Overview:

The digization of the consumer electronics industry has had enormous impact on its products, value chains and operating models over the last decade. No doubt, this process will continue at full speed, where in the next phase intuitive user interfacing,  IP-connectivity and seamless interoperability will be major drivers for innovation. The main challenge for the CE industry is not so much to come up with the right technologies, but to design the application innovations that are relevant and exciting to the consumer and to establish the right value propositions together with all partners in the contents delivery and product creation value chains.

The presentation will shortly highlight a few key elements of the changes ahead:

• Managing complexity in the IP connected CE world
• The take-off of Web 2.0 for CE
• User interface and convergence in the digital home
• Partnerships for value creation and changing ways of working
• Standards and digital rights
• Roadblocks for Moore’s Law?

.. and is intended to provide some food for further thought and discussion.

Van de Ven oversees the technology strategy and all worldwide R&D for the sector. He is responsible to ensure that the company’s technologies support a leading portfolio in the health and well being domain and meet the growing demand for “sense and simplicity” lifestyle propositions in an increasingly digitally connected and converging consumer electronics market.

Before his appointment to CTO of Philips Consumer Electronics per January 2006, Van de Ven has held several positions in different businesses of Royal Philips. In 2005, he was responsible as General Manager for Emerging Semiconductor Businesses within Philips Semiconductors (now NXP). From 1999 until 2005, he was responsible for technology, marketing and strategy of Mobile Display Systems, a business group of Philips Components and Semiconductors and leading supplier of displays for the mobile phone and automotive markets. Before joining Philips MDS in June 1999, Van de Ven was employed by Philips Research in various roles including department head of the inorganic materials research department and staff member of the corporate research bureau. From 1996 to 2001, he held a professorship in applied materials sciences at the University of Utrecht.  

Van de Ven holds a PhD degree in physics from the University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands.