Please note that a copy of your ID is required in order to attend the meeting and company visits. We need this by 2 March at the latest to guarantee your admission.
9 March 2026, Monday
19:00 – 22:00 Pre Dinner @ Bistrot du Grand Noble (address: Avenue Léonard de Vinci, 31700 Blagnac)
10 March 2026, Tuesday
09:00 – 16:00 Company visits (TBD) to companies in Toulouse (Participants should arrive to Toulouse on Monday, 9 March 2026)
16:00 – 18:00 Bus transfer after the company visits to Brive-la-Gaillarde
19:00 – 22:00 Pre-event networking dinner in Brive at Restaurant Le Comptoir St Sernin (address: 21 Avenue Jean Jaurès, 19100 Brive-la-Gaillarde)
Agenda
11 March 2026, Wednesday
Optional / TBC. – 10:30 Company Visit at Exosens – only with pre-registration!
12:00 – 13:30 Registration and Lunch at the meeting venue (address: Av. Roger Roncier, 19100 Brive-la-Gaillarde)
13:30 – 15:30 SESSION 1: System Integration and Operational Impact
- KEYNOTE: MBDA – Chris Greenway, Principal Engineer (United Kingdom)
- Thales – Eric Belhaire, Technical Director (France)
- AVIRATA Defence Systems – Krishna Kumar, Technology Director (India)
- Assemblify – Oliver Grass, CEO (Germany)
Agenda in preparation. Interested speakers should contact EPIC.
15:30 – 16:15 Networking Coffee Break
16:15 – 18:15 SESSION 2: Next Generation Sensing and Surveillance Technologies
- KEYNOTE: Exosens – Claire Valentin, Chief Strategy Officer (France)
- Diehl Defense – Jens Möller, Head of Optics (Germany)
- Emberion – Jyri Hämäläinen, Head of Product Management & Marketing (Finland)
Agenda in preparation. Interested speakers should contact EPIC.
19:00 – 22:00 Networking Dinner (TBD)
12 March 2026, Thursday
08:00 – 08:15 Bus Transfer from the recommended Hotel to the Meeting Venue
08:15 – 08:45 Welcome Coffee
08:45 – 10:30 SESSION 3: Integrated Photonics and Quantum Technologies
- KEYNOTE: Fraunhofer HHI – Dominic Schulz, Head of Strategy Photonics (Germany)
- Fraunhofer IPMS – O/LED Microdisplays for Near-to-eye wearables and Embedded Quantum-based Sensing – Uwe Vogel, Division Director Microdisplays & Sensors (Germany)
- Quantum Valley Ideas Lab – Nick Werstiuk, CEO (Canada)
- NovoViz – Andrada Muntean, CEO (Switzerland)
- Optiwave – Optiwave Software Packages Enable Defence Photonic simulations of Devices and system Level – Ahmad Atieh, Vice President – Optical Systems (Canada)
10:30 – 11:15 Networking Coffee Break
11:15 – 13:00 SESSION 4: Laser Technologies for Precision and Protection
- KEYNOTE: Exail – Hervé Gouraud, Sales and Marketing Director (France)
- Alphanov – TBA.
- Materion Balzers – Thin Film Coating for Laser application – Laurent Luong, Sales Manager for Defense & Security Applications (France)
- Laser Components – Pierre Chazan, Senior Business Development Manager (France)
- FiberBridge Photonics – From Fiber Components to High Power Laser Systems for Defense Applications – Vertical Integration Made in Europe – Thomas Theeg, CEO (Germany)
- Picophotonics – Antti Penttinen, CEO (Finland)
13:00 – 14:15 Networking Lunch
14:15 End of the Technology Meeting & Bus transfer to Toulouse Airport (TLS)
