Water Technology Innovation: implementing change in semiconductor facilities

Webinar

Thursday, April 3rd 2025

07:00 - 08:30 PT

Online

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The semiconductor industry needs to accelerate technology adoption to address water management needs - however, how does this work in-practice when balancing the benefit of implementation with risk and investment need? What is working to accelerate technology adoption and innovation and what should be changed from archaic methods?

This webinar will bring together a variety of perspectives to discuss how different stakeholders can work synergistically to change the technology landscape.

Speakers

Mike Knapp

Nalco

Water story starts in an unknowing fashion from Klamath Falls, Oregon. Drought led to irrigation shutoff, which had far reaching socioeconomic, political, environmental, and interpersonal fallout. In an unintended way that moment led later created a strong desire for being part of the water community. Starting with energy efficiency consulting as pare of the Industrial Assessment Center at Oregon State University. Then moving to Samsung Austin Semiconductor as a wastewater engineer over copper precipitation that developed into leading conversion of the system to ion exchange from initial water quality concept to pilot and system iterations. Career pursuits results in becoming engineering supervisor and engineering technical lead for the wastewater TEAM. Next chapter of the career is working won pure water systems at Tesla, Inc - Gigafactory in Austin, Texas and collaborating with fellow water champions to advocate for improved private and public water stewardship that drives resiliency, outreach, conservation, reuse, reclaim, recycle, etc.

Kelly Osborne

Intel

Kelly Osborne is a staff engineer at Intel Corporation. Her focus is water conservation through optimizing water use, wastewater treatment, and reclaim. She holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of New Mexico and has been with Intel for 21 years. During her time at Intel, she held engineering positions is wet etch, diffusion, and yield prior to moving to corporate services to support the industrial waste systems group then on to her current role.

Rob Simm

Stantec

Dr. Robert Simm is a Senior Vice President in Stantec’s water group. He specializes in industrial water and wastewater treatment processes and has over 30 years’ experience in multiple industrial sectors including semiconductor, mining, power, oil and gas, food and beverage, and manufacturing. His broad experience base includes process engineering, facility planning, detailed design, alternative project delivery, operations optimization, and operators training. Dr. Simm is a Director in the “Stantec Institute of Water Technology and Policy” helping the firm’s industrial water client’s find solutions to their most pressing water needs through applied research.