Industry Forum

Industry Forum provides specialized conference sessions hosting speakers from industry to discuss product and technology directions, challenges, and other industry issues with creation, application, and production of products using Industrial Electronics Technologies and necessary computational, communications, and security infrastructures needed to use these technologies. Speakers are to focus their presentations on technical challenges of interest to the technical audience; there is no written conference publication. Speakers are expected to interact with the conference attendees to discuss Industry issues. Admission to the industry forum sessions is complimentary for all conference attendees.

For IECON 2012 the general Industry Forum chairs are Michael Condry, the IES Industry Forum Chair, and Richard MacDonald, the IECON 2012 Industry Forum Co-Chair. For IECON 2012 there are 3 focused Industry Forums and 3 Industrial Luncheon Speakers.

1. FPGA Technologies (Chair: Michael Condry – Co-Chair: Richard Grisel) – FPGAs are playing multiple roles in industry applications. This session discusses directions, tools and applications of FPGAs in industry uses. This will proceeded by a hands-on tutorial on FPGA-based VHDL design and embedded systems by Richard Grisel on the tutorial day.

Name	Company	Title	Time
Vincent Lapointe   Electric Simulation Team Leader	Opal-RT	"Using FPGA-based simulator to design and test power electronic controls used in automotive, industrial systems, aircrafts, micro-grid and MMC HVDC”	Thursday 10:30
Marc Perron Ph.D., ing.   President	Alizem inc.	"The role of 3rd-party system-level IP in the design of FPGA-based custom motor drives"	Thhursday 11:00
Rachid Beguenane Ph.D   Associate Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering	Royal Military College of Canada	"Building the bridge between academia and industry for FPGA directions"	Thursday 11:30
Deshanand Singh, PhD Supervising Principal Eng.	Altera Toronto Technology Center	"FPGA evolutions"	Thursday 12:00

2. Security risks for industrial computing (Chair: Michael Condry – Co-Chair: Richard Macdonald) – Security is an increasingly growing and complex problem particularly for industry solutions where critical infrastructure can be attacked. There will be Industry speakers addressing different technology area exposing the challenges and directions of security across industrial electronics technologies including control systems, remote power management, and others.

Name	Company	Title	Time
Robert Vamosi   Senior Analyst	Monaca Corp.	"Embedded Security Challenges"	Thursday   14:00
Stamatis Karnouskos   Research Expert	SAP	"Stuxnet, Duqu, and Flame … The Pandora¹s box is open !"	Thursday   14:30
Pierre Fiorini    CEO	Silkan Canada	" Infrastructure Security: An Embedded Semantics Approach"	Thursday   15:00

3. Electric Vehicle and Infrastructure Systems (Chair: Joachim Taiber – Co-Chair: Victor Huang)–session on different aspects of vehicle electrification and related infrastructure development including electric vehicle key components such as battery and controller technologies, vehicle-to-infrastructure communication aspects and charging infrastructure (e.g. wireless charging).

   Friday

   14:30

   Name	Company	Title	Time
   Timothy Thoppil,   Senior Consultant/ eMobility Technology Lead	P3 North America	"New technology trends in the connected vehicle and electromobility ecosystems"	Friday 10:30
   Dr. Gieter Gerling Professor-Dr-ing   Chair of Electrical Drives and Actuators	Universität der Bundeswehr München	"Testing electric drives for automotive power train development – lessons learnt in working with industry partners "	Friday 11:00
   Barry Gander   Co-founder and Chair	Networked Vehicle Association	"Creating an ecosystem of industry partners for the networked vehicle"	Friday 11:30
   Dr. David Smith	Clemson University	"Utilizing telematics in vehicle racing"	Friday 12:00
   M. Kipness,   IEEE Standards Program Manager	IEEE	"Transportation Standards"	Friday 14:00
   Dr. Arbi Gharakhani,	TM4 Inc.	"Electric vehicle : Trends, challenges and solutions"

4. Luncheon Industrial Speakers (Chair: Michael Condry – Co-Chair: Richard Macdonald).

Name	Company	Title	Time
Fassi Kafyeke ing. Ph.D.   Director of Strategic Technology, Senior Engineering Advisor	Bombardier Aerospace	"Bombardier Aerospace: Charting the Course of Aviation Technology"	Thursday
François Chamberland Eng.   Executive Director	Montreal Transit Society (S.T.M.)	“Montreal Transit Society electrification projects, technological challenges, and future development”	Friday
Jean Lessard ing.   Director Technology Innovation	Institut de recherche d'Hydro-Québec, IREQ	“Hydro-Québec SmartGrid Innovation Program”	Saturday

Sponsorship

Companies involved in IES Industry Forum may also wish to sponsor a small exhibit booth at the conference that can be done for a small sponsorship fee.

Contact

Please contact the industry forum chairs for additional information:

Michael Condry, the IEEE IES Industry Forum Chair, condry@ieee.org
Richard MacDonald, the IECON 2012 Industry Forum Co-Chair, Richard.MacDonald@etsmtl.ca
Thomas Giraudo, IECON 2012 Sales Representative, sales-iecon2012@opus3.com