November 10, 2026 - November 12, 2026
Driving Innovation Across the Electronic Gases Ecosystem
ESGS 2026 will take place at a new venue—the Hyatt Regency Phoenix—from November 10–12, building on the overwhelming success and momentum of last year’s event.
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ESGS 2026—Electronic Specialty Gases & Systems Conference
Driving Innovation Across the Electronic Gases EcosystemESGS 2026 will take place at a new venue—the Hyatt Regency Phoenix—from November 10–12, building on the overwhelming success and momentum of last year’s event.
Hyatt Regency Phoenix 122 N 2nd St Phoenix, AZ 85004 United States
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Hyatt Regency Phoenix
122 N 2nd St
Phoenix, AZ 85004
United States
The Electronic Specialty Gases & Systems Conference (ESGS) provides a forum of engagement and learning around the market, technology trends, and market drivers for electronic gases. The conference includes sections focusing on developments in the bulk, rare and specialty gas markets that are critical to the continued growth of the electronics industry.
The conference is designed for executives, buyers, product managers, and strategic planners from the electronic gases value chain including end-users, producers, and equipment suppliers. The conference features knowledgeable experts in the industry, who understand the key developments and challenges unique to this market.
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Agenda
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2025
7:00 am
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8:00 am
Breakfast
8:00 am
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8:05 am
Edwin Hall
Sr. Manager, Market Data/Standards
SEMI
Opening Remarks
8:15 am
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9:00 am
Takashi Hayakawa
TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
Keynote: Concept & Vision of Future Wafer Fab Equipment
9:00 am
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9:45 am
Laura Matz
Chief Science and Technology Officer
Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany
The Glue Layer of Semiconductors: How AI Powers New Materials
9:45 am
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10:15 am
Erin Lavigne
Senior Director of EUV Technology Strategy and Partnerships
NY CREATES
NY Creates Advanced Patterning Technology Development Programs
10:15 am
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11:00 am
Networking Break
11:00 am
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11:30 am
Jamie Girard
Principal
Girard Government Relations
Keynote: Certain Uncertainty: U.S. Semiconductor Public Policy in 2025 & Beyond
11:30 am
Duncan Meldrum
Chief Economist and Founder
Hilltop Economics
Economic Uncertainty and the Outlook Economic Growth and Semiconductors: Looking at Risks
12:00 pm
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1:15 pm
Lunch
Vapor Phase Materials and Electronics Specialty Gases
1:15 pm
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1:20 pm
Venkat Pallam
Deputy CTO & Technology Director, Thin Film Processing
Air Liquide
Opening Session Remarks
1:20 pm
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1:50 pm
Joseph Rivers
Senior Director
Entegris
Enabling the Molybdenum Ecosystem
1:50 pm
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2:20 pm
Tan Lu
Global Product Manager
Air Liquide
Green Electronic Specialty Materials (ESM)
2:20 pm
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2:50 pm
Jeff Catlin
Senior Vice President of Global Sales
Photronics
Tier 2 Perspectives: ESGS Supply Chain Challenges and Opportunities
2:50 pm
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3:35 pm
Networking Break
Contamination Control and Yield
3:35 pm
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3:40 pm
Sarah Vogt
Director, Gas Purification Technology
Entegris
Opening Session Remarks
3:40 pm
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4:10 pm
Mike Tseng
IMQR Manager
TSMC
Supply Chain Quality for Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing
4:10 pm
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4:40 pm
Chris Ebert
Associate Director, Product Development Analytical Laboratory
Linde
Florian Adler
Lead Scientist & Technical Product Manager
Process Insights
IRDS Gas Team
4:40 pm
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5:10 pm
Christopher Derrick
ASNA Territory Manager
ASNA Global
SEMI Semiconductor Components and Instruments & SubSystems (SCIS) Technology Coalition
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2025
New Technology Developments
7:00 am
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8:00 am
Breakfast
8:15 am
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8:45 am
Wojtek Osowiecki, PhD
Product Marketing Engineer
Lam Research
Akara® and ALTUS® Halo: How New Lam Research Products Enable Next-Gen Materials in the Semiconductor Industry
8:45 am
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9:15 am
Jongjoon Kim
Sales Manager - Electronics Wafer Process Materials
Resonac America
Resonac’s CO₂ Reduction Roadmap in High-Purity Gas Business
9:15 am
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9:45 am
Oleg Byl
R&D Manager
Linde
Selective Si Etching with Fluorine and Additive Compositions
9:45 am
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10:30 am
Networking Break
10:30 am
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11:00 am
Laura Nereng
VP of Business Development
SKYRE
Advancing Decarbonization Through Electrochemical-Based Solutions to Reliably Produce Low-Cost Hydrogen from Waste Streams, Green Hydrogen and Fuels and Chemicals
11:00 am
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11:30 am
Kibyung Park
Samsung Electronics
