08:00 - 09:00             Breakfast

09:00 - 09:30             Opening Remarks + Welcome

09:30 - 10:30               From Basement Lab to Program of Record: An Entrepreneur’s Story
                                                Susan Houde-Walter, University of Arizona, USA

10:30 – 11:00               Coffee break

11:00 – 12:00               Career paths, applied research, cohorts, mentorship

Gisele Bennet, MEPSS LLC, USA

12:00 – 13:00              Lunch with DLS + Amplify

13:00 – 14:30              Group Activity - Innovation Challenge

14:30 – 15:30              From Wavefronts to Waves: Navigating an Optical Physics Career with the Navy

Abbie Watnik, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, USA

15:30 – 15:45              Break

15:45 – 16:45              Impostor Syndrome: Truth or Fake?

Antigone Marino, National Research Council, Italy

16:45                           Closing

17:30                           Joint DLS Symposium Dinner

08:00 – 09:00           Breakfast

09:00 – 11:00              Rapid Mentoring & Career Connections

11:30 – 12:30               Lunch

12:30                           Tour of Optimax

18:30 - 21:00              Conference Reception
                                                  Riverside Court Galleria

Departures