News › Great demand · pre­miere for W3+ Fair 2023 in Jena

The pho­to­nics loca­tion Jena will be the venue of the W3+ Fair for the first time in 2023. Com­pa­nies in the key tech­no­lo­gies of pho­to­nics, optics, elec­tro­nics and mecha­nics will now also have an inter­di­sci­pli­nary pre­sen­ta­tion and net­wor­king plat­form in Thu­rin­gia. Co-initia­tor of the fair with the accom­pany­ing con­fe­rence en-tech.talks is the pho­to­nics net­work Opto­Net Jena e.V.

 

Ham­burg, March 15, 2023 – The W3+ Fair, net­wor­king trade fair and con­fe­rence for enab­ling tech­no­lo­gies, which opens its doors in Wetz­lar at the end of March, is also laun­ching for the first time at the tra­di­tio­nal loca­tion of Jena. The new W3+ Fair Jena (w3-fair.com) will take place on Novem­ber 29 + 30, 2023 in the Spar­kas­sen­arena Jena. As a gold part­ner, the pho­to­nics net­work Opto­Net Jena e.V. from the asso­cia­tion of Optec­Net Ger­many and the EPIC sup­port. The cross-indus­try plat­form also wants to pave the way for new, tech­no­logy-dri­ven inno­va­tions in the Jena/Thuringia region.

The popu­la­rity of the trade fair at the new loca­tion is very high: a good eight months before the event, there are only a few remai­ning places. The orga­ni­zer is curr­ently loo­king into the option of expan­ding the hall space. Large and small com­pa­nies such as Jen­op­tik, Opto­Tech, Fisba, DOPA, WZW Optic AG, TNO, LASOS, Lay­er­tec, JAT Jenaer Antriebs­tech­nik, POG, Fraun­ho­fer IOF, Space­op­tix, Acktar, SIOS, BATOP, Mater­ion Bal­zers Optics, PI Phy­sik Instru­mente, Mer­sen and IMT will pre­sent their pro­ducts and ser­vices on site.

In addi­tion to the long-stan­ding pro­fes­sio­nal part­ners such as Pho­to­nics Ger­many, IVAM and Spec­tro­Net, the trid­elta cam­pus Herms­dorf and the ThZM Thu­rin­gian Cen­ter for Mecha­ni­cal Engi­nee­ring and others are new par­ti­ci­pants – in addi­tion to Opto­Net e.V..

As in Wetz­lar, there will be a free accom­pany­ing con­fe­rence in Jena, the en-tech.talks. The »Call for Papers« is now open here.

»We are very plea­sed to be able to bring the W3+ Fair to Jena. We see great poten­tial for resi­dent com­pa­nies and the region: the inter­di­sci­pli­nary net­wor­king will streng­then both,« explains Nora Kirs­ten, Mana­ging Direc­tor of Opto­Net e.V..

»We have had our eye on the loca­tion for a long time, but we are now very plea­sed with the great demand for the »W3+ Fair Jena« for­mat. The sup­port and com­mit­ment from indus­try and net­works is tre­men­dous. Tog­e­ther we will create an inno­va­tive mar­ket­place for enab­ling tech­no­lo­gies in Jena,« adds Jörg Brück, Pro­ject Direc­tor at orga­ni­zer Fleet Events.

More infor­ma­tion and images at www.w3-messe.de
Pic­ture mate­rial on the W3+ Fair press page under Downloads

W3+ Fair Jena at a glance

Event: 1st W3+ Fair Jena, net­wor­king fair and high-tech accom­pany­ing con­fe­rence for enab­ling technologies

When: Novem­ber 29 + 30, 2023

Where: Spar­kas­sen­arena Jena

Ope­ning hours: 9.30 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Tickets: 25 euro day ticket, 40 euro two-day ticket

About the W3+ Fair

The event ori­gi­na­tes from an indus­trial initia­tive in Wetz­lar and Cen­tral Hesse, which aims to pro­mote the net­wor­king of the four sec­tors optics, pho­to­nics, elec­tro­nics and mecha­nics. New inter­faces are inten­ded to get for­ward-loo­king tech­no­lo­gies off the ground. The trade show was held for the first time in Febru­ary 2014 in Wetz­lar. W3+ Fair is hos­ted by the Ham­burg-based trade show orga­ni­zer Fleet Events (fleet-events.de). In Sep­tem­ber 2019, W3+ Fair Rhein­tal also cele­bra­ted its pre­miere in the Vier­län­der high-tech region. In 2023, the orga­ni­zer is expan­ding its port­fo­lio to include the W3+ Fair Jena.

About Fleet Events

Fleet Events GmbH, based in Ham­burg, is one of Germany’s lea­ding pri­vate trade fair and con­gress orga­ni­zers. With its sub­si­dia­ries Fleet Edu­ca­tion Events and CE Chefs Events, the com­pany, foun­ded in 2006, designs and rea­li­zes con­su­mer and busi­ness events such as Babini (form­erly Baby­welt), Eat&Style and Hel­den­markt, trade events such as Chef-Sache, W3+ Fair and Pho­to­nics+, as well as the edu­ca­tio­nal con­gres­ses DSLK, ÖSLK, DKLK, ÖKLK, HRocks and DILK. The com­pany, which employs around 40 peo­ple, is mana­ged by its share­hol­ders Dr. Tho­mas Köhl and Chris­toph Rénevier.