Optional Agenda

3rd November 2026, Tuesday

07:45 – 11:30 Visit of the Laser Mégajoule – Registration is CLOSED
07:45 Bus Departure from the recommended Hotel FirstName Bordeaux – JDV by Hyatt (address: 14 Rue Claude Bonnier, 33000 Bordeaux)

11:30 – 13:00 Company Visit at FemtoEasy 
13:00 – 14:15 Lunch Break
14:30 – 16:00 Company Visit at ISP SYSTEM
16:15 – 17:45 Company Visit at Amplitude Laser

19:00 – 22:00 Pre-Event Networking Dinner at Le Café Francais (address: 5 Pl. Pey Berland, 33000 Bordeaux)

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)

12:00 – 13:00 Registration & Lunch

13:00 – 13:30 Welcome Words by EPIC & Amplitude

13:30 – 15:30 SESSION 1: Laser Cutting, Drilling and Dicing

• KEYNOTE: DISCO Hi-Tec – Benjamin Bernard, Team Lead Application (Germany)
• EKSPLA – Femtosecond Burst-Mode Laser Cutting of Glass – Lukas Rimgaila, Head of OEM lasers (Lithuania)
• LIDROTEC – Liquid-assisted Laser Dicing enabling next-generation Advanced Packaging – Marco Smarra, Team Lead – Optics (Germany)
• LITHIUM LASERS – Laser Dicing and Drilling of Semiconductor Materials with Femtosecond GHz Burst Technology – Federico Fabrizi, Innovation & Business Development Engineer (Italy)
• Workshop of Photonics (WOP) – Making Holes in Glass: From TGVs to Fiber Alignment Units – Viktorija Povilionytė, Sales Manager (Lithuania)
• BLOOM Lasers – David Horain, Co-Founder (France)

15:30 – 16:15 Networking Coffee Break

16:15 – 18:15 SESSION 2: Surface Processes: Texturing, Activation, Structuring…

• KEYNOTE: Amplitude Laser – Eric Audouard, Laser Application Expert (France)
• ADMEDES – Lucas Kollmar, Development Engineer Laser Technology (Germany)
• 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)
• Alphanov – TBA.
• Fluence Technology – Highly Efficient Ablation and Crack-Free Drilling of Si and 4H-SiC with a High Number of Intraburst Pulses – Michal Nejbauer, CEO (Poland)

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)

5th November 2026, Thursday

08:15 – 09:00 Welcome Coffee

09:00 – 11:00 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 – Elad Volfin, Business Development (Spain)
• UltraFast Innovations – Volodymyr Pervak, Department Manager Coatings (Germany)
• GLOphotonics – Benoit Beaudou, Application Engineer (France)
• 4D Photonics – Spectral Monitoring in USP Processing – From Preliminary Findings to Scalable Strategies – Markus Kogel-Hollacher, Director Innovation & Strategy (Germany)

11:00 – 11:30 Networking Coffee Break

11:30 – 13:00 SESSION 4: Other Laser Processes: Micro-welding, Additive/Substractive Manufacturing, Laser Annealing…

• SCHOTT – High-Strength Ultrashort-Pulse Laser Glass-to-Metal Welding: Identifying Process Regimes through Weld Seam Analysis – Lukas Günther, Development Engineering Manager Laser & Post Processing (Germany)
• Oxford Lasers – Etienne Pelletier, Senior Development Engineer (United Kingdom)
• AFS – Active Fiber Systems – Marc Haenel, Head of Sales (Germany)
• Lasea – TBA.

13:00 – 14:00 Networking Lunch & End of the Technology Meeting
14:00 Bus Transfer to Bordeaux Airport (BOD)

L’Institut d’Optique d’Aquitaine (address: 1 Rue François Mitterrand, 33400 Talence, France)

Book your room at the FirstName Bordeaux – JDV by Hyatt (address: 14 Rue Claude Bonnier, 33000 Bordeaux) by emailing to sales@firstnamebordeaux.com and quoting the booking code “EPIC EVENT” to receive the special rate of €177.00, including breakfast. Available until 21 September, afterwards it will be subject to availability.

Please feel free to book a hotel of your choice, but we highly recommend choosing one close to Gambetta or Hotel de Ville in Bordeaux. We will organize a bus transfer between this area and the meeting venue.