Conferences & Exhibitions

A new, efficient networking event for the photonics industry due to take place for the first time on 17-18 February 2021

LiM – Lasers in Manufacturing is the perfect platform for efficient knowledge transfer in the field of lasers and their applications. The LiM is organised by the German Scientific Laser Society (WLT).

LiM is devoted to scientific presentations on the latest research results. Following the common code of good scientific practice, the presentations shall be complete, comprehensible, and verifiable. All contributions for the LiM will undergo a review process by the Scientific Committee.

Manufacturing Show 2021 revolves around low and large scale production methods, exploring opportunities for various technologies to work together and improve global manufacturing. Explore market innovations and products, learn new and exciting ways to bring production to the next level, and expand your partner network.

Optical systems are ubiquitous in modern society, with an ever-increasing number of applications covering medical sciences (vision technologies, surgical instrumentation, medical imaging), spatial exploration (telescopes, lenses, spectrometers), telecommunications (fiber optics), information processing (quantum computing), industry (from cutting, welding to precision metrology) and military/weaponry technology, to name but a few examples.

Laser World of Photonics 2021 will be opening its doors in Munich from June 21 to 24, 2021.

The world’s leading photonics trade fair will once again be presenting innovations from the industry in Munich – this time under special circumstances due to the coronavirus crisis. After the economic slump, exhibitors and the Spectaris trade association see an excellent opportunity for the conference to provide impetus for economic recovery. Exhibitors can register now.

The next World of Photonics Congress will also be held in Munich from June 20 to 24, 2021.

SPIE Photonics West 2021 is North America's largerst laser, photonics, and biomedical optics event. The event will cover a wide range of topics: biomedical optics, biophotonics, industrial lasers, optoelectronics, microfabrication, MOEMS-MEMS, displays, and more.

Despite the pandemic disrupting travel to San Francisco this year, SPIE remains committed to providing a forum for information sharing, collaboration, and advancing research that is vital to the photonics community. The organisation is therefore hosting this event online as a Digital Forum.

Coronavirus – COVID-19 – Update 4 November 2020

Due to the continued spread of the coronavirus and COVID-19, including a second wave around the world, AILU will deliver ILAS 2021 as an online event. The platform we are using offers a very high degree of networking and interactivity, which we recognise is central to the success of ILAS.

The dates for ILAS will be 24 & 25 March 2021, and the online event will take place within the same time window based on GMT timings (CET -1 hour).

New laser applications

Laser beam technologies, be it welding, brazing, cutting or material modification, are extremely fast, highly precise, extremely flexible and can be used in a wide variety of applications, and they are constantly being developed further in all these areas – but time and again they are also under scrutiny for their cost-effectiveness.

The virtual Formnext Connect ideally complements its physical counterpart. The whole world of additive manufacturing will be presenting the latest solutions for the entire process chain. The supporting programme also offers digital knowledge transfer at the highest level with the partners ACAM, BE-AM Symposium, purmundus, TCT, VDMA AG AM etc.

Special emphasis has also been placed on the design of bringing people together as close and live as possible – in a digital way. 

What you can expect

Hosted online from 27 – 30 October 2020, the EuroBLECH Digital Innovation Summit provides a much anticipated trade and networking event for the global sheet metal working community, presenting a broad programme for trade professionals including virtual product presentations, expert webinars, and plenty of matchmaking. The matchmaking features will create business opportunities by enabling you to connect and conduct business with companies from the sheet metal working industry from around the world.