Tuesday 18 April 2023
19:00 Meet at @ NH Collection Porto Batalha hotel lobby to walk to the dinner place
19:30 – 22:30 Pre-event dinner @ O COMERCIAL restaurant (address: Rua Ferreira Borges, Palácio da Bolsa, 4050-253 Porto)
Wednesday 19 April 2023
12:00 – 13:00 Registration & Light lunch @ hotel NH COLLECTION Porto Batalha
13:00 – 13:05 EPIC – European Photonics Industry Consortium – Antonio Castelo, Photonics Technology Manager – Welcoming Words (Europe/Spain)
13:05 – 13:15 HBK FiberSensing – Luis Ferreira, Director – Welcoming Words (Portugal)
13:15 – 13:45 KEYNOTE: MCH Engineering – Alexis Mendez, President – Optical Fiber Sensors Commercialization: Present Status and Future Opportunities and Trends (USA)
SESSION 1: Fiber Optic Sensors Status and New Developments – Single and Multipoint
13:45 – 14:00 FBGS – Combining the Best of Both Worlds: Ultra-precise Fiber Optic Sensing over Several Kilometers of Continuous Fiber Lengths Based on Discrete Fiber Bragg Gratings and Code Division Multiplexing – Bram Van Hoe, Director Sales & Marketing (Germany)
14:00 – 14:15 Luna Innovations – Ian Shannan, VP of Sales EMEA (United Kingdom)
14:15 – 14:30 Redondo Optics – Edgar Mendoza, CEO (USA)
14:30 – 14:45 University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU – Coupled-core Optical Fiber Sensors – Joel Villatoro, Ikerbasque Research Professor (Spain)
14:45 – 15:00 engionic – Margarethe Kampling, Managing Director (Germany)
15:00 – 15:15 art photonics – Benefits of In-line Fiber Spectroscopy for Industrial Process-control & Medical Diagnostics – Tatiana Sakharova, Chief Technology Officer (Germany)
15:15 – 15:30 Northlab Photonics – Per Karlsson, CEO & Co-Founder – Trends in FBG Manufacturing Technology (Sweden)
15:30 – 15:45 SENTEA Fiber Optic Sensing – Thibaut Detroux, Technical Product Manager (Belgium)
15:45 – 16:30 Networking coffee break
SESSION 2: Fiber Optic Sensors Status and New Developments – Distributed
16:30 – 17:00 KEYNOTE: EPFL – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology – New Avenues in Distributed Fibre Sensing – Luc Thévenaz, Professor (Switzerland)
17:00 – 17:15 FiberSight – Humidity Monitoring: Overcoming Challenges and Uncovering New Applications with Distributed Fibre Sensing – Tiago Neves, Founder (Portugal)
17:15 – 17:30 Aragon Photonics & The University of Zaragoza – High Fidelity Sensing based on CP-OTDR, Unlocking New Emerging Applications – Pascual Sevillano, Technology Advisor & Professor (Spain)
17:30 – 17:45 Exail – Nicephore Nicolas, Business Developer (France)
17:45 – 18:00 Insigma Engineering – Distributed Fiber Optic (Acoustic) Sensing for Safety and Security – İbrahim Ölçer, Founder (Turkey)
18:00 – 18:15 VIAVI Solutions – Raman & Brillouin Distributed Sensing: Design Paths to Easy Deployment – Daniele Costantini, Global Product Marketing Manager (Switzerland)
18:15 – 18:30 Amplitude Laser – Miguel Melo, Managing Director (Portugal)
18:40 Departure by the bus transfer from meeting venue to the dinner place
19:00 – 22:00 Networking Dinner @ 1828 restaurant (address: Rua do Choupelo, 39, 4400-088 V. N.)
22:00 Departure by the bus transfer from 1828 to hotel NH COLLECTION Porto Batalha
Thursday 20 April 2023
08:00 – 08:20 Networking coffee
08:20 – 08:30 Recap and intro to day two – EPIC
SESSION 3: Structural Health Monitoring, Solutions and Applications
08:30 – 09:00 KEYNOTE: Graz University of Technology – Bridge Monitoring with Fiber Optic and Remote Sensing Techniques – Werner Lienhart, Head of Institute, Engineering Geodesy and Measurement Systems – (Austria)
09:00 – 09:15 Epsimon & CSIC – University of Cambridge – Nicky de Battista, Director & Research Associate (United Kingdom)
09:15 – 09:30 Fibersail – Carlos Oliveira, CEO (Portugal)
09:30 – 09:45 SMARTEC – Fiber Optic Sensors for Structural and Geotechnical Monitoring – Daniele Inaudi, General Manager at (Switzerland)
09:45 – 10:00 AIRBUS – Carlos Miguel-Giraldo, NDT Production & Structural Health Monitoring Material, Processes & Tests (Spain)
10:00 – 10:15 SYLEX – Real Life Applications of FBG Sensing Technology – Peter Lowy, Business Development (Slovakia)
10:15 – 10:30 CalSens – 24/365 Monitoring Civil Infrastructures Using Fiber Sensors – Juan Jose Martinez, CTO Photonics (Spain)
10:30 – 11:15 Networking coffee break
SESSION 4: Fiber Sensors for Harsh Environments, Medical and Emerging Applications
11:15 – 11:45 KEYNOTE: Siemens Energy – Evangelos Diatzikis, Fellow Engineer & Advisory Expert – Sensors & Advanced Controls (USA)
11:45 – 12:00 CERN – A Combined LPG-FBG Multi-sensing Platform for Simultaneous Measurement of Humidity and Radiation – Paolo Petagna, Section Leader (Switzerland)
12:00 – 12:15 HBK FiberSensing – Rita Lima, Sales Engineer (Portugal)
12:15 – 12:30 Optics11 – John Odowd, Product Manager (Ireland)
12:30 – 12:45 INESCTEC & University of Porto – Paulo Marques, Professor (Portugal)
12:45 – 13:00 CEA – Guillaume Laffont, Head of Laboratory (France)
13:00 – 13:15 Philips Engineering Solutions – Andrzej Sielecki, Process Architect Micro Devices (The Netherlands)
13:15 – 13:30 PhotonFirst – Gideon Langedijk, Application Sales Engineer (The Netherlands)
13:00 – 14:00 Networking lunch
14:00 Departure by the bus transfer to HBK FiberSensing
14:30 – 16:00 Company visit @ HBK FiberSensing
16:15 Departure from HBK to Porto airport
