10:30–10:35
Caroline Bedran
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.