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Sunday 14 May 2023 | |
18:30 | Registration open Welcome drink in the hotel lobby Dinner afterwards on your own |
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Monday 15 May 2023 | |
09:00 - 09:15 | Welcome Roland Hirschi, Secretary General, Micronarc Prof. Volker Saile, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology |
09:15 - 10:00 | Invited Keynote on the Future of Micro-manufacturing I Chair: Volker Saile, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Prof. Dr. Martin Wegener, Institute of Applied Physics and Institute of Nanotechnology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) (Germany) ![]() » Abstract and Bio (pdf) |
10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee & Exhibition Visit |
10:30 - 12:00 | Micro-manufacturing Applications I – Watchmaking Chair: Roland Hirschi, Micronarc Frédéric Loizeau, Business & Technology Development Manager, CSEM SA (Switzerland) ![]() Rémi Jomard, Products and Innovation Director, Piaget (Switzerland) ![]() Florent Cosandier, Research Associate, Micromechanical and Horological Design Laboratory INSTANT-LAB, EPFL (Switzerland) ![]() Grégory Dourde, CEO, Preciflex (Switzerland) ![]() |
12:00 - 13:30 | Lunch in the hotel |
13:30 - 14:45 | Micro-manufacturing Applications II – Medtech Chair: Magali Bischof, BioAlps Short Introduction of BioAlps - Magali Bischof, Secretary General, BioAlps - Life Sciences Cluster of Western Switzerland Prof. Philippe Renaud, Professor Emeritus, Microsystems Laboratory 4 (LMIS4), EPFL (Switzerland) ![]() * Authors: B. Debiolles, N. Maino, S. Varricchio and Ph. Renaud, EPFL Dr. Nicolas Vachicouras, CEO & Co-Founder at Neurosoft Bioelectronics (Switzerland) ![]() Dr. Sylvain Gioux, Director, Imaging Research, Intuitive Surgical (Switzerland) ![]() ![]() ![]() |
14:45 - 15:15 | Coffee & Exhibition Visit |
15:15- 16:00 | Invited Keynote on the Future of Micro-manufacturing II Chair: Philippe Fischer, FSRM Dr. Emerson Cheng, Deputy Director of MEMS RD, TSMC (Taiwan) ![]() » Abstract and Bio (pdf) |
16:00 | Adjourn for the day |
18:00 | Conference Dinner ~ Meet in hotel lobby at 18:00 |
18:15 | Departure of private train to Restaurant Golf de Villars![]() |
18:30 | Networking Aperitif at Restaurant |
20:00 | Swiss Traditional Meal |
22:30 (approximately) | Departure of Train for Villars, arrival at hotel at approximately 23:00. |
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Tuesday 16 May 2023 | |
09:00 - 10:30 | Novel Manufacturing Chair: Pierre-André Grandchamp, FSRM Dr. Patrick Ruther, Department of Microsystems Engineering (IMTEK), University of Freiburg. (Germany) ![]() Prof. Dr. Michel Calame, Transport at Nanoscale Interfaces Laboratory (TNI), Empa and University of Basel (Switzerland) ![]() Fritz Bircher, Head of Advanced AM Technologies, INSPIRE AG (Switzerland) ![]() |
10:30 - 11:15 | Coffee & Exhibition Visit |
11:15 - 12:30 | SENSORS Chair: Philippe Fischer, FSRM Antonino Caizzone & Assim Boukhayma, Co-founders & Co-CEOs, Senbiosys SA (Switzerland) ![]() Prof. Dr. Marc Weber, Head of Division 5 - Physics and Mathematics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) (Germany) ![]() Andrea Onetti, Executive Vice President, MEMS Sub-Group Analog, MEMS and Sensors Group, STMicroelectronics (Switzerland/Italy) ![]() |
12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch in the hotel |
14:00 - 14:45 | Invited Keynote on the Future of Micro-manufacturing III Chair: Volker Saile, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Dr. Stefan Kimmerle, Director Engineering, Bosch Sensortec GmbH (Germany) ![]() » Abstract and Bio (pdf) |
14:45 - 15:00 | Closing Session Draw for Tissot T-Touch Final Remarks |
15:00 | Conference adjourns Farewell reception in hotel lobby |