Optional agenda: 

7 June 2026, Sunday

19:00 – 22:00 Pre-event networking dinner at Genusswerkstatt (address: Breite Straße 1a, 14467 Potsdam)

Main agenda: 

8 June 2026, Monday

09:00 – 11:00 OPTIONAL: Company visit at The Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam
12:00 – 13:15 Registration and lunch

13:15 – 13:30 Welcome Words by EPIC

13:30 – 14:00 Overall KEYNOTE: The Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) – The Roots for Photonics for Space – Martin Roth, Professor (Germany)

14:00 – 15:30 SESSION 1: Innovation in Deep Space Observation

• KEYNOTE: German Aerospace Center (DLR) – Heike Rauer, Advisor on ESA matters for DLR (Germany)
• European Southern Observatory (ESO) – Samuel Leveque, Technology Development Programme Manager (Germany)
• Imagine Optics – Guillaume Dovillare (France)
• Horiba – William Renard, International Sales Engineer – Special Networks (France)

Agenda in preparation. Interested speakers should contact the Technology Expert.

 15:30 – 16:15 Networking Coffee Break

16:15 – 18:00 SESSION 2: New Space – Situational Awareness

• KEYNOTE: Quadsat – Rico Behlke, Head of Innovation Management & Sustainability (Norway)
• DiGOS – Satellite & Space Debris Laser Ranging and Laser Momentum Transfer – André Kloth, Managing Director (Germany)
• Ommatidia LIDAR – Eladio Montoya Redondo, Sales Manager (Spain)
• Orbital Lasers – Aditya Baraskar, Senior Scientist, Technology Development Division (Japan)
• TOPTICA Projects – Frank Lison, Managing Director, CEO (Germany)

Agenda in preparation. Interested speakers should contact Technology Expert.

19:00 – 22:00 Networking BBQ-Dinner at Campus Babelsberg (address: Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße 16, 14482 Potsdam)

 9 June 2026, Tuesday

08:00 – 08:45 Welcome Coffee

08:45 – 10:45 SESSION 3: Space Optical Communication

• KEYNOTE: TNO – TBA.
• Fraunhofer HHI – With Photonic Telecom Technology into Space – Patrick Runge, Head of InP & RF Department (Germany)
• ODYSSEUS Space – Nikolay Smolentsev, Senior Optical System Engineer (Luxembourg)
• Rivada Space Networks – Thomas Laurent, Director of Sales Government Business (DACH) (Germany)
• Toptica Eagleyard – From Harsh Loads to Ultra-High Precision: Qualifying Laser Modules for Spaceborne Atomic Clocks – Martin Mayer, Project Manager Space (Germany)
• Menlo Systems – TBA.
• LASEROPTIK – Michael Tröbs, Technical Customer Advisor / Coating Designer (Germany)

10:45 – 11:30 Networking Coffee Break

11:15 – 13:00 SESSION 4: Earth Observation

• KEYNOTE: Fraunhofer IOF – Stephanie Hesse-Ertelt, Research Manager (Germany)
• Exail – Flight proven photonic components for challenging space missions – David Dupuy, Photonic Sales Manager (France)
• HySpex – HySpex Scalability of Hyperspectral Imaging Earth Observation – Maximilian Brell,  Technical Sales Engineer (Germany)
• University of Cologne – Angle-Stable Spectral Filters – Ahmed Abdelmagid, Scientist (Germany)
• Materion Balzers Optics – Latest Developments of Filter Solutions for Multi- and Hyperspectral Earth Observation – Stefan Jakobs, Commercial Director Space (Germany)

Agenda in preparation. Interested speakers should contact Technology Expert.

13:00 – 14:15 Networking Lunch
14:15 End of the Technology Meeting
14:15 – 15:45 Visit AIP – Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam
15:45 – end of the Technology Meeting

The Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (address: An der Sternwarte 16, 14482 Potsdam)

The meeting will take take place in the Maria-Margaretha-Kirch-Haus.

Holiday Inn – the niu Amity (address: Leipziger Str. 1/Block J, 14473 Potsdam)

Book your room for the special rate of € 110,00 per night, including breakfast & city tax directly here.

A bus transfer will be provided between the hotel and the meeting venue on both days.