BiOS/Photonics West set to break attendance records, bring latest advances
Bellingham, WA--Next week's SPIE BiOS and Photonics West exhibitions (to be held January 21–26; San Francisco, CA)—which will bring their highest attendance to date—will showcase technologies important to markets such as mobile devices, medical diagnostics, and industrial cutting machines.
The two exhibitions will host approximately 150 new product announcements and several daily demonstrations of newly commercialized products and patented technologies. Exhibitors will include national pavilions from several countries, including Germany, France, Canada, the UK, the Netherlands, Japan, and China, and photonics clusters from four U.S. states, as well as established industry suppliers and groundbreaking new companies.
The exhibition's many returning exhibiting companies include Axsys, Coherent, CVI Melles Griot, DILAS, Edmund Optics, First Sensor AG, Hamamatsu, HORIBA Jobin, Yvon, IPG Photonics, JDSU, Newport, Ocean Optics, OptoSigma, Qioptiq, SCHOTT, Texas Instruments, Thorlabs, TRUMPF, and Zygo. Newcomers include established companies as well as start-ups and university spin-offs such as GLOphotonics, Accendo Systems, ZiNIR, ImmerVision, Greateyes, Applied Energetics, Holoxica, Innoluce, and EpiPhotonics.
Recruiters from over 35 companies with jobs to fill will be on hand at the SPIE Job Fair (January 24–25) in the Photonics West exhibition.
Paid conference registration to any of the Photonics West symposia—BiOS, LASE, MOEMS-MEMS, OPTO or Green Photonics—enables access to technical presentations and special networking events.
Among events focused on fostering innovation are the Biophotonics and Optoelectronics Entrepreneurship Start-up Challenges, sponsored by Jenoptik and SPIE. Students and young professionals will pitch their product ideas to a panel of experts and entrepreneurs, with the top-rated presenters winning sponsorship to attend the Entrepreneurship Academy at the University of California, Davis (UC Davis).
The 2011-12 Prism Awards for Photonics Innovation will be presented in nine categories at a gala banquet. The international competition recognizes cutting-edge products that break conventional ideas, solve problems, and improve life through photonics.
For more information, please visit spie.org/photonics-west.xml.
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