Optifab, organized jointly by SPIE and APOMA, has a unique technical focus on classical and advanced optical manufacturing technologies. It offers conference attendees an exceptional opportunity to interact with worldwide experts in the field of optical fabrication. Paper presentation topics  Technical papers: • Optical manufacturing• Design for manufacturing• Materials and optical materials sciences• Classical and automated fabrication• Grinding, polishing, and new methods of surface finishing• Injection/glass molding, lithographic processing, and chemical etching• Process science• New developments in coatings technology• New developments in metrology• Opto-mechanical design and fabrication• Interactivity and data interfaces between optical design programs, mechanical design programs, fabrication equipment, and metrology instrumentation  Commercial papers: • Developments in optical materials• New infrared materials• Advanced optical fabrication equipment• Coating equipment• Metrology equipmentExhibition dates: 13 - 15 october 2015