June 15th – 16th 2026
Power Electronics Testing from Lab to Road
Loccioni is pleased to invite you to join the Industry Focus Group
on Power Electronic Testing for Automotive Applications.
To develop a system level test means to create a bridge between reliability needs,
innovative materials, production excellence. Above all, between people.
Agenda
Monday, June 15th 2026
2.00 PM
Welcome to Loccioni and visit to Polaris® Labs
4.00 PM
Industry Challenges & Needs
Introduction by Maurizio Di Paolo Emilio
Introduction by Maurizio Di Paolo Emilio
4.10 PM
Keynote
High performance 800V SiCinverter for e-traction
Luca Poggio — Ferrari
High performance 800V SiCinverter for e-traction
Luca Poggio — Ferrari
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High current and high switching frequency inverter permits to use e-motors with speed up to 30000 rpm and with a significant torque density. The inverter design is compact and light and permits an high flexibility in the installation.
The inverter is based on a double side cooled SiC power module.
The inverter is based on a double side cooled SiC power module.
4.30 PM
Key Trends in EV Power Electronics
Lucas Woerner and Miklòs Ivicsics— Audi
Lucas Woerner and Miklòs Ivicsics— Audi
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This talk highlights strategic trends in inverter development, focusing on key challenges and solutions related to efficiency, scalability, safety, and sustainability. It provides an Audi development perspective on how advanced power electronics enable next‑generation electric powertrains.
4.50 PM
An insight into electronics megatrends.
Alessandro Cremonesi — STMicroelectronics
Alessandro Cremonesi — STMicroelectronics
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TBD
5.10 PM
☕ Coffee break
5.20 PM
Keynote
Lukas Dedeleit and Sven Pihale
— Volkswagen
Lukas Dedeleit and Sven Pihale
— Volkswagen
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• Leonardo Montoya – Wolfspeed
• Roveendra Paul – Onsemi
• Alessandro Fossi – Lamborghini
• Stefano Martignoni – STMicroelectronics
5.40 PM
From Semiconductor to Road Performance
Moderated by Filippo Di Giovanni
Moderated by Filippo Di Giovanni
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The shift to eMobility is not due to a single breakthrough, but to coordinated advances across the value chain, from wide-bandgap semiconductors and power modules to complete EV systems. These technologies enable higher efficiency and greater power density, yet, their impact depends on how effectively they are integrated and perform in real-world conditions. Bringing together perspectives from across the industry, this panel examines how device-level advances translate into system performance, and the critical link between lab testing and on-road behavior. It also explores whether current qualification standards reflect real driving conditions and how validation strategies—electrical, thermal, and mechanical—can evolve.
6.45 PM
Transfer to Sant’Urbano Abbey and Territory Experience
Tuesday, June 16th 2026
9.00 AM
Solutions & Case Studies
Moderated by Maurizio Di Paolo Emilio and Filippo Di Giovanni
Moderated by Maurizio Di Paolo Emilio and Filippo Di Giovanni
• System-level test: Antonino Maniaci – STMicroelectronics
• Powering the Future with SiC: Advanced Packaging
and Integrated Converter Solutions : Fabio Carastro – Semikron Danfoss
and Integrated Converter Solutions : Fabio Carastro – Semikron Danfoss
• Dynamic testing of power devices and modules for production
screening and technology validation: Salvatore Coffa – Bosch
screening and technology validation: Salvatore Coffa – Bosch
10.30 AM
☕ Coffee break
10.40 AM
• Titolo: Alessandro Tumminia – Vishay
• Packaging technologies: Tino Minotti – Nexperia
• Title: Fabio Necco – Cambridge GaN Devices
12.00 AM
A global overview. Power Electronics Beyond Today:
Future Technologies and Industrial Perspectives
Enrico Sangiorgi and Orio Bellezza
Future Technologies and Industrial Perspectives
Enrico Sangiorgi and Orio Bellezza
13.00 PM Light Lunch
Speakers
Alessandro Cremonesi
Chief Innovation Officer — STMicroelectronics
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bio
Alessandro Tumminia
WBG Power Package and CPI R&D Director — Vishay
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bio
Enrico Sangiorgi
Full Professor Department of Electrical, Electronic, and Information Engineering “Guglielmo Marconi”— University of Bologna
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Enrico Sangiorgi is professor of Electronics the University of Bologna and Director Emeritus of the Sinano Institute. He has been a Visiting Scientist at Stanford University and Bell Laboratories.He is a member of the European Chips Joint Undertaking Governing Board and of the Aeneas Supervisory Board. He is a member of the Supervisory Board of the Foundation Chips-IT, the Italian national research center on IC design.From 2005 to 2011 he has been the first Director of Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per la Nanoeletronica (IU.NET), an organization grouping several University Groups and today one of the key Semiconductor R&D players in Europe. From 2015 to 2021 he has been Vice Rector for Teaching and Education at the University of Bologna. Enrico Sangiorgi has been Editor of IEEE Electron Device Letters for 15 years (1994 to 2009), Editor (2014-2019), Editor-in-Chief (2020-2024) of the Journal of the Electron Device Society, and currently Editor of the IEEE Electron Devices Reviews.
