The #next.photonics_forum entitled "Winning the future - Europe's age of light" will be held on 8th and 9th March 2018 in the Museum of Fine Arts/Musées Royaux des Beaux Arts and the Bluepoint Conference Centre in Brussels.The annual event continues the further strategy development of the Photonics Public Private Partnership in preparation of the new EU framework programme. On the second event day the European photonics community will launch the strategy process for a new photonics multiannual roadmap for the next 10 years. As inspiration for this strategy process the symposium on the first day will cover some high level ignite talks providing a global view on Digitisation and Internet of Things as well as latest developments in Industry 4.0 and Virtual and Augmented Reality.
Online Registration
Register now via the online registration.
Programme
You can download the programme.
Workshop Sessions
You can download the programme of the workshop sessions:
- Workshop Information and Communication
- Workshop Industrial Manufacturing and Quality
- Workshop Life Sciences and Health
- Workshop Emerging Lighting, Electronics and Displays
- Workshop Security, Metrology and Sensors
- Workshop Design and Manufacturing of Components and Systems
- Workshop Photonics Research, Education and Training
- Workshop Automotive and Transport
Event Locations
The symposium and networking dinner on 8th March 2018 will be held in the Museum of Fine Arts:
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Rue de la Régence 3, 1000 Brussels
How to get to the museum: https://www.fine-arts-museum.be/en/visit/planning-my-visit/access
The workshops sessions on 9th March 2018 will be held in the conference centre Bluepoint Brussels:
Bluepoint Brussels, Boulevard Auguste Reyers 80, 1030 Brussels
Download the map how to get to the Bluepoint Brussels conference centre .
Download an overview how to get to the event locations
Event sponsors
The event is kindly sponsored by EPIC, Fraunhofer ILT, INPHOTEC, Hamamatsu, SPIE Europe, OSRAM, OSA, TRUMPF and the European Commission:
