Panel of MIG Members Featured at Globalpress

This year's 7th Annual Globalpress Electronics Summit, held March 30 - April 2 at the Kabuki Hotel in San Francisco, featured a special panel of executives from MIG member companies discussing the future of MEMS in commercial applications.

In keeping with its mission, MEMS Industry Group organized the panel to ensure that the MEMS industry was well-represented to the audience of more than 50 electronics journalists from Asia, Europe and the U.S. This is another example of MIG's efforts to promote its members while championing MEMS technology.

Panelists included Ian Brown, Vice President of Sales & Marketing, Microvision; Eric Eisenhut, Vice President of Sales & Marketing, Kionix; Mark Martin, Vice President and General Manager, Micromachined Products, Analog Devices; Scott Smyser, Vice President and General Manager, VTI Technologies; and Vijay Ullal, Group President, Maxim Integrated Products.

The audience was engaged as panelists identified the huge potential for MEMS in the "Sensing Era" of increased interaction between humans, devices, and their environment. In all commercial sectors -- healthcare, consumer goods, mobile and wireless, and industrial -- people are increasingly interacting with machines using the human senses over traditional peripherals such as keyboards or monitors.

Challenges to integration and mass-production were clearly hot topics as panelists fielded questions from the audience. With MEMS now so integral to application performance of smart phones, video games, home healthcare devices and other emerging application areas, such as pico projectors, the consensus was that any company not using MEMS would quickly become obsolete.

For more coverage of the panel, view David Manners' article in Electronics Weekly.

About Globalpress Electronics Summit

The annual Globalpress Electronics Summit allows C-level electronics executives -- without having to travel abroad -- to communicate with millions of design engineers and managers who read European and Asian trade and business publications.

Every year, outlets such as Electronic Engineering & Product World, EDN China, EE Times Europe, Electronics Weekly, and Markt & Technik generate hundreds of articles as a result of the summit’s presentations, panel discussions and networking events. About a dozen members of the U.S. media also attend the summit.

More information is available by calling 408.246.6840 ext. 101, or visiting www.globalpresspr.com.