About the MicroNanoConference

MicroNanoConference

1 – 2 November 2022, University of Twente

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

The international MicroNanoConference 2022 brings together science and industry to show how micro and nanotechnology can help to tackle social issues in Nano4Society. 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 | 1 November 2022

07:30 – 08:30 Exhibitors building-up
08:30 – 09:30 Registration open and welcome attendees with coffee
09.30-09.40 Opening iMNC22 and welcome by Maarten Honing, Hans Dijk, Martijn Fransen
09:40-11:00 Opening Session with keynote speakers
  • Maurits Boeije (NWO/Secretary of Circular PlasticsNL Foundation): Introduction to National Growth Funds
  • Rini Romme (Strategic Advisor National Growth Fund LLL-Katalysator): Life Long Learning-Katalysator – fit for work, now and in the future
11:00-11:15 Coffee & Tea break

Breakout session 1A | Nano4Health

Location: Waaier 1

11:15 – 12:45

Focus on Technologies for Therapeutic purposes

Chairs: Janny van den Eijnden-van Raaij, Murali Ghatkesar

11.15-11.45 How to use stem cell derived insulin producing cells for the treatment of diabetes
Eelco de Koning (LUMC)
11:45-12:05 Upscaling: optimize your cell therapy process for production in a bioreactor
Ruud Das (Scinus)
12:05-12:25 Knowing more from less: a microfluidic toolbox for at-line monitoring and control of mammalian cell bioprocesses
Fabien Abeille (Micronit)
12.25-12.45 Probing cell-cell interaction with ultrasound for the development of immunotherapies
Amanda Franklin (Lumicks)

Breakout session 1B | Session scale-up

Location: Waaier 2

11:15 – 12:30

Session Scale up: Organisation and finance

Chair: Martijn Fransen

11.15-11.35 Delmic – the journey from start-up to scale-up
Sander den Hoedt (Delmic)
11.35-11.55 Micronit – the journey from scale-up to the next scale-up
Ronny van ‘t Oever (Micronit)
11:55-12:30 Round table discussion with public and private investors
Steven Tan (Nascent Ventures) / Herbert Belthuis (Rabobank)

Breakout session 1C | Miniaturization

Location: Waaier 3

11:15 – 12:45

Miniaturization in nanotechnology

Chairs: Peter Steeneken, Rob van Schaijk

11.15-11.45 From millimeter to molecule: multi-modal microscopy across scales
Jacob Hoogeboom (TU Delft)
11.45-12.05 Molecular sensing technologies for Point-of-Care applications
Aurel Ymeti (Saxion applied nanotechnology)
12.05-12:25 Hair-thin imaging probe
Dr. Lyuba Amitonova, (Nanoscale Imaging and Metrology | Advanced Research Center for Nanolithography – ARCNL)
12:25-12:45 Graphene sensors for single cell antibiotic sensitivity testing
Aleksandre Japaridze (SoundCell)

Lunch & Networking

12:45 – 14:00

12:45-14:00 Lunch and networking
13:25-13:55 Exhibitor pitch session
13:55-14:00 Room switch

Breakout session 2A | Nano4Agri&Food

Location: Waaier 1

14:00 – 15:30

Emulsions and up-scaling of microfluidics

Chair: Karin Schroën

14:00-14:30 Micro- and nanotechnology for food production; from farm to fork and more!
Karin Schroën (Wageningen University & Research)
14:30-14:50 Upscaling microfluidic devices for emulsion production
Sten ten Klooster (Wageningen University & Research)
14:50-15:10 In-air microfluidics for large-scale production of gel-beads
Tom Kamperman (IamFluidics)
15:10-15:30 Sensor technology, including the use of quantum technology
Lex Oosterveld (IMEC)

