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Tech@Lunch - Photonics as a key digital technology for innovation in the 21st century

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Tech@Lunch - Photonics as a key digital technology for innovation in the 21st century

Tech@Lunch - Photonics as a key digital technology for innovation in the 21st century

The topic of the fourth Tech@Lunch session of 2023 is "Photonics as a key digital technology for innovation in the 21st century". Photonics – the science and technology of light – is a Key Digital Technology that is radically transforming the traditional industrial base. Photonics is essential to the functioning of new applications which are powering Industry 4.0 and which are also critical to our ability to fundamentally address the enormous global societal and environmental challenges of our times.

During this session, we show through examples how photonics technologies are being used to create and launch a myriad of superior and previously unimaginable products in wide-ranging end-user industries from sustainable energy, agrifood, healthcare and security, to smart transport, building and communications systems. Most critically, we illustrate that photonics is also a key enabling technology for the transformation of production methods and new business models in European manufacturing which has been losing its competitive edge as a result of globalisation over recent decades to low cost mass manufacturing locations in Asia and elsewhere. 

PhotonHub Europe has established a unique European full-service one-stop-shop pan-European Photonics Digital Innovation Hub in a manner which is deeply rooted within the wider ecosystem of innovation hubs and manufacturing right across the European continent for maximum coverage, leverage, impact and long-term sustainability. We will show how you can make use of the services provided by PhotonHub Europe in order to accelerate the uptake of photonics technologies by European industry, and thereby help to boost competitiveness and to foster new business and business models.

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