SPIE Conferences

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About this app

Hold the program and exhibition guides for all current and upcoming SPIE conferences and exhibitions, including SPIE Photonics West, SPIE DSS, and SPIE Optics + Photonics, in the palm of your hand.

* Complete programs of all SPIE symposia including events, exhibitors, and participants.
* Sync My Schedule between your mobile device and desktop computer.
* Be notified when events added to My Schedule are about to begin.
* Google Maps integration provides views of nearby restaurants, stores, and venues.
* Search for participants, presentations, or events with Google's voice commands

SPIE is the international society for optics and photonics, a not-for-profit organization founded in 1955 to advanced light-based technologies. The Society serves nearly 260,000 constituents from approximately 162 countries, offering conferences, continuing education, books, journals, and a digital library in support of interdisciplinary information exchange, professional growth, and patent precedent. SPIE provided over $3.2 million in support of education and outreach programs in 2013.

Ratings and reviews

Tried using this at Photonics West and it was a disaster. App crashed constantly, showed me talks from the wrong days and when I tried to plan where to be id arrive and find a paper note saying the conference was moved to the other side of moscone. An app is a good idea but this is so broken it's counterproductive, it just helps you miss talks. SPIE should focus on the website or paper programs instead.

The app has historically been buggy, and still appears to be so in August 2023. I cannot update my contact card information, as the save button will not highlight. If I leave that tab, all of my changes disappear. We'll see what happens during Optics and Photonics in a week.

Nice that there's an app, but unfortunately it's riddled with bugs. For example, I gave it access to my calendar and it entered incorrect times; it showed talks until 3 pm and did not load any talks after that; did not synchronize "my events" between the website and the app.

What's new

Bug fixes.