Optional Agenda
3rd November 2026, Tuesday
10:00 – 18:00 Company Visits at Amplitude Laser, IPS Aquitaine, FemtoEasy– more companies to be announced soon
19:00 – 22:00 Pre-Event Networking Dinner at Le Café Francais (address: 5 Pl. Pey Berland, 33000 Bordeaux)
Provisional schedule, in preparation.
Main Agenda
4th November 2026, Wednesday
10:30 – 12:00 Company Visit at ALPhANOV- Optics & Lasers Technology Center (address: Institut d’optique d’Aquitaine, Rue François Mitterrand, 33400 Talence)
12:30 – 13:30 Registration & Lunch
13:30 – 15:30 SESSION 1: Laser Cutting, Drilling and Dicing
- KEYNOTE: DISCO Hi-Tec – Benjamin Bernard, Team Lead Application (Germany)
- LITHIUM LASERS – Federico Fabrizi, Innovation & Business Development Engineer (Italy)
- BLOOM Lasers – TBA.
15:30 – 16:15 Networking Coffee Break
16:15 – 18:15 SESSION 2: Surface Processes: Texturing, Activation, Structuring…
- Alphanov/Amplitude – TBA.
- TRUMPF Laser – From Beam Geometry to Surface Quality: Engineering Precision with Pulsed Lasers – Steffen Rübling, Technology Specialist Pulsed Laser (Germany)
- Fusion Bionic – Tim Kunze, CEO (Germany)
18:45 Bus Transfer to the Dinner Venue
19:30 – 22:30 Networking Dinner & River Cruise on Les Bateaux Bordelais (address: 24 Quai des Chartrons, 33000 Bordeaux)
Provisional schedule, in preparation. Agenda in preparation, companies interested in participating, contact us.
5th November 2026, Thursday
08:15 – 08:45 Welcome Coffee
08:45 – 10:30 SESSION 3: Microprocessing Related Components and Technologies
- KEYNOTE: h-nu – Machine Learning for Closed-loop Laser Process Control – Eric Mottay, President (France)
- SCANLAB – Laser Processing as an Enabler of the AI Infrastructure Buildout – Holger Schlüter, Head of Product Management (Germany)
- Direct Machining Control – Sarunas Vaskelis, CEO (Lithuania)
- Cailabs – Gwenn Pallier, Product Line Manager (France)
- Sill Optics – TBA
- UltraFast Innovations – Valentina Shumakova, Technology Manager – Advanced Lasers, Photonics & Optics (Germany)
10:30 – 11:15 Networking Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:45 SESSION 4: Other Laser Processes: Micro-welding, Additive/Substractive Manufacturing, Laser Annealing…
- AFS – Active Fiber Systems – Christian Gaida, Head of R&D (Germany)
- Lasea – TBA.
12:45 – 14:00 Networking Lunch & End of the Technology Meeting
14:00 Bus Transfer to Bordeaux Airport (BOD)
Provisional schedule, in preparation. Agenda in preparation, companies interested in participating, contact us.
