Ana Claudia Arias
Ana Claudia Arias is an Associate Professor at the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of California in Berkeley. Prior to joining the University of California she was the Manager of the Printed Electronic Devices Area and a Member of Research Staff at PARC, a Xerox Company, Palo Alto, CA.At PARC she used inkjet printing techniques to fabricate organic active matrix display backplanes for paper-like displays and flexible sensors. She went to PARC from Plastic Logic in Cambridge, UK where she led the semiconductor group. She did her PhD on semiconducting polymer blends for photovoltaic devices at the University of Cambridge, UK. Prior to that, she received her master and bachelor degrees in Physics from the Federal University of Paraná in Curitiba, Brazil. Her research work in Brazil focused on the use of semiconducting polymers for light emitting diodes. Ana Claudia is a member of the board of directors of the Materials Research Society (MRS) and a member of the technical advisory board of Thin Film Electronics and Linde Nanomaterials.

Jiro Kasahara
Jiro Kasahara received the B.S., M.S., and Dr.Eng. degree in Electronics Engineering from Waseda University , Tokyo Japan, in 1972, 1974, and 1983, respectively. In 1974, he joined Sony Corporation Research Center, where he has worked on GaAs epitaxial growth by MOCVD. From 1976 to 1977, he was at Stanford University, Stanford, CA, as a Research Associate, where he worked on ion implantation in InP. Since coming back from Stanford, he engaged in the development of ion implantation in GaAs. During that time, he developed capless annealing of GaAs for applications to high-speed GaAs IC's and MMIC's which were successfully brought into business by his responsibility particularly for the current mobile phone market. From 1995 to 1999, he was responsible for the management of the Design Center in Basingstoke, UK followed by the head of system LSI business unit in Sony Semiconductor Company after coming back to Tokyo. He established Sony Fusion Domain Laboratory, Tokyo, Japan in 2001, where he was responsible for the development of molecular and organic electronics including organic semiconductors for Flexible and Printable electronics until the time of his retirement from Sony at 2008. During the time in the Fusion Domain Laboratory, the development team led by him demonstrated world first full-color flexible display and a fully-printed high resolution e-paper. Since 2009, he is a professor of Hokkaido University.

He has published more than 100 scientific papers including many invited papers at the International Conferences. He served international positions such as Organizing Committees of IEEE GaAs IC Symposium (representative of Asia district), IEEE Monolithic Microwave Circuit Conference, Program Committee of International GaAs related Compounds Symposium, Organic Electronics Conference, International Conference on Organic Electronics, and several others. He also served a position of SEMI Standard Committee on Compound Semiconductor Materials as a representative of Asia district.

Jiro Kasahara also represents Thinfilm in Japan [Thinfilm Opens Japan Office].

Donald Lupo
Donald Lupo gained his Ph.D. in physical chemistry at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA and subsequently worked as a post-doctoral fellow in the Laboratory for Physical Chemistry at the ETH in Zürich, Switzerland on IR laser photochemistry. He reinvented himself as a materials scientist after taking up a position in central research at Hoechst AG in Frankfurt am Main, Germany in 1986, where he worked in nonlinear optics based on Langmuir-Blodgett films, polymer OLEDs and solid state dye sensitised solar cells (DSSC) based on amorphous organic semiconductors. At Sony International (Europe) GmbH he built up the Materials Science Laboratory in Fellbach, Germany and continued his work on polymer OLEDs and organic solar cells. At NTera Ltd. in Dublin, Ireland he was head of display R&D for paper-like displays based on electrochromic nanomaterials. He then spent 8 years as a technology consultant working on mass printed electronics, roll to roll printable displays and dye solar cells with companies such as UPM Kymmene, Merck and G24 Innovations and developed a broad understanding of technical and industrial aspects of printed electronics. He accepted a call to a professorship in electronic materials in the Department of Electronics at Tampere University of Technology and joined the faculty in August 2010. There he is responsible for activities in organic and printable electronics, with interests in printed diodes, transistors and solar cells and in the effect of printing processes on materials, interfaces and devices.

Magnus Berggren
Magnus Berggren is a professor of Organic Electronics at Linköping University, and Director of the Strategic Research Centre for Organic Bioelectronics. His research interests cover several areas in organic electronics, including sensors, logic and electrochromic display systems.
Professor Berggren received his MSc in Physics from Linköping University in 1991, where he also completed his PhD at the Laboratory of Applied Physics in 1996. He joined Bell Laboratories, and later, Opticom ASA before returning to join the Linköping faculty in 2001 as professor. From 1999 to 2001 he was also a part-time member of the Swedish research institute Acreo AB.