Breakout session 2B | Scale-up of manufacturing

Location: Waaier 2

14:00 – 15:30

Scale-up of micro- and nanomanufacturing

Chairs: Marcel Tichem / Han Gardeniers

14:00-14:30 3D printing of pharmaceuticals
Kirsten Schimmel (Associate Professor Drug Manufacturing, LUMC, Leiden)
14:30-14:50 Micron-accurate production by 3D printing
Jaco Saurwalt (ADMATEC)
14:50-15:10 Large area Roll-to-Plate imprinting enabling manufacturing of micro and nano-optics
Jan Matthijs ter Meulen (Morphotonics)
15:10-15:30 Printing with Light
Gari Arutinov (Holst Centre)

Breakout session 2C | Quantum technology

Location: Waaier 3

14:00 – 15:30

Quantum technology

Chair: Douwe Geuzebroek

14:00-14:30 Tackling bottlenecks to realize quantum computing
Amber van Hauwermeiren (OrangeQS)
14:30-14:50 Quantum photo-thermodynamics on a programmable quantum photonic processor
Frank Somhorst (University of Twente)
14:50-15:10 Highly Scalable Single-Photon Receiver for Quantum Computing – Challenges and Opportunities
Wladick Hartmann (Pixel Photonics GmbH)
15:10-15:30 Quantum processing with light
Caterina Taballione (QuiX)

Coffee & tea break

15:30 – 15:50

Afternoon program & networking

15:45 – 17:45

15:50-16:20 Brigitte Drees (CEO at Pivot Park & Pivot Park Screening Centre; Growth Fund PharmaNL)
16:20-16:50 Poster Pitch session (Waaier 1)
16:50-17:50 Poster session incl. drinks, bites & talk

Evening program & social networking

18:00 – 22:00

Dinner and networking

17:50-18:00 Gathering for evening program (entrance Waaier Building/Hal B)
18:00-18:15 Transport to Grolsch Veste – Enschede
18:15-21:45 Dinner, tour & networking Grolsch Veste – Enschede
21:45-22:00 Closing and transport to the UT Campus

Program | 2 November 2022

Morning plenary session

Location: Waaier 1

8:30 – 9:45

08:30-09:00 Registration open and welcome attendees with coffee
09:00-09:10 Opening day 2 of iMNC22 and welcome by chair
09:10-09:40 Opening Session with keynote speaker

·      Philippe Bouyer (QuantumDeltaNL/lead CAT3: Quantum Sensing)

09:40-09:45 Room switch

Breakout session 1A | Miniaturization in nanotechnology

Location: Waaier 1

9:45 – 11:15

Miniaturization in nanotechnology

Chairs: Mandy ten Bloemendal, Peter Steeneken

09:45-10:15 Wafer integration of MEMS with flexible metal interconnect
Rob van Schaijk (Philips)
10:15-10:35 Photovoltaics/energytransition
Jurriaan Schmitz (University of Twente)
10:35-10:55 Optofluidics with 2D materials for single-molecule fingerprinting
Sabina Caneva (TU Delft)
10:55-11:15 Biosensors based on CMOS nanocapacitor arrays: frequency and length scales
Serge Lemay (University of Twente)

Breakout session 1B | Molecular sensing for Health & Food applications

Location: Waaier 2

9:45 – 11:15

Molecular Sensing for Health & Food Applications

Chair: Aurel Ymeti

09:45-10:15 Molecular sensing of antibiotics, proteins and antibodies using photonic integrated chips
Martin Bennink (Applied Nanotechnology, Saxion)
10:15-10:35 Lateral flow diagnostic platform – outdated or source of innovation
Aart van Amerongen (BioSensing and Diagnostics, WUR)
10:35-10:55 From photonics to diagnostics: it takes more than two to tango
Luc Scheres (Surfix Diagnostics)
10:55-11:15 Delta Diagnostics – making label-free multiplexed biosensing accessible to all
Vanessa Jungbluth (Delta Diagnostics)

Breakout session 1C | Nano4Society: Creating safe and sustainable solutions, with examples in Health and Energy

Location: Waaier 3

9:45 – 11:15

Nano4Society: Creating safe and sustainable solutions, with examples in Health and Energy (chair: Erik van Geest)

