Silicon Austria Labs

Power Electronics for Energy Transition Symposium

30 Sept – 1 Oct 2025 | Graz, Austria

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Bernhard Bergmair

Senior Manager - Sustainability for Electronics-Based Systems

Silicon Austria Labs

Linz, Austria

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I am interested in how EU policies (environmental and geostrategic) enable innovation. I initiate strategic cross-company projects to find out.

My organisation

Silicon Austria Labs

Silicon Austria Labs

Academia

Graz, Linz, Villach, Austria

Room for innovation with Silicon Austria Labs Silicon Austria Labs is a top research center for Electronics and Software Based Systems (ESBS), which are the technological backbone of digitization. At three locations (Graz, Villach, Linz), SAL is conducting research in the areas of Microsystems, Sensor Systems, Power Electronics, Intelligent Wireless Systems and Embedded Systems to develop future-oriented solutions for industrial production, health, energy, mobility and safety. SAL brings together key players from industry, science and research and thus valuable expertise and know-how and conducts cooperative, application-oriented research along the value chain. Cooperative projects are co-financed by SAL and enable a fast and unbureaucratic project start. SAL is thus shaping the high-tech locations Austria and Europe and "unfolds the future".
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About me

Bernhard Bergmair is Senior Manager – Sustainability of Electronics‑Based Systems at Silicon Austria Labs (SAL) since 2024, coordinating sustainability research in electronics, and leading strategic industry collaborations on policy-enabled innovation. Prior to joining SAL, from 2022 to early 2024 he worked at the strategic interface between sustainability and technology consulting at a global IT services provider. Before he was an interdisciplinary researcher, conducting cross-industry foresight projects with large enterprises. He studied physics at the Vienna University of Technology, earning an M.Sc. in technical physics in 2008 and completing a Sc.D. (Ph.D.) in engineering sciences in 2013.

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Skills

  • Policy-Enabled Innovation
  • circular economy
  • DPP
  • EU Regulations
  • sustainable electronics
  • interdisciplinarity
  • foresight

Interests

  • Innovation strategies enabled by regulations

Speaker sessions (1)

Tuesday, 30 September 2025

15:30 - 17:40

Sustainability & Circular Economy in Power Electronics

Location:SteiermarksaalTrack:Session
  • Sustainability & Circular Economy in Power Electronics

This is a session on Sustainability & Circular Economy in Power Electronics, 1 keynote, 3 additional talks and a panel discussion (sequence is subject to change, click for details)