Speakers

Plenary session

  • Pasfoto Rogier Verberk

    Rogier Verberk

    Director Semicon & Quantum
    TNO

    Dr Rogier Verberk holds a PhD In experimental physics from Leiden University (2005). At TNO he worked on EUV lithography with ASML and Carl Zeiss and became principal project manager. From 2013 on he helped to set up the QuTech research centre for quantum technologies. Since 2016 he is Market Director at TNO responsible for Semiconductor Equipment, Quantum Technologies and Medical Photonics. He is active as core team member of the Dutch national roadmaps for Nanotechnology and Semiconductor Equipment, the Strategic Advisory Board of the European Quantum Technologies Flagship and Supervisory Board member of QuantumDeltaNL. 

  • Pasfoto Lisa Burke

    Lisa Burke

    Event moderator

    Lisa Toni Burke is an accomplished broadcast journalist and international moderator, known for her work with Sky News, BBC, RTL Luxembourg, and RTE Ireland. She is the creator and presenter of RTL Today, Luxembourg’s leading English‑language news platform, where she also hosts a weekly radio and podcast show.

    With over two decades of experience moderating conferences worldwide, Lisa combines professionalism with an engaging, clear communication style. Her background in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University and her broad journalistic career make her a versatile host for topics ranging from technology and science to entrepreneurship and health. In addition to her television and radio career, Lisa is a sought‑after event host, master of ceremony, and voice‑over artist for international organizations. Her strong stage presence and ability to make complex subjects accessible have made her a trusted moderator at events across the globe.

  • Pasfoto Junichi Tanaka

    Junichi Tanaka

    Senior Chief Strategist
    Hitachi Hightech Company

    Junichi Tanaka is the Senior Chief Strategist at Hitachi High Tech Europe and holds a Doctoral degree in Engineering. His career has centered on advancing the monitoring and control of semiconductor fabrication processes, from developing plasma simulators and etcher monitoring tools to pioneering plasma spectral CT for analyzing in chamber plasma distributions and introducing FTIR based diagnostics for stabilizing plasma processes. These efforts deepened the understanding of plasma etching and led him to implement fab wide APC systems driven by CD SEM based feedback control, earning the Semicon Japan Technology Symposium Award in 2008.

    Today, his work focuses on next generation metrology and inspection technologies, including time domain laser and electron beam techniques. He emphasizes the need for higher resolution CD SEM as semiconductor processes continue to scale, while driving innovations to enhance in line metrology performance and introduce new inspection modalities.

  • Pasfoto Christina Porter

    Christina Porter

    Co-founder and CEO
    Invisix

    Christina Porter is a co-founder and CEO of Invisix Measuring Systems, an Eindhoven based semiconductor metrology startup developing next-generation soft x-ray scatterometry instruments for advanced logic and memory nodes. She holds a PhD in physics and has spent the last 12 years working on short wavelength metrology, pairing high harmonic generation sources with advanced inference algorithms for critical dimension and overlay metrology. Prior to founding Invisix, Christina worked for 7 years in project leadership and pathfinding for the ASML soft x-ray metrology program. This technology, developed for 10 years at ASML, was licensed to Invisix in 2026 enabling continued development externally. Christina holds 16 published patents and her academic publications have received over 850 citations.

  • Pasfoto Rob Snel

    Rob Snel

    Senior system engineer
    TNO

    Combines a track record in complex system engineering for systems that fuse sensors, mechatronics, robotvision and factory automation. Today responsible for long term technology development and roadmaps in agile manufacturing and artificial intelligence at TNO High Tech Industry. Rob holds a bachelors degree in physics and files a long list of patents on the topic.

  • Pasfoto Benoit Quesson

    Benoit Quesson

    senior scientist
    TNO

    Benoit Quesson graduated from the Ecole Supérieure d’Electronique de l’Ouest (ESEO, Angers, France) in 2003 with a specialty in signal processing. He joined TNO in 2003 and worked on the development of sonar processing solutions for defense and civil applications. In 2016, his interests shifted towards industrial applications and his current research interests include GHz acoustic metrology and inspection for the semiconductor industry and the development of opto-acoustic transducers. He is holding a position as senior scientist in the Acoustic and Measurement System (AMS) department of TNO and is the author of more than 25 patents. 