Chair: Erik van Geest

09:45-10:15 Overview and ambitions of Nano4Society
Erik van Geest (N4S)
10:15-10:35 Safe and sustainable nanotechnology solutions
Adrienne Sips (RIVM)
10:35-10:55 From lab to society: how to bring research outside your lab and create impact
Cinzia Silvestri (Bi/ond)
10:55-11:15 Nanomaterials for ultrafast charging in next-generation batteries
Mark Huijben (UT)

Coffee & tea break

11:15 – 11:30

Coffee and tea break

Posters & Exhibitors

Breakout session 2A | Life after your graduation

Location: Waaier 1

11:30 – 13:00

Life after graduation

Chair: Mandy ten Bloemendal

11:30-13.00 Leon Tebroke (Saxion): Combination master/part-time work Nanotech

Maarten Honing (University of Maastricht): From academia to industry and back again. A science journey!

Aryan Aziezie (Floriculture): Unicorns and Beyond – A tale of Technology, Data, Plants and Luck

Jan-Jaap Koning (TMC): Skills for Engineering

Discussion

Breakout session 2B | IVAM theme: Microfluidics

Location: Waaier 2

11:30 – 13:00

Session IVAM: Microfluidics

Chair: Florian Siemenroth en Dominique Bouwes

11:30-11:50 Adaptable Magnetic Shape Memory Alloy Pump for Lab-on-Chip
Tim Polley (HNP-Mikrosysteme GmbH)
11:50-12:10 High Miniaturized Multisensor Pill
Basel Adams (Fraunhofer IZM)
12:10-12:30 Where Photonics meet Microfluidics – challenges and opportunities for consumables for life sciences and diagnostics applications in glass
Lukas Greuter (IMT-AG)
12:30-12:55 Discussion
Chair: Florian Siemenroth

Breakout session 2C | Panel discussion: towards a MinacNed QuantumNano cluster

Location: Waaier 3

11:30 – 12:55

Workshop ‘Connecting the quantum and micro-nano communities’ 

Chair: Douwe Geuzebroek

11:30-12:55 ‘Round table’ of all involved groups: NanoLabNL (Guus Rijnders), Nano4Society (Albert van den Berg), QuantumDeltaNL (Raoul Oostenbrink), MinacNed (Douwe Geuzebroek, moderator)

Lunch & Networking

13:00 – 14:00

13:00-14:00 Lunch and networking
13:00-13:55 Poster and exhibitor area open for networking
13:55-14:00 Room switch

Breakout session 3A | Scale-up: Technical scale-up issues and solutions

Location: Waaier 1

14:00 – 15:30

Scale-Up: Technical scale-up issues and solutions

Chairs: Cas Damen, Martijn Fransen

14:00-14:30 MEMS Sensors in Mass Flow Controllers: Towards Production
Wouter Sparreboom (Bronkhorst)
14:30-14:50 Paul van Ulsen (Salland)
14:50-15:10 Design for manufacturing – Standardization for photonic integrated circuits
Ronald Dekker (LioniX International)
15:10-15:30 Assembly of photonic IC based products; from prototype to volume production
Joost van Kerkhof (PHIX)

Breakout session 3B | Nano4Health: Focus on technologies for diagnostic purposes

Location: Waaier 2

14:00 – 15:30

Nano4Health: Focus on Technologies for Diagnostic purposes

Chair: Herman Blok

14:00-14:30 Sweat sensors for diagnostics
Jaap den Toonder (TU/e)
14:30-14:50 Roll-to-roll manufacturing of Lab-on-a-Foil Chips for IVD applications
Pakapreud Khumwan (Joanneum Institute)
14:50-15:10 Decentralized diagnostic testing in pocket format
Laura Folkertsma-Hendriks (Salvitat)
15:10-15:30 Si-micro-pumps for Organ-on-a-Chip and drug delivery applications
Henry Leistner (Fraunhofer EMFT)

