november, 2017
Time
(Tuesday) 08:00 - 09:30
Location
Members' Salon, European Parliament
Event Details
The European photonics community is ready to prepare for the next decade and implement the photonics vision for 2030. Within the last years the Photonics21 platform has grown to over
Event Details
The European photonics community is ready to prepare for the next decade and implement the photonics vision for 2030. Within the last years the Photonics21 platform has grown to over 3,300 members representing 1,700 photonics companies and research organisations. Under the umbrella of the Photonics PPP founded in 2013 the European photonics community and the European Commission lead Horizon2020 to economic success. Their fruitful cooperation strengthens the €69 billion European photonics market which maintains its leading position as second largest producer of photonics products behind China.
Over the last 10 years European photonics production has increased by over 62% with around 300,000 people employed directly in the photonics sector. By 2020 additional 42,000 new jobs could be created which further demonstrates the enormous potential of photonics technologies. In the near future, photonics will continue to have a growing impact on most areas of our lives and will lead to breakthrough innovations in a wide variety of sectors, ranging from manufacturing to healthcare and energy.
The breakfast session “Europe’s age of light! How photonics will power growth and innovation” will demonstrate the impact of photonics and will present the photonics vision for 2030 as described in the new Photonics21 vision document. This report outlines the great challenges facing Europe and the world and presents a vision of how photonics technologies which are already in the innovation pipeline today can solve these challenges by 2030 and beyond to turn this vision into reality.
Organizer
Knowledge4Innovation Forum in cooperation with Photonics21
Host
Lieve Wierinck, MEP
Speakers for this event
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Rettich, Thomas
Rettich, Thomas
Head of Research Coordination TRUMPF, Photonics21 EB member
Dr. Thomas Rettich is responsible for the Research and Science Coordination at TRUMPF and is an active member of VDMA, Photonics21 and other institutions. His background is electrical engineering, especially laser technology with a degree from RWTH Aachen. As a researcher he worked at the Fraunhofer‐Institute of Laser Technology in Aachen before moving to the TRUMPF group in 1994. Since 2010, he is responsible for the research and the science coordination of the TRUMPF group. He is well connected within the German and European research community and related industry, and he is active in relevant networks like VDMA and Photonics21. As chair of Photonics21 work group 2 on industrial manufacturing, he supported the multiannual strategic agenda process and the process to set up the recent Horizon 2020 work programmes.
Head of Research Coordination TRUMPF, Photonics21 EB member
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Schulte, Bernd
Schulte, Bernd
Executive Board Member, President AIXTRON
Dr. Bernd Schulte was appointed member of the Executive Board of AIXTRON SE (Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer) in April 2002. Having joined AIXTRON SE as Project Manager in 1993, he assumed responsibility as Head of Product Management for Asia in 1997 and became Director of the Compound and Organic Semiconductor Business Units in 2001. On September 1, 2017, he was appointed President of AIXTRON SE. In addition to his function at AIXTRON, Dr. Schulte had the honor to serve as the President of the European Photonics Industry Consortium (EPIC) from December 2003 until February 2007. In the course of its foundation in December 2005, Dr. Schulte was appointed Vice President of the Executive Board of the European Technology Platform “Photonics21”. Furthermore, he serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Fraunhofer Institute FEP in Dresden. Dr. Schulte holds a PhD in Physics (Dr. rer. nat.) of the Technical University of Darmstadt.
Executive Board Member, President AIXTRON
Speakers
Dr. Bernd Schulte,
Executive Board Member, President AIXTRON
Thomas Rettich,
Head of Research Coordination TRUMPF, Photonics21 EB member