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Optica Industry Summit on Advanced Optics at Corning

24 - 25 March 2026

Corning Museum of Glass
Corning, New York UNITED STATES

Engage Directly with Leaders From

Big Tech Optical Systems | Precision Optics Manufacturing | Structured Surface Innovation | Metrology & Inspection | Emerging Optical Platforms

Al Kapoor

CEO & Chairman | Syntec Optics

Amos Meeks

CTO | Irradiant Technologies

Barry Silverstein

(former) CTO & Sr Director of Optics & Display Products | Meta Reality Labs

Bernard Kress

Director of Optical Engineering | Google

Cees Draijer

CTO & VP of Technology | Teledyne Digital Imaging

Claudio Mazzali

VP Global Research | Corning

David Grosso

Co-Founder & Deputy CTO | SOLNIL

Erik Stover

CEO | TRIOPTICS

Federico Capasso

Prof of Applied Physics Harvard University

Heiko Feldman

Senior Principal | ZEISS

James Watkins

Myrias Optics, Founder/CSO

Jim Gareau

VP Optical Components & Assemblies | Headwall

Jim Kafka

Emeritus Fellow | MKS Inc

Jonas Wielandts

Managing Partner & Chief Business Officer | Wielandts UPMT

Jordan Hall

VP of Engineering | Opto-Alignment Technology

Lieven Penninck

Founder | PlanOpSim

Mark Weidman

Sr Director Product R&D Engineering | Lumotive

Michael Totzeck

Fellow | ZEISS

Rajesh Menon

Founder, CTO | Oblate Photonics

Rob Devlin

CEO | metalenz

Robert B. Lee

Program Director | Corning

Robert Schultz

VP of Advanced Optics | Vuzix Corp

Roxana Rezvani Naraghi

Function Owner for Overlay Metrology Sensors | ASML

Serpil Gonen Williams

CTO | Pixelligent Technologies

Silvia Schwyn Thöny

Principal Scientist | Evatec AG

Thibault Leportier

Sr R&D Engineer | Synopsys

Wilfried Noell

Chief Scientist | FocusLight Switzerland

Xavier Lafosse

Commercial Technology Director | Corning

Yoann Priol

Sales Manager | Phasics Corporation