisable semiconductors
- Control of morphology of liquid crystalline semiconductors and its effect on charge carrier mobility

Henning Sirringhaus, Chief Scientist, PlasticLogic /
Professor, Cambridge University, UK
Printed polymer transistors for flexible electronics

Henning Sirringhaus is the Hitachi Professor of Electron Device Physics at the Cavendish Laboratory. He has been working in the field of organic transistor devices since 1997. He has an undergraduate and PhD degree in physics from ETH Zürich (CH). From 1995-1996 he worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at Princeton University (USA) on a-Si TFTs for active-matrix liquid crystal displays. He is co-founder and Chief Scientist of Plastic Logic Ltd., a technology start-up company commercialising printed organic transistor technology. He was awarded the Mullard award of the Royal Society in 2003. His scientific interests include the charge transport physics of molecular, and polymeric semiconductors, the development of printing-based nanopatterning techniques, and the use of scanning probe techniques for electrical characterization of functional nanostructures.

Clivia M Sotomayor Torres, Professor, Director- Photonic Nanostructures Group, Tyndall National Institute,University College Cork, Ireland
Nanoimprinting

Professor Clivia M. Sotomayor Torres obtained her BSc. (Hons.) Physics in 1979 ( Southampton University, UK) and her Dr. Phil. in Physics in 1984 ( Manchester University, UK). During 1983-1984 she was a research assistant at the University of St. Andrews (UK). This appointement was followed by: 1984-87 Lecturer in Physics, St. Andrews University (UK), 1986-1996 Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in Electrical Engineering at the University Glasgow (UK). Clivia has received three prestigious awards from the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Nuffield Foundation, and an Amelia Earhart Fellowship from ZONTA International (USA) in 1993, 1990 and 1982, respectively. From August 1996 to February 2004 she was Professor of Materials Sciences in Electronics at the University of Wuppertal, Germany. Since March 2004 she joined the then NMRC now Tyndall National Institute at University College Cork as a Research Professor, where she set up a new group on Photonic Nanostructures. Her research group is funded by research grants from the Science Foundation Ireland, the European Commission and the Volkswagen Foundation.

She carries out research in the field of science and engineering of optical nanostructures, especially novel lithography methods for their realisation, such as nanoimprint lithography, light propagation and emission in periodic and quasi-periodic media and more recently confined phonons in silicon-on-insulator thin films and nano-addressing using inorganic nanotubes. She is author of over 260 scientific publications and has edited six books, the latest of which is the volume entitled “Alternative Lithography: unleashing the power of Nanotechnology” published by Kluwer, New York, in 2003.

She acted as Convenor of the University of Wuppertal senate Committee for the Advancement of Women and served as expert on the Advisory Group to the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council on the Women into Science, Engineering and Technology Programme . She has participated in several EU projects since 1989, including, NANSDEV, PHANTOMS, NANOTECH, CHANIL, MONALISA, APPTech, NANO ARCH Review and PHOBOS. She currently participates in FUNLIGHT and EUROSOI, coordinates PHAT and serves on the Management Board of the Integrated Project “Emerging Nanopatterning Methods” ( NaPa) as lead partner on nanoimprint lithography. Clivia is the coordinator of the IST Network of Excellence “Nanophotonics to realise molecular-scale technologies” (PHOREMOST).

Nanotechnology and Environment

Roland Clift, Professor, University of Surrey, UK
Nanotechnology: Risk management and regulation

Prof Clift is Director of the Centre for Environmental Strategy at the University of Surrey and a member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution. He is a chemical engineer by training with expertise in Life Cycle Assessment (the understanding of the environmental impact of processes and products from their inception to their final disposal).

Michael Graetzel, Professor, Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland Nanocrystalline junctions and mesoscopic solar cells

Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne, Michael Graetzel directs there the Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces. He initiated research on energy and electron transfer reactions in mesoscopic-materials and their optoelectronic applications. He discovered a new type of solar cell based on dye sensitized mesoscopic oxide particles and pioneered the use of nanomaterials in electroluminscent and electrochromic displays as well as lithium ion batteries Author of over 500 publications, two books and inventor or co-inventor of over 40 patents his scientific work received over 30’000 times ranking him amongst the most highly cited scientists in the world. He was an invited professor at the University of California at Berkeley, the Ecole National Supérieur de Cachan (Paris) and is presently part time distinguished visiting professor at the Delft University of Technology. He is a frequent guest scientist at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden Coloradao and was a fellow of the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science. He has received numerous awards including the Millenium 2000 European innovation price, the 2001 Faraday Medal of the British Royal Society, the 2001 Dutch Havinga Award, the 2004 Italgas Price, two McKinsey Venture awards in 1998 and 2002 and the 2005 Gerischer Prize. He is holding a doctors degree from the TU Berlin and honorary doctors degrees from the Universities of Uppsala and Turin. He is a member of the Swiss Chemical Society as well as of the European Academy of Science and was elected honorary member of the Société Vaudoise de Sciences Naturelles.

