Invited Speakers

Speakers will be added as confirmed.

Dimitrios Apostolopoulos, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Title: Urban Free-space QKD Deployments Towards Satellite-based Quantum Links

Lars Brusberg, Corning Optical Communications, Germany
Title: Advanced Glass Waveguide Solutions for High-Density Photonic Packaging and Interconnects

Andrea Cusano, Head of the Optoelectronics and Photonics Group, Engineering Department, University of Sannio, Italy, and Scientific Director of the Optoelectronics and Photonics Research Center for Life Science (Cnos), Italy 
Title: Ten Years of Lab on Fiber Technology: Perspectives and Challenges

Mariastefania De Vido, STFC Central Laser Facility, UK
Title: Development and applications of next-generation high energy and high peak power lasers

Yuji Furuta, SHINKO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES CO., LTD., Japan
Title: Optical Chiplet Structure Based on MCeP®

Laura Gemini, ALPhANOV, France
Title: Laser processing in GHz regime: one source does it all

Massimiliano Guasoni, Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, UK
Title: Sub-nanosecond Light-by-light Reconfiguration in Optical Fibres

Rebecca Harwin, RAL Space, UK

Matt Himsworth, CSO, Aquark Technologies, UK
Title: Commercialising cold atoms

Masahiro Karakawa, Ajinomoto Co., Inc. and Keio University, Japan
Title: Fabrication of GI core single-mode and multimode polymer optical waveguide using resins with high index contrast

Kazuhiko Kurata, AIO Core. Co., Ltd., Japan
Title: Radiation- tolerant optical transceiver module for satellites using SI Photonics technology and quantum dot lasers 

Yasutaka Mizuno, Sumitomo Electric Industries, ltd., Japan
Title: Photonic-Electronic Integration Platform on Glass Waveguide Substrates with 3D-Printed Micro-Optics

Nobuo Ohata, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Information Technology R&D Center, Photonics Technology Department, Advanced Photonics Group, Japan
Title: High-Speed EML Technology for Large-Scale Machine Learning Applications

Ryszard Piramidowicz, Warsaw University of Technology & VIGO Photonics, Poland
Title: Mid-Infrared Photonic Integrated Circuits: From Concepts to Commercialization

Iman Tavakkolnia, University of Cambridge, UK
Title: Advancing Connectivity and Sensing with Chip-Scale VCSEL Array Technology