The 6th Solvay~COPE Symposium on Organic Electronics is slated to take place on May 10-11, 2012 in Pittsburgh, PA. For the first time this annual event will be hosted by a corporation—Plextronics, Inc. of Pittsburgh. Previous events have been held in Atlanta (hosted by Georgia Tech), Leuven, Belgium (host by IMEC), and Beijing, China (hosted by Chinese Academy of Sciences).

The event will gather participants from both the academic world and companies active in the field of OLEDs, Printed transistors and OPV.

While free, registration is required and there will be a limit on the number of attendees.

The academic speakers will include: Rick McCullough (Carnegie-Mellon); Tobin Marks (Northwestern); Zhenan Bao (Stanford); and Natalie Stingelin-Stutzmann (Imperial College London).

Additionally, John Reynolds and David Bucknall will be speaking as representatives of Georgia Tech-COPE.

Industry will be represented by speakers from companies that include: Eight19; Cambridge Display Technology; Thin Film Electronics; Polyera; Universal Display Corporation; Rhodia: Member of the Solvay Group; Moser Baer; Plextronics; and Solvay.