His research covers the physics, characterization, modeling, and fabrication of solid-state devices and integrated circuits. He has been working on several aspects of device scaling, its technological, physical, and functional limits, as well as device reliability for silicon CMOS and bipolar transistors. To tackle and eventually overcome the hurdles of device scaling, down to the ultimate physical and technological limits, he has devised and developed several original concepts and methods in the characterization and modeling of nano-scale silicon devices. Enrico Sangiorgi supervised more than 20 Ph.D. students, he has coauthored 47 papers published on the Transactions on Electron Devices, 18 papers published on Electron Device Letters and 34 papers presented at the International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), and overall more than 280 papers in major journals and conference proceedings. His publications received more than 4,600 citations attaining a h-index of 34. Enrico Sangiorgi is Distinguished Lecturer and Fellow of the IEEE (2005).
Fabio Carastro
Head of Stacks and Systems T&R — Semikron Danfoss
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With over 20 years of experience in business-driven R&D, he leads innovation in high-power electronics for automotive and industrial applications. He earned his M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering in 2003 and completed his Ph.D. at the University of Nottingham, UK, in 2007. From 2007 to 2010, he worked as a Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham, contributing to advanced research in power electronics. In 2010, he joined General Electric’s High Power Electronics R&D department in Germany, where he held key roles in developing cutting-edge converter technologies. Since 2018, he has been with Semikron Danfoss, where he heads the Stacks Technology and Research division. His expertise spans high-power silicon (Si) and silicon carbide (SiC) devices, power module design, megawatt-scale converter architectures, system topologies, power quality, and reliability.
Filippo Di Giovanni
Technical Writer – Power Electronics and Semiconductor Technologies
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Filippo Di Giovanni served at STMicroelectronics as Technical Marketing Manager for power transistors, later expanding his responsibilities to include Wide Bandgap (WBG) technologies such as Silicon Carbide and Gallium Nitride, as well as power modules.Dr. Di Giovanni’s expertise spans power semiconductor technologies and their applications in the automotive and industrial sectors. He has been a speaker and session chair at international conferences and workshops on power conversion and has also coordinated activities within European-funded research projects. Since retiring in Q3 2023, Filippo has been working as a full-time technical writer focused on semiconductor technologies, with recent expansion into related fields including artificial intelligence and quantum computing.
Leonardo Montoya
Principal Engineer — Wolfspeed
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He was born in 1979 in Chihuahua, Mexico. He received in 2001 a B.Sc. in electronics and communications engineering from Tecnológico de Monterrey in Mexico, and in 2008 a M.Sc. in electrical power engineering from Technical University Darmstadt in Germany. He brings more than 20 years of professional experience gathered across the entire electric-electronic component and systems development process from R&D to life cycle management. He possesses an extensive experience in power electronics for home appliances, railway, industrial equipment, and automotive markets. Furthermore, during his professional stay at Diehl, ABB, and BMW Group he has contributed to introduce successfully to the market new technologies for electric drives.
