WSTS Spring 2012 Committee Meeting Vancouver, Canada
This site has all the information for your planning to participate in the next Committee Meeting. As time goes by, more and more information for your detailed travel planning and active participation will be provided on this site.
Date
21 to 25 May 2012
Venue
Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre
1088 Burrard Street
Vancouver, British Columbia V6Z 2R9
Canada
Tel: +1 604 331 1000
Fax: +1 604 331 1001
Committee Meeting Participants
Each WSTS Member Company has one official representative in the Committee, who is expected to participate in the Committee Meeting (Business Meeting) and to assume his/her voting rights in the Business Meeting on Tuesday morning. Any other employee of a WSTS Member Company is invited to participate in all parts of the Committee Meeting (Business Meeting and Forecast Meeting). Participation in the Forecast Meeting is subject to the submission of a premeeting forecast.
Furthermore the representatives of the sponsoring Semiconductor Industry Associations are invited to participate as observers. During your registration you will be required to declare in which role you will attend the meeting.
Certain detailed information such as the agenda, the list of participants etc. is only accessible to holders of WSTS user accounts and/or to registered participants. If you have registered but do not have a WSTS user account, you may login to this meeting web site (right upper corner) with your registration ID as user name and your last name as password.
Any non-member semiconductor company who has serious interest to join WSTS may send a participant to the Committee Meeting as observer. Such request is to be made to the WSTS Administrator .
Participation Fee and Hotel Cost
Participation Fee
The applicable rates are summarized in the table below.
Please observe the following deadlines:
01 March 12
start of registration period.
18 March 12
last day to benefit from discounted participation fee.
22 April 12
last day to benefit from standard participation fee.
11 May 12
end of registration period.
Participants who booked at the discounted participation fee (before 16 March), but who change any details of their registration after 16 March will have to pay the regular participation fee. Minor changes (change of room type, addition of supplementary information) will however not cause a reassessment of the participation fee.
| Registration Date |
Fee per Day: Tuesday to Thursday |
Friday |
Fee for whole Meeting |
| On or before 18 March | US$130 | US$100 | US$430 |
| On of before 22 April | US$160 | US$130 | US$550 |
| After 22 April | US$190 | US$160 | US$650 |
In case of cancellation of the registration in whole or in part WSTS will retain US$100 per day or US$430 for the entire meeting.
Participation fees include a daily buffet lunch, a morning and afternoon break with coffee, tea and other refreshments as well as a dinner on Tuesday and Thursday. All dinners are also available to accompanying spouses free of charge.
Hotel Cost
All room rates quoted below include a tax of 15.74%. A daily breakfast is available at additional cost of $29.50 CAD plus tax. Please observe the cancellation policy of the hotel: for cancellations received after 6 pm on the day of arrival and no shows the hotel is entitled to charge one night.
| Room type | Single Use | Twin Use |
| Run of House | $ 214.42 CAD | $ 214.42 CAD |
| Deluxe Corner Room | $ 260.42 CAD | $ 260.42 CAD |
| Junior Suite | $ 271.99 CAD | $ 271.99 CAD |
| One Bedroom Suite | $ 329.86 CAD | $ 329.86 CAD |
The special rate is available three days pre and three days post the meeting based upon availability. WiFi Internet access is available on a complimentary basis in all areas of the hotel including meeting facilities and guest rooms.
Meeting Registration and Hotel Reservation
The period for registration has been ended.
If you have any changes in your travel plans after the registration period has ended, contact the hotel directly to change your room reservation.
Tentative Agenda
Below is the tentative agenda. Daily allocation of topics is still subject to change.
| Day | Morning | Afternoon | Evening |
| Tuesday | Business Meeting, Macroeconomic World Review | Enduse Presentations | Welcome Dinner |
| Wednesday | Discrete Small Signal, Discrete Power Semiconductor | Sensors and Actuators, General Purpose Analog, Application Specific Analog | No Program |
| Thursday | Standard Logic and Bipolar, Special Purpose Logic, MCU | DSP, SRAM, ROM, EPROM and Other Memory, DRAM, MPU | Gala Dinner |
| Friday | Flash, Optoelectronics, Forecast Wrap-Up | Friday Tour | Dinner |
- Detailed Agenda for download - update 16 May (Log in required)
- Agenda Business Meeting 22 May (Log in required)
Presentations for download (Acrobat format)
Downloads will be available for meeting participants only on 22 May. PowerPoint versions will be provided after the meeting.
- 22 Tuesday presentations
- 23 Wednesday presentations
- 24 Thursday presentations
- 25 Friday presentations
Planning Your Participation
If you participate in the meeting, a number of critical deadlines need to be observed. The planning calendar may be downloaded from the link at the bottom of this column or click here .
Active Participation
Contact the Vice Chairman of your region if you are willing to make a presentation or lead a session at the meeting.
The List of Active Participants shows which topics are already assigned and which are still open (log in required).
Presenters should attentively read the "Guidelines for Presenters" .
Travel and Transfer
Most participants from abroad will travel by air and arrive at Vancouver International Airport YVR. Transfer to the hotel will take approximately 30 minutes by Taxi at cost of $CAD35.00. Public transfer by SKY TRAIN will take approximately 45-50 minutes. See detailed travel information here .
Practical Hints and Useful Links
Sheraton Vancouver Hotel website
City of Vancouver official website
Vancouver Tourist Information
Electricity in Canada is 110V 60Hz AC.
Time Zone: Canada is 7h behind UTC (UTC -07 hours) in May.
Friday Afternoon Program Sponsored by SIA
SIA invites all participants and their companions to a Friday tour and a dinner. Booking for this event may be done within the registration procedure.
Please see the download below for the program timetable and detailed information on the tour.
List of Registered Participants
List of registered participants (this list is permanently updated whenever a registration is completed. You may also check the status of your own registration)
print page