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Sunday 27 April 2025
18:30Registration open
Welcome drink in the hotel lobby


Dinner afterwards on your own
 
Monday 28 April 2025
09:00 - 09:15Welcome

Roland Hirschi, Secretary General, Micronarc

Prof. Volker Saile, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
09:15 - 10:00Invited Keynote on the Future of Micro-manufacturing I

Chair: Volker Saile, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Dr. Stefan Kimmerle, Director Engineering, Bosch Sensortec GmbH (Germany)

Title to be announced


10:00 - 10:30Coffee & Exhibition Visit
10:30 - 12:00Micro-manufacturing Applications I – Watchmaking

Chair: Roland Hirschi, Micronarc

Gaia Canepa, Sales Representative, Watchmaking & Luxury, FEMTOprint (Switzerland)
Advanced 3D glass microfabrication: empowering creativity in traditional watchmaking art

Rémi Jomard, Products and Innovation Director, Piaget (Switzerland)
Altiplano Ultimate Concept Tourbillon

Nima Tolou, CEO, Flexous (The Netherlands)
Title to be announced

12:00 - 13:30Lunch in the hotel
13:30 - 14:45Micro-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. Anke-Susanne Müller, Institute Director, Professor for Accelerator Physics, Institute for Beam Physics and Technology (IBPT), KIT (Germany)
Title to be announced



Dr. Guillaume Petit-Pierre, CEO and Co-Founder, Artiria Medical SA (Switzerland)
Title to be announced

Other speaker to be confirmed




14:45 - 15:15Coffee & Exhibition Visit
15:15- 16:00Invited Keynote on the Future of Micro-manufacturing II

Chair: Philippe Fischer, FSRM

Speaker to be confirmed



16:00Adjourn for the day

18:00Conference Dinner ~ Meet in hotel lobby at 18:00

18:15Departure of private train to Restaurant Golf de Villars


18:30Networking Aperitif at Restaurant
20:00Swiss Traditional Meal
22:30 (approximately)Departure of Train for Villars, arrival at hotel at approximately 23:00.
 
Tuesday 29 April 2025
09:00 - 10:00SENSORS

Chair: Philippe Fischer, FSRM

Marco Capovilla, Marketing and Product Manager, ST Microelectronics (Italy/Switzerland)
How MEMS sensors are transforming wearables

Lukas Bürgi, Director R&D Sensor Innovation, Sensirion (Switzerland)
title to be announced

Ulrike Passlack, R & D Engineer, IMS CHIPS (Germany)
title to be announced

10:00 - 10:45Coffee & Exhibition Visit
10:45 - 12:15NEXT GENERATION ENERGY

Chair: Volker Saile, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Dr. Antonin Faes, Project and Focus Area Manager in Photovoltaics, CSEM (Switzerland)
Title to be announced

Prof. Dr. Manfred Kohl, Smart Materials and Devices Laboratory - KIT (Germany)
Cooling and Energy Generation from Waste Heat at Miniature Scales

Dr. Nicolas Osenciat, R&D Laboratory Director, Btry (Switzerland)
Title to be announced


12:15 - 14:00Lunch in the hotel
14:00 - 14:45Invited Keynote on the Future of Micro-manufacturing III

Chair: Volker Saile, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Prof. Dr. Jens Anders, Institute Director, Institute of Smart Sensors, University of Stuttgart (Germany)

Title to be announced


14:45 - 15:00Closing Session

Draw for Tissot T-Touch
Final Remarks
15:00Conference adjourns

Farewell reception in hotel lobby