Agenda

Photonics PhD Days 2024

This three-day, fully English-speaking event, aims to bring together PhD students, research centres and companies from the field of photonics, and to explore entrepreneurship.

On the agenda: conferences, PhD pitches, PhD posters, « PhD to Startup Â» workshop, 1-to-1 appointments with CEOs, networking, and visits to industry and research facilities.

Photonics PhD Days are co-organised by Photonics Bretagne, Anticipa, ENSSAT and Institut Foton.

Meetings
24-26 January 2024
Past
Lannion (22)

You are a PhD student in photonics :


This event is for you! Come and pitch your PhD, then unlock your entrepreneurial potential with a case study… maybe your own PhD topic!
  • Take part in a « PhD to Startup » Workshop (8 hours over 2 days), which will count towards your Doctoral School training (France)
  • Pitch your PhD in 3 minutes (for 3rd or 4th year PhD students)
  • Display a poster and present your work in 3 minutes (for 2nd year PhD students)
  • Discuss entrepreneurship and careers in 1to1 appointments with CEOs
  • Attend conferences about support and funding schemes for startup, as well as a round-table session in which CEOs will share their experience
  • Visit local industry and research facilities
  • Meet other PhD students, researchers and industry leaders during informal networking sessions and expand your European network


You are not a PhD student :


This event is also for you! Come and discover the latest scientific research in the field of photonics and meet your potential next partners or engineers!
  • Get up to date with the latest scientific research in photonics
  • Meet our young talents in photonics research and engineering
  • Share your own vision of the photonics industry
  • Discover the photonics expertise from Brittany by meeting and visiting companies and labs
  • Meet your next potential partner or R&D engineers, maybe!
Wednesday 24th January
9h30-9h45 Welcome & Coffee
9h45-9h50 Introduction of the local photonics ecosystem | Photonics Bretagne
9h50-10h00 Presentation of the support from the Technopole | Anticipa
10h00-11h00 PhD Pitches
11h00-11h45 Poster session and coffee break
11h45-12h45 Round-table: CEOs success stories
12h45-14h00 Luncheon cocktail and networking
14h00-14h30 Transfer to the « Centre Hédraou »
14h30-18h30 « PhD to Startup » workshop (1/2)


Tuesday 25th January
9h00-12h30 Visits of local industry and research facilities
12h30-14h00 Lunch for the workshop attendees
14h00-18h00 « PhD to Startup » workshop (2/2)


Thursday 26th January
9h30-10h10 Startup project pitches
10h10-10h30 Optica presentation
10h30-11h20 Project feedback and best startup award
11h20-11h30 Concluding remarks
11h30-12h30 One-to-One meetups with CEOs
12h30-13h45 Luncheon cocktail and networking
Reserved to PhD students participating to the workshop (8 hours over 2 days). Photonics Bretagne & partners are happy to provide all the logistics free of charge from January 24th to 26th: – accommodation for up to 3 nights, – all meals (breakfast, lunch and dinner), – all transfers on site, if you need it. You will be staying in the workshop venue: the Centre Hédraou is located in Perros-Guirec, near Lannion (Brittany / France), facing the sea and with a direct access to the beach. Free time is planned, so that you can fully enjoy the place and the idyllic environment.
Brittany has established itself as a global centre for innovation in photonics thanks to its innovative SMEs and the excellence of its research centres and photonics higher education institutions. In a similar fashion to the North-American Science Parks, Brittany can boast of its own Photonics Park in Lannion, where most of the activity in photonics is concentrated. The Photonics Park includes a business centre, a technology platform and an incubator. The local photonics sector itself employs close to 1,000 people in around 30 SMEs and institutions. It also benefits from many cutting-edge facilities allowing for great innovation capabilities.

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