The 2014 RRPC Annual Meeting

Space is limited for this event, so register early!

Do you consider yourself a stakeholder in New York's Optics, Photonics and Imaging Industry? 
Do you want to participate in charting the course of that industry in the future?  We hope you will
be able to join us at our 2014 Annual Meeting and make your voice heard.

New York, and particularly the Rochester region have long enjoyed a strategic regional advantage
in Optics, Photonics and Imaging (OPI).  Can that advantage be sustained and consistently grown
through innovation, competition and a well-trained workforce?  Join us for a discussion of these
issues at the RRPC  / New York Photonics Annual Meeting.  If you consider New York's Optics, Photonics & Imaging Industry vital to our state's future, this event is for you.

Review the sponsorship information here.

Register Now For the Annual Meeting

3:30PM - 6:30PM
Rochester Museum & Science Center
Registration begins at 3:00PM

Opening remarks by
Congresswoman Louise Slaughter
Representative New York's 25th District 

Speakers and Panelists

• Kevin Füchsel, Head of Department Strategy - Marketing - Coordination, Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering
• Steve Anderson, Industry and Market Strategist for SPIE; former Editor-In-Chief, Laser Focus World 
• Susan Christopherson, Professor and Department Chair, Cornell University Department of City and Regional Planning
• Paul Ballentine, Executive Director, Center for Emerging and Innovative Sciences University of Rochester

Panel moderator: Ryne Rafaelle, PhD, Vice President for Research & Associate Provost, Rochester Institute of Technology

America's Optics, Photonics, Imaging Innovation Culture:
Is a National Institute in New York's Future?
The National Academies report, Optics & Photonics: Essential Technologies for Our Nation; the National Photonics Initiative.  The Obama administration and the Department of Defense are looking to establish national manufacturing institutes for technologies that are key to America's future. Successful global Optics and Photonics manufacturing institutes such as Fraunhofer in Germany have existed for years. Can New York help America catch up?

Panel Discussion: Innovation and Commercialization Institutes.  Do they work?  Is a U.S. institute in Optics and Photonics important to national security?  Is it important to New York?

Audience:    RRPC members, CEO’s and management;  economic development stakeholders; high technology entrepreneurs and service professionals; investment professionals, CPA’s, attorneys, 
economic & workforce development professionals.

Agenda:
3:00 – 3:30    Sign-in
3:30 – 4:00    Introductory remarks
4:00 – 5:30    Panel Discussion and audience interaction
5:30 – 6:30    Networking / refreshments

For background on the National Photonics Initative follow this link.

For background on the groundbreaking report follow this link.

Conservative estimates for our industry start at $500 billion in revenues globally and 1.5 million jobs in the U.S. directly related to or enabled by optics and photonics technologies. This includes numerous applications of lasers, computer chips, solar-energy panels, sensors, displays, and other technologies, in manufacturing, medicine, defense and security systems, lighting, bridge and highway structural analysis, and much more.

The technologies impact our lives in:

• Communications, information processing and data storage
• Consumer products
  
• Defense and national security
• Energy
• Health and medicine
• Nanotechnology
• Advanced manufacturing
• Advanced photonic measurements and applications
• Strategic materials for optics
• Displays

THE NEXT DAY

Friday, September 5, 2014: 
The Third Annual RRPC Golf Tournament

Friday, September 5, 2014
Ravenwood Golf Center
929 Lynaugh Rd, Victor, NY 14564

9:00 AM registration (range opens)
10:00 AM Shotgun Start
Lunch & Cocktail reception
$175 per person / $700 Foursome
Click here to Register for the Third Annual Golf Tournament