The 2016 
New York Photonics Annual Meeting

• REGISTRATION: 3:00 PM
  Annual Meeting, Speakers and Awards: 3:30PM - 5:30PM
• Special Planetarium Demonstraton: 5:30PM
• Reception: 6:00PM - 7:30PM 

Rochester Museum & Science Center Strasenburgh Planetarium
Registration begins at 3:00PM

Opening remarks by United States Senator Chuck Schumer 

Speakers:

• Paul Ballentine Executive Director, Center for Emerging and Innovative Sciences, UR
• Tom Battley Executive Director, New York Photonics
• Alexis Vogt, Endowed Chair & Associate Professor of Optics at Monroe Community College
• Ed White, AIM Photonics Outreach Executive

One year after the AIM Photonics announcement, where do we stand? How healthy is Rochester's OPI industry?  What can community leaders do to help grow our industry?

Hear a progress update about AIM Photonics.  Learn about the most successful Optical Systems Technology Program in the Nation.  Learn about other amazing photonics initiatives in our region.  Identify key areas where efforts and investments must be made to leverage New York State's strategic advantage in this industry.

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 – 6:00    Special Technology Demonstration
6:00 - 7:30     Networking / refreshments

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 Meeting is sold out.  You may still register for the cocktail reception followed by a second showing of the exciting new Planetarium technology demonstration.  

Select option two when registering.