Kristian Rode (CCO & Partner) is responsible for sales and marketing at SHUTE Sensing Solutions. Focus is building SHUTE’s customer base in a handful of industries where especially medtech is showing a lot of interest and potential.

Dr Andy Gillooly is Managing Director of engionic Sales Ltd and Sales Director for the engionic Group companies, combining scientific expertise with commercial leadership to advance fibre Bragg grating technologies for biomedical, industrial and other demanding sensing applications

Gerwin Puppels is an expert in Raman spectroscopy. He is the founder and managing director of RiverD International which develops and brings to market technology and methodologies for non-invasive tissue analysis based on Raman spectroscopy.

Bram Van Hoe is Director Sales & Marketing at FBGS, a Belgium / Germany based company developing and commercializing fiber optic sensors, measurement systems and complete solutions. FBGS offers a unique combination of In-house expertise and high-volume production capacity, both on fiber and fiber Bragg grating manufacturing as well as on interrogator hardware technology.
Bram Van Hoe graduated with a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Ghent University (Belgium) in 2008 and obtained his PhD degree from the Centre for Microsystems Technology (CMST), an IMEC associated research lab at Ghent University, in 2013 with a dissertation entitled “Photonic Skin Based on Polymer Embedding of Optical Sensors and Interrogation Units”. He is (co-)author of over 40 publications and co-inventor of 3 patents.

After his studies in Economics, Tobias Roth began his career in the automotive industry and after five years, he joined a mid-sized engineering company and was in charge of the sales organization. In April 2020, he assumed the role of CSO at OBERON GmbH, and since 2022, he is the CEO of the company.

Eric Pinet has over 25 years of R&D experience at FISO Technologies (now part of Resonetics), advancing fiber-optic sensing technologies for diverse industries with a strong focus on MedTech, and currently serves as a Principal Research Scientist, Medical Integration Specialist.

Dr. Slava Artyushenko is fiber optics expert & pioneer of unique PIR-fibers for 3-17µm. In 1998-2024 he was founder/ CEO of art photonics GmbH in Berlin - making fiber products for 0.2-17µm range. Now his new startup Art Fiber Systems develops customized solutions for promising applications.