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UK Metamaterials Network Conference | 23 – 27 May 2022

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About the UKMMN Industry Forum

https://metamaterials.network/category/industry/

The Network’s Industry Forum is a platform for industrial network partners to identify metamaterials exploitation pathways. This Forum will facilitate the transition from research into industrial applications and consider opportunities to upskill industrial staff.

The Industry Forum will support market analysis to develop strategic documents (e.g. White Papers), and will position itself as a body capable of advising funders and policy makers.

FORUM LEADS

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HOW TO ENGAGE

The Network aims to make metamaterials as accessible as possible by offering the following free-of-charge* opportunities:

display what you can offer and have your logo added on our partners page: simply join the Network’s expert database;
participate in Network workshops and other events (online or in-person);
suggest a topic of interest to you on which we could run a workshop/showcase to bring academia & industry together;
disseminate job advertisements to attract new talent to your company;
promote your company as an employer at our online & in-person careers events;
access academic expertise by searching the expert database or asking info@metamaterials.network for help to find the right person;
be a mentor to the early career researchers;
access Network support for summer student project facilitation: If you wish to sponsor an undergraduate summer student, we can organise the project process for you – from a call for project ideas among the academic community to undergraduate recruitment, employment, and the final report.

All you need to do is sign up and get in touch with info@metamaterials.network to let us know how you would like to engage and utilise the Network community.

* = a small commitment fee may be applicable for cost-intensive events such as the national conference and in-person workshops.

https://metamaterials.network/category/industry/

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INDUSTRY PITCH SESSION

WaveOptics/Snap (Arseny Alexeev) – Forum lead
MBDA (Tom Bassett) – Forum lead
Dstl (Milo Baraclough) – Network & Conference sponsor
Atlas Elektronik UK (Jake Ward)
BAE Systems (Toby Campbell)
EV Group (Andrea Kneidinger)
Imec (Xavier Rottenberg)
Meta Materials Inc. (Themos Kallos)
Metasonixx (Abdelhalim Azbaid El Ouahabi)
NIL Technology (Brian Bilenberg)
Oxford Instruments Plasma Technology (João Ferreira)
PepsiCo (John Bows)
SCIL Nanoimprint Solutions (Marc Verschuuren)
SUSS MicroOptics SA (Giorgio Quaranta)
TWI Ltd. (Melissa Riley)
Innovate UK | KTN (Stephen Morris)

MEET & GREET

Buffet dinner starts at 18.45

Grab some food and meet

the industry representatives

in front of their poster stands

from 19.15 to 20.00

in the Old Library.

https://metamaterials.network/category/industry/

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Snap Inc. company

Arseny Alexeev

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Pioneering Augmented Reality (AR) Technology

waveoptics.ar

Snap Inc. company

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2021…

2014…

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Join “Metamaterials for Augmented Reality” session

Thursday 11:00 and 13:15

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Tom Bassett

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MBDA Systems

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Our Vision

To be the European missile systems champion and a global player

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What We Can Offer

Offer end user expertise across a range of specialist subject areas
Provide real exploitation routes for novel and complex materials and systems
Support for application of funding through sources such as DASA, ITP, WSRF and other military or dual use calls as well as internal MBDA funding
Introductions to other defence primes and tier 1/2 suppliers as another route of development and exploitation
Route to engage with European sections of MBDA

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What We Are Looking For

Novel performance, production methods and capabilities created by the use of metamaterials
Interest across all SIGs for various applications within MBDA
To understand the current capabilities in the supply chain primarily in the UK but also on a wider basis
To understand current development areas and companies that we can directly engage with to further develop capabilities.

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Thomas Bassett

UKMMN industry forum co-lead

MBDA Missile Systems

FTN.Innovation.Gateway@mbda.co.uk

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This document and the information contained herein is proprietary information of MBDA and shall not be disclosed or reproduced without the prior authorisation of MBDA. © MBDA 2022.

