Last week was particularly eventful for the ESD Alliance. We finalized plans for the CEO Outlook, watched ES Design West momentum build and announced HOT Party news. This follows the evening we hosted two weeks ago with Jim Hogan and Cadence’s Paul Cunningham, effectively covered by Semiwiki’s Bernard Murphy and a Breakfast Bytes post from Paul McLellan, also of Cadence. 
We confirmed all of our panelists for the 2019 CEO Outlook Thursday, May 23, at SEMI in Milpitas, Calif. Moderator, Ed Sperling, editor in chief of Semiconductor Engineering, will lead a discussion with panelists John Chong, vice president of product and business development for Kionix, Jack Harding, president and CEO of eSilicon, John Kibarian, PDF Solutions’ president and CEO, and Wally Rhines, CEO emeritus of Mentor, a Siemens Business.
Ed Sperling
Clockwise from Left: John Chong, Jack Harding, Wally Rhines, John Kibarian.
Yes, we are mixing it up a bit to recognize our move into SEMI where our collective focus is on the broader electronic product design and manufacturing chain.
To do that, we invited two panelists from the ESD Alliance community and two with experience and expertise in other segments of the chain –– Kionix and eSilicon.
Kionix, a division of Rohm, is the third largest supplier of MEMs devices to the electronics industry. John is also the chair of the MEMS and Sensors Industry Group (MSIG), a SEMI Strategic Association Partner.
