20 September, Wednesday
19:00 – 22:00 Pre-event dinner, optional (venue – TBA.)
21 September, Thursday
11:20 Departure by bus transfer from the recommended hotel (TBA. soon) to Exail
11:45 – 12:45 Registration & networking lunch @ Exail
12:45 – 12:50 Welcoming word by Jeremy Picot-Clemente, Photonics Technology Manager at EPIC – European Photonics Industry Consortium (France/Europe)
12:50 – 13:00 Welcoming by Exail
13:00 – 13:30 KEYNOTE: TBA.
13:30 – 15:30 SESSION 1: Space Optical Communication Technologies and Challenges
13:30 – 14:00 KEYNOTE: European Southern Observatory (ESO) – Oliver Pfuhl, Optical Engineer (Germany)
14:00 – 14:15 Pilot Photonics – Frank Smyth, CTO (Ireland)
14:15 – 14:30 RISE Research Institutes of Sweden – Qin Wang, Professor (Sweden)
14:30 – 14:45 Glenair – Davinder Basuita, Business Development Manager (United Kingdom)
14:45 – 15:00 mbryonics – Alan Naughton, Lead Photonic Integration Engineer (Ireland)
15:00 – 15:15 First Light Imaging – Jean-Luc Gach, Founder & CSO (France)
15:15 – 15:30 Microchip – Jerome Bourguignon, Principal Product Marketing Engineer (France)
15:30 – 16:30 Networking coffee break
16:30 – 18:30 SESSION 2: PICs for Space Applications
16:30 – 17:00 KEYNOTE: The Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) – Martin Roth, Professor (Germany)
17:00 – 17:15 Airbus – Space Photonics Unified Roadmap Initiative within Airbus – Víctor Fernández Laguna, Photonics Engineer (United Kingdom)
17:15 – 17:30 DAS Photonics – Javier Marti (Spain)
17:30 – 17:45 Antwerp Space – Hakimeh Mohammadhosseini, Photonics Technical Lead (Belgium)
17:45 – 18:00 Chalmers University of Technology – Sensitive Optical Receivers for Deep-space Communications – Peter Andrekson, Professor (Sweden)
18:00 – 18:15 PROUD – Diamond-based Devices for Space Applications – Mehdi Naamoun, CTO & Co-founder (Switzerland)
18:15 – 18:30 CSA Catapult – Prometheus DasMahapatra, Senior Photonics Engineer (United Kingdom)
18:30 Departure to the dinner place
19:00 – 22:30 Networking dinner (venue – TBA.)
22:30 Bus transfer to the recommended hotel
22 September, Friday
08:00 Bus transfer from the recommended hotel to Exail
08:20 – 08:40 Welcoming coffee break
08:40 – 08:45 Recap by EPIC
08:45 – 10:45 SESSION 3: New Technologies for Earth and Planetary Monitoring
08:45 – 09:15 Keynote – TBA.
09:15 – 09:30 OptoSigma Europe – Julian Dajczgewand, Head of Engineering (France)
09:30 – 09:45 Iridian Spectral Technologies – Optical Filters for Earth Observation – Jason Palidwar, Product Group Manager (Canada)
09:45 – 10:00 ASE Optics – MORERA: Earth-Observation and AI Technology Available to Every Farmer. Industralization Challenges – Marta de la Fuente, CTO (Spain)
10:00 – 10:15 SPACEOPTIX – Ultra-precise Metal Optics for Earth Observation and Optical Communication Applications – Matthias Beier, CEO & Co-Founder (Germany)
10:15 – 10:30 TBA.
10:30 – 10:45 SILIOS Technologies – Thierry Berthou, Sales Manager (France)
10:45 – 11:15 Networking coffee break
11:15 – 12:30 SESSION 4: To the Moon and Beyond – Space Exploration
11:15 – 11:45 Keynote – TBA.
11:45 – 12:00 LioniX International – Development of a Lab-on-Chip Based Biosensor-array System for Life Detection on Mars and Icy Moons – Henk Leeuwis, VP Strategy and Innovation (The Netherlands)
12:00 – 12:15 Lambda- X – Challenges and Applications of Compact Optics for Space Exploration – Serena Bolis, System Engineer (Belgium)
12:15 – 12:30 1 Presentation
12:30 – 13:30 Networking Lunch
13:30 – 14:45 Company tour @ Exail
15:00 Departure by bus transfer to Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport
