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Summit 2022:
Advancing Technologies Towards A Sustainable Future

As the world emerges from the pandemic, we are already seeing more global economies opening up their borders and reining in on their businesses as they gain ground. As semiconductors continue to power technologies to support the growing global climate goals such as solar panels and electric vehicles, the use of chips will accelerate. These chips however, have a debilitating effect on the climate as they require a significant amount of carbon footprint as they require a massive amount of energy and water and other hazardous by-products that will contribute to climate change. This contradicts what the industry has endeavoured to achieve in a sustainable future.

In this respect, SSIA Summit 2022 will tackle this important contradiction and explore how the industry can pivot to balance both business and the environment. And how companies can do more to reduce their carbon footprints with the current programs already in place. Hence, the Summit will address the critical topic of advancing technology in a responsible and yet sustainable way to support the growth of the industry.

Thought leaders and experts will come together once again to present and discuss strategies and new technologies on this area and work towards our goal of a greener and larger industry with minimal carbon footprint.

Russell THAM

Joint Head, Enterprise Development Group (Singapore)
Head, Strategic Development
Temasek International

Russell Tham is Joint Head of Enterprise Development Group and Head of Strategic Development, with a focus on building new businesses and investing in high potential Science & Technology early stage ventures respectively. He joined Temasek in May 2020 after two years at ST Engineering where he was President of New Enterprises and Ventures.

Prior to that, Russell was President at Applied Materials, a technology company headquartered in Silicon Valley. He led the regional business and oversaw the expansion of the company’s Singapore infrastructure expansion into manufacturing, supply chain, R&D and product development for global markets.

Russell holds a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from the National University of Singapore.

Xinying TOK

Head of Southeast Asia
Carbon Trust

Xinying Tok has over 12 years’ experience working as a banker, an ESG consultant, and a philanthropic grantmaker in Southeast Asia and China. She has worked with governments, companies, large institutional investors and philanthropic entities on issues like energy transition, electric mobility, clean cooling, ESG and green finance to accelerate the low carbon transition in Asia for the last 8 years. Xinying currently leads and grows the Carbon Trust team in Singapore to be the trusted and expert Net Zero guide for business, governments, and organizations across Southeast Asia.

Kenneth NG

Sustainability Lead
Razer

Kenneth is a seasoned sustainability professional with over a decade of experience in managing sustainability campaigns. He has worked with stakeholders from over 30 countries, incorporating profitable business strategies with sustainable solutions and community investments. His scope of work includes setting up green financing frameworks, ESG reporting standards & criteria, decarbonization of business operations across different regions. His recent stint with a French multinational energy company involved him with the mapping and execution of a roadmap, leading to more than 75% reduction of its emissions before 2030. Now his story comes a full circle with him going back to his hometown, Singapore; also Razer’s SEA HQ, to champion the Razer’s industry-leading, ambitious decarbonization targets.

Ta Chyang (TC) LEE

Senior Director, Technology Development & Introduction
Analog & Power FEM Asia-Pacific Region
STMicroelectronics

Ta Chyang (TC) Lee is STMicroelectronics’ Senior Director of Technology Development & Introduction, and has held this position since September 2015.

TC entered his professional life with ST in 1989 as a Device Engineer with then the first wafer fab in Singapore. From 2008 to 2010 he was part of Numonyx (ST-Intel the joint venture memory spin off) & eventually Micron when it acquired Numonyx in 2010. He was part of the start-up management team for ST green field 8” fab, and subsequently moved to lead various wafer fab functions in his 33 years in the industry.

