ICM, Munich
April 1, 2008

6th Solar Silicon Conference – 
»A response to the Chinese wave?«

9:00 - 9:15
CONFERENCE OPENING
Chairpersons: 
Anne Kreutzmann, PHOTON Germany (confirmed)
Peter Fath, SolMic, Germany (confirmed)

9:15 - 9:45
FUNDAMENTALS 
Michael Rogol, PHOTON Consulting (confirmed)

9:45 - 10:30
THE BIG SILICON PRODUCERS
Gary Homan, Hemlock, USA (confirmed)
• Gøran Bye, REC, Norway (confirmed)

10:30 - 10:45
Coffee-Break

10:45 - 12:15
THE FIRST SUCCESFUL NEWCOMERS – 
USING SIEMENS TECHNOLOGY
• Sooyoung Lee, DC Chem, Korea (confirmed)
• Donato Di Noia, M.Setek, Japan (confirmed)
Shaozhang Chen, Xinguang Silicon, China (confirmed)
Hunter Jiang, GCL Silicon Technology Holdings, China
  (confirmed) 
From sand to modul – a fully vertical integrated approach 
for the PV Industry

• Frank Tinnefeld & Jochem Hahn, Gbr. Schmid, Germany
  (confirmed)

12:15 - 13:15
Lunch

13:15 - 15:00
THE FIRST SUCCESSFUL NEWCOMERS – 
USING UPGRADED METALLURGIC-GRADE SILICON

Gaetan Borgers, Dow Corning, USA (confirmed)
Helge Aasen, Elkem Solar (Orkla), Norway (confirmed)
Rene Boisvert, Becancour Silicon (Timminco), 
  Canada (confirmed)
Alan Kestenbaum, Globe Specialty Metals Inc.,
  USA (confirmed)
Chip Luo, Jaco SolarSi, China (confirmed) 
Hisashi Osanai, JFE, Japan (confirmed)

15:00 - 15:30
Coffee-Break

15:30 - 16:30
UNDER CONSTRUCTION – 
EXAMPLES OF PROMISING WESTERN SILICON PROJECTS 

• Franco Traverso, Silfab, Italy (confirmed)
Gosse Boxhoorn, The Silicon Mine, Netherlands (confirmed) 
• Nick Sarno, LDK, China (confirmed)

16:30 - 17:00
SECURING FEEDSTOCK, PROCESS MATERIALS AND FACILITIES 
How to design your own trichlorosilane (TCS) supply
• Goerge Xiao, LXE, USA (confirmed)
Graphite solutions for the silicon value chain
• Yuji Serizawa, Tokai Carbon, Japan (confirmed)

17:00 - 18:00
TALKS & PANEL: 
»WHAT TO DO WHEN OVERSUPPLY COMES«

Panel: 
• Michael Rogol, PHOTON Consulting (confirmed)
• Gøran Bye, REC, Norway (confirmed)
• Gary Homan, Hemlock, USA (confirmed)
• Mario Behrendt, SolarWorld, Germany (confirmed)

18:00 - 18:15
SUMMARY
 

• Michael Rogol, PHOTON Consulting (confirmed)

19:30
PTS 2008 EUROPE – EVENING RECEPTION