Session 1: Energy efficient home appliances

Date:  22 February 2022
Time:  9 am CET / 5 pm KST
Duration:  3 hours

• System solutions for home appliances: Trends and system solutions
  Speakers: Jens Reinstaedt, KH Lee
  Duration: 30 min
• Reverse-conducting IGBTs and GD solutions for induction cooking applications
  Speaker: Giuseppe de Falco
  Duration: 30 min
• Improving the energy efficiency using wide band gap technologies
  Speakers: Alice Leendertz, Giuseppe de Falco
  Duration: 30 min
• Heat pumps in dryers and washing machines
  Speaker: Giuseppe de Falco
  Duration: 30 min
• PFC topologies for Major Home Appliances
  Speaker: Qurat Akbar
  Duration: 30 min
• Auxiliary power supply in home appliances
  Speaker: Andy Yeong
  Duration: 30 min

Session 2: Smart and efficient home appliances with IoT

Date:  23 February 2022
Time:  9 am CET / 5 pm KST
Duration:  2.5 hours

• Motor control made easy with Infineon microcontrollers
  Speakers: Ingo Skuras, Dirk Heinen
  Duration: 1 hour
• PSoC™ touch-sensing technology
  Speaker: Graham Smith
  Duration: 30 min
• Connectivity in home appliances
  Speaker: Graham Smith
  Duration: 30 min
• Making home appliances smart with Infineon XENSIV™ sensor solutions
  Speaker: Shweta Bagchi
  Duration: 30 min

Speakers

• Jens Reinstädt, Senior Director Global Application Management
  
  Jens had been leading the Marketing team for radar sensors for five years before he joined IPCs Sales & Marketing organization. Amongst others Jens is responsible for Application management of Home Appliances.
  
  
  
• KH Lee, Director Global Application Management
  
  KH is a director of Infineon Technologies and serves on its global application management for small home appliances applications and has working experiences in various roles, application engineering, distribution management, key account management, and regional & global marketing, in the semiconductor and electronics industry with 22 years. He is currently driving cross-divisional Go-to-Market activities to develop the expansion of opportunities in home appliances applications through defining clear value propositions for Infineon cross-divisional system solution offerings.
  
  
  
• Dr. Alice Leendertz, Global application marketing director for major home appliances
  
  Alice holds a PhD degree in power electronic engineering from University of Cambridge, UK and has been with Infineon Technologies Munich since 2015.
  
  
  
• Dr. Giuseppe de Falco, Lead System Architect for home appliances
  
  Giuseppe received the Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Electronic engineering respectively in 2008 and in 2011 at the University of Naples. Later, he got the PhD in 2015, also in Naples. His research activities have been focused on the analysis of reliability of power semiconductor devices operating in avalanche as well as in short circuit conditions. In 2016, Dr. De Falco has joined to Infineon Technologies Austria working in the role of Technical Marketing for Discrete IGBTs. From 2021 onwards, he has taken over the role of Lead System Architect for home appliances.
  
  
  
• Syeda Qurat ul ain Akbar, Product application engineer for discrete IGBT
  
  Qurat has joined Infineon Austria in March 2021 as a product application engineer for discrete IGBT and is responsible for go-to-market activities for PFC applications in home appliances. She completed her education in 2020 at the Technical University of Munich with a master's degree in Power Engineering. She holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan.
  
  
  
• Andy Yeong, Product Manager responsible for Switch-Mode Power Supply ICs
  
  Andy is currently the Product Manager at Infineon Technologies responsible for Switch-Mode Power Supply ICs covering USB-PD charging, SMPS for TV and PC, auxiliary SMPS for appliances, server, telecom and industrial applications. Prior to joining Infineon Technologies, Andy worked in EPCOS responsible for marketing of Surface Acoustic Wave Filters in Western Europe and China region. Andy has a M. Sc in Marketing from University College Dublin, Graduate Diploma in Marketing from Marketing Institute of Singapore and a Bachelor in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Nanyang Technological University.
  
  
  
• Graham Smith, Manager – Applications Marketing & Management IOT Systems
  
  Working with Cypress for 12 years before joining Infineon. Was an FAE supporting all of the legacy Cypress Products, but focussing on the Connectivity and Microcontroller products especially. Graham now head up the regional Application and Product Marketing/Management team for Consumer customers within the Connected Secure Systems Division, with a particular focus on Home Appliance.
  
  
  
• Shweta Bagchi, Senior Manager Application Marketing at Infineon’s IoT and Sensor Solution Group
  
  Shweta is with Infineon since 2018. Before joining Infineon, she has worked in various companies with focus on sensors and sensor solutions. She has masters in Microsystems Engineering from University of Freiburg and an MBA from INSEAD.
  
  
  
• Ingo Skuras, Senior Product Marketing Manager iMOTION™
  
  Ingo has more than 25 years of experience in the electronics industry. Before joining Infineon in 2010, Ingo held various engineering, project management, and marketing positions in companies like Siemens, Tyco, and Vincotech. He focuses on motor control solutions for home appliances and small industrial applications.
  
  
  
• Dirk Heinen, Product Marketing Manager, Industrial Microcontroller Solutions
  
  With Infineon since 2004 in various product marketing positions (Flash and DRAM memories, Magnetic sensors, Microcontrollers).