Micronarc Alpine Meeting 2015 :: mAm 2015 :: Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland

mAm 2015 Speaker Program

Sunday 1 February 2015
18:00	Registration open Welcome drink at the hotel (dinner afterwards on your own)
Monday 2 February 2015
09:00-09:30	Welcome Session Danick Bionda, Secretary General, Micronarc Prof. Dr. Volker Saile, Chief Science Officer, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, President, Mancef David Tolfree, Vice President – Europe, Mancef Yvan Dénéréaz, Office for Economic Affairs, Canton of Vaud Jean-Michel Stauffer, Innovation adviser in Microtechnologies, Innovaud
09:30-10:00	Invited Keynote on the Future of Micro-manufacturing I Chair: Volker Saile, Mancef; KIT Dr. Kilian Bilger, Director Microsystem Technologies - Corporate Research at Robert Bosch GmbH (DE) MEMS: Sensors for the Internet of Things
10:00-10:30	Coffee & Exhibition Visit
10:30-12:00	Micro-manufacturing Applications I – Watchmaking Chair: Philippe Fischer, FSRM Keynote: Prof. Yuri Lopez de Meneses, Production Engineering and Robotics Laboratory, HE-Arc (CH) Towards aesthetic quality control in the production line Dr. Olivier Dubochet, Section Head, Process Development & Small Series Production, CSEM (CH) MEMS for Watches Stéphane von Gunten, Laboratory and Technology Manager, Ulysse Nardin (CH) Ulysse Anchor Escapement; innovative horology using silicon technology Exhibitor elevator pitch (3 min) – IcoFlex
12:00-13:30	Lunch in the hotel
13:30-15:30	Micro-manufacturing Applications II – Medtech Chair: Pierre-André Grandchamp, FSRM Keynote: Priv.-Doz. Dr.-Ing. Timo Mappes, Director Microscopic Imaging, Carl Zeiss AG (DE) Dye-lasers for lab-on-a-chip applications: Integration and sensing schemes Dr. Harry Heinzelmann, VP, Chief Technology Officer, CSEM (CH) Nano-Probing Biological Matter for Medical Applications Dr. Niels Kramer, Department Head, Technology Laboratories at Philips Innovation Services, (NL) Living Chips and Chips for the Living Björn Peters, Corporate Business Development Officer, Valtronic (CH) A secure implant and physiological platform Exhibitor elevator pitch (3 min) – Femto Engineering
15:30-16:00	Coffee & Exhibition
16:00-17:30	MEMS Chair: Sebastian Gautsch, EPFL Keynote: Benedetto Vigna, Executive Vice President, General Manager, Analog, MEMS & Sensors Group, ST Microelectronics (IT/CH) Beyond Motion MEMS Prof. Dr. Juergen Brugger, Microsystems Laboratory LMIS 1, EPFL (CH) Printing and stenciling as advanced MEMS manufacturing methods Dr. Rafał Walczak, Wrocław University of Technology (PL) Lab-on-a-chip based instruments for mobile laboratory for real-time battle-field biological weapon detection Exhibitor elevator pitch (3 min) – Lyncée Tec
17:30	Adjourn for the day
19:00	Conference Dinner ~ Meet in hotel lobby at 19:00
Tuesday 3 February 2015
08:30-10:00	Assembly and Automation Chair: Matthias Krieger, CSEM Keynote: Prof. Dr. Peter Post, Head of Corporate Research and Technology, FESTO (DE) Microsystems for Future Automation Solutions in Industry 4.0 Mélanie Dafflon, R&D Manager, Asyril SA (CH) Flexible feeding system on the way of plug & produce Prof. Dr. Jan G. Korvink, Director - Laboratory for Simulation, IMTEK (DE) Nanolitre 1H NMR and MRI detectors for chemistry and the life sciences Exhibitor elevator pitch (3 min) – Microtec Südwest
10:00-10:30	Coffee & Exhibition
10:30-12:00	Novel Manufacturing Technologies I Chair: David Tolfree, Mancef Keynote: Dr. Martin Hermatschweiler, CEO, Nanoscribe (DE) 3D printing – the new standard for advanced microfabrication Dr. Felix Holzner, CEO & co-founder, Swisslitho (CH) Rapid prototyping of high quality micro- & nanostructures using thermal scanning probes Dr. Andrea Lovera, CTO, FEMTOprint (CH) FEMTOPRINT® - enabling innovation with multi feature 3D micro devices out of glass Exhibitor elevator pitch (3 min) – KNMF Exhibitor elevator pitch (3 min) – Höganäs
12:00	Lunch in the hotel
13:30-15:00	Novel Manufacturing Technologies II Chair: Danick Bionda, Micronarc Keynote: Dr. Erol Harvey, CEO, MiniFAB (AU) Old is the new New : Update on manufacturing techniques for polymer micro devices Dr. Alexander Colsmann, Head of Organic Photovoltaics Group, KIT (DE) Fabrication of Organic Solar Cells from Eco-friendly Solvents Olivier Theytaz, Engineering Director at Logitech (USA / CH) From lab to fab: taking lab innovation to mass production Exhibitor elevator pitch (3 min) – EXPRESS
15:00-15:30	Coffee & Exhibition Visit
15:30-16:15	Invited Keynote on the Future of Micro-manufacturing II Chair: Volker Saile, Mancef; KIT Dr. John Randall, President, Zyvex Labs (USA) Atomically Precise Manufacturing: The path to digital fabrication and an Inverse Moore's Law
16:15-16:30	Final Remarks Prof. Dr. Volker Saile, Chief Science Officer, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany), President, Mancef Danick Bionda, Secretary General, Micronarc
16:30	Conference adjourns Farewell reception in hotel lobby