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edfas.org ELECTRONIC DEV ICE FA I LURE ANALYSIS | VOLUME 24 NO . 1 46 T he EDFAS Board of Directors gathered for their annual meeting in conjunction with ISTFA on Sunday, October 31, 2021. Thismeetingwas hybrid with attendees in person and on the phone. Round-the-room introductions, initiated by board president James J. Demarest, kicked off themeeting. New Boardof Directormembers, DavidGrosjean andTommaso Melis, the incoming student board member, along with reappointed member Tom Schamp were welcomed. EDFAS has three main strategic objectives centered around engagement: people engagement, knowledge engagement, and industry engagement. Discussion ensued regarding embracing the ASM Connect platform, engagingwith our EDFASmembers via forumdiscussions, utilizing searchable content and educational offerings, and connecting our industry through the EDFAS failure analysis roadmap and ASM membership. The full EDFAS boardmeets quarterly, thrice a year via teleconference and a face-to-face meeting in conjunction with ISTFA. Proposed 2022meeting dates were reviewed. Committee reports are required twice a year during the midyear extended virtualmeeting and the in-personboard meeting. The executive committeewillmeet six additional times in 2022. Ryan Milosh commenced the ASM content of the meeting with a financial update. ASM’s growth plan is slated to be met with net assets up year over year and AOP achievable. The 2021 conference numbers were approximately half of what they were for 2019, but learn- ings were shared, realistic plans set, and expectations met. 2022 is expected to be tough due to travel restric- tions, but improvement in 2023 is anticipated. Nicole Hale completed the ASM updates with the good news that membership is up by 26% due in part to the EDFAS 2020 Virtual Workshop and the EDFAS Virtual User Groups earlier in 2021. The ISTFA 2021 general chair, Susan Li, reviewed the expected outcome of the conference. ISTFA 2021 had 404 attendees versus the 810 attendees in 2019. There were 100 presentations in 2021 compared to 110 in 2019. The locale of Phoenix attracted three times asmany expo- only attendees and boasted the home of our keynote speaker Ravi Mahajan. ISTFA 2022 will be in Pasadena, Calif., October 30 through November 3 with Zhigang Song as its general chair. Our ISTFA 2022 theme will be Chasing Ever Smaller and More Elusive Defects. Yan Li was EDFAS board approved as the technical program chair. Nicholas Antoniou from the EDFA Editorial Committee commended the level of support from the EDFAS Board and fromASM. Online posting of the journal will also start this year. The Education Subcommittee’s goal of virtual course development was discussed by Bhanu Sood. He also welcomed three additional educational subcommit- tee members: Frank Altman, Navid Asadi Zanjani, and Ted Kolasa. Past EDFAS Board President, Lee Knauss, elaborated upon the lifetime achievement award nominees along with the president’s award and new members, student board member, and terms. The nomination committee brings names forward and the EDFAS board ratifies can- didates. Themembership subcommittee focuses onwhat members get out of their ASMmembership and gathering members through local chapters closed out the commit- tee discussions. You can connect with the EDFAS Board of Directors on the ASM EDFAS Online Member Community Connect platform at connect.asminternational.org . We ask you to continue to lead theway, joinASMConnect, andencourage yearlong participation. Committee notes will be posted on ASM Connect, so please comment on postings, and generate conversations. Therewill be a cadence of regular ASMConnect activity andwe look forward to engaging our members on the platform. See you there. EDFAS BOARD OF DIRECTORS REPORT Renee S. Parente, EDFAS Secretary, AMD renee.parente@amd.com BOARD OF DIRECTORS NEWS