The 26th OFS, acknowledged as the world’s leading conference on all topics related to photonic sensing technologies, is taking place in Lausanne, Switzerland during this week. Luca Schenato from the Padova branch is attending the conference and has the honour to give an invited talk about “Distributed Sensing in Geotechnical and Hydrogeological applications”. Furthermore, he will present the results about a novel 3D-printed fiber optic pressure sensor with A. Pasuto and co-workers from the University of Padova.