As a tradition, the OPD2026 program will include both the academy and industry sessions running in parallel.
Venue (26 – 28 May 2026):
Paviljonki
Lutakonaukio 12, 40100 Jyväskylä
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Tuesday 26.5.2026
| 10.00-12.00 | Quantative Chemically-Specific Imaging for Materials and Life Sciences, Agenda Room, Paviljonki 3rd floor |
| 12.00 | OPD2026 Registration Opens , Paviljonki 1st Floor lobby |
| 12.15-14:30 | Interactive Session (and coffee): European photonics is at a turning point, Event Hall, Paviljonki, 1st Floor |
| 12.45-13.15 | Coffee for Student Event attendees, Agenda Room, Paviljonki 3rd floor |
| 13.00-15.00 | Student Event - Optics and Photonics journey: Academia or Industry, or both?, Agenda Room, Paviljonki 3rd floor |
| 14.30-15.00 | Coffee for PREIN Annual Event attendees, Event Hall, Paviljonki 1st floor |
| 15.00-18.00 | PREIN Annual Event, Event Hall, Paviljonki, 1st Floor |
| 18.30-21.00 | OPD2026 Get Together for conference attendees, Event Hall, Paviljonki 1st floor Welcome speech Jouko Korppi-Tommola, Professor, Emeritus, University of Jyväskylä |
Wednesday 27.5.2026
| 08.00-8.45 | Registration opens |
| 08.45-09.00 | Welcome Speech Sanna Aikio, Chairman of the Board, Photonics Finland Pasi Raiskinmäki, Vice Rector, University of Jyväskylä Event Hall, Paviljonki 1st floor |
| 09.00-09.45 | Plenary: Professor Ifor Samuel, University of St. Andrews, "Organic Semiconductor Optoelectronics: Communications, Medicine and Lasers", Event Hall, Paviljonki 1st floor |
| 09.45-10.10 | Exhibitor's pitch - Session 1, Event Hall, Paviljonki 1st floor |
| 10.10-10.40 | Coffee break and Exhibition - Event Hall, Paviljonki 1st floor |
| Parallel sessions: | |
| 10.40-12.00 | Academic Session 1 - Sensing and Imaging, Chair Erik Vartiainen, Intro Auditorium, Paviljonki 2nd floor 10:40 – 11:00 Quantum sensing and imaging in mid-IR by photon pair generation in double-resonant polariton system, Vladislav Shiskov, Aalto University 11:00 – 11:20 Material analysis with time-resolved spectral mapping and luminescence imaging, Saara kaski, Aalto University 11:20 – 11:40 Identifying and Mitigating Instrumental Bias in Fiber-Optic Coherent Lidar for CO₂ Sensing, Nikita Kikilich, Tampere University 11:40 – 12:00 Reconstructing multiple initial pressure and speed of sound distributions simultaneously in photoacoustic tomography, Miika Suhonen, University of Eastern Finland |
| Industrial session 1 - PICs & Quantum Photonics, Chair Jyrki Saarinen, Tempo Auditorium, Paviljonki 2nd floor 10:40 – 11:00 Peter van Arkel, PhotonDelta 11:00 – 11:20 Decoupling Wavelength from Hardware: A New Architecture for Optical Communication, Nick Volet, Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of QVersion and Associate Professor of Photonics at Aarhus University 11:20 – 11:40 Vexlum’s laser solutions for quantum applications, Dr. Tommi Hakulinen, Vexlum 11:40 – 12:00 Towards production-ready photonic technology platforms, Lasse Karvonen, imec |
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| 12.00-13.00 | Lunch break and Exhibition - Event Hall, Paviljonki 1st floor |
| 13.00-14.00 | Poster Session 1 - Event Hall, Paviljonki 1st floor |
| 14.00-14.45 | Plenary: Michael Peeters, Imec, "Is Penelope weaving our (compute) fabric?" Event Hall, Paviljonki 1st floor |
| 14.45-15.15 | Exhibitor's pitch - Session 2, Event Hall, Paviljonki 1st floor |
| 15.15-15.45 | Coffee break and Exhibition - "Event" Hall, Paviljonki 1st floor |
| Parallel sessions: | |
| 15.45-17.05 | Academic Session 2 - Novel Photonic Devices, Chair Mikko Huttunen, Intro Auditorium, Paviljonki 2nd floor 15:45 – 16:05 Polaritons as a Photonic Testbed for Advancing Organic Optoelectronics, Henri Lyyra, Turku University 16:05 – 16:25 High Quality factor van der Waals microcavities for ultralow-loss nonlinear photonics, Jingnan Yang, Aalto University 16:25 – 16:45 Cross-Phase Modulation in Time-varying epsilon-near-zero metasurface, Rakesh Dhama, Tampere University 16:45 – 17:05 Three-color vortex comb interferometer, Santeri Larnimaa, University of Helsinki |
| Industrial session 2 - Optical Measurements & AI for Industry, Chair Juha Purmonen, 15:45 – 16:05 Traceable quality control tools for photonics industry, Virpi Korpelainen, Senior Scientist at VTT MIKES 16:05 – 16:25 Non-contact Laser Vibrometry for industrial applications, Kim Grundström, CEO, Kimmy Photonics 16:25 – 16:45 Multi-Chip-LEDs and broadband LEDs as specific light sources in various applications, Antje Thamm, VP Sales & Marketing, EPIGAP OSA Photonics GmbH 16:45 – 17:05 Use and limitations of AI in real time industral process monitoring & product quality inspection with machine vision, M.Sc. Jussi Lindgren, Technology manager responsible of imaging based measurements at Valmet. |
