3 June 2024, Monday
Company visits: the group is fully booked, check your registration HERE. Please inform Vera if you won’t be able to join.
09:10 Gather at MOXY BERLIN HUMBOLDTHAIN PARK (address: Hochstraße 2, 13357 Berlin)
09:15-10:00 Drive
10:00-11:30 Fraunhofer HHI (address: Einsteinufer 37, 10587 Berlin, Germany)
11:30-12:15 Drive
12:15-13:30 Sicoya ((address: Carl-Scheele-Straße 16, 12489 Berlin, Germany)
13:30-14:30 Lunch
14:30-16:00 AEMTEC (address: James-Franck-Straße 10, 12489 Berlin, Germany)
18:30 – 21:30 Optional pre-event dinner @Restaurant MOXY (address: Humboldthain Park, Hochstraße 2-3, D-13357 Berlin)
4 June 2024, Tuesday
12:00 – 13:15 – Registration and lunch @Fraunhofer IZM
Welcoming words:
13:15 – 13:30 Fraunhofer IZM – Welcome and Introduction of Fraunhofer IZM – Rolf Aschenbrenner, Head of Department (Germany)
13:30 – 15:30 SESSION 1: Integrated Photonics in Volume
- KEYNOTE – NVIDIA – Liron Gantz, Manager of the Electro-Optics Group (Israel)
- KEYNOTE – X-FAB – Joni Mellin, Product Marketing Manager Photonics (Germany)
- Ligentec – Michael Geiselmann, CCO (Switzerland)
- TESAT – Optical Network Products for Space – Opportunities for PICs – Hanno Scheife, Team Leader (Germany)
- EV Group – The Impact of Nanoimprint Lithography on PIC Manufacturing for Sensing and Datacom – Thomas Achleitner, Business Development Manager (Austria)
- Yole Group – Martin Vallo, Senior Analyst (France)
15:30 – 16:15 Networking coffee break
16:15 – 18:15 SESSION 2: Advanced Packaging
- KEYNOTE – Fraunhofer IZM – Photonic System-in-Package (pSiP) by Applying Thin Glass – Henning Schröder, Group Manager (Germany)
- PhotonFirst – Elvis Wan, Senior Industrialisation Engineer (The Netherlands)
- HETEROMERGE – Functional Two-photon 3D Printing of Micro-optics Using in Situ Print Material Exchange – Robert Kirchner, CEO & Co-Founder (Germany)
- Nanoscribe – Jörg Smolenski, Business Development Manager (Germany)
- Fraunhofer HHI – Hybrid Photonic Integration for High-End Optical Transceivers – David de Felipe Mesquida, Senior Project Manager (Germany)
- VTT – Integration of III-V Components on VTT’s 3µm SOI Platform – Jae-Wung Lee, Research Scientist (Finland)
18:30 – 22:00 Networking Dinner @Cantinerie (address: Gustav-Meyer-Allee 25, 13355 Berlin)
5 June 2024, Wednesday
08:00 Departure from the recommended hotel
08:15 – 08:40 Morning coffee @ Fraunhofer IZM
08:40 – 08:45 Recap by EPIC
08:45 – 10:30 SESSION 3: Photonics Packaging in Volume
- KEYNOTE – PHIX – PIC Packaging Scale up Challenges – Jeroen Duis, Chief Commercial Officer (The Netherlands)
- ICON Photonics – Low-loss Optical Coupling of PIC with Ultra-compact Fiber-array-units – Jean-Luc Polleux, Co-founder and CTO (France)
- Vanguard Automation – Thorsten Mayer, CEO (Germany)
- AEMtec – High Accuracy Placement – Passive Versus Active Alignment, Benefits and Challenges – Daniel Lieske, Senior Expert Advanced Packaging (Germany)
- Heidelberg Instruments – Maskless Lithography and Two-Photon Polymerization for Photonics Integration and Packaging: Exploring Various Cases – Steffen Diez, Chief Operations Officer (Germany)
10:30 – 11:15 Networking coffee break
11:15 – 12:45 SESSION 4: Reliability and Testing
- KEYNOTE – ficonTEC – Moritz Seyfried, Director Research & Development (Germany)
- Silicon Austria Labs – Rudolf Heer, Head of Research Unit Electronic Sensors (ELS) (Austria)
- AIXEMTEC – Sebastian Haag, CEO (Germany)
- Etteplan – Repeatability and Flexibility in Packaging – Niels Jansen, Engineering Manager (The Netherlands)
- Albis Optoelectronics – Hektor Meier, Head of Product Development (Switzerland)
- VLC Photonics – Joan Felip, Automation Manager (Spain)
- EXFO – Unlocking Efficiency: Strategies for Enhanced PIC Testing Performance – Sophie Lange, Application Engineer (Germany)
- TOPTICA EAGLEYARD – Packaging Challenges of Single Frequency High-power Lasers for Visible and NIR – Björn Globisch, Head of R&D (Germany)
12:45 – 14:00 Networking Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 Lab-Tours at Fraunhofer IZM, including Demo by Vanguard Automation
Busses to BER Airport won’t be organized, we advise instead to take the express trains from Gesundbrunnen (10mins walking distance) to BER or Berlin Central Station