Isotropic Dry Cleaning Technologies Using Gases and Radical
11:30 am
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12:00 pm
Dawood Abugharbieh, PhD
Sr. Vice President - Sales & Marketing
Exentec
Benjamin Green
Sr. Digitalization Consultant
Siemens
Adaptive Approach to Digital Twins
12:00 pm
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1:00 pm
Lunch
Facilities and Infrastructure
1:00 pm
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1:05 pm
Kurtis Fairley
Director, Technical Programs North America
Edwards Vacuum
Opening Session Remarks
1:05 pm
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1:35 pm
Saurav Bhattacharjee
Technical Design Lead
Micron
Doug Tervo
Senior Process Gas Engineer
Micron
Innovations in Electronic Specialty Gas Systems
1:35 pm
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2:05 pm
John Makin
Product & Strategic Marketing Manager
Ebara Technologies
Integrated Vacuum & Abatement Systems
2:05 pm
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2:35 pm
Scott Balaguer
ISRL
Bridging the SubFAB Gap: A Call for Collaborative Innovation in Gas Systems and Materials Handling
2:35 pm
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3:20 pm
Networking Break
Sustainability
3:20 pm
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3:25 pm
Opening Session Remarks
3:25 pm
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3:55 pm
Bruce Ernst
Founder
Orizaba
The American Innovation and Manufacturing (AIM) Act: Status and Implications for the U.S. Semiconductor Industry
3:55 pm
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4:25 pm
James Amano
Senior Director, EHS
SEMI
Update on SEMI EHS Advocacy
6:00 pm
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8:00 pm
Conference Reception
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2025
Market Review and Updates
7:00 am
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8:00 am
Breakfast
8:10 am
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8:40 am
Inna Skvortsova
Research Manager, Market Intelligence
SEMI
SEMI Fab Capacity and Materials Market Outlook
8:40 am
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9:10 am
Phil Kornbluth
Founder & President
Kornbluth Helium Consulting
Helium Market Overview, Outlook & Trends
9:10 am
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9:40 am
Andy Tuan
Managing Director
Linx Consulting
Electronic Specialty Gases (ESG) Market Update
9:40 am
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10:15 am
Networking Break
Gas Metrology
10:15 am
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10:20 am
Jesus Chavez
Supply Chain Engineer - Yield Strategic Sourcing
Intel
Opening Session Remarks
10:20 am
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10:50 am
Florian Adler
Lead Scientist & Technical Product Manager
Process Insights
Real-Time Impurity Measurements for Electronic-Grade Oxygen with Modern Analytical Systems
10:50 am
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11:20 am
Daniel Merriman
Senior Advisor to Marketing
Thermo Fisher Scientific
Advancing High Purity Gas Analysis for Semiconductor Manufacturing: Achieving part-per-trillion detection with APIMS
11:20 am
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11:50 am
Joseph Ha
Global Market Segment Director, Purity & Specialty
Servomex
Andrew Wright, PhD
Senior Scientist
Servomex
TDLAS Technology and the Future of ESG Gas Analysis
12:00 pm
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1:00 pm
Lunch
Advanced Metrology Workshop
1:05 pm
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1:30 pm
Stephen Hermens
Technologist, Facilities Chemical Engineer
Intel
Keynote: IDM Perspectives on Next Generation Metrology Requirement
1:30 pm
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1:50 pm
Scott Hoover
Director of Yield Solutions
KLA
Turning Variability into Insight: A Holistic Approach to Optical Inspection
1:50 pm
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2:10 pm
Raghu Nayak
Director of Business Development & New Product Introduction
Zeiss
Metrology for 3D Devices
2:10 pm
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2:30 pm
James Amano
SEMI
Regulatory Updates: US-EU considerations on PFAS
2:30 pm
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3:00 pm
Coffee Break
3:00 pm
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3:10 pm
imec
From Chips to Atoms: A Tour Inside imec’s Materials and Components Analysis Lab (Video)
3:10 pm
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3:30 pm
Ganesh Vanamu
Director of Strategic Marketing
Nova
Advanced Logic Device Architectures - Challenges & Solutions in Materials Metrology
3:30 pm
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3:50 pm
Thomas Phely-Bobin
VP, Engineering, R&D, and Applications, Liquid Microcontamination Control
Entegris
Advanced Metrology for the Development and Manufacturing of Critical Filtration and Purification Products
3:50 pm
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4:10 pm
Ripudaman Shekhawat
Senior Field Application Engineer
Elemental Scientific
Online Monitoring of PPQ-Level Metals, Nanoparticles, and Molecular Organic Impurities in Semiconductor Process Chemicals
4:10 pm
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4:30 pm
Marshall R Allin
Technical Sales Specialist
Thermo Fisher Scientific
Innovations in Instrumentation from Thermo Fisher Scientific, Addressing Challenges in Elemental Analysis and Other Techniques
4:30 pm
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5:20 pm
Panel: Forward Looking Collaborative Inspection, Metrology & Analytical Solutions in Angstrom Era
Elemental Scientific, Entegris, Intel, KLA, NIST, Nova, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Zeiss
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