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| 17.05-17.40 | Photonics Finland Annual meeting - Event Hall, Paviljonki 1st floor |
| 17.05-17.40 | UEF Alumni event - Tempo Auditorium, 2nd floor |
| 18.00-19.10 | Boats to dinner leaves at 18.00 from Jyväskylä harbour, satamakatu 8, 40100 Jyväskylä. Dinner tickets will be checked when entering on board. |
| 19.15-21.45 | Conference dinner in Juurikkasaari, Juurikantie 5, 40900 Säynätsalo, Jyväskylä Photonics Finland Awards: - The Photonics Company of the Year, - The Best PhD Thesis of the Year, |
| 21.45 - 02.00 | Dinner Afterparty and Networking at Juurikkasaari, - Whipping Post band, - "Optical Jam Session" (Jyväskylä Special) with live karaoke and changing artists, Nanöband |
| 22.30 - 02.00 | Busses leaving from Juurikkasaari and going to Jyväskylä City Center / Matkakeskus (25min trip). Dinner Program and Bus schedules from Juurikkasaari to Matkakeskus |
Thursday 28.5.2026
| 09.15 | OPD2026 doors open |
| 09.15- 09.45 | Coffee break and Exhibition - Event Hall, Paviljonki 1st floor |
| 09.45-10.30 | Plenary: Tapio Kallonen, CEO, Specim Spectral Imaging Oy How Hyperspectral Imaging is changing Inspection and Material Analysis – Use case examples Event Hall, Paviljonki 1st floor |
| Parallel sessions: | |
| 10.40-12.00 | Academic Session 3 - Materials and Processing, Chair Jussi Hiltunen, Intro Auditorium, Paviljonki 2nd floor 10:40 – 11:00 Excimer laser micro structuring setup using a micro mirror array as programmable mask, Sebastian Buettner, Laserinstitut Hochschule Mittweida (LHM) 11:00 – 11:20 Live-Shaping of Hydrogel Thin Films with Light, Matias Paatelainen, Tampere University 11:20 – 11:40 Area-selective ALD as dielectric for top-gated GFET, Maryam Naderpour, University of Jyväskylä 11:40 – 12:00 Towards multimodal sensing with single-crystal diamond needles, Elena Filonenko, University of Eastern Finland |
| Industrial session 3 - Photonics in Augmented Reality, Chair Birgit Päivänranta, 10:40 – 11:00 How do you make an AR display? Maksim Shpak, Principal Optical Engineer, Anduril Industries 11:00 – 11:20 Advancing AR waveguide optics with high‑refractive‑index polymer substrates, Sesha Manuguri, PhD. 11:20 – 11:40 Personalized Eyewear Technologies for Seamless AI Integration, Marco Galiazzo, AMAT 11:40 - 12:00 OpenAR: Affordable AR-glasses with open hardware and software, Professor Jyrki Saarinen, Head of the Center for Photonics Sciences, University of Eastern Finland |
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| 12.00-13.00 | Lunch break - Event Hall, Paviljonki 1st floor |
| 12.00-15.00 | Job Fair, EEN Matchmaking and Exhibition - Event Hall, Paviljonki 1st floor |
| 13.00-14.00 | Poster Session 2 - Event Hall, Paviljonki 1st floor |
| 14.00-14.45 | Plenary: Prof. Dr. Lukas Novotny, ETH Zürich, "Levitated Optomechanics", Event Hall, Paviljonki 1st floor |
| Parallel sessions: | |
| 14.45-16.05 | Academic Session 4 - Fundamental photonics, Chair Anton Zasedatelev, Intro Auditorium, Paviljonki 2nd floor 14:45 – 15:05 Nonlinear photonics with anapoles and bound states in the continuum in III-V nanostructures, Radoslaw Kolkowski, Aalto University 15:05 – 15:25 Beyond Polariton Filtering: New Pathways for Polariton-Mediated Excitation, Ville Tiainen, University of Jyväskylä 15:25 – 15:45 Light emission from a dipole in a lossy and graded-index surrounding, Farzaneh Adibzadeh, Åbo Akademi 15:45 – 16:05 Flat Bands from Diffraction in Periodic Systems, Joel Lehikoinen, Aalto University |
| Industrial session 4 - Photonics for Dual-Use Applications, Chair Timo Vuorenpää, Tempo Auditorium, Paviljonki 2nd floor 14:45 – 15:05 Cooled Infrared Detectors – Manufacturing challenges and advances, Clive Arthurs, Engineering Product Manager, Leonardo S.p.A. 15:05 – 15:25 Fighter Jet grade HUD Technologies for Land Systems, Urho Konttori, CEO, Distance Technologies 15:25 – 15:45 Optical high frequency profiling in difficult environments, Toomas Pruuden, CEO, Marduk. 15:45 – 16:05 Multi-Spectral Optronics for Counter-UAS: From Reconnaissance to Rapid Target Engagement, Dr. Philip Klement, Systems Engineer, Hensoldt |
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| 16.05-16.15 | Best Oral presentation and best Poster Awards & Conference Farewell - Event Hall, Paviljonki 1st floor |
| 16.15 - 16.30 | Farewell coffee - Event Hall, Paviljonki 1st floor |
OPD2026 organizer, Photonics Finland reserves the right to modify the program without prior notice.