Please note: A copy of your ID is required to attend the meeting and company visits. We need this by 1 April at the latest in order to guarantee admission.
7 April 2025, Monday
Optional agenda:
10:00 – 18:00 Company visits
10:15 Meet at recommended hotel Aparthotel Adagio Access Palaiseau Saclay (address: 6 Boulevard Gaspard Monge, 91120 Palaiseau) for bus departure for company visits.
11:00 – 12:30 Company visit at Thales LAS (address: 2 Av. Gay Lussac, 78990 Élancourt)
12:30 – 14:30 Transfer & Lunch
14:30 – 16:00 Company visit at Imagine Optics (address: 18 Rue Charles de Gaulle, 91400 Orsay)
16:00 – 17:30 Company visit at OptoSigma (address: 3 Rue de la Terre de Feu, 91940 Les Ulis)
17:30 – 18:00 Return by bus to recommended hotel
19:00 – 22:00 Pre-event networking dinner at Living Room Palaiseau-Saclay (address: 10 Bd Gaspard Monge, 91120 Palaiseau). It is right next to the recommended hotel.
8 April 2025, Tuesday
12:00 – Registration and networking lunch at Thales Research and Technology (address: 1 Av. Augustin Fresnel, 91120 Palaiseau)
13:20 – Welcoming words by EPIC – Jeremy Picot-Clemente, Technology Expert
13:30 – 14:00 OVERALL KEYNOTE: Thales – Veronique Guegan, VP TRT France Director (France)
14:00 – 15:45 SESSION 1: Disruptive Optics – The Foundation for Future Technologies
14:00 – 15:45 SESSION 1.1: Advances in Disruptive Optics
- KEYNOTE: Thales LAS OME – Metasurfaces, Freeforms and Gradient-index Optics: New Technologies for Defence – Florent Colas, Optronics Technical Referent at the Technical Directorate (France)
- PHASICS – Metasurfaces Metrology – Amaury Carrard-Draghi, Technical Sales Engineer (France)
- SPIO Systems – Miniaturised Optical Engines on Wafer Level via SPIO Technology – Henrik Madsen, CEO (Denmark)
- Asphericon – SWAP – Ideas from a Seamless Optics Manufacturing – Sebastian Kaldun, Head of Technology (Germany)
- Optotune – How Voice-coil Based Mirrors and Pixel-shifters Enable New Applications in Security – David Leuenberger, Head of Product Management (Switzerland)
- Printoptix – 3D-Printed Micro-optics – Simon Hartlieb, Head of Production (Germany)
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 – Lieven Penninck, CEO (Belgium)
- Heidelberg Instruments – Maskless Grayscale Lithography for Micro and Nano Optics – Dominique Collé, Technical Application Manager (Germany)
- PanDao – Towards a Smart Optics Factory: Bridging Design and Manufacturing – Oliver Faehnle, co-Founder & co-Owner (Switzerland)
19:15 – Departure by bus from the recommended hotel Aparthotel Adagio Access Palaiseau Saclay
19:30 – 22:00 Networking dinner at L’Atelier Gourmand (address: 5 Grande Rue, 91940 Saint-Jean-de-Beauregard)
22:00 Return by bus to recommended hotel
9 April 2025, Wednesday
08:15 – 08:45 Welcome coffee
08:45 – 10:15 SESSION 2: Disruptive Optics for Secured Optical Communication Applications
- KEYNOTE: European Defence Agency (EDA) – EDA Optronics and Secure Communications – Judith Dijk, Project Officer Optronic Technologies (The Netherlands)
- Astrolight – Dalius Petrulionis , CTO (Lithuania)
- Aircision – Louis Oliveira, Co-founder and Director (The Netherlands)
- Cailabs – Olivier Jacques-Sermet, VP Sales Lasercom (France)
- son-x – Clemens Dicke, Head of Sales and Technology (Germany)
- Thales CorTAIx Labs – Stephanie Molin, R&D Projects Leader (France)
10:15 – 11:00 Networking coffee break
11:00 – 12:30 SESSION 3: Optics for Security Applications
- KEYNOTE: Thales Digital Identity & Security – Optical Challenges and Technologies in Identity – Lorenzo Lea, Devices Product Architect (France)
- HID Global – Secure Document Scanners Capable of Scanning Biometrics – Daniel Raguin, Director of HID Biometric Technologies Laboratory (The United States)
- Ansys – Engineering Structural Color from Nanoscale to Macroscale – Gregory Baethge, Lead Application Engineer (France)
- 3D AG – Marek Krehel, CTO (Switzerland)
- CSEM – Innovations in Miniaturized Optics for Security – Guillaume Basset, Group Leader Micro Optics (Switzerland)
12:45 – 13:45 Networking lunch
13:45 – 15:30 Company visit at Thales Research & Technology
15:30 End of the technology meeting & bus transfer to Massy-Palaiseau station
