MEMS Forum- Aiming for growth in MEMS-related industries -Tuesday, November 7, 2006 10:00 a.m. - 4:35 p.m. Tokyo International Forum Hall D7Sponsored by : MEMS Industry Forum
Cosponsored by : Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, The New Energy and Industrial
Technology Development Organization (NEDO)
Support provided by : Kitakyushu Foundation for the Advancement of Industry, Science andTechnology; MEMS Park Consortium
Entrance fee : Free

Program

MC : Keiichi Aoyagi, Secretary-general, Secretariat, MEMS Industry Forum

Session 1

Opening

10:00 --- 10:05

Opening address

Tamotsu Nomakuchi, Chairman,
MEMS Industry Forum10:05 --- 10:10

Greetings from guest of honor

Taizo Takahashi, Director, Industrial Machinery Division,
Manufacturing Industries Bureau, Ministry of Economy,
Trade and Industry

10:10 --- 10:20

Introduction of MEMS
Industry Forum activities

Keiichi Aoyagi, Secretary-general, Secretariat,
MEMS Industry Forum

Session 2MEMS Industrial Policy

10:20 --- 10:50

MEMS Industry Policy in Japan with a view
to International Competitiveness (tentative title)

Taizo Takahashi, Director, Industrial Machinery Division,
Manufacturing Industries Bureau, Ministry of Economy,
Trade and Industry

10:50 --- 11:20

MEMS Industry Policy and Business
Development in the U.S.

Micro and Nanotechnology Commercialization Education
Foundation (MANCEF) , Vice President Jane Niall

11:20 --- 11:50

MEMS Business :What Determines Success or Failure ?

Associate editor, Tsuneyuki Miyake,Nikkei Business Publications Inc.

11:50 --- 13:00

Lunch

Session 3

Reinforcement of MEMS Industry Infrastructure

13:00 --- 13:30

Developing a Standard Menu for Functional
Enhancement of MEMS Foundries (tentative title)

Kazushi Tomii, Chair, Foundry Service Industry Committee, MEMS Industry Forum( General Manager, MEMS Foundry Services, Micro Fabrication Process
Development Center, Matsushita Electric Works Ltd. )13:30 --- 14:00

Activities of the MEMS / MS
Applied Research Forum

Nagao Miyashita, Chief-executive, Industry-Academia
Cooperation Center, Kitakyushu Foundation
for the Advancement of Industry, Science and Technology

Efforts to Develop MEMS Technology throughYoshiyuki Watanabe, Senior researcher,Electronics Information Technology Department,
Yamagata Research Institute of Technology

14:00 --- 14:30 Liaison with the Manufacturing Industry:Local Publicly-Run Trials

Session 4

MEMS Technology Establishment and Industry - Academia Cooperation

14:30 --- 15:00

Road Map to MEMS
Technology Strategies

Sumio Kozawa, Director general, Machinery System
Technology Development Department, The New Energyand Industrial Technology Development
Organization (NEDO)

Information From MEMS Industry
Foruml Academia Affiliates

Organizer: Professor Kazuo Sato, Nagoya University• Seed Technologies Contributing toOptical-Integrated Devices

Minoru Sasaki, Assistant professor,
Hane-Sasaki Laboratory, Tohoku University• Fundamental Problems with MEMS
Accelerometers and Potential for Solutions
Provided by Venture BusinessAkira Umeda, Metrology Institute of Japan,
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Scienceand Technology (AIST)• Research at Kyoto University Nano-Microsystem
Engineering Laboratory

Professor Osamu Tabata,Nano-Microsystem Engineering Laboratory,
Kyoto University• Reports on Industry-Academia Liaison Activities
by The Japan Society for Precision Engineering
Expert Committee on Micro-Nanosystems
Research and the Tokyo Institute of Technology
Precision and Intelligence Laboratory (Horie Group)

Professor Mikio Horie, Precision andIntelligence Laboratory,
Tokyo Institute of Technology

Establishment of Core Technology to Strengthen
the Infrastructure of the MEMS Industry

Professor Hiroyuki Fujita, Institute of Industrial Science,
University of Tokyo

Closing address

Koichi Karaki, Vice-chairman,
MEMS Industry Forum

15:00 --- 16:00

16:00 --- 16:30
Closing
16:30 --- 16:35

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