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Date Announced: 27 Apr 2012
Highest-ever 6700 attendees at new location in north-eastern US.
BELLINGHAM, Washington, USA ― 27 April 2012 ― The debut of SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing in Baltimore drew more than 6,700 attendees, the most ever for the week-long conference and exhibition serving industry, government and academia. The 2012 event set new records in the technical program, with 2,450 presentations, and in the exhibition, with 540 exhibitors and an 18 percent increase in exhibit visitors.
“Our conference attendees have overwhelmingly endorsed our move to the new location, chosen because of proximity to government and research facilities and decision makers in the Washington, D.C., area, and area amenities,” said Peter Hallett, SPIE Director of Marketing and Industry Relations.
SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing is the only annual conference and exhibition on the East Coast of the U.S. focused on optical science and engineering, including lasers, sensors, and imaging systems.
Growing conferences on multispectral and hyperspectral systems, signal processing, data fusion, and automatic processing of big data continue to push the frontier of advanced technology into real-world applications.
SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing draws developers of photonic sensors that measure the spectroscopic signatures of materials ranging from chemicals, biological materials, trace gases, or toxin, Hallett noted. “Applications include oceanography, pollution control, precision agriculture, pathogen detection, and many in defense and security,” Hallett said. “This work involves lasers, detectors, and people across disciplines including physics, engineering, and computer sciences.”
Exhibitors said leads were strong, and cited proximity to decision makers as a huge benefit.
Daily reports, photos, and links to news coverage are on the event news site at http://www.spie.org/DSSnews.
The event will return to Baltimore in May 2013.
Source: SPIE
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