Julien Brault is a research director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). He specializes in the fabrication of semiconductor materials by epitaxial growth. At the beginning of his career, he worked on: indium arsenides and phosphides (InAs-InP system) for 1.55-μm telecom applications; gallium nitride and aluminum nitride lasers (GaN-AlN system) for applications in spectroscopy and UV microfabrication; and silicon nanocrystal-based transistors (MOSFET) for non-volatile memories. These research activities were carried out in the laboratories of: Lyon Institute of Nanotechnology (INL - Ecole Centrale de Lyon), Interdisciplinary Research Institute of Grenoble (IRIG - CEA Grenoble) and the University of Tokyo in Japan (International Research Laboratory on MEMS and NEMS (Micro- and Nano-Electro-Mechanical Systems), LIMMS- IRL 2820, Hiramoto Laboratory).

Within the Research Center on Hetero-Epitaxy & Applications (CRHEA), since 2004, he has been working on semiconductor materials with very large band gaps, in particular gallium and aluminum nitride alloys (AlGaN), for the production of optoelectronic components (light-emitting diodes (LEDs), lasers, optical waveguides, etc.). His work has led him to participate in numerous French National Research Agency (ANR) projects, as well as European projects. In particular, he has been coordinating ANR projects on white LEDs and UV LEDs, and within the Labex GaNEX, - national network on GaN-based materials -, on materials for UV emission. He is currently responsible for a project in partnership with the RIBER SA Company, a leader in the field of molecular beam epitaxy components. He is the author/co-author of over 140 publications and five patents.

He is responsible for the Advanced Photonics Group in CRHEA. He is also a member of the Environmental and Health Sciences (SENS) team, where he is developing the UV LED theme, and of the 2D+ team, where he is developing the van der Waals epitaxy growth of AlGaN materials on 2D materials (h-BN and graphene). He is a member of the Board of Directors since 2018 and of the Laboratory Council since 2016. He is involved in the Côte d'Azur University as a lecturer in electronics at the "Networks and Telecommunications" Institute of Technology, and as a member of the scientific council of "Complex Systems" Academy of Excellence. He is (has been) involved as a member of numerous program and expert committees in major international conferences on nitrides (ICNS, IWN, ISGN), ultra-wide bandgap materials (IWUMD) and semiconductor components and materials (SSDM - Japan). He is a visiting Professor at the Far Infra-Red (FIR) Center of the University of Fukui, Japan, since 2019.

Thung, Beng Joo, a Malaysian, aged 55 was appointed as Vice President of SilTerra Malaysia Sdn Bhd in February 2023. Prior to the appointment, he was holding as Vice President position for Manufacturing management and responsibilities on fab operation. He joined SilTerra in 2000 as the Electrical Failure Analysis and Reliability engineer. He was one of the key engineers that setup the Electrical failure analysis capability during the SilTerra FAB start up in year 2000. In 2002, he was assigned to Technology Development team full responsibilities for CMOS22um new technology development. In 2004, he was assigned to Yield Engineering team fully responsibilities on yield improvement and technology optimization. He manages to bring the CMOS22um and CMOS18um technologies with word class defect density (D0) performance within very short prior of time. On 2017, he as senior director of Fabrication Integration and responsibilities on Fab integration process optimization, Yield Enhancement, More Than Moores Technology Development in Silicon Photonics and CMOS Image Sensor (CIS). In 2021, he was assigned to Manufacturing management, full responsibilities on manufacturing, Industrial Engineering and Manufacturing System.

He graduated with Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Electronic from The Robert Gorden University, Aberdeen, United Kingdom and obtained a full scholarship from ODASS to further his Master of Science (MSc) in Microelectronics and Information System from Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom. He has more than 30 years of semiconductor experience. Prior to join SilTerra, he was attached with multi-national companies such as Komag Corporation, INTEL Corporation, Akashi Kuboto Corporation (pioneer start-up team) and Showa Aluminium Corporation (pioneer start-up team).

He also has passion and interest in research for continues improvement in optimizing the wafer fabrication process. He has filed in multi publications within the companies, journal, national and international conferences.

In recognition of his experienced, he has given the opportunity as the project leader for the technologies outsourcing, transfer and wafer fabrication consultant. He managed transfer multi new technologies from beginning to mass production within 9 months’ time prior.

Dr. Yilmaz Dikme is the Technical Director and of co-founder ELEMENT 3-5 GmbH, Germany. He received his Ph.D. degree from RWTH Aachen University, Germany and has more than 20 years of experience in the field of group III-nitride material deposition by MOCVD and by plasma. At ELEMENT 3-5 he has developed and patented a epitaxial process called Next Level Epitaxy that allows the growth of AlN, SiC and Diamond at low temperatures with high throughput. He has co-authored more than 50 scientific publications.

Allen Cheah has over 25 years of experience working in both ODM/OEM and EMS R&D, as well as Development Engineering fields with a primary focus in Design Engineering & Product Realization for multinational companies in Penang. His last held position was a Senior Director of Asia Design Center, a Regional Development and Application Engineering Role across EU, U.S., Malaysia, China, Taiwan and Thailand for a myriad of customers that spans to DUV/EUV Lithography Equipment stage with ASML.

He has a Dual-Bachelor of Science Degrees in both Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering from the University of Kentucky, Lexington U.S.A. He is a team player for the Malaysia’s National Semiconductor Strategy (NSS) – Advanced Packaging Cluster via CREST Malaysia to support the National Vision, Framework and Technology Envelope for long term spurious growth in Advanced Packaging SIP (System in Package) for Malaysia.