Optional agenda:
11 June, Tuesday
Companies visits : Registration for the event does not guarantee you a place at the companies visits. You need to register separately. Number of people for the companies visits are limited.
08:35 Departure by bus from Grand Hotel Perros-Guirec to Exail
09:00 – 10:30 Visiting Exail
10:30 – 12:00 Visiting Lumibird
12:00 – 14:00 Drive and lunch at Rosa Louise restaurant (14 Rue Gaspard Monge, 22300 Lannion)
14:00 – 15:30 Visiting KERDRY
15:45 – 16:00 Drive to the hotel
18:25 Landing to Brest Bretagne Airport
19:15 Bus transfer from Brest Bretagne Airport (optional)
19:15 – 20:35 Drive to the to the recommended hotel/dinner place
20:00 – 22:30 Pre – Event Dinner @ Jo’Ker (Kasino Perros-Guirec) Restaurant (address: 45 Bd Joseph le Bihan, 22700 Perros-Guirec, France)
12 June, Wednesday
12:45 Meet in the lobby of Grand Hotel Perros-Guirec
12:45-13:00 Walk from Grand Hotel Perros-Guirec to the Palais des Congrès – Perros Guirec ( conference venue ~350 m)
Main agenda:
13:00 – 13:50 Registration & networking lunch @ Palais des Congrès – Perros Guirec (conference venue)
13:50 – 14:00 Welcoming by EPIC – Antonio Castelo, Technology Manager
14:00 – 14:30 Welcoming and introduction to Photonics Bretagne – Photonics Bretagne: Innovative Photonics Network in Brittany & RTO dedicated to Specialty Optical Fibers – David Mechin, Director (France)
14:30 – 15:45 SESSION 1: Fibers for Lasers
- Fluence Technology – Quest for Designing the Perfect Ultrafast Fiber Laser Power Amplifier – Jacek Sobków, R&D Team Leader (Poland)
- LEUKOS – Specialty Fibers for Supercontinuum Generation – Guillaume Huss, CEO & Founder (France)
- GLOPhotonics – Hollow Core Photonic Crystal Fibers: Guiding the Ultrafast Lasers – Jean Sauvage-Vincent, CEO (France)
- Coherent – PM Single-mode Er:Yb Fiber for High Power 1.5 um Laser Systems – Jovanie Razafindrakoto, Market Development Manager – Fiber & Beam Delivery Components (France)
15:45 – 16:30 Networking coffee break
16:30 – 18:30 SESSION 2: Fibers for Sensing
- KEYNOTE: SNCF Réseau – Gabriel Papaiz Garbini, Project Manager Fiber Optics Sensing (France)
- FBGS – Fiber Optic Sensing Concepts for Minimally Invasive Surgery – Christian Voigtländer, R&D Manager (Germany)
- OFS Optics – Imaging and Sensing via Specialty Optical Fibers – Udo Fetzer, Key Account Manager (Germany)
- Proximion – Advanced FBGs for Sensing and Dispersion Control – Gunnar Hedin, CTO (Sweden)
- RISE – Improving Distributed Optical Fibre Sensing Systems by Specialty Coatings on As-drawn Fibres – Kenny Hey Tow, Senior Scientist (Sweden)
- Idil Fibres Optiques – First Deployment of a 6-km Long Fiber-optic Strain cable and a Seafloor Geodetic Network across an Active Submarine Fault – Lionel Quetel, Product Line Manager (France)
18:30-18:45 Walk from Palais des Congrès – Perros Guirec to the dinner place (~850 m)
19:00 – 22:30 Networking dinner @ L’Agapa Hotel restaurant Le Belouga (address: 12 rue des Bons Enfants, 22700 Perros Guirec, France)
22:30 Walk from the dinner place to the Grand Hotel Perros-Guirec (~900 m)
13 June, Thursday
08:15 Walk from Grand Hotel Perros-Guire to Palais des Congrès – Perros Guirec
08:30 – 09:10 Welcoming coffee break @ Palais des Congrès – Perros Guirec
09:10 – 09:15 Recap by EPIC
09:15 – 09:45 KEYNOTE: Exail – Exail Photonics : the « Wow » effect – Benoit Cadier, General Manager Photonics Division (France)
09:45 – 10:30 SESSION 3: Fiber Preparation and Characterization
- SEDI-ATI Fibres Optiques – Hervé Aube, Business Line Manager (France)
- Arden Photonics – Characterising Specialty Fibers in the AI Age – David Robinson, CEO (United Kingdom)
- NYFORS – Erik Böttcher, CEO (Sweden)
10:30 – 11:15 Networking coffee break
11:15 – 12:45 SESSION 4: Fiber for Light Transmission
- KEYNOTE: Orange Labs – Potentialities of Hollow-Core Fibers for Optical Access Networks (FTTx) – Philippe Chanclou, Team Manager (France)
- Infinera – Harald Bock, VP Network & Technology Strategy (Germany)
- Le Verre Fluore – Samuel Poulain, CEO (France)
- Vanguard Automation – Connecting and Packaging Multi-Core Fibers with Photonic Wire Bonding (PWB) – Simon Stöhr, Team Lead Software (Germany)
- CORACTIVE – Martin Nunez, CTO (Canada)
12:45 – 14:00 Networking Lunch
14:00 – 14:20 Bus transfer from Palais des Congrès – Perros Guirec to Photonics Bretagne
14:30 – 17:30 Company tour @ Photonics Bretagne and @ Oxxius (in parallel)
17:30 – 19:00 Company tour @ Idil Fibres Optiques
16:45 Bus transfer from the company tour to Brest Airport
16:45 – 18:30 Drive to Brest Airport. The last flight for Paris CDG will leave at 19:15, so we recommend you to stay one night at Brest or in Paris when you’ll arrive (you’ll have more connection flight options the day after).