SPIE Security + Defence

The leading European conference for optical sciences for security and defence systems

About Security + Defence

It is the premier European conference for engineers and scientists using sensors and photonics to advance the fields of security, defence, and counterterrorism.

Review the twelve conference topics and consider submitting an abstract.

Join us in Amsterdam for Security + Defence 2023


SPIE Security + Defence is the leading international conference for engineers and scientists involved in the latest developments in sensing, data and signal analysis, optronics, quantum science, optical technologies, and funding programmes. 

Security + Defence conference topics


• Target and Background Signatures VIII
• Electro-Optical and Infrared Systems: Technology and Applications and Electro-optical Remote Sensing XVI
• Electro-Optical Remote Sensing XV
• Technologies for Optical Countermeasures XIX
• High Power Lasers: Technology and Systems, Platforms, Effects VI
• Millimetre Wave and Terahertz Sensors and Technology XIV 
• Emerging Imaging and Sensing Technologies for Security and Defence VII
• Advanced Manufacturing Technologies for Micro- and Nanosystems in Security and Defence IV
• Optical Materials and Biomaterials in Security and Defence Systems Technology XVII
• Quantum Technologies and Quantum Information Science VI
• Counterterrorism, Crime Fighting, Forensics, and Surveillance Technologies VI
• Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Defence Applications IV

SPIE Security + Defence 2023 Symposium Chair


Ric Schleijpen

2023 Symposium Chair
TNO Defence, Security and Safety (Netherlands)