Mr. Brian TAN
Regional President (South East Asia), Corporate Vice President (Applied Global Services), Applied Materials Inc.
Brian Tan is regional president of South East Asia at Applied Materials, Inc. In this role, he oversees the company’s operations and strategy in the region while helping to build strategic partnerships across the private and public sectors. Concurrently, Brian is also corporate vice president and heads the Applied Global Services business in Asia, where his strong product focus and customer relationships have driven service growth and built field service capabilities-infrastructure.
Brian was previously chief strategy officer for worldwide operations, as well as head of operations & policy deployment for global continuous improvement. He was appointed deputy regional president for Southeast Asia in 2012 where he played an integral role in advancing key public-private partnership initiatives. Brian began his career at Applied Materials in 2000 as a customer engineer and progressed through multiple technical, operational and sales leadership roles.
Brian was elected to the board of Singapore Semiconductor Industry Association (SSIA) since 2018 and is appointed as vice chairman in 2020. He serves on the Future of Microelectronics steering committee under the Manufacturing, Trade and Connectivity (MTC) domain in Research, Innovation and Enterprise (RIE) 2025. Brian also serves on the Advisory Board of National University of Singapore School of Continuing and Lifelong Education (NUS SCALE).
Brian received a Bachelor of Engineering degree in mechanical engineering from the National University of Singapore.
Presentation Title
Inclusive Innovation for Resilience in the Semiconductor Value Chain
Abstract
Semiconductors are more critical to the global economy than ever before. As the demand for technologies like AI and IoT continues to ramp up, the semiconductor industry will have to navigate 2 fronts: the increasing complexities of chipmaking and the intricacies of the global value chain. How does the industry navigate these challenges while overcoming the slowing of traditional Moore’s Law?
Applied Materials believes that the answer is for the industry to work even more closely together. Hear from Brian Tan, Corporate Vice President (Applied Global Services), Regional President (South East Asia) on how the world’s leading semiconductor equipment company has created a new model for collaboration that accelerates innovation and enhances resilience, as semiconductors embraces the opportunity to become a trillion-dollar industry by 2030.