WSTS Spring 2013 Committee Meeting Cologne, Germany
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. Please observe that the duration of the the Cologne meeting will be 4 days only - from Monday to Thursday.
Date
20 to 23 May 2013
Venue
Koeln Marriott Hotel
Johannisstrasse 76 - 80
50668 Koeln
Germany
Tel: +49 (0) 221-94 222 777
Fax: +49 (0) 221-94 222 7110
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 2013 start of registration period.
18 March 2013 last day to benefit from discounted participation fee.
22 April 2013 last day to benefit from standard participation fee.
04 May 2013 end of registration period.
Participants who booked at the discounted participation fee (before or on 18 March), but who change any details of their registration after 18 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 | Fee for whole Meeting |
| On or before 18 March | US$150 | US$400 |
| On of before 22 April | US$185 | US$500 |
| After 22 April | US$220 | US$600 |
In case of cancellation of the registration in whole or in part WSTS will retain US$100 per day or US$400 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 tax, breakfast and service fee.
| Room type | Single Use | Twin Use |
| Deluxe Room | € 113,00 | € 141,00 |
| Executive Room | € 172,00 | € 200,00 |
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 the meeting facilities and guest rooms. For cancellations received less than 72h prior to the day of arrival the hotel is entitled to charge one room night.
Meeting Registration and Hotel Reservation
The registration period has expired.
If you have any changes in your travel plans after the registration period has ended, please contact the hotel directly to change your room reservation: Mr. Tobias Lindner, phone +49 221 942226112 or send an email.
Tentative Agenda
Below is the tentative agenda. Daily allocation of topics is still subject to change.
| Day | Morning | Afternoon | Evening |
| Tuesday, 21 | Business Meeting, Macroeconomic World Review, Guest Speaker Presentation | Enduse Presentations, Forecast Session Discrete Small Signal Semiconductor | Welcome Dinner |
| Wednesday, 22 | Discrete Power Semi., General Purpose Analog, Application Specific Analog | Standard Logic and Bipolar, Special Purpose Logic, Sensors and Actuators, Optoelectronics | No Program |
| Thursday, 23 | MCU, MPU, DSP, DRAM | SRAM, ROM, EPROM and Other Memory, Flash, Forecast Wrap-Up, Adjournment | Gala Dinner |
- Detailed Agenda for download (issue: May 13, 2013) (Log in required)
- Agenda Business Meeting May 21, 2013
Presentations for download (Acrobat format)
Downloads are available for meeting participants only by Tuesday, 21 May. PowerPoint versions will be provided after the meeting.
- 21 Tuesday presentations (Log in required)
- 22 Wednesday presentations (Log in required)
- 23 Thursday presentations (Log in required)
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" .
Submission of Pre-Meeting Forecast
Participation in the Forecast Meeting is subject to the submission of a premeeting forecast. Schedule:
May 01, 2013: issue of blank pre-meeting forecast file to all forecast program user
May 09, 2013: submission of pre-meeting forecast to WSTS
May 09, 2013: publication of pre-meeting average forecast to all participating companies
The following downloads are available for Forecast Program users only:
How to get access to the forecast program (Log in required)
How to submit a pre-meeting forecast (Log in required)
Travel and Transfer
Most participants from abroad will travel by air and arrive at Frankfurt International Airport - FRA,distance 180km. Transfer to the hotel either by 1) train; 2) taxi or 3) shuttle
- 1) by ICE-train from Frankfurt/Airport to Cologne/Hbf (main station)
Train departures: every 30 minutes; duration approx. 1h
Fare for one-way-ticket: €19,00 to €66,00 (2. class); €49,00 to €107,00 (1. class).
Link to DB Query Page and Booking Portal (Deutsche Bahn = German Railway Company)
From Cologne/Hbf (main station) to Marriott hotel: a 4min. walk (350m) or 5min. by taxi
- 2) by Taxi: duration approx. 2h, fare: approx. €300,00
- 3) by Shuttle booked at hotel: duration approx. 2h, fare: €250,00
There are two other airports nearby:
Duesseldorf International Airport - DUS, distance 61km
by Taxi: duration approx. 45 minutes, fare approx. €80,00
Koeln/Bonn Airport - CGN, distance 20km
by Taxi: duration approx. 20 minutes, fare approx. €40,00
Practical Hints and Useful Links
Marriott Hotel website
City of Cologne official website
Visitor's Guide
Electricity in Germany is AC 230V / 50Hz.
Time Zone: Germany is 2h ahead UTC (UTC +02 hours) in May.
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)
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