Now working at Wolfspeed, the technology leader for silicon carbide semiconductors, he is Principal Engineer for New Technologies and Systems Application. In this role, he is responsible for identifying, evaluating, and applying emerging technologies to complex systems and customer solutions supporting Automotive Business Unit.
His topics of interest are power semiconductors, electric energy efficiency, and environmentally friendly electric mobility.
His topics of interest are power semiconductors, electric energy efficiency, and environmentally friendly electric mobility.
Luca Poggio
Head of Electromechanical and Electronic Components Development — Ferrari
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Born in Alessandria in 1965 and graduated from Turin Polytechnic in Electronic Engineering, he began working at the FIAT Research Center in Orbassano in 1991, focusing on model-based control strategies for internal combustion engines (gasoline and diesel). In 1994, he moved to Magneti Marelli in Bologna, where he worked on engine control strategies, later becoming responsible for Marelli’s first DBW and OBD control system, and developing the first flex-fuel systems. From 2000 to 2002, he oversaw the development of new electronic devices aimed at increasing control system performance and reducing costs. In 2002, he joined Ferrari as head of software development and engine control system calibration. He subsequently oversaw the development of the control system for the new DCT transmission. In 2010, he also became responsible for engine testing, which includes testing activities for both performance and reliability development. In 2016, we created the current Electromechanical & Electronic Components division, starting with a small group of five people and growing to a team that now numbers more than 150. The division designs and develops batteries, electric motors, and power electronics for 48/400/800V hybrid traction. Batteries and electric motors are also produced in-house in the current E-Building. Over the course of his career, Poggio participated in the development of more than 300 patents.
Lucas Woerner
Production Planner for Electric Drives and Power Electronics — Audi
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Electrical Engineer (M.Eng.) with extensive experience in large-scale production projects, international electronics planning, and the industrialization of high-volume applications. Currently working as a Manufacturing Planner for electronic test systems, responsible for the design, standardization, and industrial rollout of Volkswagen internal test equipment for pulse inverters in series production. Proven track record in coordinating complex, cross-functional projects within global automotive manufacturing environments.
Maurizio Di Paolo Emilio
Director of Global Marketing Communications — EPC
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Maurizio Di Paolo Emilio holds a Ph.D. in Physics and is a Telecommunications Engineer. He is Director of Global Marketing Communications at EPC (Efficient Power Conversion), where he manages worldwide initiatives to showcase the company’s GaN innovations. He is a prolific technical author of books on GaN, SiC, energy harvesting, and data acquisition and control systems, and has extensive experience as an editor for technical magazines and online publications in power electronics, wide bandgap semiconductors, and embedded systems.
Antonino Maniaci
Team Lead Power Module Design and Process Verification for xEV Application — STMicroelectronics
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Orio Bellezza
Chairman STMicroelectronic and 2D Photonics
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Orio Bellezza is currently Advisor and Chairman of 2D Photonics SpA, an Italian start-up developing graphene-based optical transceivers. He is also Member of the Supervisory Board of STMicroelectronics NV. He retired from ST in 2023, after almost 40 years spent in several leadership roles, where he last held the position of President, Technology, Manufacturing, Quality and Supply chain. He holds a master degree in Chemistry from Milan University. He authored several patents and technical papers.
Roveendra Paul
Senior Director of Engineering & Technical Marketing — Onsemi
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Seasoned hands-on business and technical leader with 25+ years of experience, equipped with an entrepreneurial mindset. Proven record of building and scaling business from R&D concept to >$200M annual revenue with P&L Management ownership. Visionary semiconductor expert, with successful bring-up of 20+ platforms from rapid prototyping phase to high volume manufacturing. Distinguished liquid cooling technologist, with successful industrialized designs in various end markets. Accomplished System Engineering leader, with extensive experience in custom design-in and validation. Experience building teams from ground-up and driving high impact technology roadmaps. 9 patents granted in field of semiconductor technology. Data Center Infrastructure Specialist (DCIS) certified and active OCP liquid cooling track participant.
