PHOTON's 10th Solar Silicon Conference

STRATEGIES FOR SUPPLYING AND SOURCING THE RIGHT SILICON PRODUCTS

Conference outline:

As prices for silicon have plunged dramatically in the last few months, the situation for suppliers and buyers has fundamentally changed – and many new questions need to be answered from both sides, especially regarding long-term contracts versus spot-market sales, internal silicon production versus external procurement, and downstream integration into the project business for silicon makers.

The 10th edition of the world’s leading solar silicon forum will once again have leading players discuss everything about silicon feedstock.

Topics covered:

• Demand, supply, costs and prices: Implications of the current oversupply situation for silicon players and the solar sector as a whole.
• Quality discussion: What quality of silicon is needed for different wafer/cell products?
• Business strategies: How leading silicon makers address the market – from focussing solely on silicon to full downstream integration.
• Start-ups: New ideas for making solar silicon.  
• Equipment & processes: The latest technology updates for silicon production.
• Executive panel discussion.

Target group:

PHOTON’s Solar Silicon Conference is the annual global platform for discussion on the latest news about silicon feedstock for the PV industry. It addresses executives, technologists, and sales and marketing experts from silicon suppliers and silicon users, such as ingot, wafer and cell manufacturers.

Andel's Hotel Berlin
Landsberger Allee 106
10369 Berlin
Germany

March 26, 2012

Registration: 8 am, start: 9 am,
End: approx. 6 pm

Ticket: € 740
(€ 640 for PHOTON International subscribers)

Discounts:

10% with ticket purchase before December 31, 2011

5% with ticket purchase before February 28, 2012

10% when buying tickets for two or more PHOTON Europe conferences

PROGRAM

TIME	INVITED SPEAKER, ORGANIZATION TOPIC
9:00 - 9:10	CONFERENCE OPENING   Chairperson:   Anne Kreutzmann, PHOTON Europe, Germany
9:10 - 11:00	FUNDAMENTALS   Martin Meyers, PHOTON Consulting, USA "(Over-)supply and demand – challenges for silicon manufacturers"   Henning Wicht, IHS iSupply, Germany "Price development for various grades of silicon"
11:00 - 11:30	Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:00	LEADING SILICON PRODUCERS – PURE PLAYERS      Thorsten Heyen, Wacker, Germany   Jim Stutelberg, Hemlock, USA   Hiroyuki Oda, Tokuyama, Japan
13.00 - 14.00	Lunch
14.00 - 16:00	LEADING SILICON PRODUCERS – VARIOUS DOWNSTREAM-INTEGRATION STRATEGIES      Woohyun Lee, OCI, South Korea "Silicon and PV projects"    Russ Hamilton, GCL, China "Silicon, wafers and systems"   Ron Reis, REC, USA "From silane to systems"   Gøran Bye, LDK, China "From silicon to systems"   Tracy Zhou, Daqo,  China
16:00 - 16:30	Coffee Break
16:30 - 18:00	SILICON START-UPS – NEW IDEAS FOR SILICON PRODUCTION       Nick Sarno, Renewable Energy Technology (RET), Hong Kong   Jan-Philipp Mai , JPM Silicon, Germany   Harsharn Tathgar, Clean Silicon, Norway
	EQUIPMENT FOR SILICON PRODUCTION    Dave Keck, GT, USA   Peter Fath, Centrotherm, Germany "Fully integrated silicon lines – from silicon metal to poly production"
18:00 - 18:30	PANEL DISCUSSION
	Conference program - download here