The Young Professionals Event at NEWCAS’25 aims to provide a platform for emerging researchers to showcase their work, gain valuable feedback, and engage in discussions with leading experts in the field of circuits and systems. This event is an excellent opportunity to present novel research, exchange ideas, and expand professional networks within the academic and industrial communities. The event will be twofold and will be open to all the audience of NEWCAS’25. A panel session on Sustainability and Eco-Design in Electronics will be followed by a poster time where YPCAS will present their work (three prizes will be awarded at the end of the session). CAS Society offers a cocktail, open to all, to accompany the event.
2025 has seen major upheavals in people’s apprehension of sustainable development, at all socio-economic levels. For sure, eco-scepticism is not the order of the day in educated circles, whether academic or industrial, but the application of sustainability-related constraints to the industrial process is still a constant endeavour that discourages many people. The dilemma is acute. In a tense political context, how can we continue our efforts in electronics and microelectronics? How do we begin a virtuous process? In spite of everything, global warming is taking its toll, on biodiversity in general, but also on our infrastructures. The global price is high, and it has to be paid by everyone. From a more pragmatic point of view, laziness in action is undermining the attractiveness of microelectronics to young people and this remains a problem in times of economic boom and recruitment. The aim of this panel is therefore to open up the discussion on sustainability issues, to present industrial initiatives in electronics that are moving in the direction of eco-design and sustainable development, and to highlight the actors of change.
Invited speakers
- Jean-Pierre Raskin, PhD, Professor at Louvain School of Engineering, Belgium
- Thomas Delatour, PhD, Engineer at the Service de Sobriété Numérique of ADEME, France
- Jean-Brieux Féron, PhD, is the CEO of Citronics, Belgium