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72 I-CONNECT007 I REAL TIME WITH... IPC APEX EXPO 2021 SHOW & TELL MAGAZINE really a surprise, but I'm honored and really flattered that they wanted to recognize me. Goldman: Tell us a little bit about yourself and your involvement with IPC. Pedersen: If I tell something about myself it would be starting as a very young boy because my father had a PCB factory. I started as a child worker (laughs). I normally joke about that. When I came into my 20s, we bought another factory, and I was leading that factory as a produc- tion manager. en I came to Elmatica in '92, and from here I've been more or less handling technologies, sup- pliers, and today I'm senior technical advisor. On the way, I was engaged into IPC, I think it was 2014. en it was Lars Wallin who asked me to come to Germany and join a meeting where we were discussing starting an automotive addendum to the IPC-6012. It was just like when you show up as a parent to your child play- ing football or whatever, and you're the only one that comes and you take all the jobs. Nobody wanted to be the chairman. I said, "Okay, I can do that." So that was the start, actually, when we began working with IPC, and of course it was the automotive addendum the first couple of years. en I got this idea about the medical. I asked IPC if they were interested in creating a medical addendum to IPC-6012 and IPC-6013, and that is now going to be com- pleted. We did 6012 last autumn and the 6013 addendum is in the works because IPC-6013E is going through ballot now and we need to wait for that. But during that period, I've been involved in a lot of committees and task groups for press fit and quite a lot for automotive, also. Elmatica CEO Didrik Bech (left) posed as a FedEx delivery person to hand a special envelope to Jan Pedersen, senior technical advisor at Elmatica, in this creative video. Jan Pedersen and Didrik Bech at the finish of the video shoot in Oslo, Norway, where the company is headquartered.