Optional agenda
18th May 2026, Monday
10:00 – 18:00 Company Visits at Schäfter + Kirchhoff, Trioptics more companies will be announced soon…
19:00 – 22:00 Pre-event dinner at Restaurant River View at Elaya Hotel Finkenwerder (address: Hein-Saß-Weg 40, 21129 Hamburg)
Agenda
19th May 2026, Tuesday
12:00 – 13:30 Registration and networking lunch
KEYNOTE: MCH Engineering – Optical Fiber Technology – Lightening the Path for Aircraft Communications, Sensing and Control – Alexis Mendez, President (United States)
13:30 – 15:30 SESSION 1: Challenges from the Industry, Trends, and Market Insights
- AIRBUS – TBA.
- SAAB – Mathias Johansson, Senior System Engineer (Sweden)
- Testia – Aswin Haridas, Team Leader & Global Focal Point for SHM (Germany)
15:30 – 16:15 Networking Coffee Break
16:15 – 18:00 SESSION 2: Fibers, Fiber Preparation, Connectors and other Components
- exail – Mathieu Bergont, Product Line Manager (France)
- art photonics – Joachim Gerike, Product Line Manager (Germany)
- RISE – Kenny Hey Tow, Senior Scientist – Fibre Optics & Photonics Unit (Sweden)
- Lightera – TBA.
- NYFORS – Erik Böttcher, CEO (Sweden)
- Ansys by Synopsys – Multiphysics Modeling and Simulation Applications of Fiber Optic Sensor Systems – Dimitris Polyzos, Staff Engineer – Photonics Applications Engineering (Greece)
19:00 – 22:00 Networking Dinner at Restaurant Engel (address: Fähranleger Teufelsbrück, 22609 Hamburg)
Transfer to the restaurant and back to the recommended hotel only with the Elbe River Ferry No. 64 (~4 minutes).
Provisional schedule, in preparation. Agenda in preparation, companies interested in participating, contact us.
20th May 2026, Wednesday
08:00 – 08:45 Welcome Coffee
08:45 – 10:30 SESSION 3: New Developments in FBG Sensors
- KEYNOTE: FBGS – Eric Lindner, CEO (Germany)
- Proximion – Chris Staveley, Consultant (Sweden)
- LASING – Gonzalo Guadaño, CEO Laser Systems Division (Spain)
- Sylex – Peter Lowy, Sales Manager – Sensors and Sensing Systems (Slovakia)
- CALSENS – FBG Sensors for Extreme Temperature Measurements: Development and Evaluation in Relevant Applications – Juan Jose Martinez, CTO (Spain)
10:30 – 11:15 Networking Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:45 SESSION 4: Novel Sensors, Systems and Interrogators
- Lambda-X – Engine Blades Defect Characterisation through Time-Domain Optical Coherence Tomography in a Borescope – Didier Beghuin, Business Line Officer Life Sciences (Belgium)
- PHOTONFIRST – Hessel Tijseling, Application Engineer (The Netherlands)
- Kistler Instrumente – Teresa Mueller, Business Development Manager (Switzerland)
- Ommatidia Lidar – TBA.
- AUREA Technology – Quantum Backscatter Reflectometry: Enabling Centimeter-Scale Integrity Assessment in Single-Mode and Multimode Optical Fibers – Maxime Romanet, Principal Engineer (France)
- Lumenox – Mark Thompson, CEO & Co-founder (United Kingdom)
12:45 – 13:45 Networking Lunch & End of the Technology Meeting
14:00 – 14:30 Bus Transfer to Hamburg Airport (HAM)
