Invited Speakers

Speakers will be added as confirmed.

Louise Bradley, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Title: Metasurfaces for reprogrammable beamsteering and enhanced light-matter interaction

Grace Brennan, Microsoft, UK
Title: Analog Optical Computing for Faster, Greener AI and Optimization

Juergen Czarske, TU Dresden, Germany and University of Arizona, USA
Title: Fiber-optical Sensing and Communication exploiting physics-informed deep learning and quantum technology

Eleni Diamanti, CNRS, France
Title: Resources and applications of quantum networks

Alex Gaeta, Columbia University, USA
Title: Optical Frequency Combs for Data Communications

Ryota Kinoshita, Sumitomo Bakelite, Japan
Title: Optimum core structural design of the polymer optical waveguides for co-packaging

Andrew Meek, SENKO Advanced Components, UK
Title: Connecting light through hyperscale to quantum - the journey ahead for the Photonics Industry

Callum Littlejohns, University of Southampton and CORNERSTONE, UK
Title: Unleashing the potential of silicon photonics in the UK via the CORNERSTONE Photonics Innovation Centre

Hideyuki Nasu, Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
Title: ELS modules employing an 8-Channel CWDM TOSA for SiPh Transceivers

Nick New, Optalysys Ltd., UK
Title: Enabling a World of Secure Computing through the power of Photonics

Anna Peacock, University of Southampton, UK
Title: Silicon Core Fibers for Nonlinear Photonics: Progress and Trends

Maksym (Max) Sich, Aegiq, UK
Title: Disruptive potential of linear quantum optics and deterministic photon sources 

Peter G.R. Smith, University of Southampton, UK
Title: Creating fully transparent Augmented Reality headsets - how nonlinear optics can enable the Metaverse

Frank Smyth, Pilot Photonics, Ireland
Title: Monolithically Integrated Comb Lasers for optical transceiver scaling and mmWave generation

Stuart Smyth, Sivers Photonics Limited, UK
Title: Multi-Wavelength DFB Arrays for AI and HPC Applications

Shiyoshi Yokoyama, Kyushu University, IMCE, Japan
Title: Material-Inspired High-Speed Modulators for 200+ Gbaud Communications