Matti Härkönen , General Manager, Ecocat, Finland
Exhaust Gas Catalysts: From Idea to the Plant Scale Production and Global Environmental Business

Henrik Raeder, Research Manager, SINTEF, Norway
Nanoscale catalytic membrane reactor for waste water oxidation

Raeder is senior scientist and research manager for the Functional Ceramics Group in SINTEF, Oslo, Norway. The SINTEF Group is the largest independent research organisation in Scandinavia with about 1700 employees. Raeder's group is carrying out contract research about functional inorganic materials focused on membrane technology, coatings based on nanoparticles, and micro- and nanotechnology. Raeder has about 50 scientific publications and 2 patents. He has coordinated three European RTD projects and been guest scientist at universities in France and Canada.

Alexander Simonov, Director, Karpov Institute of Physical Chemistry, Russia
Some nanomaterials for sensors and aerosol filters

A. Simonov has worked since 1958 at Karpov Institute of Physical Chemistry, first as a junior scientist, scientist and senior scientist, rising later to head of laboratory, department and finally to director. He is the author and coauthor of more than 200 scientific articles and 3 books.

Field of interests: lasers, laser applications, physical chemistry.

Minna Väkevä, Director, Research & Development, Lifa-Air Ltd., Finland
Indoor Air Quality - challenges and possibilities in filtration of nanoparticles

Minna Väkevä is the Director of the R&D activities of Lifa Air Ltd. Her main enthusiasm is to further develop the innovative Lifa 3G air filtration system, which is capable of HEPA class efficiency with a pressure drop of a traditional fine filter. She also coordinates international collaboration to build a solution for protecting e.g. airports against airborne chemical, biological and radiological threats.

Minna got her M.Sc. (physics) in 1996, and PhD in 2002 at the University of Helsinki. Her research consisted of the development and utilisation of an instrument constructed for studies of the nucleation mode aerosol particles.

She was also involved in several projects that studied the nucleation processes of atmospheric aerosol particles.

Bin Zhu, Associate Professor, the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Nano-technology applied in innovative fuel cells

Zhu is presently senior researcher and associate professor in Dept. of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Royal Institute of Technology , Sweden . Zhu is also guest professor in University of Science and Technology of China etc. four Chinese universities, coordinating a Sino-Swedish IT&LT SOFC (intermediate and low temperature solid oxide fuel cell) research network involving 12 universities and institutes from Sweden and China . In addition, Zhu is the president of Goeta Technology Developer International HB, and CTO of GETT Fuel Cell International AB, Sweden.

Zhu is the principle inventor of IT&LT SOFCs and is regarded to have a world leading role. Dr. Zhu has published more than 100 scientific papers and has International, Swedish and Chinese patents on advanced ceramic fuel cells (CFCs) or IT&LT SOFCs. His particular interests are involved in the advanced CFC R&D and its global commercialization based on his 15 years continuous experience in CFCs, and 20 years in solid electrolytes and high performance batteries.

Investor workshop speakers

Brian Dillman , Vice President Global Marketing, Wilson Racquet Sports

Understanding the whole value chain
Nanotechnology in sporting goods, Case Wilson

Brian Dillman, formerly Global Marketing Director, was promoted to his current position as Vice President of Global Marketing for Wilson Racquet Sports in May 2003. Wilson is the leader in the global racquet sports industry with a 36% share in global tennis rackets and a 25% share in global tennis balls. Dillman manages all facets of the racquet sports business, which includes product development, manufacturing, marketing, and distribution.

In May 2003, Wilson underwent a major restructuring and Dillman assumed the leadership position. Since then, Wilson has launched nCode technology, a revolutionary new racket design combining progressive nano-technology and the most innovative industrial design in the industry. Consequently, profits for Racquet Sports are up significantly in 2004 vs. 2003 and the company is positioned to make major moves over the next three to four years.

As Global Marketing Director from 2000 to 2003, Dillman launched the revolutionary TRIAD racquets, the first racquets designed in three pieces. TRIAD was an immediate success, and the TRIAD 3.0 quickly became the No. 1 selling racquet in the country. Additionally, Wilson introduced Double Core, the first tennis balls to last twice as long thanks to a “second” core (derived from another process utilizing nanotechnology) that maintains ball pressure much longer.

Dillman, a competitive tennis player, was a nationally ranked player and also earned the title of captain of the men’s tennis team at the University of Illinois

Torbjörn Ingemansson, Directorate General for Research - Life Sciences, European Commission

EU funding
European commission nanotechnology funding

European Commission services since 1996; Directorate General for Research -Life Sciences. Managed the” Cell Factory” area in the Biotechnology Programme in FP4, “Biotechnology products and processes for industry” in the Cell Factory Key Action in FP5 and “Post-genomics” in Biotechnology & Applied Genomics - Health Research in FP6. Policy responsibilities in the area of exploitation of research results and cooperation with industry.

