About the MicroNanoConference

International MicroNanoConference

30 – 31 October 2023
Kinepolis Jaarbeurs Utrecht

Where industry meets science, where problems can find solutions and where trends, challenges and new technologies are highlighted.

We aim for a scientific symposium of high value and a good atmosphere where science and industry can meet and have a good discussion. Therefore, following the format of previous iMNCs, we have worked on an exciting two-day program with (keynote) speakers from universities, research institutes and industry, break-out sessions on societal challenges and themes, and an evening program on 30 October.

We are happy to announce that the following keynote speakers will be coming to speak:

  • Monika Hoekstra (Program director NXTGEN HighTech)
  • Pieter de Witte (QuantumDelta NL)
  • Sander den Hoedt (Delmic)
  • Marc Hendrikse (Holland High Tech)
  • Mijndert van der Spek (Heriot-Watt University)

There will, of course, also be theme sessions with various speakers. You can find the complete programme on this page. Please note we are still working on the final sessions. So there are still several speakers, titles and session chairs to follow.

The international MicroNanoConference 2023 brings together science and industry to show how micro-, nano-, and quantumtechnology can help to tackle social issues in the society. The language at the MicroNanoConference is English.

Contact

Annerie van Steijn-Heesink,
Project manager MinacNed

Mail: h.a.m.heesink@utwente.nl
Phone: +31 53 4892715

Program | 30 October 2023

07:30 – 08:30 Exhibitors building-up
08:30 – 09:30 Registration open and welcome attendees with coffee
09.30-09.40 Opening iMNC23 and welcome by Martijn Fransen and Cas Damen
09:40-11:00 Opening Session with keynote speakers
  • Monika Hoekstra – Program director NXTGEN HighTech
  • Pieter de Witte – QuantumDelta NL
11:00-11:30 Coffee & Tea break

Breakout session 1A | Nano4Health

11:30 – 12:40

Nano4Health

11.30 – 12.00 Nano-biomaterials for precise targeted delivery of biological drugs for biomedical applications
Hélder Santos – UMCG
12.00 – 12.20 Pre-Charged Collapse-Mode CMUTs for power-transfer applications
Marta Saccher – Delft University of Technology 
12.20 – 12.40 Self-powered Flexible Ferroelectret for Wearable Sensing
Vinaya Basavarajappa – International Ilberian Nanotechnology Laboratory 

Breakout session 1B |
More than Moore

11.30 – 12.40

More than Moore

11.30 – 12.00 Speaker tba
12.00 – 12.20 Ruud Vullers – Smart Photonics
12.20 – 12.40 Christian Nijhuis – University of Twente

Breakout session 1C |
Quantum

11.30-12.40

Quantum

11.30 – 11.50 Towards scalable, high-performance quantum circuits: plasma atomic layer deposition of ultrathin superconducting TaCxN1-x
Silke Peeters – Eindhoven University of Technology 
11.50 – 12.40 Speaker tba

Lunch & Networking

12.40 – 14:00

12.40 – 14:00 Lunch an. networking
13.10 – 13.30 Poster session
13.35 – 13.55 Exhibitor pitch session
13.55 – 14.00 Room switch

Breakout session 2A | MicroFluidics

14.00 – 15.30

MicroFluidics

14.00 – 14.30 Alvaro Marin – University of Twente 
14.30 – 14.50 Enhancing Microfluidic Organ-on-Chip Devices: Overcoming Thermal Bonding Limitations with Laser Sealing
Chayan Bisyahee – Micronit
14.50 – 15.10 Nanoelectrochemical detection of single-molecule semiconducting polymers
Daniel Felipe Duarte Sánchez – University of Twente 
15.10 – 15.30 Speaker tba 

