Optica Online Industry Meeting: Defense & Security Photonics

Join us for the second edition of the Optica Online Industry Meeting on Defense & Security Photonics, exploring how photonic technologies are strengthening next-generation defense, aerospace, and national security capabilities. As governments and industry place greater emphasis on operational readiness, supply chain resilience, manufacturing scalability, and sovereign capability, photonics is becoming increasingly essential across sensing, communications, navigation, surveillance, autonomous systems, and directed energy platforms.

This session will bring together defense stakeholders, system integrators, technology providers, and industrial partners to discuss the evolving role of photonics across land, sea, air, and space domains. Attendees will gain insights into directed energy systems, ISR and remote sensing technologies, optical and quantum communications, LiDAR and imaging systems, autonomous navigation, AI-enabled situational awareness, and the challenges surrounding manufacturing readiness, harsh-environment reliability, supply chain resilience, and deployment at scale for defense applications.