DAY 0, Tuesday 6 September 2022
19:00 – 21:00 Pre-event dinner for early arrivals (optional, reservation needed) @hotel restaurant or nearby
DAY 1, Wednesday 7 September 2022
12:00 – 13:00 Registration & Lunch @ imec 1 (Kapeldreef 75, 3001 Heverlee)
13:00 – 13:05 Welcoming words by EPIC
13:05 – 13:15 Welcoming words by Sri Samavedam, Senior Vice President of CMOS Technologies at imec
13:15 – 15:15 SESSION 1: PIC Platforms
13:15 – 13:45 Silicon Photonics Platform: Current and Future Offerings – Philippe Absil, Vice President R&D at imec
13:45 – 14:15 Heterogeneous Integration Overview, including Upcoming Tech – Dries Van Thourhout, Professor at Photonics Research Group, Ghent University/imec
14:15 – 14:30 Indium Phosphide Integrated Photonics for CMOS – Kevin Williams, Professor at TU Eindhoven
14:30 – 14:45 Advances in Hybrid Low-loss PICs: the Best of Both Worlds – Douwe Geuzebroek, VP Marketing & Sales at LioniX
14:45 – 15:30 Coffee Break – Networking
15:30 – 18:15 SESSION 2: PIC Ecosystem
15:30 – 16:00 Integrated Photonic Packaging – From Research to Pilot Manufacturing – Peter O’Brien, Head of Research Group at Tyndall National Institute
16:00 – 16:15 Silicon Photonics and Electronics for High-Speed Transceivers – Peter Ossieur, Senior Researcher at imec
16:15 – 16:30 Designing Photonic ICs – Pieter Dumon, Co-founder and CTO at Luceda Photonics
16:30 – 16:45 Productizing a PIC: from Design IP to Scalable Testing – Iñigo Artundo, CEO at VLC
16:45 – 17:00 Break
17:00 – 17:30 Photonic Integration and Pathfinding with Intel FPGAs – Conor O’Keeffe, Principal Engineer at Intel
17:30 – 17:45 Silicon Photonics for Telecom and Beyond – Tom Janssens, Team Leader Silicon Processing at Huawei
17:45 – 18:00 Holistic Transformation in High Volume Manufacturing of Data Center Transceivers – Tolga Tekin, Group Manager at Fraunhofer IZM
18:00 – 18:15 Optical Interconnect in Co-Packaged Optics System – Tiger Ninomiya, Senior Technologist at SENKO
18:30 – 19:00 Bus transfer from imec to dinner venue
19:00 – 22:00 Networking Dinner @Faculty Club (Address: Groot Begijnhof 14, 3000 Leuven)
22:00 Walk to the Hotel
DAY 2, Thursday 8 September 2022
08:00 – 08:15 Walk from Hotel to imec
08:15 – 08:50 Morning Coffee & Networking @imec
08:50 – 10:30 SESSION 3: New Materials in PICs
08:50 – 09:00 Recap of Day 1 – Ivan Nikitski, Photonics Technology Manager at EPIC
09:00 – 09:30 Foundry Based Electro-Optic Polymer Modulators – Michael Lebby, CEO at Lightwave Logic
09:30 – 09:45 Meta-surfaces Process Scale-up for Advanced Optical Applications – Philippe Soussan, Technology Director at imec
09:45 – 10:00 3D Printing of Glass Micro-devices for Integrated Photonics and Miniaturized Optics – Rolando Ferrini, Head of FEMTOprint Neuchâtel at FEMTOprint
10:00 – 10:15 Integrating New Materials into Silicon Photonics – Stephan Suckow, Head of Nanophotonics Group at AMO
10:15 – 10:30 Graphene for Integrated Photonics – Cedric Huyghebaert, CTO at Black Semiconductor
10:30 – 11:15 Coffee Break – Networking
11:15 – 13:15 SESSION 4: Emerging Applications for PICs
11:15 – 11:45 A Call for Technology Innovations to Enable the Metaverse – Yiwan Wong, Director of Technology Partnerships, Reality Labs at Meta
11:45 – 12:00 Emerging Applications from Sensing to AI -Eleonore Hardy, Business Developer Silicon Photonics at CEA – Leti
12:00 – 12:15 MicroLED Display Integration on 300mm Advanced CMOS Platform – Soeren Steudel, Co-founder & CTO at MICLEDI
12:15 – 12:30 III/V-on-Si based Single-Chip Beam Scanner LiDAR – Kyoungho Ha, Electronics Principal Engineer at Samsung
12:30 – 12:45 Photonic Integrated Circuit based FMCW LiDAR for Automotive and Industrial Applications – Frank Gindele, Head of Optics & Mechanics at Scantinel
12:45 – 13:00 Medical Applications of Integrated Photonics – MedPhab Pilot Line Use Cases – Antonio Castelo, Photonics Technology Manager at EPIC
13:00 – 13:15 Continuous Multi-Metabolite Monitor – Danaë Delbeke, CEO at Indigo
13:15 – 14:15 Lunch – Networking
14:15 – 16:00 COMPANY VISIT @ imec
Group 1 at 14:15
Group 2 at 15:15
Departure & Airport transfers from imec to Brussels airport:
Bus 1 at 16:00
Bus 2 at 17:00
The meeting location: Auditorium in imec 1 (Address: Kapeldreef 75, 3001 Heverlee). How to get there
The recommended hotel within walking distance to the meeting location is Begijnhof Hotel Leuven.
The special reduced rate 152 EUR/night inclusive of breakfast, VAT and city tax, can only be booked with the Registration form sent to email: info@bchotel.be until 20 July 2022. After this date the rate will be subject to availability.
All bus transfers will be organized to and from this hotel only. Hotel will be paid by each participant individually.