LAB2FAB
Workshop 2022
Shedding Light on Innovation
Micro-nanotechnology facilities at Canadian universities are a national asset for helping innovators advance and manage their R&D activities. The LAB2FAB bi-annual meeting provides a platform for industry, academic-based fabrication and characterization centres, and government labs to collaborate in overcoming their R&D challenges.
Our goal is to help all parties build their capacity and expertise to increase Canadian competitiveness in manufacturing of microsystems and nanotechnology innovations through team efforts to:
- Enhance connections among technology developers to maximize benefit from technology offerings throughout the Canadian ecosystem.
- Enhance access to infrastructure inside Canada and exchange value in cross-border partnerships.
- Connect funding opportunities to technology resources and end users.
- To encourage rich exchange among all participants, every speaker session also dedicates time for plenary discussion.
Day 1 - Sunday, September 25
17:00 – 21:00
Registration | Welcome Networking Session
Day 2 - Monday, September 26
07:30 – 08:45
Registration | Networking Breakfast
08:45 – 09:00
Welcome
09:00 – 10:30
Session 1: Lab of the future
- Innovations in the usage and management of nanofabrication labs.
- What noteworthy processing capabilities are emerging in open-access facilities?
- What expertise and services are users looking for in facilities?
- What do success stories teach us about the most promising R&D opportunities that can benefit from laboratory capabilities?
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Dominique Drouin
Session Chair
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Volker Sorger
President / Co-Founder
Optelligence Company
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Philippe Babin
CEO
AEPONYX Inc.
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Martin Laforest
Director - Quantum Strategy
ACET
10:30 – 11:00
Networking Break
11:00 – 12:30
Session 2: Bridging discovery to production
- Positioning technology development for commercialization and scale-up.
- Success stories of climbing the TRL ladder, technology transfer, and scale up.
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Alan Renaudin
Session Chair
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Alissa M. Fitzgerald
Founder & CEO
A.M. Fitzgerald & Associates, LLC
![Chiara Alessandri Headshot](https://lab2fab.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/c_Headshot_Chiara_Alessandri.png)
Chiara Alessandri
Luceda Photonics
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Collin Twanow
Director, Technology
Teledyne MEMS
12:30 – 13:30
Networking Lunch
13:30 – 14:50
Session 3: R&D Milestones and Future Talent
- Share company vision, technology goals, and R&D milestones.
- What skills are needed in tomorrow’s microsystems workforce?
- Connect with Rising Stars for follow-up networking.
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Karin Hinzer
Session Chair
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Ben Wiltshire
Modeling & Test Senior Engineer
Zinite
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Vallen Rezazadeh
Founder and CEO
TransEON Inc.
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Serge Ecoffey
Associate Professor
Université de Sherbrooke
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Alan Renaudin
Director, Business Development, Strategic Partnerships and Marketing C2MI
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Dominic Marchand
Director Special Projects, Director 1QBit Sherbrooke
1QBit
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Clint Landrock
Vice President, Technology & Innovation
Meta Materials Inc.
14:50 – 15:20
Networking Break
15:20 – 16:20
MNT Labs Cataloging and Roadmap Session
16:20 – 18:00
Adjourn
16:30 – 17:30
BOAF: Open-Source HW for Smart Edge connected IoT Sensors
(Diamond Head Room)
Enabling the next generation of edge devices to process data from a rich set of sensors such as MEMS, photonics, image, video, audio, or multi-axial motion/vibration has huge application potential. However, edge processing of data-rich sensors poses the extreme challenge of squeezing the computational requirements of advanced, machine-Iearning-based near-sensor data analysis algorithms within the mW-range power envelope of always-ON battery-powered IoT end-nodes. These computational needs can lead to the need for purpose built controllers with targeted accelerators to process the sensor data locally within very low power budgets. This Birds Of A Feather session will provide an open, interactive discussion to explore the role Open-Source HW IP (cores, sensors, PDK libraries, etc.) can play to address these needs. Topics for discussion will include: 1 – the free and open RISC-V ISA; 2 – Open-Source controller class processor cores implementing the RISC-V ISA; 3 – Permissive Open-Source HW IP Licensing considerations; 4 – Open-Source HW IP quality; and 5 – Ecosystem maturity and Roadmap considerations for Open-Source HW IP.
18:00 – 19:00
Reception
19:00 – 22:00
Dinner
Day 3 - Tuesday, September 27
07:30 – 08:30
Networking Breakfast
08:30 – 09:00
Welcome
09:00 – 10:45
Session 4: Photonic Integrated Circuits – A Flourishing Canadian Ecosystem
- An ecosystem view of the silicon photonics value chain in Canada.
- Examples of advancing photonics developments from concept to product.
- Connect to a network initiative or proposal.
- Understand industry needs in business and process capability.
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Mirwais Aktary
Session Chair
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Lukas Chrostowski
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia
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Alireza Loghmany
Engineering Team Leader
National Research Council Canada
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David Buckley
VP, Development Engineering
Sanmina
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Hamid Arabzadeh
Chairman and CEO
Ranovus Inc.
10:45 – 11:15
Networking Break
11:15 – 12:15
Session 5: Taking the Next Steps Together
- What megatrends that will shape the next 10 years? Where should R&D efforts focus?
- What have the last two years taught us about the possibilities of a better normal?
- What actions should be taken after this workshop to pursue specific opportunities?
- And more…
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Lukas Chrostowski
Session Chair
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Gord Harling
CEO
CMC Microsystems
![Alissa Fitzgerald Headshot](https://lab2fab.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/c_Headshot_Alissa_Fitzgerald.png)
Alissa M. Fitzgerald
Founder & CEO
A.M. Fitzgerald & Associates, LLC
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Philippe Babin
CEO
AEPONYX Inc.
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Gem Shoute
Co-founder & CEO
Zinite
12:15 – 12:30
Adjourn workshop
12:30 – 13:30
Networking Lunch
Who Benefits from LAB2FAB?
- Academic-based fabrication and characterization centres
- Government laboratories
- Manufacturers and supply chain
- Technology developers
- Company builders
- Stakeholders in collaborative innovation
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