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Maawad Makdessi is the YAGEO Group Field Application Engineer for West Europe and serves as the FAE Coordinator for the EMEA region. He specializes in reliability of passive components, health monitoring, and advanced diagnostics for high-reliability power electronics applications.

With a Master’s degree in Electronics from the Lebanese University and Ph.D. from AMPERE Laboratory at University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Maawad combines deep technical expertise with real-world application insight. He has authored multiple technical publications and supports customers with both product-level knowledge and system-level guidance.

Pietro Scalia is the Head of Power System Architecture and Marketing at Renesas Electronics.

His career spans about 30 years across Semiconductors and Communication Industry.

At Renesas, his team has responsibility of Power Marketing and the key role to identify the hottest architectures that drive power across all the market segments, building hardware to demonstrate the performance of Renesas Power components to solve application challenges for Customers.

Part of the Compound Semiconductor team at Yole, Roy focuses on the GaN power market, analyzing and forecasting its evolution and it's integration in the power market. Prior to joining Yole, Roy spent five years working on the growth and characterization of GaN-based LEDs, specializing in native color emission for advanced optoelectronic applications, particularly in AR/VR and display technologies.
Roy earned his PhD in 2017 from Université Côte d’Azur, where he conducted his research at CRHEA as part of the electronics team, focusing on the growth of graphene for electronic applications. Following his PhD, he joined CEA-Leti, integrating into the GaN team and gaining hands-on experience in cleanroom processing of GaN devices for transistors and display technologies.
He is the author and co-author of 12 peer-reviewed publications in materials science and holds 4 patents in the GaN field. Roy also holds a Master’s degree in Nanosciences from the Lebanese University, obtained in 2014.

Hassan bridges deep technical expertise and market intelligence, tracking power trends from the converter level (topology, voltage, power density, and key requirements) down to the device level, including semiconductor technology, packaging, and component selection. He covers the most dynamic markets such as data centers, electric vehicles, renewables, and UPS systems.
Previously, Hassan worked as an R&D engineer at Eaton e-Mobility, driving the optimization of next-generation DC/DC converters through technology trade-offs and system-level thinking. He brings over five years of hardware engineering experience across PV, battery storage, and UPS systems, with hands-on mastery of the full converter: topology, design, magnetics, capacitors, EMI, BMS, power switch sizing, etc.
Hassan holds a PhD in EMC from École Centrale de Lyon (France), where he developed electrical models to accelerate the qualification of aircraft equipment. He earned his bachelor's degree from the Lebanese Faculty of Engineering (Lebanon).
Hassan earned a bachelor’s degree from the Lebanese faculty of engineering (Lebanon).

Milan has more than 20 years of experience in technology and market analysis, with a strong focus on due diligence and strategic assessments across renewable energy, xEV and EV charging infrastructure, energy storage, batteries, power electronics, thermal management, and advanced materials and components.
Milan holds a PhD from the National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble (France). Over the course of his career, he has held positions at the Institute of Electrical Engineering (Slovakia), Centrotherm (Germany), Fraunhofer IWS (Germany), CEA-LETI (France), and the French utility company ENGIE, building extensive expertise in technology development, industrial deployment, and market strategy.