Word of the Chairman

Mr. Garry Vail

As the Chairman of the Quebec Photonic Network (QPN), I am very pleased to welcome you to our new electronic portal, a website mainly devoted to promoting the optics-photonics industry from the Greater Quebec area.

In Quebec, this intense activity moved a bevy of major players, both from the industrial and institutional sectors, to form a regional group from which QPN was born. Our network’s goal is to help nurture those conditions essential to the advancement of our industry in order to maximize economic benefits for the Quebec region.

Through the range of services offered to our community and our news magazine, our portal addresses these concerns and should prove a crucial tool for the promotion and development of our industry in Quebec.

Browsing our site will allow you to discover our useful networking and business support resources, our news service focusing on broadcasting your announcements and promoting your accomplishments, plus a wealth of reference features about our industry and also our own introductory brochure. The tools provided by our portal highlight our members’ know-how and expertise and our industry’s dynamism, here and abroad.

This is your portal. As a first step, we have tried to meet one of the most pressing needs of our industry by providing information and those basic resources we all required. We now invite you all to get involved in the growth of our brainchild, by forwarding your own information dossiers and announcements to our news service and taking advantage of our exposure to showcase your own products and services.

Light, the ultimate messenger, according to a phrase coined by Dr. David Nolte, is also the next frontier. Exciting technological challenges await us. Our members are committed to meet them. We are committed to supporting them with networking tools such as our website.

Garry Vail