Launch of ICT Photonics calls in Horizon 2020 and Photonics Public Private Partnership

Meeting on  Thursday, 12th December 2012  by ESPKTN

Venue: Ambassadors Bloomsbury Hotel, 12 Upper Woburn Place,
WC1H 0HX London

Registration open now .

Agenda

  • 9.30 – 10.00 Registration and Coffee
  • 10.00 – 10.10  Welcome and introduction, Alastair Wilson, Director of Photonics, ESP KTN
  • 10.10 – 10.40  Horizon 2020 and Photonics Dr Thomas Skordas, Head of EU Photonics Unit.
  • 10.40 – 11.10  Photonics Public Private Partnership Dr Mike Wale, Executive Board member of Photonics 21.
  • 11.10 – 11.30  Photonics calls in Horizon 2020 Peter Walters, National Contact Point ICT
  • 11.30 – 11.50  UK Photonics Positioning for Horizon 2020 John Lincoln, Chief Executive Photonics Leadership Group.
  • 11.50 – 12.30  Why we participate in European R & D.
    M Squared Lasers    Nils Hempler
    ST Microelectronics   Lindsay Grant
    Gooch & Housego    Andrew Robertson
    TWI       Speaker to be confirmed
  • 12.30 – 1.30  Lunch
  • 13.30 – 14.15 Pitches by Photonics Cluster and National Platform Directors
  • 14.15 – 14.30 UK ACTPHAST launch – SME access to core European photonics facilities – First calls and access process will be described. Tom Carr, University of Southampton
  • 14.30 – 15.00 Panel and Q & A – “Everything you want to know about Horizon 2020 but were afraid to ask earlier”
    The panel will consist of Thomas Skordas, Mike Wale. Peter Walters , John Lincoln and a representative from the Enterprise Europe Network.
  • 15.00 – 15.05 Closing remarks – Alastair Wilson

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