1 October 2025 / 11:20 - 13:50 CEST
EPIC TechWatch at ECOC
Copenhagen, Denmark














This technology session is a part of the Product focus session at ECOC exhibition where exhibiting EPIC members will get a chance to introduce their technology.
Join us on Wednesday 1 October to get to know the latest innovative products, live demonstrations and technology announcements.
No special registration is needed to attend the event, but you need to have the ticket to enter general ECOC expo.

Agenda

11:20 – 11:25 Welcome and introduction by EPIC

Speaker presentations:

11:25 – 11:40 VLC Photonics Reliable and Scalable Design and Test of Photonic ComponentsIñigo Artundo, CEO (Spain)
11:40 – 11:55 Focuslight Switzerland Saying “CPO” and Meaning “Co-packaged micro-Optics” – CPO and its Enablers – Wilfried Noell, Chief Scientist (Switzerland)
11:55 – 12:10 vario-optics  – Optical PCBs: Enabling Next-Generation Interconnects for AI and High-Performance Systems – Nikolaus Flöry, CTO (Switzerland)
12:10 – 12:25 Innolume Quantum Dot Lasers for Next-Generation Optical Interconnects: Scalable Solutions for AI-Driven DatacentersAlex Borodkin, Staff R&D Engineer (Germany)
12:25 – 12:40 SAES Strategies for Reducing Gaseous Contaminants in Sealed Optoelectronic Devices – Giovanni Zafarana, Senior Scientist (Italy)
12:40 – 12:55 FEMTOPRINTGlass Micro-Components for Fiber Connectivity in Co-Packaged Optics & Quantum Photonics – Rolando Ferrini, Chief Product Officer, BD Photonics (Switzerland)
12:55 – 13:10 JENOPTIK Optical Systems Aligning Optical Wafer Probing with Electrical Test Methods – Needs and Challenges in Silicon Photonics TestingTobias Gnausch, Product Manager (Germany)
13:10 – 13:25 Albis Optoelectronics Evanescently Coupled III–V Photodiodes Integrated on a Silicon Photonics PlatformMaria Hämmerli, Team Lead APD (Switzerland)
13:25 – 13:40 LIGENTEC High Speed Modulation on Low Loss PICs – Michael Geiselmann, President & CCO (Switzerland)

13:40 – 13:50 Closing words by EPIC

Venue

The Product Focus theatre in the ECOC Exhibition Hall

Onsite contact

Anna Trachtova, Marketing Manager at EPIC, +420 732 549 615

Speakers

Reliable and Scalable Design and Test of Photonic Components

High Speed Modulation on Low Loss PICs

President & CCO at LIGENTEC

Saying “CPO” and Meaning “Co-packaged micro-Optics” – CPO and its Enablers

Quantum Dot Lasers for Next-Generation Optical Interconnects: Scalable Solutions for AI-Driven Datacenters

Staff R&D Engineer at Innolume

Glass Micro-Components for Fiber Connectivity in Co-Packaged Optics & Quantum Photonics

Chief Product Officer, BD Photonics at FEMTOPRINT

Aligning Optical Wafer Probing with Electrical Test Methods – Needs and Challenges in Silicon Photonics Testing

Product Manager at JENOPTIK

Evanescently Coupled III–V Photodiodes Integrated on a Silicon Photonics Platform

Optical PCBs: Enabling Next-Generation Interconnects for AI and High-Performance Systems

Strategies for Reducing Gaseous Contaminants in Sealed Optoelectronic Devices

Senior Scientist at SAES
Contact Information
Technology Manager
Technology scope and agenda
Ivan Nikitski, PhD
Ivan Nikitski, PhD
Technology Expert for Quantum and Integrated Photonics
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Ivan Nikitski, PhD
Ivan Nikitski, PhD
Technology Expert for Quantum and Integrated Photonics
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