speakers for Photonic Integration Conference program have confirmed

Below you can find the program of the 2018 edition of the conference, which took place on October 2, as part of Photonics Applications Week.

08:45	09:30	Registration and Welcome
09:30	10:00		Arne Leinse, Chief Commercial Officer, LioniX International, on “The silicon nitride ecosystem and user access via the pilot lines”, More information
10:00	10:30		Dr. Ali Serpenguzel, Professor of Physics Koç University \| Microphotonics Research Laboratory, Turkey, on “Resonators and Waveguides for Fiber Optics and Integrated Photonics”, More information
10:30	11:00		Mircea Guina, Professor, Head of the Optoelectronics Research Centre, Tampere University of Technology / Co-Founder, CTO and Chairman, VEXLUM Oy, Finland, on “Advances in GaAs and GaSb optoelectronics for heterogeneous integration with silicon-photonics”, More information
11:00	11:30	Break + visit Expo
11:30	12:00		Dr. Timo Aalto, Research Team Leader, VTT, on “Silicon photonics in 3 µm SOI”, More information
12:00	12:30		Karen Liu, VP Sales & Marketing, Lightwave Logic, on “Scaling for speed: the impact of polymer PICs on optical roadmaps”
12:30	13:40	Lunch Break + visit Expo
13:40	14:20	Session Design PIC tools
			Vincent Cao Van Phu, Lead Application Engineer, Cadence Design Systems, Duo-presentation with Greg Baethge
			Greg Baethge, Application Engineer, Lumerical Inc, on “Co-Simulation of Integrated Electronic and Photonic Circuits”, More information, Duo-presentation Vincent Cao Van Phu
14:20	15:20	Session Open Source design PIC Platform, Open innovation
			Ronald Broeke, CEO, Bright Photonics BV / Co-creator, Nazca, on “Sharing PIC design innovation: bridging open source and business with Nazca Design”, More information
			Dr. Tolga Tekin, Group Leader, Working Group Photonic & Plasmonic Systems, Fraunhofer IZM, on “A use case of open source photonic-design tools on the path to an open photonics innovation hub for optical interconnects”, More information
			Luca Alloatti, Group Leader, The Institute of Electromagnetic Fields, ETH Zürich, on ‘Photonic Design Automation Tools for Advanced CMOS Nodes – Towards a FOS Flow”
15:20	15:45	Break + visit Expo
15:45	16:25
			Barry Peet, Managing Director, Business Cluster Semiconductors Netherlands (BCSEMI), on “Chip Integration Technology Centre (CITC): how Semicon can help Photonics on solving Advanced Packaging challenges”, More information
			Prof. dr. Theo Rasing, Faculty of Science, Spectroscopy of Solids and Interfaces, Radboud University, on “PHOTONIC-MRAM: from fundamentals to nanoscale engineering”, More information
16:25	16:50		Kees de Waard, Member of the Board, FTTH COUNCIL EUROPE
16:50	17:05		Vitaly Morarenko, Senior Application Engineer, Keysight Technologies, on “Characterizing coherent optical components for 400 Gb/s and 1 Tb/s transmission lines”, More information
17:05	18:30	Drinks + visit Expo + Semicon Photonics Matchmaking 2018 (registration required, register here)
19:00	–	Photonics Applications Week Networking Dinners Separate Registration required (The dinner is on your own account) Go to the Networking Dinner page for more info and registration.