Established in 1998 in Tokyo by the Optical Design Group (ODG) of today’s Optical Society of Japan (OSJ), ODF is an international biannual conference series on optics and photonics design and fabrication. ODF 16, Weingarten, Germany provides an international forum for original paper presentations and discussions of optics-photonics design and fabrication-related technological and scientific topics, including theory, design, fabrication, testing, applications and others. Associated to the congress special sessions, such as short tutorial courses near Lake Constance (February 28th, 2016) as well as visits and symposia, will be offered at some of Germany’s most outstanding addresses in optics: Carl Zeiss in Oberkochen (March 3rd, 2016) and Fraunhofer IOF research labs in Jena (March 4th, 2016).