Optica Online Industry Meetings

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Optica Online Industry Meetings
End-users drive our industry: Photonics is radically colliding with other industries to create opportunities for entrepreneurs to reshape many sectors in new impactful ways never imagined.
These monthly sessions are a top-level “deep dive” industry discussion for the next 3 -5 years for a particular theme. Over a period of 2 hours, participants will gain unique insights into the mid-term roadmap. This series of meetings will have an active involvement by end-users to give more meaning to both suppliers and their clients.
Optica Online Industry Meeting: Photonics Packaging, Assembly and Testing
Date: 29 August 2022
Platform: Zoom (registered attendees) + Youtube
Time: 7am PT, 10am ET, 4pm CET, 11pm JST. Duration: 2 hours
Attendees, including assembly and test service providers and tool/equipment manufacturers, will discuss the packaging and testing of optical modules including passive/active optical alignment, wafer-level vs die level packaging and testing, thermal considerations or volume vs price.
Optica Online Industry Meeting: New Ultrafast Laser Applications
Date: 27 September 2022
Platform: Zoom (registered attendees) + Youtube
Time: 7am PT, 10am ET, 4pm CET, 11pm JST. Duration: 2 hours
Ultrafast Lasers (pico- and femtosecond) have improved machine tool processes in micro-machining, sub-micron precision 3D printing and thin-film material processing and microscopy and spectroscopy. Attendees will discuss some of these new applications directly with the end-users.
Optica Online Industry Meeting: LIDAR 2.0 Miniaturization
Date: 25 October 2022
Platform: Zoom (registered attendees) + Youtube
Time: 7am PT, 10am ET, 4pm CET, 11pm JST. Duration: 2 hours
Where is the future of LiDAR? Demanding end-users will describe what they are looking for from the supply chain of laser manufacturers, detector and imaging-processing specialists, optics, electronics, scanners and packaging experts.
Optica Online Industry Meeting: Automotive Lighting
Date: 22 November 2022
Platform: Zoom (registered attendees) + Youtube
Time: 7am PT, 10am ET, 4pm CET, 11pm JST. Duration: 2 hours
Today’s automotive lighting industry faces the need of implementing ever smaller and more exotic LED and micro-optics solutions that require high reliability, robustness against electromagnetic interference, and thermal management. This discussion will involve the Tier 1 suppliers and OEMs..
Optica Online Industry Meeting: Photonics for Medical Devices
Date: 17 January 2023
Platform: Zoom (registered attendees) + Youtube
Time: 7am PT, 10am ET, 4pm CET, 11pm JST. Duration: 2 hours
Photonics technologies bring new approaches in healthcare applications in diagnostics and therapeutics as well as for medical devices such as surgical guidance tools, patient monitoring and diagnostics devices, etc. This meeting will address the challenges of development of medical devices and integration of the photonics technologies in them. We will discuss point-of-care devices, wearable devices, digital health technologies and their integration with IoT will be discussed, following the vision and demands of medical companies and medical doctors.