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Milo Baraclough

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Jake Ward

Jacob.Ward@uk.atlas-elektronik.com

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Toby Campbell

toby.campbell@baesystems.com

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Andrea Kneidinger

An.Kneidinger@EVGroup.com

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WAVE-BASED SENSORS AND ACTUATORS

Xavier Rottenberg, Fellow

Eleonora Storace, Program manager

Xavier.Rottenberg@imec.be

Eleonora.Storace@imec.be

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World-leading R&D in nanoelectronics & digital technology
>5000 international R&D top talents, >90 nationalities
Unique € 3B leading-edge semiconductor fabs
Delivering industry relevant technology solutions serving semiconductor, ICT, IoT, healthcare and energy markets
2021: € 720M revenues: 70% industry, 20% regional gov’t, 10 % EU & regional programs

ABOUT IMEC

200 mm /8-inch CMOS PILOT LINE

Operated 24/7

Sensor Technologies

300 mm / 12-inch CMOS PILOT LINE

Sub-10 nm CMOS

IMEC OFFER

Mastering

Process Development on Demand

Technology Transfer

NIL AS A LITHO STEP IN THE WHOLE PROCESS MODULE

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NON-INVASIVE SENSORS AND ACTUATORS ENABLED BY OPTICS AND ACOUSTICS

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THz

MIR

NIR

VIS

φ_T

φ_N

Hz

kHz

MHz

GHz

Mid-air haptics

Digital Sound Reconstruction

Optical Microphone

Photo-acoustic 3D molecular imaging

Lattice-based imager

LiDAR for ADAS and AR/VR

Tomography & spectroscopy

LiFi and holo-display

Acoustic HMI

S-IAW - SAM

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THz

MIR

NIR

VIS

φ_T

φ_N

MHz

GHz

S-IAW - SAM

METAMATERIALS IN ACOUSTICS AND PHOTONICS

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Themos Kallos

themos.kallos@metamaterial.com

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Abdelhalim Azbaid El Ouahabi

Gianluca Memoli

halim@metasonixx.co.uk

G.Memoli@sussex.ac.uk

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OUR CORE BUSINESS

Our patented IP

Copyright: Metasonixx Ltd. @2022

Standard materials

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ACADEMIC COLLABORATIONS

Acoustic cameras

Memoli et al, CHI Proceedings, May 2019

Eccles et al., ASA Meeting, December 2020

VARI_FOCAL lenses

Spatial-equalizers

Graham et al., AudioMostly, September 2019

Sound projectors

Rajguru et al., in progress

Metamaterial speakers

Chisari et al., Internoise 2021

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GET IN TOUCH

Send me a message or visit us

C/O University of Sussex

Falmer

Brighton, UK

info@metasonixx.co.uk

Currently closing our seed round
Open to internships
Soon recruiting a physicist/engineer and a designer

#ukan-live

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Brian Bilenberg

bb@nilt.com

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João Ferreia

Joao.Ferreira@oxinst.com

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John Bows

John.Bows@pepsico.com

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Metamaterials have been identified by PepsiCo R&D as an early stage technology that has the capacity to enhance food, beverage and packaging to create new consumer and business benefits

Improved food and beverage packaging

Frequency selective microwave heating
Colour without dyes
Biodegrade after exposure to an external field
Communicate state of food / beverages (in production, during use or after use)

Enabling delivery of customised consumer experiences in packaging e.g. maintain temperature, reshape for a new use

Temporary or permanent coating structures applied to processing equipment e.g. to enhance CIP, change surface functionality (flow conditions, heat or energy transfer).

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How to Engage PepsiCo

We are looking for prototypes for proof-of-principle testing (food-safe as appropriate), as well as economical routes to scale.

PepsiCo can engage through:

academic partnerships (e.g. UKRI funding, PhDs, post-docs)
pre-competitive consortia
direct funding & in-kind contributions
access to PepsiCo R&D facilities (e.g. pilot lines, experimental, computational, sensory and analytical)
via our Open Innovation portal https://pepsico.yet2.com/

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Marc Verschuuren

marc.verschuuren@philips.com

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Giorgio Quaranta

giorgio.quaranta@suss.com

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Melissa Riley

Jasmin Stein

Melissa.Riley@twi.co.uk

jasmin.stein@twi.co.uk

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Stephen Morris

stephen.morris@ktn-uk.org

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DINNER TIME!

18:45 – 21:00

We invite the industry representatives to convene

in front of the poster boards with their company logos from 19.15 – 20.00

in the Old Library

to enable a Meet & Greet with the other conference participants!