| Sunday 14 May 2023 | |
| 18:30 | Registration open Welcome drink in the hotel lobby Dinner afterwards on your own |
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| Monday 15 May 2023 | |
| 09:00 - 09:15 | Welcome Roland Hirschi, Secretary General, Micronarc Prof. Volker Saile, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology |
| 09:15 - 10:00 | Invited Keynote on the Future of Micro-manufacturing I Chair: Volker Saile, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Prof. Dr. Martin Wegener, Institute of Applied Physics and Institute of Nanotechnology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) (Germany)  3D Laser Micro- and Nanoprinting: Recent Progress » Abstract and Bio (pdf) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee & Exhibition Visit |
| 10:30 - 12:00 | Micro-manufacturing Applications I – Watchmaking Chair: Roland Hirschi, Micronarc Frédéric Loizeau, Business & Technology Development Manager, CSEM SA (Switzerland) Watch complications made out of flexure bladesRémi Jomard, Products and Innovation Director, Piaget (Switzerland) Altiplano Ultimate concept Florent Cosandier, Research Associate, Micromechanical and Horological Design Laboratory INSTANT-LAB, EPFL (Switzerland) Flexure Pivot Oscillators for Mechanical Watches Grégory Dourde, CEO, Preciflex (Switzerland) Spotlight on Milli- & Microfluidics – Functions and Design in Watchmaking |
| 12:00 - 13:30 | Lunch in the hotel |
| 13:30 - 14:45 | Micro-manufacturing Applications II – Medtech Chair: Magali Bischof, BioAlps Short Introduction of BioAlps - Magali Bischof, Secretary General, BioAlps - Life Sciences Cluster of Western Switzerland Prof. Philippe Renaud, Professor Emeritus, Microsystems Laboratory 4 (LMIS4), EPFL (Switzerland) Edge deposition for 3D multimaterial nanostructure manufacturing ** Authors: B. Debiolles, N. Maino, S. Varricchio and Ph. Renaud, EPFL Dr. Nicolas Vachicouras, CEO & Co-Founder at Neurosoft Bioelectronics (Switzerland) Soft and Stretchable Implantable Electrodes to Interface with the Human Brain Dr. Sylvain Gioux, Director, Imaging Research, Intuitive Surgical (Switzerland) Improving Surgical Vision during Minimally Invasive Procedures Exhibitor elevator pitch (3 min) - Lyncée Tec Exhibitor elevator pitch (3 min) - Heidelberg Instruments |
| 14:45 - 15:15 | Coffee & Exhibition Visit |
| 15:15- 16:00 | Invited Keynote on the Future of Micro-manufacturing II Chair: Philippe Fischer, FSRM Dr. Emerson Cheng, Deputy Director of MEMS RD, TSMC (Taiwan) Foundry technology and strategy for sensor evaluation and delivery » Abstract and Bio (pdf) |
| 16:00 | Adjourn for the day |
| 18:00 | Conference Dinner ~ Meet in hotel lobby at 18:00 |
| 18:15 | Departure of private train to Restaurant Golf de Villars |
| 18:30 | Networking Aperitif at Restaurant |
| 20:00 | Swiss Traditional Meal |
| 22:30 (approximately) | Departure of Train for Villars, arrival at hotel at approximately 23:00. |
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| Tuesday 16 May 2023 | |
| 09:00 - 10:30 | Novel Manufacturing Chair: Pierre-André Grandchamp, FSRM Dr. Patrick Ruther, Department of Microsystems Engineering (IMTEK), University of Freiburg. (Germany) MEMS technologies for electro- and optophysiology implantsProf. Dr. Michel Calame, Transport at Nanoscale Interfaces Laboratory (TNI), Empa and University of Basel (Switzerland) A prototype assembler for high-speed additive nanostructures integrationFritz Bircher, Head of Advanced AM Technologies, INSPIRE AG (Switzerland) Digital direct manufacturing of microproducts |
| 10:30 - 11:15 | Coffee & Exhibition Visit |
| 11:15 - 12:30 | SENSORS Chair: Philippe Fischer, FSRM Antonino Caizzone & Assim Boukhayma, Co-founders & Co-CEOs, Senbiosys SA (Switzerland) Iris ring : the sleekest and smartest ring ever created Prof. Dr. Marc Weber, Head of Division 5 - Physics and Mathematics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) (Germany) Superconducting sensors - the quest for ultimate resolution Andrea Onetti, Executive Vice President, MEMS Sub-Group Analog, MEMS and Sensors Group, STMicroelectronics (Switzerland/Italy) Developing next-gen MEMS technologies for a more sustainable world |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch in the hotel |
| 14:00 - 14:45 | Invited Keynote on the Future of Micro-manufacturing III Chair: Volker Saile, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Dr. Stefan Kimmerle, Director Engineering, Bosch Sensortec GmbH (Germany) Use-Cases and challenges of MEMS in consumer electronics» Abstract and Bio (pdf) |
| 14:45 - 15:00 | Closing Session Draw for Tissot T-Touch Final Remarks |
| 15:00 | Conference adjourns Farewell reception in hotel lobby |