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Photon 08 Industry Technology Programme
Venue:Heriot Watt University
Date: Tue 26 Aug 2008 - Thu 28 Aug 2008
Time: 1045 - 1715
Cost:£90
per day for UKCPO or IOP Members (£120 per day for NON UKCPO/IOP Members)
SOA members please register as UKCPO for reduced rate
Registration and further information can be found at http://www.photon.org.uk
Further information on Wednesdays' Medical Group Meeting an be found at http://www.ailu.org.uk/ITP_Photon08
Registration for the ITP also includes access to the posters on display to the side of the coffee area. This is an excellent opportunity to investigate possible future disruptive technologies and speak to the researchers working on them.
To download the full programme with abstracts click here.
The ITP is sponsored by SOA member Marks & Clerk
ITP Agenda
Tuesday 26 August 2008:
Funding & Commercialisation, Wardlaw Room
10:45 Acquiring Funding: How to fund your business to the next level
Chair: Bill Bryan, Entrepreneur Business School
10:45 Show me the Money – Photonics/Electronics KTN funding roadmap, Ashley Evans, Electronics KTN & Alistair Wilson, Photonics KTN
11:15 Where is the money going? Jonathan Harris, Young Company Finance
11:45 Investing in University IP, Rob Rule, IP Group Plc
12:15 Panel Led Discussion
12:30 Break for Lunch
13:45 Technology Transfer: From concept to profit
Chair: Clive Reeves, Scottish Enterprise
13:45 Routes to Commercialising Heriot-Watt University Inventions, Mike Cox, Technology Transfer Manager, Heriot-Watt University
14:15 Innovation and how we can effectively manage it, Peter Dobson, Academic Director, Oxford University’s Begbroke Science Park
14:45 Tending the Flame; Supporting Welsh Innovation in Photonics, Nia Roberts, Innovation & Technology Counsellor, Department for the Economy & Transport for the Welsh Assembly Government
15:15 Break
15:45 Company Case Studies: Covering a range of business maturity
Chair: Peter J Dobson, Oxford University’s Begbroke Science Park
15:45 Revolutionizing Digital X-ray Detection, Max Robinson, Kromek
16:15 Commercialising Adaptive Optics, Andrew Zadrozny, Starpoint Adaptive Optics
16:45 Patenting activity in photonics and commercialisation, Maureen Kinsler, Marks & Clerk
17:15 Finish
Wednesday 27 August 2008:
Future Technologies 1, Wardlaw Room
11:15 Roadmaps: Availability and how they can help your business
Chair: Steve Welch: The Photonics KTN
11:15 Photonics Roadmaps: A Review, Sandi Wilson, Photonics KTN
11:45 Opportunities for European Industry in Emerging Nanophotonics Technologies, Tom Pearsall, EPIC
12:15 Break for Lunch
13:45 Displays: A European roadmap and where the UK is putting its money
Chair: Ian Underwood, MicroEmissive Displays Ltd
13:45 European Displays Roadmap, Chris Gracie, ADRIA
14:15 Keynote on Plastics/OLED, Chris Williams, Director, Displays & Lighting KTN
14:45 Flexible Displays - A Case Study, Bill MacDonald, DuPont Teijin Films
15:15 Break
15:45 PhotoVoltaics: How to make a profit whilst saving the planet
Chair: Ian Maxwell, Welsh Optoelectronics Forum
15:45 PhotoVoltaics Roadmap, Stuart Irvine, Welsh Optoelectronics Forum
16:15 PV in the UK – Here and now,
Ben Robinson, Dulas
16:45 The SUPERGEN PV-21 Project, Ken Durose, Durham Centre for Renewable Energy
17:15 Finish
Medical Group Meeting: Lasers in medicine and biophotonics, Bruce Room
Chair: Duncan Hand, Heriot-Watt University
10:45 Laser-based medical procedures
10:45 Refractive Surgery of the Eye with Ultrashort Laser Pulses, Holger Lubatschowski, Laser Zentrum Hannover
11:15 Lasers and Light Sources in Aesthetic Dermatology, Jon Exley, Lynton
11:45 Dentistry and Light, John Colles, Denfotex
12:15 Break for Lunch
13:45 Laser-based manufacturing for medical applications
13:45 Laser Machining of Zirconia Ceramic for Manufacture of Dental Restorations, Jon Parry, Heriot-Watt University & Nick Jones, Renishaw Plc
14:15 Harnessing the power of light - the fibre laser revolution, Dave Richardson, University of Southampton
14:45 Fabrication of micro-fluidic channels with Nd:YVO4 and CO2 laser systems, Dermot Brabazon, Dublin City University
15:15 Break
15:45 Laser-enabled bio-research
15:45 Getting a Grip on the Micro-world, Jonathan Leach, Glasgow University
16:15 Cellular Nano-Surgery (Enhanced techniques for optical transfection by the control of femtosecond lasers), Tom Brown, University of St Andrews
16:45 Lasers for single-photon and multi-photon excitation microscopy, Gail McConnell, Centre for Biophotonics, University of Strathclyde
17:15 Finish
Thursday 28 August 2008:
Future Technologies 2, Bruce Room
10:45 Communications: A high speed future with the next generation network
Chair: Andy McLaughlin, Scottish Enterprise
10:45 Towards Next Generation Access Networks in the UK, Michael Robertson, Centre for Integrated Photonics
11:15 Next Decade Optical Communications Trends, Mike Lebby, OIDA
11:45 Optical Transport Network Evolution - market drivers and technology challenges, Richard Dorward, Ericsson
12:15 Break for Lunch
13:45 Defence: Photonics, defending the UK at a profit
Chair: TBC
13:45 Photonics in the Defence Industry, Iain Clark, Electro-Magnetic Remote Sensing Defence Technology Centre
14:15 What industry and academia can offer the MOD, John Perry, the Ministry of Defence
14:45 Working with the MOD, TBC
15:15 Break
15:45 Fibre Lasers: What next for these high power flexible lasers?
Chair: Anna O'Neil, AILU
15:45 Photonics and Healthcare Roadmap, Andrew Whitaker & Helen Goddin, TWI
16:15 Fibre Lasers for Industrial Applications, Jack Gabzdyl, SPI Lasers
16:45 The Talisker Laser, Chris Dorman, Coherent
17:15 Finish