The 2012 event will consist of 2 parts and be staged over two days and is a "must attend" conference for all professionals involved in the sector.

Conference Chair
Dr Andrew W Nelson, President and Chief Executive Officer, IQE

Conference 1: Markets and III-V CMOS  (Morning of 12th March)
A mix of insightful market research presentations and cutting-edge research destined to shape tomorrow's compound semiconductor industry.

Speakers:

- Compound Semiconductor Markets: Current Status and Future Prospects, Asif  Anwar, Director Strategic Technologies Practice, Strategy Analytics
- The Market for LEDs in Lighting , Mr. Philip Smallwood, Lighting Market Analyst, IMS Research
- Wide Bandgap device market update, Dr. Philippe ROUSSEL, Senior Project Manager, Yole Développement
- European efforts to develop III-Vs on 200 and 300 mm silicon, Dr. Matty Caymax, Chief Scientist, Imec
- An Overview of the DARPA Diverse Accessible Heterogeneous Integration (DAHI) Program, Sanjay Raman, Program Manager, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency/Microsystems Technology Office
- The Integration of silicon CMOS with III-Vs, Professor Iain Thayne, University of Glasgow
- III-V on 200 mm Si for VLSI, Dr. Richard Hill, Sematech
- III-V  3D Transistors, Peide Ye, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University

Conference 2: LEDs, lasers, PV and electronics  (Afternoon of 12th March & full day of 13th March)
Will concentrate on presentations involving industry mainly from the chipmaker sector.

Speakers:

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: III-V on Silicon: Challenges and Opportunities, Robert S. Chau, Intel Senior Fellow, Intel
- SiC and GaN Electronics, Dr. John Palmour, Cree co-founder and chief technology officer, Power & RF
- Ammono's ammonothermal method to make GaN substrates, Dr Robert Dwiliński, President, CEO, Ammonno S.A.
- Tomorrow's RF chips for mobile devices, Todd Gillenwater, VP of Technology and Advanced Development, RFMD
- Building a Successful III-V Pure Play Foundry, Dr. John Atherton, Associate Vice President, WIN Semiconductors Corp.
- Scalable "on-silicon" solutions (GaN-on-Si and Ge-on-Si) using rare oxide buffer layers, Dr Michael Lebby, General Manager & Chief Technology Officer, Translucent Inc.
- III-Nitride Lasers Based on Nonpolar/Semipolar Substrates, Dr.James W. Raring, VP of Laser Engineering, Soraa Inc.
- Markets and Applications for SiC Transistors, Dieter Liesabeths, Vice President Sales & Marketing, SemiSouth Laboratories, Inc.
- Perspective of an LED Manufacturer, Professor Iain Black, Philips Lumileds Lighting Company
- The CPV Market following the  acquisition of Quantasol technology, Jan-Gustav Werthen, Senior Director,  JDSU
- Commercialization of GaN on SI based Power Devices at International Rectifier, Dr. Michael A. Briere, International Rectifier
- Gan the enabler for true SDR, Prof. Rik Jos, RF Technology Fellow & Innovation Manager, NXP Semiconductors
- Holistic  Approach to MOCVD vacuum & Abatement, Dr.  Mike Czerniak, Product Marketing Manager, EdwardsVacuum Ltd
- Advances in Wide Bandgap Semiconductors for Power Electronics, Dr. Markus Behet, Global Market Manager, Power Electronics, Dow Corning
- Large diameter GaN-on-Si epiwafers for power electronics, Dr Marianne Germain, Co-Founder & CEO, EpiGaN
- Gallium nitride from both a product perspective and foundry, Dr Otto Berger, Corporate Advanced Technology Director, TriQuint Semiconductor
- Damage - free Deposition on LED devices, Dr Silvia Schwyn Thöny, Senior Process Engineer, Evatec Ltd
- Temporary Bonding: An enabling technology for RF and power compound semiconductor devices,  Dr Thomas Uhrmann, Business Development Manager, EV Group (EVG)

A Conference Dinner will be held on the evening of the 12th March. The CS Industry Awards will be presented at the dinner.  All delegates, award winners and their customers will be invited to the dinner.

Be sure to book your place at CS Europe - www.cseurope.net

Sponsored By:
Platinum Sponsor:

Yole Developpement   www.yole.fr
Evatec Ltd www.evatecnet.com
Edwards Vacuum Ltd www.edwardsvacuum.com
EV Group  www.evgroup.com

Gold Sponsor:

Bruker AXS GmbH www.bruker-axs.com
Oxford Instruments www.oxford-instruments.com
Evans Analytical Group www.eaglabs.com

Organised by:
Compound Semiconductor www.compoundsemiconductor.net 
Supported by:
Compound Semiconductor China, EuroAsia Semiconductor and Solar Magazines
SEMI International Compound Standards
Co-located with:
CS Industry Awards 2012