About the GAMA Annual Meeting

The Global Advanced Manufacturing Alliance (GAMA) Annual Meeting brings together the advanced manufacturing community to address one of the central challenges facing photonics today: how to move from specialized solutions to scalable, high-volume, and cost-efficient manufacturing.

As the industry advances toward co-packaged optics and tightly integrated photonic–electronic systems, manufacturing paradigms are shifting. Discrete assembly is giving way to advanced wafer-level packaging, including 2.5D/3D integration, hybrid bonding, wafer-level photonic assembly, ultra-fine-pitch interconnects, and integrated optics. In parallel, semiconductor manufacturing environments are adapting to new materials, processes, and equipment required to support photonics at wafer scale.

The meeting explores how alignment with semiconductor-grade manufacturing practices is essential to achieve the throughput, yield, cost efficiency, and energy efficiency required for large-scale photonics manufacturing.

Beyond core infrastructure technologies, the program highlights emerging applications enabled by advanced manufacturing, including optical sensors, integrated and on-chip devices, and novel photonic solutions spanning data communications, photonics-enabled AI, sensing, industrial systems, and health-related applications.

Who Should Attend

• System integrators and end users defining next-generation photonic and electronic products
• Semiconductor and photonics manufacturers focused on scaling production
• Advanced packaging, wafer-level processing, and assembly experts
• Equipment, materials, and metrology providers supporting high-precision manufacturing
• Researchers and technologists working at the interface of photonics and semiconductor manufacturing

By bringing these communities together in one forum, the GAMA Annual Meeting creates a space for technical exchange, alignment of expectations, and roadmap-level discussion, with the shared goal of making photonics a practical, manufacturable, and economically viable part of advanced manufacturing.

Why You Don’t Want to Miss This Summit

• Prime opportunity to shape your strategy for scalable photonics manufacturing
  Gain clarity on how wafer-level packaging, advanced integration, and semiconductor-grade processes will redefine cost, yield, and competitiveness in photonics.

• Make smarter investment and partnership decisions by making real connections in person
  Hear directly from leaders across the value chain about where capital, technology development, and collaboration are converging as photonics moves toward high-volume production.

• Unlock new markets enabled by advanced manufacturing
  Understand how manufacturing breakthroughs are accelerating photonics adoption across AI, data communications, sensing, industrial, and health applications—creating real growth opportunities.