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Speakers Confirmed

Global Photonics Economic Forum 2025

07 - 08 October 2025



Málaga, SPAIN

Abhijit Mahindroo

McKinsey, Senior Partner

Linkedin

Anthony Yu

Global Foundries, Former Vice President

Linkedin

Antonio Hernando Vera

Secretary of State for Telecommunications and Digital Infrastructure of Spain

Linkedin

Antonio Castro

Andalucia Trade, CEO

Linkedin

Cameron Carr

Flex, CSO

Linkedin

Chuck Mattera

Coherent, Former Chair & CEO (retired)

Linkedin

Christina Hirschl

Silicon Austria Labs, CEO

Linkedin

Christoph Pfistner

Avicena Tech, VP

Linkedin

Christopher Trummer

TUM Venture Labs, Managing Director

Linkedin

Claudio Mazzali

Corning, VP Global Research

Linkedin

David Mackey

mBryonics, CTO & Founder

Linkedin

Edwin Roks

Teledyne Technologies, former CEO

Linkedin

Eelko Brinkhoff

Photondelta, CEO

Linkedin

Felipe Romera

Malaga TechPark (PTA), Director

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General Dick Berlijn

Former Chief of Staff, Ministry of Defense, The Netherlands&Senior Advisor FGS Global

Linkedin

Gregory Quarles

Applied Energetics, CEO Emeritus & Board Member

Linkedin

Gregg Bartlett

GlobalFoundries, CTO

Linkedin

Herwig van Hove

Investor

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Javier Ponce

SETT, General Director

Linkedin

Jennifer Cable

Thorlabs, President

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Jim Kafka

MKS Instruments, Emeritus Fellow

Linkedin

Jo De Boeck

imec, Executive VP & CSO

Linkedin

Johan Feenstra

SMART Photonics, CEO

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John T.C. Lee

MKS, President & CEO

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Jose Pozo

Optica, CTO

Linkedin

Joseph Spilman

Optimax Systems, CEO

Linkedin

Louis-Philippe Pleau

LumIR Lasers, Co-Founder & CEO

Linkedin

Luke Scrivanich

Viavi Solutions, SVP & General Manager

Linkedin

Lutz Aschke

Photonics System Group, CEO & Photonics 21, President

Linkedin

Mahesh Krishnaswamy

Taara, graduated from Alphabet's X Labs, Google-X, Founder & CEO

Linkedin

Marek Kotelnicki

VIGO Ventures, Investor

Linkedin

Maria Marced

TSMC Europe, Former President

Linkedin

Marisa Edmund

Edmund Optics, Chairman of the Board & CEO

Linkedin

Mark Gitin

IPG Photonics, CEO

Linkedin

Matt Streshinsky

AMD, Sr.Director Photonics

Linkedin

Mian Zhang

HyperLight, CEO

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Michael Hochberg

Periplous LLC, President and Visiting Scholar at Cambridge Centre for Geopolitics

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Michael Kaschke

ZEISS, Former President & CEO

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Michael Jobst

Vsquared Ventures, Investor

Linkedin

Michael Klug

Google, Director Hardware

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Michael Lebby

Genus Technik, CEO

Linkedin

Miguel del Cañizo

Bullnet Capital, Founding Partner

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Mike Powell

Renevo Capital Limited, Managing Partner

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Philippe Bolle

ESTEL, Co-Founder & CEO

Linkedin

Philipp Schlüter

Partner M&A, PAVA

Linkedin

Reinhard Voelkel

Co-Chairman of the Global Photonics Economic Forum

Linkedin

Robert Brumley

Laser Light Companies,CEO

Linkedin

Robert Harrison

IP Counsel

Linkedin

Sanjai Parthasarathi

Coherent, Chief Marketing Officer

Linkedin

Scott Keeney

nLIGHT, Co-Founder & CEO

Linkedin

Sebastian Winkler

Momentum Transfer, CEO

Linkedin

Stefan Hackl

Iradion & Luxinar, CEO

Linkedin

Stefan Traeger

JENOPTIK, President & CEO

Linkedin

Ulrike Fuchs

Chair of Optica Awards Council & Director at Large, VP at asphericon

Linkedin

Valerio Pruneri

ICREA, ICFO & Director of PIXEurope

Linkedin

Yaniv BenHaim

NewPhotonics, CEO

Linkedin

Yuping Huang

QCI, Chairman of the Board & CEO

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