Plenary Session

• 1.1 Requirements of Power Management ICs for Energy Harvesting Transducers, Peter Spies, Group Manager, Fraunhofer Institut Integrierte Schaltungen IIS Department Power Efficient Systems

  1.2 Rethinking Low Power, Pranav Mehta, Sr. Principal Engineer and CTO; Embedded & Communications Group, Intel

  1.3 Efficient Regulation and Dynamic Voltage Scaling Enable Practical Usage of Thin Film Batteries with Single Supply Technology, Mark E. Buccini, Director, Texas Instruments

  1.4 EnerPak: Combining Energy Harvesting and Power Management for a Complete Wireless Sensor Power Solution, Charles Lakeman, Vice President, Micropower Division, TPL Inc.

Thin Film Batteries

• 2.1 Powering Wireless Sensors with Thin Film Batteries, Dr. Simon Nieh, President & CEO, Front Edge

  2.2 Solid-State Thin Film Batteries Enable Energy Harvesting as the Preferred Energy Source for Remote Semi-Active Electronic Applications, Joe Keating, Sr. Applications Engineer, Infinite Power Solutions

  2.3 High Power Density Thin Film Batteries for RFID Applications, Lonnie Johnson, President, Excellatron Solid State, LLC

  2.4 A Reserve NanoBattery for Low–Power Wireless Sensor Systems, Steve Simon, CTO, Victor Lifton, Chief Scientist, Fred Allen, President and CEO, AlwaysReady

Energy Harvesting

• 3.1 Bridging The Gap Between Complex Multi-material Microscopic and Miniature Devices, Arthur L. Chait, Chairman, President, CEO, EoPlex

  3.2 Flexible Piezoelectric Ceramic Fiber Composite Energy Harvesting for Wireless Sensors and Micro-power Applications, Jerry Ruddle, Executive Vice President, Advanced Cerametrics

  3.3 Active Circuits to Improve Performance of Vibration Energy Harvesters, Dr. Yiming Liu, Research Scientist, Ferro Solutions, Inc.

Continental Breakfast

Harvesting Thermal Energy

• 4.1 Thermoelectric Devices Based on Nanocomposit Materials for Wireless Sensors, Dirk Ebling, Fraunhofer Institut Integrierte Schaltungen IIS Department Power Efficient Systems

  4.2 Thinfilm Thermoelectrics - Thermal Power and Control in Real World Applications, Fritz Volkert, Micropelt

  4.3 Ambient Heat Engine, Lonnie Johnson, President, Johnson Research & Development Co., Inc.

Low Power System Architecture

• 5.1 The Unexplored Land of Ultra-Low-Power Sensor Communication, Niek Van Dierdonck, VP Strategy and Product Management, GreenPeak

  5.2 Permanently Powered Deeply Embedded Systems , Mark E. Buccini, Director, Texas Instruments

  5.3 Achieving Ultra-Low Power RF in Short-Range Applications, Didier Sagan, Product Line Marketing Manager, Zarlink Semiconductor

System Integration Issues

• 6.1 Case Study: Wireless Condition Monitoring using Perpetuum Vibration Energy Harvesters and CAP-XX Supercapcitors, John Parker, Senior Engineer, Perpetuum/CAP-XX Pty Ltd

  6.2 High Efficiency Vibrational Energy Harvestor for Active RFID Tags, Abhiman Hande, Principal Engineer, Texas Piezoelectric Inc.

  6.3 Energy harvesting in ZigBee systems, Leo Estevez, Technology Strategist for Wireless Emerging Markets, WTBU Chief Technical Office, Texas Instruments

  6.4 Wireless Sensors and Energy Harvesting for Rotary Wing Aircraft SHMy, Dr. Steven S. Burrow, MIET, Lecturer in Avionic Systems, University of Bristol, Dept. Aerospace Engineering

Continental Breakfast

Kinetic Energy Harvesting

• 7.1 New Means of Powering and Recharging Small Electronic Devices, Kevin O'Handley, Ferro Solutions, Inc.

  7.2 Case Study: High Performance Wireless Sensing Network in a Challenging Environment, George Smit, Development Engineer, Perpetuum Ltd

  7.3 Development of an Electro-Magnetic Transducer for Energy Harvesting of Kinetic Energy and its Applicability to MEMS-scale Device, Richard Waters, CTO, Lumedyne Technologies

Networking Break

Energy Harvesting Components

• 8.1 Stray Magnetic Energy Harvesting in Power Lines through Inductive Coupling for Wireless Sensor Nodes, Sanjib Panda, Senior Member, IEEE, National University of Singapore

  8.2 Integrated rectenna and power management design for RF far field energy harvesting, Zoya Popovic, Professor, University of Colorado, Boulder

  8.3 Outlook and Challenges for Energy Harvesting using Micro Systems Technology, Philippe Mattelaer, Business Development Manager, Wireless Autonomous Transducer Solutions, IMEC– Nederland

Post Conference Seminar:

• Designing for ultra-low-power wireless sensor applications, powered by energy harvesting