Archives 2020

December 9 2020

Funding, Growing and Success in a Display Startup

Helge Seetzen, General Partner & CEO, TandemLaunch

Presentation Abstract

The speaker built a display company while he was still in college and had a hugely successful exit, he has since built nearly three dozen companies, raised several tens of millions in funding, served on the boards of over 30 companies, hired, mentored and helped numerous founders and CEO's. The talk will feature three aspects of a start up in the display industry - what does it take to get funded, how do you grow a startup and what it takes to be successful. The speaker will cite examples from display and non-display companies, both successful and unsuccessful endeavors and the lessons learnt.

Helge Seetzen

Helge Seetzen is a successful multi-media technology entrepreneur with deep experience in the university tech transfer space. He currently serves as the CEO and General Partner of TandemLaunch - a startup foundry that works with driven entrepreneurs to turn research from the world's best universities into exceptional consumer technology companies. Under his leadership, TandemLaunch has created over 20 technology companies, accounting for hundreds of jobs, $500M+ in market value, and commercialized technologies from over 50 international universities.

Prior to TandemLaunch, Helge co-founded Sunnybrook Technologies and later BrightSide Technologies to commercialize high dynamic range (HDR) display technology and champion the development of the local dimming LED TV concept. BrightSide was successfully sold to Dolby Laboratories at high return to shareholders after receiving accolades such as the Best Buzz Award at the 2006 Consumer Electronics Show and a "Top 100 Technologies in 2006" rank by Popular Science Magazine. At Dolby he led all cross-functional development activities for Dolby's first two consumer video products including today's Dolby Vision standard for HDR video. In this capacity he built research and engineering departments in Canada and the US, and was closely involved in licensing negotiations with many major consumer electronics manufacturers.

Helge's leadership in the technology transfer, innovation and entrepreneurial space has been widely recognized through awards such as Business in Vancouver's 40 under Forty award for business accomplishment, the NSERC Innovation Challenge Award for university technology transfer, and a Special Recognition Award from the Society for Information Display for the pioneering of LED TV technology. Helge serves on the boards of over 20 organizations including the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (Canada's national research funding body), MITACS (Canada's principal industrial grant program for students), HEC Montreal's Entrepreneurship Program, and over a dozen private corporations. He is a Fellow of the McGill Dobson Center for Entrepreneurship and strong supporter of many other initiatives encouraging entrepreneurship. As a technical leader, he served as the General Chair for Display Week, the largest technical conference on displays, as well as currently as President of the Executive Board of the Society for Information Display. He has published over 20 journal articles, writes a regular column on venture capital innovation in the Information Display Magazine, and holds over 80 patents with an additional 50 pending US applications. Helge received a B.Sc. in physics and a Ph.D. in interdisciplinary imaging technology (physics & computer science) from the University of British Columbia.

November 11 2020

Presentation Abstract

Immersive displays generally either involve giant screens or headsets that place tiny screens and lenses close to a person's eyes. BRELYON a deep tech display startup in Silicon Valley is introducing a new category of displays that provide a large field of view (larger than most VR headsets) as well as a sense of depth with no need for wearing any headsets.This talk will dive into the principles of depth perception and how that along lightfield engineering may be used to increase the field of view and realize such new categories of displays.

Dr. Barmak Heshmat

Dr. Barmak Heshmat is the CEO of BRELYON a display technology startup in silicon valley. Barmak was former head of optics at Meta Augmented Reality where he was leading a team of engineers to realize the next generation of augmented reality headsets. Before that Barmak was a research scientist at MIT Media Lab for 4 years where he was mentoring graduate students and directing research on advanced imaging and display systems. Dr. Heshmat has given six TEDx talks and has many publications and inventions some of which are featured on cover of MIT news, Nature photonics and other mainstream media outlets such as BBC, CBS; Tech crunch etc.

October 14 2020

Presentation Abstract

As VR and AR applications take center stage, high brightness, nausea-free, low power displays are a must. Traditional OLED displays using color filters lose 80% of useful light. The eMaginteam has developed directly patterned OLED displays without color filters on a CMOS silicon backplane, achieving 2K x 2K display with 5000 cd/m2 with a roadmap to achieve 28,000 cd/m2 full color display. The talk will provide an update on this state of the art OLED micro display development.

