IPC Day Aero-Mil Toulouse

IPC Day Aero-Mil Toulouse – 4-5 June 2025

Wednesday 4 June 13:00-17:00 and Thursday 5 June 9:00-13:00

Day 1 (afternoon session) – Wednesday 4 June 

Welcome Address : 
•    Airbus DS - Pierre-Emmanuel Goutorbe, & IPC – Sanjay Huprikar

Keynote
·      Alison James – Update advocacy
·      Airbus DS-Defense & Space - Oscar Vazquez Chiclana

Session 1 – Connectors & High-speed Connectivity
A technical session where industry leaders and experts will dive into the latest innovations, challenges, and design strategies for connectors-to-board, including high-speed connectivity technology.

Presentations will cover common use cases in aerospace/automotive areas addressing technical challenges and solutions, e.g., signal integrity and mechanical reliability. Industry experts are going to address best design practices, such as those applicable to printed board and wire harness design in relation to connector selection. 

Q&A sessions will be held after each technical session to enhance discussion on industry challenges and needs in standardization.

Confirmed speakers include : Airbus Patrick Rainjonneau, ODU Jonathan Milteau,  Considered speakers may include Thales, Amphenol, AXON, C&K, Radiall, FCI, Smith Interconnect, Positronic, Glenair France... 

Networking Dinner

Day 2 (morning session) – Thursday 5 June (9-13)

Session 2 – Press-fit Technologies Deep Dive
A team of industry experts with multi decade experience in designing, materials, manufacturing, process quality and acceptability, reliability of the interconnection, as well as the fundamental physical mechanisms will draw a holistic picture of press-fit technology.

The presentations include the Press-fit pin itself, PCB and PCBA, as well as the connector part. Quality and reliability will be discussed with an extensive automotive background. Following the presentation part, the speakers are happy to discuss questions around space requirements, surface finishes, and any other topics around the press-fit interconnection. Basis for the session will be the IPC-9797A standard and the IPC-HDBK-9798 handbook. The A version of the handbook will include a rework section.

Confirmed speakers include : Continental François Le Rest, Bosch Philippe Jaeckle, Uibel consulting Frank Uibel, EPT Hermann Eicher  

Hotel room in Toulouse for IPC Day participants

Toulouse is under quite high hotel room pressure during this period and IPC is holding a roomblock of 15 rooms available for IPC Day participants at Aparthotel Adagio Toulouse Centre Ramblas (located nearby the conference venue). 

These rooms are available for checkin 4 June and checkout 5 June at the price of 196 EUR per night (excluding. breakfast). They are to be paid onsite at checkin time and need to be attributed to participants by Thursday 29 May at the very latest. 

In case you would like to get one of these rooms for your own use, please send a written request including guest first name, last name and checkin/checkout date to philippeleonard@ipc.org. 

Upon receipt, a confirmation will be returned to you to confirm that the room is yours. Please note that any cancellation received after 29 May will bear 100% cost.