Zürich | April 23, 2026

Dennis Dahlgren, Senior Editor at Evertiq, will open the conference with a one-on-one conversation with a leading industry expert. This session will introduce the key themes shaping today’s electronics landscape, highlighting developments, challenges and questions that are likely to influence the sector in the near future.

Drawing on topics regularly followed and analysed within Evertiq’s editorial work, the discussion will touch on technological shifts, the changing needs of manufacturers and suppliers, and broader developments affecting the industry’s direction. The aim of this opening conversation is to provide attendees with a focused, informative starting point for the day and to set the context for the sessions that follow.

The global memory market is undergoing a paradigm shift. Once viewed as a commoditised, cyclical market, memory is now increasingly shaped by AI-driven demand concentration, geopolitical realignment, and unprecedented capital intensity. The result is that legacy and advanced memory are both experiencing shortages, but for entirely different reasons.

In this session, Nick Florous provides a clear, application-centric, and fact-based outlook on the global memory market—moving beyond short-term noise to explain the structural forces redefining supply, pricing, and investment behaviour. 

With every increasing performance requirements for PCBs, advanced copper foils and glass weaves are needed in addition to improved resin systems.

More stringent requirements within the European Union (REACH, SVHC listings, PFAS) are to be considered when selecting base materials for a given application.

Due to geopolitical changes, especially the military, space and aerospace segments are re-considering and looking for European suppliers. 

In addition, supply chain disturbances during and after CoVID reminded the industry of the dangers of being dependent on Greater China.

With the exit of two more base material suppliers from European production, there is only one remaining laminate and one remaining copper foil producer in Europe.

Alexander Ippich in his speech is going to show, how all those requirements can be addressed.

Claus Aasholm, founder of Semiconductor Business Intelligence and a seasoned semiconductor strategist, will join Evertiq Expo to deliver a fact-based examination of the global semiconductor industry.

Known for his precise analytical approach and proprietary data models, Claus focuses on the metrics that truly define the market: capacity expansion, capital investments, supply-chain shifts, labour dynamics, regional policy effects, and real utilisation patterns across the value chain.

Rather than following industry narratives, he dissects the underlying data that exposes structural change, reveals actual areas of growth, and challenges assumptions often repeated in corporate and policy circles. His analysis aims to provide clarity in a sector shaped by geopolitical intervention, aggressive capital deployment, and accelerating technological requirements.

Time is one of the most valuable and non-renewable resources. The Cadence AI solution helps design teams significantly shorten their design cycles while making extensive optimizations in advance. AI-powered PCB design enables fast, informed decisions, increasing productivity many times over.

This allows designers to focus on the tasks that really make a difference, while AI takes care of the rest.

In many organisations, conformal coating and dispensing are still associated with added process complexity, long setup times, demanding programming and increased production risk. But under which conditions can these processes be implemented in a stable, efficient and economically viable way?

This presentation explores how perceived complexity can be reduced through clear process design and proven best-practice approaches. Using practical examples, it shows how automation, material selection, component protection and programming can be managed in a controlled and repeatable manner.

A special highlight of the session will be a live audio interaction with an intelligently controlled Protecto coating system from Rehm Thermal Systems. This demonstration illustrates how modern equipment can increase process transparency and support operators in day-to-day production.

After the presentation, participants are invited to join an interactive deep dive and address their questions directly to the speaker – or to the system.