Andrew G. Sculley

Andrew G. Sculley, has served as the eMagin's Chief Executive Officer since June 2008 and served on the company board since 2009. From 2004 to 2008 Mr. Sculley served as the General Manager of Kodak's OLED Systems Business Unit and Vice President of Kodak's Display Business, where he forged a number of alliances with flat panel display manufacturers. From 2001 to 2004, he was the CFO of Kodak's Display Business. From 2003 to 2006, he also served on the Board of Directors of SK Display, a joint venture between Sanyo and Kodak to manufacture active matrix OLED displays. From 1996 to 2001 Mr. Sculley served on as the Manager of Operations, CFO and member of the Board of Directors of Kodak Japan Ltd. Previously, he held positions in strategic planning and finance in Eastman Kodak Company. Mr. Sculley holds an MBA from Carnegie-Mellon University, an MS in physics from Cornell University and a B.S. in physics from Stevens Institute of Technology. He attended Harvard University's International Senior Management Program while an executive at Kodak.

September 16 2020

OTFT - Enabling Future Display Technologies

Dr Bev Brown - Chief Scientist, SmartKem
Dr Simon Ogier - CTO, SmartKem

Presentation Abstract

The talk will focus on organic semiconductors being designed into display applications, taking them to the next level of performance to enable flexible backplanes, mini/micro LED backlights for HDR and a variety of other applications. Dr. Brown will describe the chemistry behind the best performing Organic Thin-Film Transistor (OTFT) products in the industry and Dr. Ogier will describe the benefits of the technology in interesting new applications.

Dr Beverley Brown

Dr Brown is a senior technology and innovation leader with more than 20 years of technical and commercial experience in high technology start-up businesses within the Specialty Chemicals industry. Dr Brown has worked in the technology area of Printable Electronics since its inception almost 20 years ago. She is considered to be one of the world's leading experts in the field of organic semiconductor technology and holds a PhD in Organic Chemistry from the University of Glasgow. She spent eighteen years at ICI plc in the 80 and 90s, was accountable for the successful divestment and technology transfer of NeoRaDTM to DSM, set-up a world class multi-disciplinary plastics electronics research team of 28 at Avecia, which was eventually acquired by Merck in 2005.

Dr Simon Ogier (Fellow of the Institute of Physics)

Simon is an internationally recognized expert in the field of organic thin film transistors. Since 2001 he has worked to develop high performance organic semiconductors for transistor applications within companies such as Avecia, Merck, CPI and more recently with NeuDrive Limited. From 2007 whilst at CPI Simon had a major role in establishing the UK's National Printable Electronics Centre (PETEC), housing a range of state-of-the-art fabrication equipment for pilot scale production of plastic electronic devices. The facility includes £35M of capital equipment capable of processing substrates up to 370 x 470mm in size. Simon has co-authored 26 journal articles in addition to being a co-inventor on 15 patent families, and serves as an active member of the IEC TC119 standards committee for Printed Electronics.

August 25 2020

DisplayWeek 2020 Overview

Sri Peruvemba, CEO Marketer International Inc.
Paul Semenza, Santa Clara University
Sihui He, DigiLens
Michiel Callens, DigiLens

Presentation Abstract

Did you miss Display Week's first virtual show? Join use for a special BASID event with industry speakers giving an overview of DisplayWeek 2020!

  • Event statistics
  • Women in Technology
  • Display market conditions
  • Micro-LED
  • AR/VR/MR

Sri Peruvemba, CEO Marketer International Inc.

Sri Peruvemba is the CEO of Marketer International, a marketing services firm, and serves on the boards of Omniply, Summit Wireless and Visionect. He was previously CMO for E Ink where he played a major role in transforming a startup to a $1b+ global company. With over 30 years of experience in the technology industry, Peruvemba has been an influential advocate in the advancement of electronic display technology. He is an acknowledged expert on electronic displays, haptics, touch screens, and related technologies and consults, writes, and presents on those subjects globally. Peruvemba has also held senior level positions at Sharp Corp, Novasentis, Cambrios, TFS Inc., Planar Systems, and Suntronic Technology and has BSEE and MBA degrees and a post-graduate diploma in management. Based in Silicon Valley, he is presently CMO/advisor to high tech firms in USA, Canada and Europe and serves as Chair of Marketing for the Society for Information Display (SID). Peruvemba is also a right arm off-spinner for a cricket team he co-founded in Silicon Valley.

Paul Semenza, Santa Clara University

Paul Semenza is Chair of the Department of Engineering Management and Leadership at Santa Clara University and an independent consultant with expertise in market research, strategic planning, and technology assessment of flat panel displays, semiconductors, and flexible electronics. In 2015, Paul helped to found NextFlex, a public-private institute focused on flexible hybrid electronics manufacturing, and served as Director of Commercialization until 2018, creating the membership structure and developing relationships with equipment manufacturers and other partners. Previously, Paul was President, Technology Analyst Business for The NPD Group, where he was responsible for the DisplaySearch and Solarbuzz businesses, and served as Vice President of Display Research for iSuppli Corporation and Stanford Resources. Paul has been a program officer at the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Research Council, an analyst for the US Congress Office of Technology Assessment (OTA), and a member of technical staff at The Analytic Sciences Corporation. Paul received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and M.S. in Electro-optics from Tufts University, and a Masters in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School.  