Currently he is heading the Front-End Technology Development & Introduction activities for BCD (Bipolar-CMOS-DMOS), Si and SiC-based power devices and MEMS, based in Ang Mo Kio, Singapore

TC was born in Penang, Malaysia in 1966, and graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Physics and Master’s degree in Microelectronics from National University of Singapore

Dallal SLIMANI

Vice President Semiconductor Segment
Schneider Electric

For over 12 years, Dallal SLIMANI has been a noteworthy leader driving the sustainability topics with hands on experience in developing & implementing Circular Economy principles in Europe for Schneider Electric: repair, refurbishment, reuse, recycling & reverse logistics, converting the vocation of an industrial site (the first one worldwide) into a control tower for circular supply chain. Presently she is driving the global Semiconductor business for Schneider Electric, bringing with her a wealth of successful track records in transformation and change management in complex environments while leading transversal, cross functional & multicultural teams across various continents. Dallal brings with her an international profile, having spent 23 years in Algeria, 7 years in Sweden, 5 years in France and moving to Singapore recently; speaks fluently in Arabic, Swedish, French & English. Being a strong advocate on sustainability for a better world, Dallal is also a strong supporter of diversity and female leadership in the industrial world; she actively volunteers to advance female leaders to impactful leadership positions.

Jen TAN

Head of Integrated Solutions, Singapore and Southeast Asia, and Renewables, Indonesia
Sembcorp

Ms Jen Tan is Head of Integrated Solutions, Singapore and Southeast Asia, and Renewables, Indonesia, at Sembcorp Industries. She is responsible for growing the portfolio of offerings under Sembcorp’s suite of sustainable solutions in Singapore and Southeast Asia – these include integrating energy, water, waste and digital solutions that help customers meet their environmental sustainability targets. She is also responsible for growing Sembcorp’s renewable business in Indonesia.

Prior to her current role, she was responsible for business development, project development and execution as well as operations and maintenance of solar projects in Singapore and Southeast Asia. Under her leadership, Ms Tan has successfully grown the business to become one of the largest solar players in Singapore.

Ms Tan has over 11 years of experience in the solar industry. Before joining Sembcorp, she was Vice President of APAC Sales and Energy Solutions in REC Solar Pte Ltd responsible for driving business growth in the region. In her time at REC, she was part of the pioneer team in starting up the REC manufacturing facility in Tuas. Prior to that, Ms Tan was in the semiconductor industry for nearly a decade, focusing primarily on planning.

Ms Tan holds a BA degree in Economics and Statistics from the National University of Singapore, and is currently pursuing an Executive MBA with National University of Singapore.

Mehbub KHAN

Market Manager, Asia Pacific, Microelectronics
Veolia

Mehbub Khan is a water treatment and management expert who possesses 25 years of experience in the semiconductor and microelectronics industry. He has offered consultation on process design for key players such as ST Micro, Hynix, Global Foundries, Micron and Soitec.

Siva GUNESPARAN

General Manager
GUUD Singapore

Siva is the General Manager of GUUD Singapore, a global trade technology firm headquartered in Singapore. A strategic business leader, he has previously risen through the ranks quickly to become a senior director in an SGX-listed technology firm, and in GUUD, he has led his team to become the market leader for trade permit declarations in Singapore in a few short years.

In his current role, he is responsible for leading his team to drive digital transformation in the trade facilitation and logistics sector in Singapore and Malaysia.

Passionate about using technology to bring about good for businesses and economies, Siva works closely with businesses to help them achieve greater cost and time efficiencies, while streamlining their business processes for greater effectiveness.

Summit and Semiconductor Dinner 2021: Reiterating Smart Nation with Innovation and Technology

The SSIA Summit has always been positioned as a podium where thought leaders in the semiconductor industry as well as agencies come together to share their insights on the industry. The aim is to anchor a space for the leaders as well as to attract interested parties in and out of the industry.

For 2021, driving the nation’s smart initiatives was the key message demonstrating the current and relevant trends. While photonics is and will remain poised as the nucleus of the next phase of the Singapore semiconductor industry, we set our long-term sights on sustainability which the industry has set in motion; of which 2022 sees this topic as the key agenda to be expounded on.

To read more on 2021’s Summit, please click here.