PIC International 2026 Agenda

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Monday 20th April 2026 starting at 11:00 CET
11:00 AngelTech Innovate Summit - Limited places! Requires separate registration: https://www.angeltech-innovate.net/register
18:00 Pre-conference Networking Drinks / Dinner Reception (available to those who have registered for 21st & 22nd April for AngelTech Conference)
Tuesday 21st April 2026 starting at 08:00 CET
08:00 Registration and welcome refreshments
08:50 Housekeeping by Michael Lebby and David Cheskis - Conference Chairs
Foundations of PIC design: materials, devices and processes
09:00 Scaling Co-packaged Optics Requires a Fundamental Rethink of Fibre-to-chip Interconnects
Presented by Dominic Sulway - Light Trace Photonics
09:15 Enabling THz Bandwidth on-chip with Plasmonic Modulators
Presented by Stephan Koch - Polariton Technologies AG
09:30 Presentation by APEX Technolgies
Presented by Name to be advised - APEX Technolgies
09:45 Advancing Scalable Photonic Integration: Heterogeneous Integration of Active Components for Next-Generation Applications
Presented by Michael Geiselmann - LIGENTEC
10:00 Presentation by Nanoscribe
Presented by Name to be advised - Nanoscribe
10:15 CMOS Compatible TFLN Technology
Presented by Steven Tan - Rapid Photonics
10:30 Morning Break and Networking
11:00 Glass-Integrated PICs: Shaping the Future of Photonics
Presented by Giacomo Corrielli - Ephos
11:15 Simulation-Driven PIC Design – Accelerating Performance, Reliability and Time-to-Market
Presented by Name to be advised - Ansys, part of Synopsys
11:30 Advanced Automated Assembly Platforms for High-Precision PIC Packaging and Integration
Presented by Lorenzo Mandelli - ficonTEC
11:45 Bringing PIC Design Automation to the Forefront of Photonic Innovation
Presented by Name to be advised - Luceda Photonics
12:00 Photonics Chip Level Test Strategies Overcoming Vibration Challenges in High Volume Production Environments
Presented by Name to be advised - Physik
12:15 Presentation by EPFL
Presented by Tobias Kippenberg - EPFL
12:30 Lunch Break and Networking
14:00 Presentation by Tower Semiconductor
Presented by Bowen Wang - Tower Semiconductor
14:15 Presentation #1 by imec
Presented by Leili Shiramin - imec
Connectivity and scalability for secure, high-speed data networks
14:30 PIC-enabled Quantum-safe Cryptography
Presented by Francesco Raffaelli - KETS Quantum Security
14:45 Presentation by Vanguard Automation
Presented by Name to be advised - Vanguard Automation
15:00 Building Scalable, Energy-Efficient TFLN PICs Through Industrial-Grade Manufacturing
Presented by Hernán Furci - CCRAFT
15:15 Beyond the Chip: System-Scale Simulations for Next-Gen PICs
Presented by Name to be advised - VPIphotonics
15:30 Designing for Yield: Production-Grade PDKs for Ultra-high-speed TFLN Photonic Engines.
Presented by Name to be advised - Lightium
15:45 Optical Interconnects for AI Clusters: Markets and Technologies
Presented by Roy Rubenstein - LightCounting
16:00 Afternoon Break and Networking
16:30 PANEL SESSION
Novel Startups in Photonic Integrated Circuits — From Concept to Deployment

Moderated by Jon Pugh, Director of PIC and Quantum Technologies at OPTICA
17:00 Presentation by EV Group
Presented by Thomas Achleitner - EV Group
17:15 Integrated Photonics from Opportunity to Mass Production for 50G+ Access Networks
Presented by Name to be advised - PICadvanced
17:30 Presentation #2 by imec
Presented by Name to be advised - imec
17:45 Presentation by Nokia
Presented by Mehrdad Ziari - Nokia
18:00 Photonic Integrated Circuits and Co-packaged Optics for HPC and AI Data Centers
Presented by Mika Takahashi - IDTechEx
18:15 Closing Remarks
18:15 Networking Drinks / Dinner Reception
Wednesday 22nd April 2026 starting at 08:00 CET
08:00 Registration and welcome refreshments
08:50 Housekeeping by Michael Lebby and David Cheskis - Conference Chairs
Future computing: PICs for photonic processing, quantum computers, and neural networks
09:00 PIC for Photonic Quantum Computing
Presented by Nicolas Maring - Quandela
09:15 Presentation by Hewlett Packard Enterprises
Presented by Matěj Hejda - Hewlett Packard Enterprise
09:30 Beyond Electronics with TFLN Photonic Integrated Circuits for Next-Generation Computing
Presented by Sep Mohajerani - Quantum Computing Inc
09:45 AIM Photonics / NY Creates PIC and Packaging Foundry for an End-to-End Approach to the Challenges in Photonic Integrated Circuits (PIC) and Packaging
Presented by David Harame - AIM Photonics
10:00 Morning Break and Networking
Emerging applications: photonics for sensing, imaging and beyond
10:30 Atomic-Photonic Chips for High-Precision Sensing and Metrology
Presented by Gianvito Lucivero - University of Bari/QSensAto
10:45 Presentation #2 by imec
Presented by Name to be advised - imec
11:00 Multi-Wavelength Laser Sources for Scaling Datacenter Capacity
Presented by Amol Delmade - Pilot Photonics
11:15 Aluminum Nitride Photonic Integrated Circuits for Extending Nonlinear Photonics Applications to UV Spectrum
Presented by Scott Burroughs - Uviquity
11:30 Closing Remarks
Presentation times and order are subject to change. This agenda was last updated on 30 Jan 2026 at 8:11am.