Dr. Sihui He, DigiLens

Dr. Sihui He is senior optical scientist in DigiLens, developing simulation tools and measurement tools, as well as design for prototypes. Previously, Sihui was in Microsoft HoloLens optics team, developing next generation optics. Dr. He received her Bachelor in Information Engineering from Zhejiang University in China, and Ph.D. in optics from University of Central Florida.

 

 

Dr. Michiel Callens, DigiLens

Dr. Michiel Callens is an applied physicist with six years of photonics engineering experience, specializing in display technologies. He is currently working on waveguide technology for AR applications at DigiLens. 

He earned a PhD in photonics engineering for his work on OLEDs in 2018 and holds a joint M.S. in photonics from the University of St Andrews (Scotland) and Ghent University (Belgium) graduating Magna Cum Laude.

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July 14 2020

The State of 8k

Chris Chinnock, Executive Director 8K Association and President Insight Media

Presentation Abstract

8K resolution is the last in a long line of resolution-focused ecosystems. But adoption of each next resolution paradigm varies depending on where in the ecosystem you look. There are a lot of similarities between how 4K is rolling and how we expect 8K to roll out, but there are also differences. This talk will discuss the state of adoption of 8K from capture to display and assess the impact of the postponement of the 2020 Olympics to next summer.

Dr. Chris Chinnock

Chris is a long-time display-focused analyst, writer and commentator. Always looking at the latest trends in display technology, his current focus is on 8K, microLEDs, AR/VR and the light field ecosystems.

June 16 2020

How Does Blue Light Intercept Cellular Life?

Dr Ajith Karunarathne, University of Toledo

Presentation Abstract

Blue light is an integral component of natural as well as human-made light. Several decades worth literature indicates blue light-induced cytotoxic (i. e. vision and melanoma) as well as behavioral (insomnia) effects in humans. We show molecular level interactions between blue light and living cells, providing targets for intervention and treatment of photodamage.

Dr. Ajith Karunarathne

Dr. Ajith Karunarathne is an associate professor at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Toledo. He is also a cellular photochemist with nearly 15 years of experience.
He is also an expert in subcellular optogenetics as well as phototoxicity. His research on phototoxicity of blue light and retinal became a top 100 attention-grabbing publication in 2018. Dr. Karunarathne has a Ph.D. in bioanalytical chemistry from Michigan State University and postdoctoral training in signal transduction from Washington University School of Medicine.

He is the author/co-author of numerous publications, including peer-reviewed manuscripts and book chapters. Among his current research, vision-related health effects of blue light and intricate regulation of cellular signaling networks, as well as their underlying molecular pharmacology, are prominent.

May 12 2020

OUT-OF-HOME AUGMENTED SERVICES WITH TECHNOLOGIES

Thomas Morel, R&D Director - Custom Solutions, JCDecaux

Presentation Abstract

Inventor of the Street Furniture concept in 1964, JCDecaux progressively became #1 worldwide in outdoor advertising, and continues to innovate for brands and for people, developing 3 areas of business: street furniture, transport advertising and billboard advertising. In this seminar we explore how JCDecaux uses its internal capabilities of engineering to integrate innovative technologies to help develop the business and the services.

Thomas Morel

Mr Morel is in charge of prospective and emerging technologies in order to further develop the business. His primary focus is on digital signage, interactivity, new mobility, smart city, AR/VR and retail.

Thomas Morel joined JCDecaux in October 1999 as part of the French Operations team. He was in charge of installations for rotating billboards in Paris. From 2001 to 2006 he successively managed three local agencies, including Paris, as technical director, in charge of postering, maintenance and installation, managing more than 250 people.

From 2006, Thomas joined a new activity: JCDecaux Innovate. He developed innovative tailor-made solutions for our customers, the brands but also cities, and airports.

Since 2017, he has been in charge of R1D custom solutions, and more specifically of prospective and emerging technologies, to help develop the business. Thomas, 46, is an engineer from the French Ecole ESTP, in Paris.

April 7 2020

Presentation Abstract

This presentation will address how COVID-19 is impacting the supply side and demand side of the flat panel display market. It will present the latest forecasts after COVID-19 and what this means for the display market and its supply chain.

Ross Young

Ross Young is the CEO of DSCC, a member of NanoPhotonica's Advisory Board and is organizing the SID/DSCC Business Conference for the 4th consecutive year. He is best known for starting, running and selling DisplaySearch which was sold to The NPD Group, IHS and now Omdia.

