SMTA announced that the Early Bird Registration Deadline for the 19th Annual Pan Pacific Microelectronics Symposium is January 8, 2014. The event will take place February 11-13, 2014 at the Hapuna Beach Prince Resort on the Big Island of Hawaii. The Pan Pacific promotes international technical interchange and provides a premier forum for extensive networking among industry professionals and business leaders throughout the world.
The technical sessions will include Interposers, Roadmaps and Industry Trends, Embedded Assemblies, Assembly Challenges, 3D and TSV Technologies, Prognostics and Health Management, Business Strategies, Power Electronics, Reliability and Failure Analysis, Manufacturing Paradigms, Statistics and Probability, Connection Taxonomy, Simulation and Modeling.
Three Keynote Presentations will highlight each day of the symposium. Nihal Sinnadurai, AATAC, will keynote the first day of the event with a presentation on "Time Bombs in Electronic and Photonic Systems." Matthew Hudes, Deloitte & Touche, is the Wednesday evening Keynote and he will present, " Digital Health; Facts, Fiction & Future!" Ricky Shi Wei Lee, Ph.D., Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, will close the symposium with his presentation, “Green Technology Illuminates the Future.”
View the complete program and register at the website: http://www.smta.org/panpac. Please contact JoAnn Stromberg, joann@smta.org or 952-920-7682, with questions about the program. Promotional packages are available for companies wishing to have exposure for their products and services. Contact Erin Murray, erin@smta.org, for details.
The SMTA membership is an international network of professionals who build skills, share practical experience and develop solutions in electronic assembly technologies, including microsystems, emerging technologies, and related business operations.