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TAP TIMES -25- JANUARY 2022

I have already purchased airline tick-
SEMICON Europa (from 24) ets and made hotel reservations for next
year’s show. See you in Munich! Next
tually no visitors in sight. Hours before the year’s event is scheduled for November
official ending of the show, exhibitors were 15-18, where it will be co-located with
tearing down their booths and packing up. electronica.
Mr. Hart is founder and CEO of TopLine Corporation.

Visitors lined up to show their vaccination QR Code credentials. Many foreign representatives were absent due to COVID-19.

Business opportunities
Despite the scaled-down affair, there were EVENTS
still ample business opportunities to be
explored. Exhibitors paid keen attention
to visitors and lots of valuable information
Jan. 5-8, Consumer Electronics Show, Las Vegas, Ne-
was exchanged, and I’m glad that I went. vada, ces.tech

Jan. 19-21, NEPCON Japan, Tokyo, nepconjapan.jp/en

Jan. 22-27, APEX, San Diego Convention Center, San
Diego, Calif., ipcapexexpo.org

Jan. 22-27, SPIE Photonics West, San Francisco, spie.
org

Jan. 31-Feb. 3, Pan Pacific Microelectronics Symposium,
Honolulu, Hawaii, smta.org

Feb. 9-11, SEMICON Korea, Seoul, semiconkorea.org

Feb. 15-17, Wafer Level Packaging Symposium, San
Jose, smta.org

March 6-9, TestConX, Mesa, Arizona, testconx.org

The virus made movement to exhibits easy, unlike past shows.