Breakout session 3C | NanoLabNL

Location: Waaier 3

14:00 – 15:30

NanoLabNL

Chair: Raoul Oostenbrink

14:00-14:15 State-of-the art nanofabrication facilities enabling the Quantum and Photonic agendas – Introduction and featured services
Frank Dirne (NanoLab@TU/e)
14:15-14:30 The new NanoLabNL Information System – the potential for harmonizing workflows across 5 locations
Frank Dirne (NanoLab@TU/e)
14:30-15:00 Deep-UV lithography for photonics – from research to production
Jeroen Bolk (Eindhoven University of Technology)
15:00-15:30 Taking it to the nano level and beyond: Pulsed Laser Deposition and its applications
Daniel Monteiro Cunha (University of Twente)

Coffee & tea break

15:30 – 15:45

Posters & Exhibitors

Afternoon program & networking

15:45 – 15:50 

Room switch

Afternoon program & networking

15:50 – 17:30

15:45-15:50 Room switch
15:50-16:20 The 5 Ws of the new platform SensingNL
Henk-Jan van Manen (Nouryon / SensingNL)
16:20-16:45 Panel discussion

Wrap-up

Announcement Exhibitor Pitch and Poster of the Year Award 2022 and closing

16:45-17:30 Drinks, Bites & Talk

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- and nanotechnology help addressing our social challenges.

iMNC22 theme

From science to market – scale-up in nanotech

The International MicroNanoConference 2022 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
  • In 2019: up to 400 national and international visitors

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 iMNC22 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 general terms and conditions for the iMNC22 here (pdf)

For the nights of 31 October, 1 November and 2 November, we reserved rooms for a special rate in hotels near the conference location:

UPark hotel, Enschede:

14 rooms available for a special rate until 19 September 2022:

Comfort room:            € 89,50 per room, per night

Superior room:            € 99,50 per room, per night

Breakfast:                     € 15,50 per room, per night

Touristtax:                    € 2,75 per room, per night

Reservations can be made by sending an e-mail to: info@uparkhotel.nl or by calling: +31 53 433 13 66. Please, mention ‘iMNC 2022’, to receive the special rate.

20 rooms available for a special rate until 21 October 2022:

Comfort room:
€119,00 per room based on one or two person use, per night, exclusive breakfast.
€134,50 per room based on one person use, per night, inclusive breakfast.

€150,00 per room based on two person use, per night, inclusive breakfast.
Prices are always based on availability and excluding tourist tax of €2.75 per person per night.

Comfort plus kamer:
€124,00 per room based on one person use, per night, exclusive breakfast.
€139,50 per room based on two person use, per night, inclusive breakfast.
€155,00 per room based on two person use, per night, inclusive breakfast.
Prices are always based on availability and excluding tourist tax of €2.75 per person per night.

Reservations can be made by sending an e-mail to: ens-receptie@enschede.valk.nl  Please mention iMNC 2022’, to receive the special rate.

20 rooms available for a special rate until 16 October 2022:

€114,50 per room (twin room) based on two person use, per night, inclusive breakfast.

Reservations can be made by sending an e-mail to: info.cityhengelo@edenhotels.nl

Please mention ‘iMNC 2022’, to receive the special rate.

Parking can be done in parking ‘De Beurs’ (opposite the hotel) for € 9,90 per 24 hours.

De Broeierd, Enschede:

20 rooms available for a special rate until 1 October 2022:

€96,50 per room based on one person use, per night, exclusive breakfast.

Booking breakfast together with room reservation: €13,50

Booking breakfast at stay in the hotel: €18,50

Reservations can be made by sending an e-mail to: info@fletcherhotelenschede.nl

Please mention ‘105-GFC2851’, to receive the special rate.

Free cancellation is possible up to 24 hours before the arrival date.

Intercity hotel, Enschede:

30 rooms available for a special rate until 3 October 2022:

The price of a standard single room is € 102, 50 per room per night, breakfast included, excluding city tax of € 2,75 p.p. per night. The price of a standard double room is € 121, 50 per room per night, breakfast included, excluding city tax of € 2,75 p.p. per night.

Reservations can be made by filling out the reservation form that you can find here and sending it to: enschede@intercityhotel.com