Second edition of Invest in Photonics to be held in Bordeaux

BORDEAUX, FRANCE: Invest in Photonics, a two-day international partnering convention will be held in Bordeaux, France, March 18–19, 2010.

The only European-wide photonics-investor convention of its kind, Invest in Photonics 2010, will bring together the world’s experts in photonics and leading investors from Europe and beyond to meet with emerging photonics companies seeking financial support. Upwards of 200 participants are expected to attend.

Invest in Photonics is an investment-networking and market development event. It facilitates meetings between entrepreneurs and executives of emerging companies in photonics and investors and analysts. These investors include venture capitalists, institutional investors and potential technology licensees from a wide range of high growth potential industries that use the latest photonics technology.

“Invest in Photonics is about creating investment opportunities in Europe for investors and emerging companies in photonics,” says Bernard Couillaud, chairman of the Invest in Photonics organizing committee. “The field of Photonics is bursting with innovation and represents a global industry estimated to be worth $760 billion, according to the SPIE, an international society focusing on advanced light-based research. Invest in Photonics is proud to have many international partners join us for this second convention”.

The two-day Invest in Photonics event will consist of a program of keynote speakers and three presentation sessions. The presentation sessions are: Market Time, Business Time, and Innovation Time will showcase photonics products and the latest technology breakthroughs.