AGM 2017 Agenda
WEDNESDAY5APRIL 2017
20:00Networking Dinner at Inntel Art Hotel(optional)
THURSDAY 6 APRIL 2017
06:15 (optional) Sunrise guided walking tour in Eindhoven – Departure from Inntel Art Hotel
08:00 Departure bus from Inntel Art Hotel
08:30Welcome coffee and registration
09:00 Parallel workshops (Optional, pre-registration required)
Option 1: Workshop on Entrepreneurship:Milton Chang
Option 2: Workshop on Public Funding: upcoming opportunities and matchmaking, withPNO Innovation
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
12:00 Registration/roll-up set-up and light lunch
13:10 Welcome by EPIC President – Benno Oderkerk, CEO, Avantes
13:20Welcome by Bert Pauli, Regional Minister for Economic and International Affairs, Noord Brabant
13:25 Welcome by Frans Schmetz, Managing Director, High-Tech Campus Eindhoven
13:30 Presentation EPIC Activity Report – Carlos Lee, Director General, EPIC and Carmen Ferrari, Events and Marketing Manager, EPIC
13:45 Preview Upcoming Events – Dr. Jose Pozo, Director of Technology, EPIC
14:00Investment pitches, Budget 2017 + Voting Accounts 2016 approval – Anna Feis, CFO and Photonics Investment Advisor, EPIC
14:10 EPIC member challenges, questions, requests
14:15 Networking Break – Attendee free professional headshot picture!
15:00 “What if 3D printing was 100× more precise?” by Michael Thiel, CTO, Nanoscribe(CTO of the year 2016 )
15:20 EPIC member presentation
15:30 “Vertical integrator of design and production of optical and imaging products” Eric Janssen, Sales Manager, Prodrive Technologies
15:40“A unique UV laser annealing technology for advanced semiconductor chip manufacturing” HervéBesaucèle, CTO, Laser Systems & Solutions of Europe (LASSE)
15:50“Unity: a new Era of semiconductor process control by using optical technologies” Gilles Fresquet, CEO, unity SC(a Fogale Nanotech Group Company)
16:00“Photonics Bretagne: Photonics Innovation Hub in a new Photonics Park dedicated to optical fibersand their applications” David Méchin, General Manager, Photonics Bretagne
16:10“Novel low temperature bonding process of glass on metal and ceramics”SébastienBrun, Founder, Sy&Se
16:20 “Versatile and high-yield fiber processing for high power applications, sensor manufacturing and the telecom sector”Erik Böttcher, CEO, NYFORS
16:35 Networking Break
17:15Regional Perspective: German Innovation Center (China) + TjinSweeChuan, LUX Consortium (Singapore)
17:30 KEYNOTE: “The future of Digital Photonic Production” by Dr. Reinhart Poprawe, Managing Director, Fraunhofer ILT
18:00 “Title to be announced” RubenCriado, CEO, Luz Wavelabs (MIT Innnovators under 35)()
18:15 Presentation of the Photonics Entrepreneurship EPIC Phoenix Award
18:25Photonics in The Netherlands, EwitRoos, Managing Director, Photon Delta
18:45 Departure by bus to Evoluon
19:15 Walking Dinner at Evoluon
FRIDAY 7 APRIL 2017
08:00 Departure bus from Inntel Art Hotel
08:30 Welcome Coffee
09:00KEYNOTE:“Medicine of the future: Challenges and Opportunities”Dr. Jacques Souquet, Founder and EVP, Chief Strategic and Innovation Officer, SuperSonic Imagine
09:30KEYNOTE: “Treating Blindness” Dr. Chris Dainty, Associate, Cambridge Consultants
10:00 “Title to be announced”Peter Cheng Tim Kum, CEO, Endofotonics
10:10 “Advanced specialty optical fibres for biomedicine, sensing and sources” Daniel Milanese, Professor, Politecnico Di Torino
10:20 “Advanced fiber solutions for laser technologies/ medicine and industrial/ medical spectroscopy in 0.2-16µm range” ViacheslavArtyushenko, President, art photonics
10:30 “Smart optical measurement modules - challenges and opportunities for an small value add OEM supplier in the in-vitro diagnostics market”Ulrich Staerker, CTO, Volpi
10:45 Networking Break
11:30KEYNOTE: “Challenges in Optronic and Photonic Technologies for Aerospace Applications”Dr. Nikolaus Schmitt, Senior Expert Optronic Systems, Airbus Group Innovations
12:00 “IRnova the Viking way for Infrared” Eric Costard, CTO, IRnova
12:10"Tapping latent industrial markets with photonic integrated smart sensor processors" Brendan O'Gorman, Founder, CRUX Photonics
12:20“small components – MASSIVE IMPACT”Sven Schreiber, Head of Sales,Laser Components
12:30 EPIC member presentationto be announced
12:40 EPIC member presentation to be announced
12:50 EPIC AGM 2018 – Stefan Franzke, Managing Director, Berlin Partner
13:00 Lunch