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Caroline Bedran has been Director General of AENEAS since 2017. AENEAS is the industry association that supports collaborative research and innovation in electronic components and systems through the Chips Joint Undertaking and the Eureka cluster Xecs. Most of her career has been in the semiconductor industry, mainly at Philips and NXP, where she moved from R&D into partnership management and managerial roles in France and Belgium. She has also worked on telecoms and 5G, and in EU public affairs. She is an electronics engineer by training.

Dr. Elisabeth Steimetz has been Director of EPoSS, the European Platform on Smart Systems Integration, since 2019. She chaired the drafting of the ECS Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda and leads EPoSS’s delegation to the Chips JU boards. In 1999 she co-founded LayTec, a maker of in-situ and in-line measurement tools for thin-film processes, and led its marketing and sales for 13 years. She joined VDI/VDE-IT in 2013 and represented Germany on the CATRENE and PENTA cluster boards. She studied physics at RWTH Aachen and holds a PhD from TU Berlin.

Paolo Azzoni is the Secretary General of the INSIDE Industry Association, one of the private members of the Chips JU, and its lead delegate on the Chips JU Governing Board. He co-chairs the ECS Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda. He began his career in academic research on hardware design and verification. He holds master’s degrees in Computer Science and in Intelligent Systems.