Came from the Swedish National Food Administration, as Head of Unit. Guest researcher in Japan for one year at the National Food Research Institute, Tsukuba Science City. Industrial PhD at the Chalmers University of Technology in Göteborg 1993. Seconded to the Swedish Institute for Food and Biotechnology (SIK), an industrial research institute from 1988.

Timo Kekkonen, Director General, Technology Department,
Ministry of Trade and Industry, Finland

Governmental funding
National funding's role in generating new business: Case Finland

Pekka Koponen, Managing Director, Spinverse Consulting, Finland

What is nanotechnology?
Nanotechnology 101 for investors

Pekka Koponen, managing director of Spinverse Consulting, has strong international experience in emerging technologies and markets. He currently consults several leading technology enterprises in mobile software and nanotechnology sectors.

Pekka has worked 14 years with Nokia, of which over six years in expatriate assignments in Europe and Asia. His experience covers several company functions including R&D, marketing, sales and creating new ventures. Pekka’s latest positions were Partner in Nokia Early Stage Technology Fund and before that Director of Strategy&Business Development of Nokia's Mobile Software-unit.Pekka has a M.Sc. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from University of Oulu, Finland and an MBA from IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Stephen Lowery, Senior Associate (Venture Capital), 3i, UK

Venture Capital
What is a VC looking for in a nanotechnology startup?

Stephen joined 3i in 2001, specialising in investments in technology businesses. Prior to joining 3i, he worked in the Global Technology Practice of PA Consulting, advising companies on product development, process development and technology strategy.

Stephen is focused on investments in IT hardware, specifically consumer electronics, semiconductors and displays and advanced materials. His investments include UbiNetics and Microemissive Display. He also works with 3i's investments in Respond and Artisan software tools.

Stephen has a MEng degree in Engineering from the University of Cambridge

Tapio Siik , Nokia Growth Partners

Corporate Funding
Corporate Venture Capital - leveraging corporate strengths for investment return

Tapio joined Nokia Venture Capital investment team in April 2002 and is based in Tampere. Prior to that, Tapio has been with Nokia since 1995 in a variety of management roles. Currently Tapio is responsible for the technology sector in Nokia Growth Partners, and works closely with the Nokia technology platform and business units in locating potential investment opportunities for NGP. Tapio holds an M.Sc. from the Tampere University of Technology.

Nanotechnology Networks workshop speakers

Mårten Bøgedal , CEO, Nordic Nanotech, Denmark

Morten Bøgedal from Nordic Nanotech founded the company Nordic Nanotech in 1999-2000. Nordic Nanotech’s objective is to impart and disseminate knowledge regarding nanotechnology and related technologies to the Scandinavian countries. Through its role as an information bank Nordic Nanotech acts as an intermediary between various interest groups, as an active partner in the implementing of projects and as a forum for critical discussions. Educational and innovative tasks for as well as start-up companies or more established companies is also an important task for Nordic Nanotech.

Morten Bøgedal has also been a founding and driving member of the European Commission supported project called Nanoforum. This European Union sponsored Thematic Network provides a comprehensive source of information on all areas of Nanotechnology to the business, the scientific and social communities. The main vehicle for the thematic network is the dedicated website www.nanoforum.org.

Piotr Dumania, PhD,Institute of Electron Technology, Warsaw, Poland

Dr. Piotr Dumania, Institute of Electron Technology (ITE), Warsaw, Poland, graduated from Warsaw University of Technology in 1974. He joined ITE, where he was working as a device engineer for semiconductor processing responsible for technology development of CMOS IC's and implementing them into mass production. From 1990 he was supervising the development of silicon detectors and micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS). Results of his research were presented in more than 60 papers published in international journals and over 70 conference presentations. Piotr Dumania is responsible for international scientific cooperation with special focus on participation in EU Framework Programmes. Among other international activities, he was a leader for Polish-German research project for MEMS, chairmen of the NAS-Europractice/Nexus Workshop, Feb 2001, Warsaw as well as chair of Europractice session at Prague workshop, Jan. 12, 2005. At present he supervises ITE contribution to MINAEAST-NET, MINOS and MNT-ERA.NET FP6 projects and coordinates MANTARC Micro- and Nano Technology Applied Research Centre of Excellence and MINAS Micro- and Nano- Structures Scientific Network.

Nina Etelä, Senior Advisor, Nordic Innovation Centre, Norway

The Nordic Innovation Centre is the main operative organisation of the Nordic Council of Ministers within the field of innovation policies. Our basic assumption is that each of the Nordic countries possesses knowledge and other resources, which significantly could improve innovation capabilities and competitiveness through increased cooperation across the borders. By investing in efficient Nordic networks with the aim to create synergy, benefit from Best Practice and remove barriers hampering innovation cooperation, the Nordic Innovation Centre strives to stimulate Nordic innovation and competitiveness.

