Events
Optica Freeform Optics Industry Summit at Optimax
02 - 03 Apr 2024
Optica and Optimax are teaming up to host a disruptive Industry Summit, all about the fascinating world of Freeform Optics.
Freeform optics is the avant-garde of optical innovation, offering limitless potential in shaping light and enabling unparalleled unique performance. Their non-standard shapes cater to most advanced applications, whether in aerospace, healthcare, automotive lighting, or virtual reality, while optimizing size and weight for more compact, efficient technologies.
These advancements do come with challenges—complex design approaches, non-standard manufacturing techniques, and the need for advanced testing and metrology methods. Nonetheless, researchers and engineers are actively addressing these challenges.
This industry-centric gathering will bring together the entire freeform optics community from innovative designers and top-tier manufacturers to essential supply chain partners and forward-thinking end-users. The aim? To dive deep into the art and science of freeform optics, discuss the latest breakthroughs, tackle the most pressing challenges, explore diverse applications, and chart the course for the future.
Join us for this incredible event, where you can connect with like-minded thinkers and expand your horizons in the world of freeform optics. It's not just a summit; it's an opportunity to forge new connections, ignite innovation, and extend your business opportunities.
This event is exclusively in-person, and no recordings will be made to foster a free exchange of ideas and business cards among participants. It's all about real-time, meaningful connections and discussions.
Sponsors of this initiative will get extra benefits. Interested in sponsoring this initiative? Please contact efritz-gage@optica.org
Speakers
Jannick Rolland
Jannick P. Rolland is the Brian J. Thompson Professor of Optical Engineering at the University of Rochester and the Chief Technology Officer of LighTopTech Corp., a startup she co-founded in 2013 in biotechnology. At the University of Rochester, she is the director of the NSF I/UCRC Center for Freeform Optics (CeFO), and the director of the R.E. Hopkins Center for Optical Design and Engineering. She earned an optical engineering diploma from the Institut D'Optique Théorique et Appliquée, France, and MS and PhD degrees in Optical Science from the JWC College of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona. Professor Rolland is a Fellow of Optica, SPIE, and NAI and an inaugural member of the IEEE VGTC Virtual Reality Academy. She is the recipient of the 2014 David Richardson Medal, and the 2020 Joseph Fraunhofer Medal /Robert M. Burley Prize.
