ZEI Symposium: ZEI Symposium Optics in the Digital World Networks International Scientists

OBERKOCHEN/Germany, 24.06.2016.

ZEISS offers a platform for Optics 4.0

Future-oriented technologies in focus: ZEISS networks international scientists and industry.

Optics enable digitization and digitization is revolutionizing optics.

Around 200 international experts discussed trends in optics and photonics at the ZEISS Symposium Optics in the Digital World. The keynote speakers were Professor Laura Waller from the University of California, Berkeley, Professor Ingmar Posner from Oxford University and David Bohn from Microsoft. All three outlined the requirements to be met in the future by research. These are being shaped by increasing digitization and Big Data applications and are determining trends in optical technologies. These include computer-aided image processing, processing large datasets in optics, obtaining information from data, visualization for augmented and virtual reality scenarios (AR/VR) as well as computer vision and machine learning.

The Symposium in Oberkochen networked international scientists and leading representatives from industry. Meeting in the ZEISS Forum, the Symposium participants not only presented the current state of technology, but also identified and worked out where there is need for action in strategic research fields in the coming years. As future-oriented technologies, optics and photonics shape our society, science and culture. Other new important areas include communications, sensors, illumination and medical technology. Digitization enables the manufacture of microchips with ever-smaller structures and therefore more computing power with increasingly small dimensions. Another exciting field of innovation is immersive microscopy with the newly available VR/AR scenarios for digitized Big Data visualizations using VR headsets, data gloves and other devices. The Symposium served as a blueprint for the digital world of tomorrow, actively advancing light technologies.

Identifying future trends and tackling these challenges is firmly embedded in the ZEISS DNA. The international participants have identified the following four trends for technological innovations:

Computational Imaging Optical functionality is being replaced or supplemented with digital software components.

Machine Learning Optical sensors provide the data which are then digitally evaluated, such as for self-driving vehicles.

Large Data Leading-edge optical instruments produce large data quantities that are evaluated intelligently such as via Big Data.

AR/VR Combination/synthesis of digital and real content, such as for visualizations in manufacturing and medical technology, interior design and shopping experiences.

The President and CEO of ZEISS, Professor Michael Kaschke, officially opened the Symposium in Oberkochen with a look back at the triumph of the smartphone and the beginning of the digital revolution for consumers approximately ten years ago. "One thing is clear: this digital revolution would not have been possible without optics and photonics," explained Professor Kaschke. The relevance of optical and photonic technologies is constantly increasing. The internet, Big Data, linking the real and virtual world: all of these subjects are being advanced by digital technologies. "We are all experiencing how collecting, processing and visualizing data is progressing at an amazing speed and is fundamentally changing our everyday and working lives. Against this backdrop, UNESCO declared 2015 the Year of Light in order to highlight the key role of light in science, society and culture. Today we see what challenges and requirements still lie ahead for innovations in the future and in what direction our optical digitization journey is taking us."

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The Symposium Optics in the Digital World networks international scientists and leading representatives from industry: David Bohn, Microsoft, Professor Laura Waller, UC Berkeley, Stefan Kampmann, Osram, Professor Michael Kaschke, ZEISS, Professor Ingmar Posner, Oxford University, Dr. Jochen Peter, ZEISS (left to right).

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Optics enable digitization and digitization is revolutionizing optics. ZEISS President and CEO Professor Michael Kaschke discusses trends in optics and photonics with around 200 international experts at the ZEISS Symposium Optics in the Digital World.

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About ZEISS:

ZEISS is an internationally leading technology enterprise operating in the optics and optoelectronics industries. The ZEISS Group develops and distributes lithography optics, measuring technology, microscopes, medical technology, eyeglass lenses, camera and cine lenses, binoculars and planetarium technology. With its solutions, the company constantly advances the world of optics and helps shape technological progress. ZEISS is divided up into the four segments Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology, Research & Quality Technology, Medical Technology, and Vision Care / Consumer Optics. ZEISS is represented in over 40 countries and operates more than 30 production sites, over 50 sales and service locations and about 25 research and development facilities.

In fiscal year 2014/15 the company generated revenue approximating 4.5 billion euros with around 25,000 employees. Founded in 1846 in Jena, the company is headquartered in Oberkochen, Germany. Carl Zeiss AG is the strategic management holding company that manages the ZEISS Group. The company is wholly owned by the Carl Zeiss Stiftung (Carl Zeiss Foundation).

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