- Ian Weightman, Vice President, Technology, Research and Operations, IHS Markit
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Dan Scali is a Manager for Mandiant Security Consulting Services, focusing on cybersecurity for industrial control systems and critical infrastructure. Prior to joining Mandiant, Dan was a Staff Engineer at GE Intelligent Platforms where he led the security program for GE's Proficy software products. In that role, Dan worked with asset owners to deploy SCADA and industrial control systems securely, ensured that software and hardware was developed following security best practices, performed product security testing, and coordinated vulnerability response.
Previously in his 7-year career with GE, Dan led multiple large-scale security technology deployments and compliance programs as a member of GE's Global Information Security Team, covering a broad range of topics such as SIEM, Identity & Access Management, and PCI-DSS.
Dan is a contributor to the ISA/IEC-62443 (formerly ISA-99) series of standards that address industrial automation and control systems security. He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Boston College.
- Sweta Dash, Senior Director, Display Research and Strategy
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Sweta Dash, Senior Director of Display Research and Strategy, is the head of applied research, consulting and strategy and provides leadership in product research and development and strategic consulting. She has authored numerous papers and is a well-known speaker at major industry events around the world.
Ms. Dash has more than 25 years of experience in display market and technology research. She is one of the most highly respected analysts in the industry, often quoted in leading publications and covered by TV media. Leading display manufacturers and system suppliers rely on her research and guidance; she is also a frequent advisor to firms that invest in the LCD value chain.
Ms. Dash has been exceptionally accurate in forecasting LCD supply, demand, pricing and technology adoption. Her market projections are derived from a set of proprietary models, developed over many years, using historical patterning, econometric analyses, manufacturing cost modeling and price-volume analyses. Her expertise includes the entire spectrum of display industry application segments and technology.
Ms. Dash holds a BA with honors and an MA degree in Economics from the University of Toronto, Canada.
- Ben Keen, Senior Director Consumer Media ＆ Communication, IHS Markit
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- Brian Gally, Vice President of Product Development and Marketing, Qualcomm
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- Rhoda Alexander, Senior Manager Monitor ＆ Tablets, IHS Markit
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Rhoda Alexander has been covering the displays industry for more than 20 years. She is widely regarded as being the leading, independent analyst for tablets, as well as desktop and specialty monitors, and her clients include a wide cross section of market leaders across the entire tablet and monitor value chains.
Alexander's research is comprehensive, encompassing global supply, demand, and pricing for tablets, eReaders, and monitors. She tracks ODM/OEM system assembly, distribution channels and end-markets, and continually analyzes the strategies and local marketing tactics of all leading tablet and monitor brands. She also assesses display and interface technologies to determine future adoption and penetration rates.
Additional areas of analysis include the wider ecosystem surrounding the tablet market place, including the underlying ecosystem drivers such as content, operating systems, cross platform functionality, channel strategies, and partnership arrangements.
- Jason Hartlove, President and CEO, Nanosys
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Jason Hartlove joined Nanosys in 2008 with a proven track record of turning emerging technologies into successful commercial products. His vision for Nanosys has led the company to focus on high-growth markets with urgent pain points that Nanosys technologies are uniquely positioned to solve such as vibrant, efficient displays for portable devices.
Prior to joining Nanosys, he was president of the Imaging Solutions Division of MagnaChip Semiconductor in Seoul, South Korea, where he turned an internally focused semiconductor group into a multinational company on track for an IPO. Before MagnaChip, Hartlove was vice president and general manager of the Sensor Solutions Division of Agilent Technologies, a Hewlett-Packard owned company. At Agilent, he led the commercial development and application of optical position sensing technology, which resulted in everyday products like the optical mouse and image sensors for digital cameras.
- Vinita Jakhanwal, Director Small ＆ Medium Displays, IHS Markit
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- Paul Cain, Head of Business Planning, Plastic Logic
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- Dr. Michael Hack, Vice President and General Manager-OLED Lighting and Custom Displays, Universal Display Corporation
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Dr. Michael Hack is Vice-President and General Manager of OLED Lighting and Custom Displays at Universal Display Corporation. He is responsible for developing and commercializing advanced high efficiency next generation OLED products, with a special focus on flexible display applications and solid-state lighting.
