Call for Abstracts
Call for Abstracts Roger Grace, President of Roger Grace Associates, the world’s leading marketing consultancy specializing in Sensors and MEMS, has announced the call for abstracts for the half-day June 24, 2025, Pre-Conference Workshop during the Sensors Converge Conference, to take place at the Santa Clara California Convention Center, from June 24-26, 2025.

Interested presenters are requested to submit abstracts of between 150-175 words as attached PDFs no later than March 28, 2025. Send to Roger Grace, workshop organizer and chairman, at [email protected]. Please include title, author(s), and affiliation(s). 

Abstract topics of interest for consideration of presentation at the Pre-Conference Workshop include: 
• Products/Applications
• Technologies
• Packaging and Connectivity
• Manufacturing Methods -Materials
• System Components, including batteries

The half-day Pre-Conference Workshop will address Printed/Flexible/ Stretchable (P/F/S) and Functional Fabric (FF)/E-Textile Sensors and electronics from a commercialization perspective which support a broad range of applications, including Medtech, IoT, and wearables. The Workshop, chaired and organized by Roger Grace, will feature six world-recognized leaders in the P/F/S and FF/E-Textile sensors and sensor-based systems area. Presentations will provide attendees with valuable information on current research and development activities, application opportunities, manufacturing methods, and commercialization challenges for P/F/S and FF E-Textile sensors and sensor-based systems issues.

Mr. Grace stated, “This half-day Workshop is a key and integral part of my intention to “evangelize” P/F/S and FF/E-Textile sensors. It was created and developed by me to help inform and educate the technical, technical management, and business community of the major significance of P/F /S and F/’E-Textile sensor-based technologies and their enabled far-reaching and extensive opportunities in many applications including MedTech and wearables from both a current and future perspective.” He concluded, “This will be the eighth time that I have organized and chaired this Workshop topic at this most significant industry event, and am looking forward to having all of these world-class presenters share their most recent and relevant findings and products with the live and in-person audience”.

Mr. David Drain, Show Director, said, “We decided early on in the creation of the pre-conference Workshop to address these exciting new sensor technologies because of their current and future importance in the sensors space in enabling a broad and varying spectrum new and exciting application. We are looking forward to very successful technical sessions, Expo Hall, and especially Roger’s star-studded array of speakers in our pre-conference Workshop program.”

About Printed/Flexible/Stretchable and Functional Fabric Sensors
The availability of sensors that can conveniently conform in shape to their imposed working environment has existed for quite some time with the earliest being for aerospace applications. Most recently, there has been exponential growth in the field of flexible, printed, stretchable, and functional fabric a.k.a. smart textiles driven by applications including physiological/activity monitoring in wearables for e-Health, sports/recreational and military personnel and the Internet of Things (IoT). These new electronics and sensors are fabricated on flexible plastic or paper substrates or are printed/woven into fabrics (e-fabrics), which offer advantages including low unit cost, mechanical robustness, shape conformity, lightweight, and low-profile. The creation of these “non-classical” platforms is enabled by the high-throughput manufacturing processes of devices including for those over large areas using various technologies including Roll-to-Roll printing. These sensors are finding applications in several emerging areas including military, point of care medical, sports medicine, and IoT. The extensive list of speakers, representing the international “who’s who” in this topical area, will present several of the more interesting printed/flexible/stretchable and e-fabric/smart fabric sensor technologies, their current and future applications, and products that they enable. In addition to these sensors, we will address several other electronic functionalities and the challenges of their packaging and integration with other functional element of basic wearable and Internet of Things (IoT) applications. Finally, barriers to the successful commercialization of these sensors and recommended strategies for market success will be presented.

About Roger Grace Associates
Roger Grace Associates, founded in 1982, is located in Bonita Springs, Florida, and provides comprehensive strategic marketing consulting and marketing communications services to domestic and overseas high-technology-based clients from startups to Fortune 500 companies and government agencies. The firm specializes in conducting market research leading to the creation, development, and execution of positioning, branding, and actionable market strategies for its clients in the successful commercialization of technology for the sensors, MEMS, Nano, semiconductor, and semiconductor equipment markets. For more information, please visit www.rgrace.com.

About Sensors Converge
Sensors Converge, formerly known as Sensors Expo & Conference, got its start 40 years ago bringing together the design engineering community to network, share ideas, and define the future roadmap for the sensors industry. Sensors Converge is part of the Fierce Technology Group, a division of Questex, which also produces the Embedded Technologies Expo & Conference, Autonomous Technologies Conference, Medical Technologies Design Conference, Best of Sensors Awards, Fierce Electronics, Fierce Sensors, Fierce AutoTech, and Fierce EmbeddedTech, as well as daily content and newsletters on Fierce Electronics.

Editor’s Note: Editors are invited to attend Sensors Converge 2025 free of charge. Please go to the Sensors Converge website to register and request a press pass.