Final Program. Page last updated: April 26, 2024
| Sunday 28 April 2024 | |
| 18:30 | Registration open Welcome drink in the hotel lobby Dinner afterwards on your own |
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| Monday 29 April 2024 | |
| 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 Dr. Reinhard Voelkel, CEO Focuslight Switzerland SA; CSO Focuslight Technology Inc. (Switzerland)  The Microlens Revolution » Short bio (pdf) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee & Exhibition Visit |
| 10:30 - 12:00 | Micro-manufacturing Applications I – Watchmaking Chair: Roland Hirschi, Micronarc Florian Serex, Founder, Horage (Switzerland) Introduction of new manufacturing technologies in watchmaking Cédric Mulhauser, Co-founder and COO, ID Genève Watches (Switzerland) ID : a circular vision to influence the watch industry Senad Hasanovic, VP Innovation & Development, Ceramaret (Switzerland) Technical ceramics, from machining to additive manufacturing |
| 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. Dr. Roman (Kurt) Truckenmüller, Department of Complex Tissue Regeneration, MERLN Institute for Technology-Inspired Regenerative Medicine, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University (The Netherlands) Mini dishes of live – engineered 3D cell environments in functionalized polymer film-based microwells Dr. Jean-Baptiste Orhan, Director of Advanced Electronic Center, Valtronic (Switzerland) Complex Microelectronics Sven Schönfelder, Managing director, INSION GmbH (Germany) Combined Fluorescence- and VIS to NIR micro spectrometers for handheld systems in food safety, material qualification and medical applications. 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 Marco Capovilla, Marketing and Product Manager, ST Microelectronics (Italy/Switzerland) Improving the lives of REAL people through MEMS sensors » Short 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 30 April 2024 | |
| 09:00 - 10:00 | BATTERIES Chair: Volker Saile, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Dr. Andreas Hutter, Group Leader Battery Systems, CSEM (Switzerland) Lithium-ion batteries for Europe: challenges and opportunities Dr. Björn Niesen, Managing Director for the Research Focus Area Energy, Resources & Emissions, Empa (Switzerland) Innovation for Sustainable Batteries of the Future |
| 10:00 - 10:45 | Coffee & Exhibition Visit |
| 10:45 - 12:15 | SENSORS Chair: Philippe Fischer, FSRM Dr. Christina Strohrmann, Director Advanced Engineering, Bosch Sensortech GmbH (Germany) Dimensions of sensing acceleration Prof. Dr.-Ing. Matthias Kuhl, Laboratory for Microelectronics, Department of Microsystems Engineering – IMTEK (Germany) CMOS-integrated mechanical sensing – Let the chip feel the grip Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Stork, Head, Institute of Information Processing Technology, Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT). Scientific Director, Division Embedded Systems and Sensor Engineering, Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI) (Germany) Near body sensors for vital monitoring David Maurer, CEO & Founder, Colorix (Switzerland) New Sensor for Color Quality Control |
| 12:15 - 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 Prof. Dr. Juerg Leuthold, ETH Zurich. Head of the Institute of Electromagnetic Fields (IEF), ETH Zurich. Head of the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering (D-​ITET) (Switzerland) Plasmonics - the art of performing optics and photonics with metals» Short bio (pdf) |
| 14:45 - 15:00 | Closing Session Draw for Tissot T-Touch Final Remarks |
| 15:00 | Conference adjourns Farewell reception in hotel lobby |