Salvatore Coffa
Chief Expert Wide Bandgap power electronics — Bosch
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During more than 30 years of research and development activities Salvatore Coffa has achieved several important results in various fields and, more specifically, a large expertise in the field of technology transfer from basic research ideas to prototypes and then to products and applications. This expertise has been built up combining advanced research work (within or in cooperation with university, research labs, small/medium enterprises) and application to technologies and products. He has innovated front-end and back-end technologies in the field of power devices introducing new Si power structures (using trench, thin wafers, etc.) and power devices in semiconductors like SiC and GaN. Mastering of crystallographic defects, evolution of defects from substrates to epi layer and innovative process integration has resulted in SiC Power devices now in full mass production within STMicroelectronics.
He has authored more than 300 publications on international refereed journals and holds more than 50 patents.He has worked in Academia and research labs until 2002, then joined STMicroelectronics for 23years and he is now working at Robert Bosch GmbH in Reutlingen as Chief Expert Wide Bandgap Materials in Mobility Electronics department.
Stefano Martignoni
Test Equipment and Automation Manager — STMicroelectronics
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Sven Pihale
Expert in Testing & Failure Analysis – Volkswagen Group Components
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Sven Pihale holds a PhD in Chemistry from TU Bergakademie Freiberg and has 15 years of experience in the development of electronics and power electronics.He is recognized as an expert in failure analysis. As a development engineer in hardware development at Volkswagen Group Components, his focus is on the reliability assessment of power electronic systems, particularly with regard to materials as well as assembly and interconnection technologies. His work also includes extensive environmental testing in accordance with relevant standards and requirements to enable early identification of failure mechanisms, systematic risk assessment, and the sustainable improvement of product quality in power electronics for in‑house inverter development.
Lukas Dedeleit
Entwicklungsingenieur — Volkswagen
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Alessandro Fossi
E-Drive system coordinator — Lamborghini
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Fabio Necco
CEO of Cambridge GaN Devices — Cambridge GaN Devices
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Fabio Necco has served as CEO of Cambridge GaN Devices since December 2025, bringing with him nearly three decades of leadership in power semiconductor innovation. He has held senior executive roles across leading publicly traded companies, most recently as Vice President of the Power MOSFET division at onsemi, where he led business growth in high-performance power technologies across industry segments. Prior to this, he drove electrification as Director of Hybrid and Electric Vehicle business unit at Fairchild, and held technical leadership roles at International Rectifier spanning marketing, applications, and engineering. Fabio began his career as a hardware design engineer at Magneti Marelli, building a strong foundation in power electronics that continues to inform his leadership today. He is the inventor of three patents in power electronics applications. Fabio holds an MSEE from Politecnico di Torino and a certificate in Project Management from UCLA.
Miklós Ivicsics
Project Manager / SE Team Lead – Power Electronics Development — Audi
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Dr. Miklós Ivicsics is a Mechanical Engineer and holds a Ph.D. from the Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH). He has ten years of experience at Audi. At Audi Hungaria, he is responsible for the overall technical steering of power electronics development, covering pulse inverter technologies for both Audi and Volkswagen platforms.
Tino Minotti
Head of Power Modules R&D – BG WIM — Nexperia
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Leader of Module and Package Development, supporting all three product groups within BG WIM, and working in close partnership with Product Group Heads responsible for the module business.Tino brings over 30 years of experience in discrete power packages and power module R&D, spanning materials and process development, mechanical and thermal design, simulation, product development, and high volume production ramp up.
He currently leads the technology roadmap and development strategy for advanced module and package solutions, ensuring alignment with business objectives, manufacturing scalability, and long term reliability requirements across automotive and industrial applications. Prior to joining Nexperia, Tino held senior leadership roles at STMicroelectronics, where he managed power package and module development, including automotive traction inverter modules, from concept through industrialization. Throughout his career, he has built and led high performing, multidisciplinary engineering teams, and is widely recognized for his deep technical expertise in power semiconductor packaging, as well as his ability to translate innovation into robust, manufacturable products.
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