Tuesday 18 April 2023
19:10 Departure by the bus transfer from NH Collection Porto Batalha hotel to the dinner place
19:30 – 22:30 Pre-event dinner @ O COMERCIAL restaurant (address: Rua Ferreira Borges, Palácio da Bolsa, 4050-253 Porto). Registration closed. Registered participants list available HERE.
22:30 Departure by the bus transfer from the dinner place to NH Collection Porto Batalha hotel
Wednesday 19 April 2023
12:00 – 13:00 Registration & light lunch @ NH COLLECTION Porto Batalha hotel
13:00 – 13:15 EPIC – European Photonics Industry Consortium – Welcoming Words – Antonio Castelo, Photonics Technology Manager (Europe/Spain)
13:15 – 13:30 HBK FiberSensing – Welcoming Words – Luis Ferreira, Director (Portugal)
13:30 – 14:00 KEYNOTE: MCH Engineering – Optical Fiber Sensors Commercialization: Present Status and Future Opportunities and Trends – Alexis Mendez, President (USA)
SESSION 1: Fiber Optic Sensors Status and New Developments – Single and Multipoint
14:00 – 14:15 FBGS – Combining the Best of Both Worlds: Ultra-precise Fiber Optic Sensing over Several Kilometers of Continuous Fiber Lengths Based on Discrete Fiber Bragg Gratings and Code Division Multiplexing – Bram Van Hoe, Director Sales & Marketing (Germany)
14:15 – 14:30 Luna Innovations – Creating Smart Parts with Lifetime Fibre Sensors – Ian Shannan, VP of Sales EMEA (United Kingdom)
14:30 – 14:45 Redondo Optics – Fiber Optic Sensor Systems for Applications where Weight, Size, and Power are Critical for Operation – Edgar Mendoza, CEO (USA)
14:45 – 15:00 University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU – Coupled-core Optical Fiber Sensors – Joel Villatoro, Ikerbasque Research Professor (Spain)
15:00 – 15:15 engionic – Gold-Coated Femtosecond FBGs for Expanded Temperature Sensing – Margarethe Kampling, Managing Director (Germany)
15:15 – 15:30 art photonics – Benefits of In-line Fiber Spectroscopy for Industrial Process-control & Medical Diagnostics – Tatiana Sakharova, Chief Technology Officer (Germany)
15:30 – 15:45 SENTEA Fiber Optic Sensing – Breaking the Interrogator Cost Barrier: Photonic Integration as Disruptive Technology for Large-scale Deployment of FBG Sensing – Thijs Spuesens, CTO (Belgium)
15:45 – 16:30 Networking coffee break
SESSION 2: Fiber Optic Sensors Status and New Developments – Distributed
16:30 – 16:45 FiberSight – Humidity Monitoring: Overcoming Challenges and Uncovering New Applications with Distributed Fibre Sensing – Tiago Neves, Founder (Portugal)
16:45 – 17:00 Aragon Photonics & The University of Zaragoza – High Fidelity Sensing based on CP-OTDR, Unlocking New Emerging Applications – Pascual Sevillano, Technology Advisor & Professor (Spain)
17:00 – 17:15 Exail – From Fibers and Components to Sensing Systems – Nicephore Nicolas, Business Developer (France)
17:15 – 17:30 Insigma Engineering – Distributed Fiber Optic (Acoustic) Sensing for Safety and Security – İbrahim Ölçer, Founder (Turkey)
17:30 – 17:45 VIAVI Solutions – Raman & Brillouin Distributed Sensing: Design Paths to Easy Deployment – Daniele Costantini, Global Product Marketing Manager (Switzerland)
17:45 – 18:00 Amplitude Laser – Optical Sources/Lasers for Sensing Applications – Miguel Melo, Managing Director (Portugal)
18:30 Departure by the bus transfer from the meeting venue to the dinner place
19:00 – 22:00 Networking Dinner @ The Yeatman hotel, The Orangerie restaurant (address: Rua Do Choupelo (Santa Marinha), 4400-0888 Vila Nova de Gaia, Porto), 8th floor
22:30 Departure by the bus transfer from the restaurant to hotel NH COLLECTION Porto Batalha
Thursday 20 April 2023
08:00 – 08:20 Networking coffee @ NH COLLECTION Porto Batalha hotel
08:20 – 08:30 Recap by Antonio Castelo, Photonics Technology Manager, EPIC
SESSION 3: Structural Health Monitoring, Solutions and Applications
08:30 – 09:00 KEYNOTE: Graz University of Technology – Bridge Monitoring with Fiber Optic and Remote Sensing Techniques – Werner Lienhart, Head of Institute, Engineering Geodesy and Measurement Systems – (Austria)
09:00 – 09:15 Epsimon & CSIC – University of Cambridge – Fibre Optic Instrumented Geogrid for Sub-surface Ground Movement Detection – Nicky de Battista, Director & Research Associate (United Kingdom)
09:15 – 09:30 Fibersail – Fiber Optics Shape Sensing Solutions for the Wind Industry – Carlos Oliveira, CEO (Portugal)
09:30 – 09:45 SMARTEC – Fiber Optic Sensors for Structural and Geotechnical Monitoring – Daniele Inaudi, General Manager at (Switzerland)
09:45 – 10:00 AIRBUS – Carlos Miguel-Giraldo, NDT Production & Structural Health Monitoring Material, Processes & Tests (Spain)
10:00 – 10:15 SYLEX – Real Life Applications of FBG Sensing Technology – Peter Lowy, Business Development (Slovakia)
10:15 – 10:30 CalSens – 24/365 Monitoring Civil Infrastructures Using Fiber Sensors – Juan Jose Martinez, CTO Photonics (Spain)
10:30 – 11:15 Networking coffee break
SESSION 4: Fiber Sensors for Harsh Environments, Medical and Emerging Applications
11:15 – 11:45 KEYNOTE: Siemens Energy – Challenges and Opportunities for Fiber Optics in Harsh Environments – Evangelos Diatzikis, Fellow Engineer & Advisory Expert – Sensors & Advanced Controls (USA)
11:45 – 12:00 CERN – A Combined LPG-FBG Multi-sensing Platform for Simultaneous Measurement of Humidity and Radiation – Paolo Petagna, Section Leader (Switzerland)
12:00 – 12:15 HBK FiberSensing – Measuring under High-voltage in Railways – A Pantograph Monitoring Solution – Rita Lima, Sales Engineer (Portugal)
12:15 – 12:30 Optics11 – High Sensitivity Partial Discharge Monitoring Using FOS: Experience and Examples – Meüs van der Poel, Business Development Director (Ireland)
12:30 – 12:45 INESCTEC & University of Porto – Micro/Nanofabrication and Devices for Optical Sensing – Paulo Marques, Professor (Portugal)
12:45 – 13:00 CEA – Fiber Sensing Solutions at CEA List for Harsh Environments and SHM Systems – Guillaume Laffont, Head of Laboratory (France)
13:00 – 13:15 Philips Engineering Solutions – Advancing Fiber Integration and Assembly Towards Volume Production – Andrzej Sielecki, Process Architect Micro Devices (The Netherlands)
13:15 – 13:30 PhotonFirst – The Challenges and Opportunities for Integrated Photonic Sensing – Gideon Langedijk, Application Sales Engineer (The Netherlands)
13:30 – 14:30 Networking lunch
14:30 Departure by the bus transfer to HBK FiberSensing
15:00 – 16:30 Company visit @ HBK FiberSensing (address: Rua Vasconcelos Costa, 277, 4470-640 Maia Portugal)
16:30 Walk from HBK to the airport