STMicroelectronics’s Carmelo Papa, executive vice-president and general manager, industrial and multisegment sector, has been re-elected as chairman, European Platform on Smart Systems (EPoSS) for his second consecutive two-year term.
EPoSS, is an industry-driven initiative that aims to strengthen Europe’s capacity to organise and deliver innovation in smart systems integration, in addition to integrated micro-systems and nanotechnologies. It brings together companies of all sizes, public and private research organisations, universities, representatives of the European Commission, and other European initiatives within the smart systems integration field.
In his second term as chairman at EPoSS, Papa aims to further strengthen the organisation’s role in key European initiatives, including Green Cars, Internet of Things and Factories of the Future. His other priorities include driving the EPoSS strategic research agenda to identify new application challenges, such as robotics, and defining development paths at both the technology and systems levels.