Prior to joining UDC in 1999, he was associated with dpiX, a Xerox Company, where he was responsible for manufacturing flat panel displays and digital medical imaging. Dr. Hack received his Ph. D. degree from Cambridge University, England in 1981 and in 2007 Dr. Hack was elected a Fellow of the Society for Information Display.
- Michael Sun, Vice President, AUO
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Dr. Michael Sun currently serves as AUO's Vice President of Mobile Solutions Business Group, lead cross-functional sales and marketing team, focused on display applications in Notebook, Tablet, Handset, Touch, Audio-Video and Car Electronics.
He joined AUO in Apr 2010 as Sr. AVP of TV Display Business Group and headed the TV Display Business Units in their sales and marketing. Dr. Michael Sun holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering/Structural Mechanics from University of Southern California (USC), USA.
- Dr. Ho Kyoon Chung, Chair Professor, Sungkyunkwan University and former EVP of Samsung Mobile Display
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Dr. Chung is currently Professor and Director of ITRC Next Generation AMOLED Center of Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU). He was previously a full-time Advisor and Executive VP for Samsung SMD.
Prior to that, he was the Executive Vice President and CTO of Samsung SDI and head of Samsung SDI Corporate R&D Center from 2006 to 2008. Dr. Chung led the R&D for Active Matrix OLED (AMOLED) since 2000 and is a world leader in bringing the AMOLED technology into the commercial market.
Dr. Chung received a BS in Electronics Engineering in 1973 from Seoul National University, MS in 1977 from Case Western Reserve University and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 1981 from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
- Sanju Khatri, Senior Manager Digital Signage, IHS Markit
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- Mark Fihn, Senior Principal Analyst – Displays, IHS Markit
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Mark concurrently heads a publishing company called Veritas et Visus, where he supports the flat panel display industry based on his expertise related to notebook PCs, Tablet PCs, touch technologies, the LCD TV market, and display related human factors, including high resolution and wide aspect ratios.
Prior to Veritas et Visus, Mark worked for 3 years at the market research firm DisplaySearch. He additionally participated for 15 years in computer system and LCD-related procurement at Texas Instruments and Dell while living in the United States and Taiwan. He has been active in many display-related areas, most specifically in publicly championing industry-wide adoption of high resolution displays, notebook LCD standardization, and video sub-system integration.
Mark was educated at St. Olaf College (Northfield, Minnesota), the American Graduate School of International Management, (Phoenix, Arizona); St. Edward's University, (Austin, Texas), and in the University of Texas at Austin's doctoral program in International Business.
- Achin Bhowmik, Director of Perceptual Computing Technology and Solutions, Intel
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Dr. Achin Bhowmik focuses on developing next-generation computing solutions based on natural human-computer interaction technologies and applications.
He has 100 publications, including a book titled "Mobile Displays: Technology & Applications" published by Wiley & Sons, and 25 issued patents.
- Mark Hamblin, Vice President, TPK
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- Andrew Hsu, Technology Strategist Synaptics
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- David Barnes, Principal & Owner, BizWitz, LLC
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David Barnes is an expert in decision support and capital investment with experience advising multi-national boards on a variety of questions concerning display and imaging technologies.
He has supported joint venture formations, M&A valuations, intellectual property transactions, market entries and initial public offerings on three stock exchanges. As a Principal at BizWitz LLC, he helps clients select and focus on profitable market opportunities.
- Alberto Moel, Senior Research Analyst, Bernstein
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- Andrew Uerkwitz,, Executive Director, Equity Research, Oppenheimer & Co. Inc.
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- Peter Kwon, Head of Display Research, Founder, DisplayBank, IHS Markit
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Peter Kwon, Director of IHS Markit E&M, leads the display research team, based in Korea. Mr. Kwon is an expert in component materials and supply chain analysis as well as display devices.
He also has a research experience in the LED and the new & renewable energy industries. Based on his yet another expertise in analyzing patents, one of today's hottest issues, Mr. Kwon analyzes global companies' patent strategies and guides companies on how to secure patents on promising technologies.
He is also interested in the next generation display technology development through continuous technological innovation.