Breakout session 2B | Functional Surfaces and Interfaces

14.00 – 15.30

Functional Surfaces and Interfaces

14.00 – 14.30 Speaker tba
14.30 – 14.50 High-Throughput Fabrication of Size-Controlled Pickering Emulsions, Colloidosomes and Air-Coated Particles via Clog-Free Jetting of Suspensions
Jieke Jiang – University of Twente
14.50 – 15.10 Synthetic toolkit for the formation of polymer brushes on MRR’s
Bert Swennenhuis – Saxion 
15.10 – 15.30 A low-cost desktop inkjet printer to activate a CMOS capacitive micro-sensor array
Suman Kundu – Delft University of Technology

Breakout session 2C | Manufacturing Technologies

14.00 – 15.30

Manufacturing Technologies

14.00 – 14.30 Leveraging the integration of silicon chips with microfluidics and photonics for biomedical applications
Tim Stakenborg – IMEC 
14.30 – 14.50 Grayscale lithography
Jos Giesbers – Philips MEMS Foundry
14.50 – 15.10 Printing silver nanoparticle (AgNP) embedded foams for piezoresistive sensor applications
Guanxing Kuang – University of Twente
15.10 – 15.30 Methods and Tools for MEMS Wafer Testing
Aleksandar Andreski – Saxion 

Coffee & tea break

15.30 – 16.10

Afternoon program & networking

15.30 – 17.00

16.10 – 16.50 Keynote: Sander den Hoedt – Delmic
16.50 – 17.05 Gathering for evening program (entrance Kinepolis)
17.05 – 17.30 Walk/bus/tram to ‘Winkel van Sinkel’ (city centre Utrecht)
17.35 – 21.45 Canal cruise, dinner and networking
21.45 – 22.00 Closing

Evening program & social networking

17.00 – 22.00

Dinner and networking

17.00 Gathering for evening program (entrance Kinepolis)
17.00 – 17:15 Walk to De Winkel van Sinkel for evening program
17.30 – 21.45 Dinner, tour & networking De Winkel van Sinkel – Utrecht
21.45 – 22.00 Closing

Program | 31 October 2023

Morning plenary session

09.00 – 11.10

09.00 – 09.30 Welcome attendees with coffee
09.30 – 09.40 Opening day 2 of iMNC23 and welcome
09.40 – 10.20 Keynote speaker: Marc Hendrikse – Holland High Tech
Micro-nano community as a crucial ecosystem for the urgent transitions.
10.20 – 10.40 Poster pitch session
10.40 – 11.10 Coffeebreak

Breakout session 1A | Nano4Health

11.10 – 12.40

Nano4Health

11.10 – 11.40 Arjan Tibbe – IMEC / One Planet
11.40 – 12.00 Integrated sensing for tissue barrier integrity analysis in organ-on-chip systems
Pratik Tawede – Delft University of Technology 
12.00 – 12.20 Demonstrator for cartridge based photonic biosensor development
Gerald Ebberink – Saxion
12.20 – 12.40 3D-Folded microneedle array for neural recording and stimulation
Peter van Delft – Philips

Breakout session 1B | Nano4AgriFood and Environmental

11.10 – 12.40

Nano4AgriFood and Environmental

11.10 – 11.40 Sensip-dx: rapid detection of living bacteria in food
Nello Formisano – Sensip-dx
11.40 – 12.00 Miniaturized Electrochemical Gas Sensors for Monitoring Ambient O2 and CO2
Thijs Besseling – Imec-NL
12.00 – 12.20 Monitoring dynamic processes in food using microfluidics
Karin Schroën – Wageningen University
12.20 – 12.40 Readout of photonic sensors for veterinary diseases
Rory Dijkink – Saxion

Breakout session 1C | MinacNed-IVAM session on Health

11.10 – 12.30

MinacNed-IVAM session on Health

11.10 – 11.30 Frank Platte – IANUS Simulation
11.30 – 11.50 Alexander Kostenko – Photosynthetic
11.50 – 12.10 Siegfried Graf – CSEM
12.10 – 12.30 Speaker tba

Lunch & Networking

12.40 – 13.20

12.40 – 13.20 Lunch and networking
13.20 – 13.40 Poster session
13.40 – 14.20 Keynote speaker: Mijndert van der Spek – Heriot-Watt University 
Direct air capture, nanoscale processes for a global scale problem
14.20 – 14.30 Room switch

