11-12 May 2022
Location: KTH, Stockholm
This two day event focussed on students within STEM, and provided a broad seminar program, company presentations and matchmaking sessions. This ‘CARLA camp Stockholm’ was hosted by PhotonicSweden and KTH.
137 registered participants, including speakers from Europe and beyond, attended the event packed with talks, panel discussions, networking sessions and career development presentations, to introduce STEM graduates, PhD students and early-stage researchers to the myriad of multidisciplinary careers in photonics.
The Stockholm camp was held in a hybrid format with 26 people who followed the presentations online and 111 people on site at KTH campus.
The program ran over the two afternoons and involved 14 international speakers, 12 pitch talks from companies and an exhibition for the matchmaking of students and companies in the networking area. The first day started with a keynote talk to give an overview of the photonics landscape and job opportunities and was dedicated to introducing photonic careers in academia and industry including needed skills and soft skills. The second day focused on innovation and entrepreneurship and included talks on how to develop personally to become a good entrepreneur. Both days ended with networking in the exhibition area with food and drinks.
Download the program.
The event was organized in the Carla project.
Exhibitors
- AFRY
- Aimpoint
- Beotop
- Cobolt
- Comsol
- Eclipse Optics
- Entangly
- Mycronic
- Nobula 3D
- Proximion
- Svenska Laserfabriken
- Single Technologies
- Tobii
What attendees said about the event:
- “Thanks for the fruitful CARLA Camp session. I found it very insightful for my future career in Photonics. (Master student)”
- “You must arrange more of this kind of even, this is what we need to meet the students! (company)”
- “A big thank you for organising the event last week. We found it very worthwhile to meet students and have the opportunity to promote our company.”
