Take a look below at our activity highlights across May.

Date Activity Description
01/05/2025 Opening up Photonics Management Team Meeting Meeting of OuP team to discuss next steps of initiative.
07/05/2025 Quantum Technology Special Interest Group Meeting of the QT SIG focussing on standards, with speakers from BSI and NPL.
08/05/2025 Photonics Leadership Group Spring Meeting The group discussed sectoral growth, supply chain barriers and the UK Industrial Strategy.
13/05/2025
Meeting with DBT Met with Scotland DBT representative for photonics and quantum to discuss future plans.
13/05/2025 Update meeting with officials from Scottish Government and Scottish Enterprise  Regular monthly meeting to discuss photonics and quantum sector in Scotland and Photonics Scotland activities.
14/05/2025 Strategic Industry Clusters Group 4th meeting of the group informing future Scottish cluster strategy.
15/05/2025 Photonics21 Board of Stakeholders meeting Attended P21 BoS meeting to learn about upcoming work programme.
16/05/2025 TechTour Growth DeepTech 2025 Presented Scotland’s Critical Technologies Supercluster to a cohort of over 100 international investors.
16/05/2025 Photonics21 Partnership Annual Meeting  Attended P21 annual meeting and took part in work group discussions.
21/05/2025 Institute of Physics Stirling Meeting Delivered keynote presentation and attended as exhibitor at meeting.
22/05/2025 Education and Training in Optics and Photonics Delivery plenary talk at conference.
22/05/205 Critical Technologies Supercluster Advisory Board 1st meeting of strategic board created to guide the activities of the supercluster initiative.
27/05/2025 Ultrasound SIG Inaugural meeting of Ultrasound SIG, hosted and led by Novosound.
28/05/205 SUPA Annual Gathering Attended the meeting to represent Scottish sector.
29/05/205 Opening up Photonics Management Team Meeting Meeting of OuP team to discuss next steps of initiative.
29/05/2025 Lightwaves: Optics and Photonics Meet-up Attended inaugural meeting to network with community. 
30/05/205
Out of this World – Space Industry Day
Attended event to meet contacts from the space community.