Breakout session 2A | Energy

14.30 – 15.45

Energy

14.30 – 14.55 Marc Huijben – University of Twente
14.55 – 15.20 Material and interface engineering for halide perovskite-based photovoltaics
Adriana Creatore – TU Eindhoven
15.20 – 15.45 Speaker tba

Breakout session 2B | Organ-on-a-chip

14.30 – 15.40

Organ-on-a-chip

14.30 – 15.00 Marcel Karperien – University of Twente
15.00 – 15.20 Human renal proximal tubule-on-a-chip model to study prevention of ischemia and reperfusion injury
Laura Tool – Mimetas
15.20 – 15.40 Dissolved Oxygen Sensor Employing Platinum Micro-Electrodes on Silicon Chips for Application in Bioreactors and Organ-on-Chip Systems
Jos Oudenhoven – IMEC at Holst Centre

Breakout session 2C | MinacNed-IVAM session on MicroFluidics

14.30 – 15.50

MinacNed-IVAM session on MicroFluidics

14.30 – 14.50 Florian Siemenroth – Bartels Mikrotechnik & Rebecca Stekeler – Memetas
14.50 – 15.10 Speaker tba
15.10 – 15.30 Claudia Gärtner – Microfluidic Chipshop
15.30 – 15.50 Speaker tba

Afternoon program & networking

15.50 – 18.00

15.50 – 16.10 Wrap-up

Announcement Exhibitor Pitch and Poster of the Year Award 2023

Closing

16.10 – 17.30 Drinks, bites and talk
17.30 – 18.00 Break-down of booths

Exhibitors and sponsor opportunities

Where industry meets science, where problems find solutions and where trends, challenges and new technologies are highlighted. The international MicroNanoConference brings together science and industry to showcase how micro-, nano-, and quantumtechnology help addressing our societal challenges.

iMNC23 theme

Where science meets industry on micro-, nano- and quantumtechnology

The International MicroNanoConference 2023 offers you:

  • Excellent program with speakers from industry and academia
  • Company exhibitor booths
  • Exhibitor pitches
  • Poster presentations and poster pitches
  • Networking opportunities
  • Informal networking during the evening program with conference dinner

Why become an exhibitor

  • Excellent opportunity to show your products and services
  • Meet new and exciting partners and customers
  • Your exhibitor booth on the conference floor
  • Pitch your company to attract more attendees to your booth
  • Your logo and company profile in the iMNC23 communications online (web, socials)

Do you have a question?

Would you like to become a MinacNed member or would you like to discuss sponsorship opportunities?

Contact Annerie Heesink
Project manager at MinacNed
h.a.m.heesink@utwente.nl
+31 53 4892715

Download the exhibitor kit iMNC23 (pdf)

Download the general terms and conditions for the iMNC23 here (pdf)

Registration

Pricing:

Member full fee conference
Early bird member full fee conference

Non-member fee full conference
Early bird non-member full fee conference

PhD fee full conference

Member fee day 30 October
Non-member fee day 30 October
Phd fee day 30 October
Member fee day 31 October
Non-member fee day 31 October
PhD fee day 31 October

€ 475
€ 400

€ 575
€ 500

€ 315

€ 285
€ 335
€ 210
€ 230
€ 285
€ 155

Early bird rate applies only with full attendance and is valid until 18 September 2023.

Location and hotels

Location

The International MicroNanoConference 2023 will take place at the Kinepolis Jaarbeurs in Utrecht. This location is easily accessible by both public transport and car. The graphic below shows the walking route from Central Station to the Kinepolis Jaarbeurs. You can also see two parking options at Jaarbeurs Utrecht. You can park here at P2 and P4 (for both, navigate to ‘Truus van Lierlaan’) for a reduced rate of 15 euros.

Kinepolis Jaarbeurs
Jaarbeursboulevard 300
3521 BC Utrecht

Download the map

Hotels

Are you planning to stay in Utrecht during the conference? On this page, you will find some hotels near the conference location.