Dr Douglas Sparks is the founder of M2N Technologies LLC. M2N Technologies is a consulting firm specializing in the MEMS and Semiconductors technology, product and process commercialization and supply chains. Dr. Sparks has international business experience in these fields in the US, China, Japan and Europe in medical, industrial, aerospace, semiconductors, consumer and automotive applications. He has worked at large MEMS IDMs, start-ups and MEMS foundries. Doug was the CTO of Hanking Electronics which built the first 200mm pure MEMS wafer fab in China. He founded a microsensor vacuum packaging company called NanoGetters, which was acquired by Materion. He was the EVP at Integrated Sensing Systems where he launched multiple microfluidic sensor products, including an FDA approved MEMS drug infusion device and industrial products acquired by Endress + Hauser. Doug worked in automotive sensors and semiconductor fabs with Delphi. Dr. Sparks holds a PhD in materials engineering from Purdue University and has published more than 170 technical papers and has 70 issued patents

María Cecilia Colautti is Doctor of Medicine from the Inter-American Open University (UAI), Postgraduate Studies in Pain Medicine from Favaloro University. Specialist in Occupational Medicine from the Medical College of the Province of Buenos Aires. Specialist in Forensic Medicine from the Argentine Catholic University (UCA). Master's degree in Occupational Health and Safety. Prevention of Occupational Risks. Polytechnic University of Catalonia. Full Professor in the Master's Program on Safety, Health, and Hygiene at the Faculty of Engineering of the Argentine Army. National Defense University. She has an extensive professional experience focused on integrated management systems in Safety, Health, Environment, and Quality processes. Certification in ISO 9001, ISO 45001, ISO 14001, ISO 18001, Occupational Safety and Health. ISO 14000 Environmental Management. TC 22000 Certification in Food Safety Management Systems. Cecilia was a Professor with Dr. Juan Felipe Rodríguez Lenci Scholarship. Occupational Medicine Society of the Province of Buenos Aires (SMTBA). Fellow at the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Full Member of the Occupational Medicine Society of the Province of Buenos Aires. Full Member of the International Commission on Occupational Health (ICOH). Founding Member of the Nanomaterials Committee of the International Commission on Occupational Health. Cecilia is author of the Chapter on Nanotechnology and Occupational Health. Book on Occupational Medicine in Argentina (Erga Ommes Publishers. June 2022; Amazon 2023); and author of the Chapter on Nanotechnology and Legal Aspects (Occupational Health. Forensic Medicine of Work. Erga Omnes. August 2022). Author of the book Fundamentals of Nanotechnology and Nanotoxicity, (Erga Omnes Publishers. September 2022; Amazon 2023).

Robert Quinn is a highly experienced professional with 25 years of experience in the semiconductor capital equipment and chip equipment manufacturing field. He specializes in various aspects of the industry such as OEM equipment manufacturing, tool reconfiguration, installation, testing, refurbishment, purchase inspection, consultation, sales, bid management, field engineering, decontamination, and tool extraction. Robert has a great passion for writing and curating content about the semiconductor industry and shares his insights on the latest industry news and developments with his 41,000 followers. Through his social media and digital marketing campaigns, he has generated 8 million views year-to-date, which has resulted in increasing brand awareness, driving direct sales lead generation, introducing corporate relationships with key industry leaders, and driving investment revenue. In 2022, Robert founded SIMEU, a nonprofit organization dedicated to growing, educating, and recruiting the next generation of professionals to pursue careers in the semiconductor industry. Through SIMEU, Robert aims to excite and engage young people about the possibilities of a career in this field and provide them with access to education and training opportunities. He is currently working to raise enough money to fund the building of a mobile education unit that will travel to schools and events around the nation. Until that day comes, Robert and his SIMEU volunteers provide local education in the central Texas region, exciting the next generation about the semiconductor industry. Apart from his work in the industry and the nonprofit sector, Robert has an impressive digital presence on various platforms, including Twitter, a podcast, a YouTube channel, blog posts, and newsletters.

Thomas J. Webster’s (H index: 118; Google Scholar) degrees are in chemical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh (B.S., 1995; USA) and in biomedical engineering from RPI (Ph.D., 2000; USA). He has served as a professor at Purdue (2000-2005), Brown (2005-2012), and Northeastern (2012-2021; serving as Chemical Engineering Department Chair from 2012 - 2019) Universities and has formed over a dozen companies who have numerous FDA approved medical products currently improving human health. He is currently helping those companies and serves as a professor at Hebei University of Technology, Saveetha University, Vellore Institute of Technology, UFPI, and others. Dr. Webster has numerous awards including: 2020, World Top 2% Scientist by Citations (PLOS); 2020, SCOPUS Highly Cited Research (Top 1% Materials Science and Mixed Fields); 2021, Clarivate Top 0.1% Most Influential Researchers (Pharmacology and Toxicology); 2022, Best Materials Science Scientist by Citations (Research.com); and is a fellow of over 8 societies. Prof. Webster is a former President of the U.S. Society For Biomaterials and has over 1,350 publications to his credit with over 53,000 citations. He was recently nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2023).