  • Pasfoto Johan Feenstra

    Johan Feenstra

    CEO
    SMART Photonics

    Johan joined SMART Photonics as CEO in 2019, after having served on their Advisory Board for about 3 years. At SMART, he has raised € 150M with his team to grow SMART Photonics to become a globally leading foundry in the integrated photonics industry.

    Johan is currently part of the Semicon Board NL, chairing a European focus group of 8 CEO’s and part the 10 Tech Champions, representing the Dutch National Technology Strategy.

    Before SMART, Johan co-founded Liquavista in 2006 and is co-inventor of electrowetting displays. At Liquavista, he had a broad set of roles, ranging from CEO, to CTO and Director Program Management. Together with his team, he raised four rounds of venture capital for Liquavista and sold the company twice, in both cases to Fortune 500 companies (Samsung Electronics and Amazon.com). Johan is also serving as an advisor and/or supervisory board member for a number of start-ups and scale-ups.

    Johan received his PhD in Solid State Physics from the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen in the Netherlands in 1997.

  • Pasfoto Jelle de Jong

    Jelle de Jong

    Senior Vice President Marketing & Sales
    FononTech

    Jelle de Jong is Senior Vice President Marketing & Sales at FononTech. After a career of 27 years at Philips (Plumbicon tubes, CCD’s, laser modules, and lenses) and 15 years at Teledyne/DALSA (X-ray), he joined FononTech in Februari 2026. 

Afternoon sessions

  • Pasfoto Ruud de Wit

    Ruud de Wit

    Business Development Manager
    TNO CITC

    Ruud de Wit represents over 25 years of semiconductor back-end assembly experience (incl. chip bonding, silver sintering, transfer molding, and wafer level encapsulation). Since Feb’26, Ruud is responsible for business development of CITC’s expanding power and RF semiconductor testing capabilities, and new advanced chip packaging developments in Nijmegen and Eindhoven. 

  • Pasfoto Tindara Verduci

    Tindara Verduci

    Senior scientist
    TNO CITC

    Tindara Verduci received his Ph.D. from the University of Strasbourg in the field of organic electronics. She joined TNO Holst Centre as a senior scientist working on advanced packaging technologies. Currently, she leads the RF and mmWave program at CITC. 

  • Pasfoto Edsger Smits

    Edsger Smits

    Senior Researcher
    TNO CITC

    Edsger Smits received his Ph.D. from the University of Groningen in the field of organic electronics. Edsger joined TNO Holst Centre working thin film transistors for displays and flexible and stretchable sensors for bio-medical applications. Edsger currently leads the Power Packaging test and development activities at CITC. 

  • Pasfoto Patrique Boerboom

    Patrique Boerboom

    Business Development Manager Semicon & Quantum
    TNO

    Patrique Boerboom is Business Development Manager Semicon & Quantum within the TNO High Tech Industry unit. With a commercial mechanical engineering background, he began his career at ASMI, focusing on the production of semiconductor deposition equipment. He later developed an international sales network for the Delta Industrial Automation business unit. In 2011, he joined TNO, where he now leads the MicroFluidic Cooling proposition, driving the development and introduction of this technology across a variety of industries.

  • Pasfoto Fabien Bruning

    Fabien Bruning

    Co-founder
    FononTech

    Fabien Bruning is one of the co-founders of FononTech. With a background in mechanical engineering, he started to work on equipment for additive manufacturing and semiconductors at TNO in 2016. In 2019 he moved to TNO at Holst Centre, where he was the responsible system architect for printing equipment. In 2023 FononTech was founded as a spin-off of TNO.

  • Pasfoto Niels Back

    Niels Back

    Manager High Tech Industry
    FME

    Niels Back is Manager High Tech Industry at FME, the Dutch employers’ organisation for the technology industry. He leads FME’s work on strengthening high‑tech value chains by making them more resilient and competitive, with a focus on the semiconductor and machinery industries. In this role, he brings together OEMs, suppliers and end‑market companies across the industrial ecosystem and works closely with government and industry partners in the Netherlands and through European cooperation. He contributed to the Wennink report and its analysis to strengthen the Dutch investment climate in general and the semiconductor industry in particular.