Light and Sound Interactive 2017
Co-located with the New York Photonics Annual Meeting
September 12-14
Rochester Riverside Convention Center and Hyatt Regency
Rochester, NY
For businesses:
- Showcase products at the Trade Show
- Meet perspective employees at the Career Fair
- Discover new technologies
- Meet potential customers
- Meet potential suppliers
- Meet with startups
- Networking
- Enjoy entertainment
For researchers:
- Learn about featured technologies and new applications both within and outside of their current areas of focus
- Interact with like-minded faculty from UR and RIT and other Universities to meet and exchange ideas and form new collaborations
- Interact with future collaborative partners
- Entertainment and inspiration!
For students:
- Hot content, good job opportunities.
- Learn more about the featured technologies
- Both RIT and UR have multiple programs that are directed at some of the
- featured technologies. For example:
- LSI Games track geared towards RIT’s game program
- LSI Imaging track geared towards RIT Center for Imaging Science
- LSI Music track geared towards UR’s Eastman school and ECE Audio
- Engineering
- LSI Healthcare track geared towards URMC and Biomedical Engineering etc.
- Talk with companies and explore career opportunities
- Entertainment!
- Network with peers, possible employers, etc.
Why are light- and sound-technologies of such interest today?
LSI technologies are the fastest growing in the world. They will change the way we interface with computers, access the Internet, entertain ourselves, travel (autonomous vehicles), and interface with the real world and with each other. VR/AR alone is projected to grow from $6 billion in 2016 to over $100 billion in 2020. As another indication, the market capitalization of just four companies that are investing heavily in these technologies (Apple, Google, Facebook, and Amazon) have gained $1.9 trillion in the last nine months, or over 40% of the gain in the entire U.S. stock market. These companies are developing light and sound technologies that will change our world.
Why Rochester?
The Finger Lakes Region, recognized as the nation’s Optics, Photonics & Imaging (OPI) cluster, is world famous for two LSI technologies: imaging and music. Rochester is the Imaging Capital of the World – the birthplace of imaging giants Kodak, Xerox, and Bausch & Lomb – and Rochester is an international center for music, with the world-famous Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester and home to the Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival.
LSI brings these together for the first time. Rochester also has two leading universities with schools focused upon OPI: The University of Rochester and the Rochester Institute of Technology. Rochester’s imaging industry is built on it’s optics industry.
The Rochester region has more optics manufacturers than any other region in the U.S. These companies provide optical components to a wide range of light-based technologies, including components to all of the major VR/AR makers in the U.S. All told, between startups, and small, medium, and large companies.
The New York cluster has over 120 firms in the optics, photonics, and imaging industries. Most recently, Rochester became the headquarters for the U.S. Institute for manufacturing integrated photonics, known as AIM Photonics. Finally, the greatest asset Rochester has for the photonics industry is it’s highly educated and experienced workforce. Literally tens of thousands of people have worked in an optics, photonics, or imaging company at some time in their career. OPI companies that choose to locate in Rochester will be close to world class universities, suppliers, and a labor force to support them.
If you are a company, an academic or a student with a passion for OPI, you need to be at Light & Sound Interactive this September.