About the GAMA Annual Meeting

The Global Advanced Manufacturing Alliance (GAMA) Annual Meeting brings together the companies working to make photonics manufacturable at semiconductor scale: photonics and semiconductor manufacturers, advanced packaging and assembly specialists, module developers, foundries, and the equipment, tools, materials and metrology suppliers behind them.

In 2027 the meeting moves to where optics and semiconductor manufacturing meet. ASML hosts GAMA at its Veldhoven headquarters, the company's largest R&D and manufacturing site. Every advanced chip made today is patterned by ASML lithography systems built around some of the most precise optics ever manufactured. No venue makes the case more directly that optics enables semiconductor manufacturing worldwide, and no host offers better access to the people who make that happen. Attendees will interact directly with ASML experts and decision makers on their own campus.

The timing matters. By May 2027, co-packaged optics will have moved from announcements to volume: TSMC's COUPE platform entered volume production in 2026 and NVIDIA's co-packaged optics switches are shipping. The question is no longer whether photonics can be manufactured at scale, but who has the packaging, test, automation and equipment to do it at semiconductor-grade yield and cost. GAMA 2027 puts that question at the center of the program.

• Hosted by ASML at its Veldhoven headquarters, 12-13 May 2027, with direct access to ASML technical leaders and decision makers and a planned campus visit.
• Two days on the technologies that decide whether photonics scales: co-packaged optics in volume, wafer-level packaging and hybrid bonding, test and metrology, automation and AI in manufacturing.
• Built for photonics and semiconductor manufacturers, advanced packaging and assembly experts, module developers, foundries, and equipment, tools, materials and metrology suppliers.
• Catches the market at its steepest point: optical transceiver sales doubled in 2024, grew another 70 percent in 2025, and analysts see a potential 100 billion dollar market for AI cluster optics by 2030.
• Continues GAMA's rotating-host model (Heidelberg Instruments 2025, Brussels 2026), putting members inside each other's facilities where the real manufacturing conversations happen.