Mark now already your agenda for the very first solid-state imaging forum. It is scheduled for Dec. 16-17th 2013. Again another conference ? NO, absolutely not.
The solid-state imaging forum will be a high-level, technical, short course focusing on one particular hot topic in the field of solid-state imaging. The audience will be strictly limited to 30 people, just to stimulate as much as possible the interaction between the participants and speaker(s). The subject of the first forum will be : “ADCs for Image Sensors”. Only world-leading and independent expert(s) will be cont(r)acted to talk at the forum. At this moment negotiations with a hotel in the Netherlands are taking place to have the forum close to the airport of Amsterdam.
More information will follow in the coming weeks or months, but I wanted to share this announcement with you as early as possible to make sure you can keep your agenda free on these days.
Albert,
04-04-2013.
A complaint of the image sensor workshop is that it is too inclusive — at 140 attendees it is too small to include the engineers in the trenches and the engineers that have a toe (or would might be inclined to have a toe) in image sensors. The fresh blood. That it does not provide the right link of experience with potential to keep the technology healthy. This proposal goes the wrong way to address this problem. It also almost feels like a collusion or a cabal — the godfathers gathering in a smoky back room and thinking that they have all knowledge needed.
Dan, this is NOT another conference, it is a kind of short course. And in the case that the first forum is sold out, we always have the option to run it a second time, and if the second time is sold out, we can run it a third time.
I understand. Thanks for the clarification. Dan