March 10 2020

Novel Usage Models of Electrophoretic Technology

Bryan Chan, BASID Chair, E Ink Senior Director

Presentation Abstract

JustWrite and JustTint technology from E Ink represent novel use cases of electrophoretic materials. JustWrite enables an instantaneous response writing experience that mimics pen on paper. JustTint provides a dynamic privacy window film that offers good transmission to total privacy via a variable transmission film. Similar to mainstream electrophoretic materials, both JustWrite and JustTint do not require any power other than to switch states. This webinar will present an overview of these new technologies from E Ink.

Bryan Chan

Bryan Chan leads the Product Management and Marketing team at E Ink developing products that have shipped over 100 million units globally. With extensive experience in strategic marketing and business development, Bryan has successfully brought emerging technology to multiple markets with rapid growth in volume and revenue. Bryan holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and has over 30 issued patents.

February 11 2022

Virtual and Augmented Reality: A Technology Tutorial

Achin Bhowmik, CTO & EVP of Engineering, Starkey Hearing Technologies

Presentation Abstract

Virtual and augmented reality technologies have received much investment and attention in the recent years. These devices promise to deliver immersive and interactive experiences, seamlessly blend computationally-created 3D objects into the physical world, thereby enabling myriad new exciting applications. In this talk, we will review the requirements from cognitive neuroscience and human-factors considerations, provide a tutorial on the key technologies, objectively examine the "hopes and hypes", and future trends.

Achin Bhowmik, Ph.D.

CTO & EVP of Engineering, Starkey Hearing Technologies
Adjunct Professor, Stanford University
Fellow, Society for Information Display

Dr. Achin Bhowmik is the Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of Engineering at Starkey Hearing Technologies, a privately-held medical devices business with over 6,000 employees and operations in over 100 countries worldwide. In this role, he is responsible for overseeing the company's technology strategy, product development and engineering departments, and is leading the drive to transform hearing aids into multifunction wearable health devices with embedded sensors and artificial intelligence technologies.

Prior to joining Starkey, Dr. Bhowmik was Vice President and General Manager of the Perceptual Computing Group at Intel Corporation. There, he was responsible for the R&D, engineering, operations, and businesses in the areas of 3D sensing and interactive computing, computer vision and artificial intelligence, autonomous robots and drones, and immersive virtual and merged reality devices. Previously, he served as the Chief of Staff of the Personal Computing Group, Intel's largest business unit with >$30B annual revenues in 2010.

Dr. Bhowmik is an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University, where he advises research and teaches courses in the areas of multisensory cognition enabled by artificial intelligence and perceptual computing. He has also held adjunct and guest professor roles at the University of California, Berkeley, Liquid Crystal Institute of the Kent State University, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, and the Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar.

Dr. Bhowmik was elected as a Fellow of the Society for Information Display (SID). He serves on the Board of Trustees for the National Captioning Institute, Board of Directors for OpenCV, Executive Board for SID, and Board of Advisors for the Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership at UC Berkeley. He also serves on the Board of Directors and Advisors for several technology startup companies. He received the Industrial Distinguished Leader Award from the Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association. He has over 200 publications, including two books and 36 issued patents.

January 14 2022

Imaging is at the Forefront of a Significant Transition

Paul K. Gallagher, Vice-President of Strategic Marketing at Airy3D

Presentation Abstract

The primary focus of image capture technologies have been focused on capturing a moment for a person to view, store, share or revisit. This has driven the focus on image capture to initially provide an image that mimics the scene as closely as what the user was viewing, and now is to actually present a representation of the scene that is better than the eye, or to 'pretty pictures'. While the pretty picture image capture sockets continue to grow, the fundamentals of their platforms are stagnant or in decline, this growth issue will catch up to the image capture segments in a few years. However, a potentially much more significant set of use cases is just starting to emerge, these applications are based on understanding what is in the scene, and from that understanding then controlling actuators or other electronics to respond, in most cases these images will never be seen by a person. These markets have the potential to be as large or larger than the 'pretty picture' markets, but are currently hamstrung by image capture solutions that are still focused on presenting the most pleasing picture to a person. This presentation will review the status of the image capture market, as well as discuss opportunities being addressed by solutions that present image data in formats better suited for processors to deal with, rather than a person to view.

Paul K. Gallagher

Paul K. Gallagher is Vice-President of Strategic Marketing at Airy3D. Mr. Gallagher has over 30 years of industry experience, having held executive and product leadership roles at the top original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) of imaging sensors including Samsung Electronics Company, OmniVision Technologies, Micron Technology (Aptina/ON Semi), and ST Micro (VLSI Vision). Mr. Gallagher was previously at LG Electronics in San Jose where he led the Company's organic imager program. He is a renowned thought leader in the field, industry speaker and a reference source for market research studies.