Dr Yuvaraja Visagathilagar has over 27+ years of extensive expertise and experience in academia, research, and industry. He graduated with Bachelor of Engineering in Communication Engineering and Doctorate in Engineering (with a highly prestigious scholarship from the Australian Government) in 1996 and 2003 respectively from RMIT University, Melbourne Australia. His dissertation was in “Narrow-band Optical Modulator on Lithium Niobate” for telecommunication applications but it can be applied for other transceivers applications. In research and industry, he has contributed to over 40+ peer-reviewed international journals and conference pubications. He has visited and presented at universities in USA (i.e. UCLA and UCSD), Peregrine Semiconductor Corporation and in Japan (i.e. Science and technology Organisation).He has collaborated with Defence Science Technology Organisation (now DSTG) in Australia where he has contributed in the design, fabrication, packaging and testing of “High-Speed Lithium Niobate Optical Modulator” including documentation of processes for quality certification (ISO 9001) and flip-chip packaging of narrow-band optical modulators on Lithium Niobate and Ceramic materials. He has extensive academic teaching as a lecturer and post-doctorate research fellow in Photonics, Fibre Optics & System, RF System, and Integration where he was involved in research of novel design of narrowband optical modulators. In early years, his research has been in Narrow-band Lithium Niobate Modulators but also in finding a solution for packaging of optoelectronic devices (i.e. ceramic and Silicon materials). During the collaboration, he worked with sub-contractors in system integration and packaging of the modulator devices in hermetically sealed packages for defence applications. In 2006, he joined “Future Fibre Technologies Ltd” who are the global leading organisation in optical sensing technologies and has extensive experience over 9 years in optical sensing. He was a senior manager and held positions as Senior Fibre Systems Engineer, R&D Team Leader and Applications Engineering Manager where he contributed in the company products enhancements and novel products design. He has contributed to 2 patent solutions for novel systems in optical fibre sensing and contributed to over 110+ reports with fellow colleagues and R&D teams (not published due to commercial-in-confidence). From July 2016 to March 2018, he was a Senior Academic at RMIT University for postgraduate and undergraduate courses in Electrical Engineering Analysis using Matlab, Electronic Engineering, Radar technologies, Communication systems, Optical/Photonic Engineering, Microwave Circuits & System and Advanced Mathematics for various program levels (or years). He contributed to the development teaching materials of a core course in Optical Fibre Systems and Networks for Bachelor and Master’s Program including supervising for over 10+ projects in undergraduate and postgraduate students with a minor thesis. Since April 2018 to June 2020, he is a Senior Academic with the Department of Electrical and Electronics Technology & Engineering, Applied Engineering College (AEC), Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia which is affiliated with Lincoln College International and University of Hull, UK with accreditation of Colleges of Excellence by the Government of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia where he is undertaking teaching in Electrical and Electronics technologies & principles for various Bachelor level program. He has been a senior supervisor for over 30+ projects demonstrated and a minor thesis. In July 2020, he is a researcher undertaking photonics research into reservoir computing and senior academic in lecturing a topic in Optical Fibre Communication Systems, Digital Electronics projects using Altium to design & built a Digital Oscilloscope and Microwave/RF Systems with ©Cadence and Electronic Engineering at the University of Melbourne (Australia) and in January 2021, he joined RMIT University as a researcher and senior academic undertaking research in optical fibre systems and transmission with high-level multi-disciplinary engineering team. Since January 2022, he joined QinetiQ Australia as a Principal Engineer (Senior RF/EMI/EMC Systems Engineer) as a Design and Advisory role providing his expertise & experience in defence and government projects with key interest in Microwave/RF/Radar Communication Engineering, coherent detection optical sensing for pipelines, undersea exploration, seismic detection and temperature sensing, high-speed and narrow-band optical modulators. Recently in March 2023 was awarded with accreditation & certified with the Engineers Australia (EA) Chartered Professional Engineering (CPEng) and in the National Engineers Register (NER), APEC Engineer and IntPE(Aus). He has a distinguished professional engineering career, he is an active Senior Member of the IEEE for over 28+ years’ service where he is the Chair of the Victorian IEEE Electron Devices & Photonics Society Joint Chapter and representative in the Section Committee, Australia from 2017 He is a active member of IEEE where he is a key volunteer for the Senior Member Elevation reference in Victoria, Australia (or globally), Member of OSA, SPIE, AP-MTT, AIP, AOS, BCS and certified in PRINCE2® & system engineering. He is in various editorial boards for peer-reviewed international journals and key reviewer for many international scientific journals and conferences. He has presented at various international and local conferences as Plenary, Keynote, Invited and has been asked to provide a welcome talk at conference. Other interests include and on-going, provides professional engineering consultancy to organisations locally and globally but passionate about teaching high school students from year 7 – VCE & other states in all Mathematic, Physics, System Engineering and Technology.