Optica VIP Executive Reception at SF MOMA
Optica VIP Executive Reception at SF MOMA
01 February 2027
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California UNITED STATES
Keynote Speaker 2027: Victor Peng
We are pleased to announce Victor Peng, CEO of PsiQuantum, as this year's keynote speaker. He follows a line of industry leaders who have spoken at this reception: John T. C. Lee, President and CEO of MKS, in 2026; Edwin Roks, then CEO of Teledyne Technologies and now CEO of TTM Technologies, in 2025; Alan Lowe, then CEO of Lumentum, in 2024; and Chuck Mattera, then CEO of Coherent, now running Avalanche Thinking, in 2023.
This is a unique opportunity to hear directly from one of the industry’s leading voices, exchange perspectives with senior executives, and build meaningful connections across the global photonics community. It is an event not to be missed.
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Agenda
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7:00 PM – 8:00 PM |
Cocktails w/Appetizers and Networking |
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8:00 PM – 8:40 PM |
VIP Keynote Presentation Victor Peng CEO at PsiQuantum |
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8:40 PM – 10:00 PM |
Networking Reception |
Keynote Speaker
Victor Peng
CEO, PsiQuantum
Victor Peng is CEO at PsiQuantum and has over 40 years of industry experience leading global teams and multi-billion dollar businesses delivering high performance adaptive SoCs, FPGAs, CPUs, and GPUs. He currently serves on the boards of KLA Corporation, Microchip Technologies and Rambus. Mr. Peng was President at AMD from February 2023 until his retirement from AMD in August 2024. He was responsible for the Embedded and Data Center GPU businesses, Advanced Research and the company’s AI strategy including the AI hardware and software roadmaps. Mr. Peng rejoined AMD in February 2022 after 14 years at Xilinx, Inc. most recently serving as CEO and member of the Board of Directors. Prior to joining Xilinx, Mr. Peng worked at AMD as Corporate Vice President of Silicon Engineering for the Graphics Products Group, and before that he held executive and engineering leadership roles at MIPS Technologies, SGI, and Digital Equipment Corp. Mr. Peng holds four U.S. patents and has a BSEE degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a M.Eng. degree from Cornell University.