Invited talks
- EU strategy on environmental R&D, Manuela Soares, European Commission (Belgium);
- ICT for energy efficiency - EU strategy and research support, Mercè Griera i Fisa, European Comission (Belgium);
- A paradigm change in energy: the new electricity age, Thomas Bosselmann, Siemens AG (Germany);
- Temperature monitoring of geothermal energy wells, Mikko Jaaskelainen, SensorTran, Inc. (United States of America);
- Maximising wind turbine performance: how optical fibre sensors help to provide low cost, predicable green energy, Glynn Lloyd, Insensys (United Kingdom);
- Fiber optic sensor technology - an engineering reality or a scientific opportunity?, Brian Culshaw, University of Strathclyde (United Kingdom);
- Multimaterial fiber sensors, Fabien Sorin, Yoel Fink, Photonic Band Gap Fibers and Devices Group, MIT (United States of America);
- Spintronic microfluidic platform for biomedical and environmental applications, F. A. Cardoso, V. C. Martins, INESC MN (Portugal); L. P. Fonseca, IBB (Portugal); J. Germano, L. A. Sousa, M. S. Piedade, IST (Portugal); Paulo Freitas, INESC MN (Portugal);
- Emerging fiber-optic endomicroscopy technologies towards noninvasive real-time visualization of histology in situ, Jiefeng Xi, Yuying Zhang, Li Huo, Yongping Chen, Troufic Jabbour, Johns Hopkins University (United States of America); Ming-Jun Li, Corning Inc. (United States of America); Xingde Li, Johns Hopkins University (United States of America);
- Fibre optic grating sensors for biofuels, M. Muller, J. L. Fabris, Hypolito Kalinowski, Federal University - Paraná (Brazil);
- Plasmonic fibre probes as nanoantennas for local sensing and light control, Niek van Hulst, ICFO (Spain);
- Sensing using slow light in fiber Bragg gratings, Michel Digonnet, Stanford University (United States of America);
- Recent progress towards centimetric spatial resolution in distributed fibre sensing, Luc Thévenaz, Stella Foaleng-Mafang, Kang-Yong Song, Sanghoon Chin, Jean-Charles Beugnot, Nikolay Primerov, Moshe Tur, EPFL (Switzerland);
- Distributed fibre optic sensors embedded in technical textiles for structural health monitoring, Katerina Krebber, Philipp Lenke, Sascha Liehr, Nils Noether, Mario Wendt, Aleksander Wosniok, BAM (Germany);