7 April 2025, Monday
Optional agenda:
10:00 – 18:00 Company visits
19:00 – 22:00 Pre-event networking dinner at Living Room Palaiseau-Saclay (address: 10 Bd Gaspard Monge, 91120 Palaiseau)
8 April 2025, Tuesday
12:00 – Registration and networking lunch
13:20 – Welcoming words by EPIC – Jeremy Picot-Clemente, Technology Expert
13:30 – 14:00 KEYNOTE: Thales
14:00 – 15:45 SESSION 1: Disruptive Optics – The Foundation for Future Technologies
14:00 – 15:45 SESSION 1.1: Advances in Disruptive Optics
- PHASICS – Amaury Carrard-Draghi, Technical Sales Engineer (France)
- SPIO Systems – Henrik Madsen, CEO (Denmark)
- Asphericon – Thomas Hegenbart, Head of Marketing (Germany)
- Optotune – Claire Kennedy, Senior Business Development Manager (Switzerland)
15:45 – 16:30 Networking coffee break
16:30 – 18:00 SESSION 1.2: From Design to Fabrication
- KEYNOTE: HENSOLDT Optronics – High Performance Multispectral Optical System Design for Defense Applications at HENSOLDT Optronics – Martin Hübner, Head of Smart Sensors HIES (Germany)
- Synopsys – Optical and Manufacturing Design Aware Flow for Metalenses – Maryvonne Chalony, Application Engineer (France)
- Planopsim
- Heidelberg Instruments – Dominique Collé, Technical Application Manager (Germany)
Agenda in preparation – interested attendees can contact Program management and the Technology expert for more information.
18:15 – Departure from the venue to the dinner place
19:00 – 22:00 – Networking dinner
9 April 2025, Wednesday
07:30 Departure from recommended hotel – TBA.
08:15 – 08:45 Welcome coffee
08:45 – 10:15 SESSION 2: Disruptive Optics for Secured Optical Communication Applications
- KEYNOTE: European Defence Agency (EDA) – Judith Dijk, Project Officer Optronic Technologies (The Netherlands)
- Astrolight – Laurynas Mačiulis, Co-founder & CEO (Lithuania)
- Aircision – Louis Oliveira, Co-founder and Director (The Netherlands)
- Cailabs – Jean Menguy, Business Development Manager Tilba (France)
- son-x – Clemens Dicke, Head of Sales and Technology (Germany)
Agenda in preparation – interested attendees can contact Program management and the Technology expert for more information.
10:15 – 11:00 Networking coffee break
11:00 – 12:30 SESSION 3: Optics for Security Applications
- 3D AG – Marek Krehel, CTO (Switzerland)
Agenda in preparation – interested attendees can contact Program management and the Technology expert for more information.
12:45 – 13:45 Networking lunch
13:45 – 15:30 Company visit
15:30 End of the technology meeting