Nina Etelä has been with the Nordic Innovation Centre since its formation through the merger of Nordic Industrial Fund and Nordtest 1.1.2004. She is working with project portfolios within creative industries, safety and reliability systems, foresight studies, new technologies and co-normative and pre-normative work. Before her joining the Nordic Innovation Centre in Oslo, Nina worked with process quality assurance and software testing at Philips Medical Systems MR Technologies Finland. Nina holds an MSc (Tech.) in Electrical and Communications Engineering from the Helsinki University of Technology.

Martin Kemp , PhD, DTI International Technology Promoter, UK

Dr Martin Kemp is the International Technology Promoter, Europe for the DTI Global Watch Service. Specialising in nanotechnology and advanced materials, he facilitates technology transfer and international research collaboration.

Ilmar Kink , PhD, CEO, Estonian Nanotechnology Competence Center

Ilmar Kink (35) is one of the initiators and currently in the board of Estonian Nanotechnology Competence Centre (ENCC). ENCC was established in 2004 and begun operating in early 2005. It is a collaboration of local and international companies and research institutes aiming at performing joint research in nanotechnology. Current research projects are related to various sensor and measurement technologies in nanotechnology. ENCC projects are partly supported by the state.

Ilmar Kink has PhD in physics ( Lund University, Sweden). He worked as a post doc at National Institute of Standards and Technology in USA for 2.5 years. In 2001 he returned to Estonia where working as a senior scientist at the Institute of Physics, University of Tartu initiated the ENCC project in 2003. Currently he is in charge of smooth and successful operation of ENCC research projects.

Markku Lämsä , PhD, Senior Technology Adviser, National Technology Agency, Tekes, Finland

Markku Lämsä obtained his PhD in supramolecular chemistry in the University of Oulu in 1997. Thereafter, he joined prof. Vögtle’s supramolecular and nanoscience group in the University of Bonn. He returned to the University of Oulu in 1999. Since early 2003 he has been working as a Senior Technology Adviser in Tekes. Lämsä is responsible for a coordination of FinNano -technology programme having a total budget of 75 million euros. The programme duration is five years (2005 - 2009). His expertises cover nanotechnology, material technology and chemistry. He is representative and Management Board member in Micro- and nanotechnology ERA-NET. He is active in national and international nanotechnology networks. Lämsä’s work has been published and presented in Finnish and international papers and conferences.

Henrik Raeder, Research Manager, SINTEF, Norway

Raeder is senior scientist and research manager for the Functional Ceramics Group in SINTEF, Oslo, Norway. The SINTEF Group is the largest independent research organisation in Scandinavia with about 1700 employees. Raeder's group is carrying out contract research about functional inorganic materials focused on membrane technology, coatings based on nanoparticles, and micro- and nanotechnology. Raeder has about 50 scientific publications and 2 patents. He has coordinated three European RTD projects and been guest scientist at universities in France and Canada.

Valentinas Snitka, Professor, RC for Microsystems and Nanotechnology, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania

Valentinas Snitka is a Director and Principal Scientist of the Research Center for Microsystems and Nanotechnology (RSMN) at Kaunas University of Technology (www.microsys.ktu.lt). He initiated and established Research center for Microsystems and Nanotechnology at KTU in 1999. He coordinates the Lithuanian Nanoscience and Nanotechnology network which was created to stimulate the collaboration on emerging technologies development and transfer into Lithuania. V.Snitka was an organizer and chairman of the first Microsystems and nanotechnology conference in the Baltic region (Vilnius, 1999) supported by NEXUS (European Network of Excellence in Multifunctional Microsystems), He is a member of Scientific Committee of the biennial Nordic-Baltic workshop on Scanning Probe Microscopy, co-chairmen of British-Lithuanian young researchers' workshop "Investigation of macromolecular structures and biological materials on the nanoscale", member of Programme committee of the International conference on Micro-Nano-Engineering (Viena, Sept.2005). He coordinates Lithuanian national research priorities program “ Functional materials and molecular mechanisms”, partner of FP6 projects “ Micro-NanoSystems EUROpean NETwork pursuing the integration of NMS and ACC in ERA” (Minos-Euronet) and CA “Improving the understanding of the impact nanoparticles on human health and the environment” (ImPart).

In 2004 he was awarded a US National Academy of Sciences fellowship for the collaborative research in nanotechnology with Pennsylvania State University. He is also research associate, International Center for Knowledge Economy and Management at Vilnius University, expert to UN Economic Commission for Europe, member of Word Bank and Lithuania team for Lithuania Knowledge Economy Assessment