40 papers have been received for CESA Congress technical sessions. It's quite a lot. But, the programme committee had to make a selection then and 30 have been chosen. The experts met on July 3rd at SIA headquarters to read the abstracts and discuss.
Lead by Jochen Langheim, from ST and CESA 2012 manager, the program committe was constituted by representatives from Bosch (Eric Dalla Vecchia), Freescale (Gérard Maniez), Infineon (Andy Toulemonde), PSA Peugeot Citroën (El Khalis Kadiri, Igor Demay), SIA (Daniel Pfrimmer, Pauline Senis), Vector (Henri Belda).
Please note that our special guest Wolfgang Runge, Chairman from Baden-Baden conference, joint the committee the whole day
In the evening, there was another meeting with the Executive Commitee. It was hosted by STMicroelectronics, on invitation only, at famous Bristol restaurant in Paris. Around Thierry Tingaud (Chairman from ST France), Pascal Ribot (Key Account Manager at ST) and Jochen Langheim (VP advanced automotive R&D programmes at ST and CESA manager), we could see Rémi Bastien (Renault), Marc Duval-Destin (PSA Peugeot Citroën), Thierry Faugeras (Federal Mogul), Denis Griot (Freescale) and Wolgang Runge (Baden Baden Conference).