Monday 7th April 2025 starting at 18:30 CET

18:30 Pre-conference networking drinks reception

Tuesday 8th April 2025 starting at 08:00 CET

08:00 Registration and welcome refreshments 08:50 Housekeeping by Michael Lebby and David Cheskis - Conference Chairs Optimising materials and architectures to progress PICs 09:00 Improving Performance of Germanium electro-absorption Modulators Presented by Daniel Steckler - IHP Microelectronics 09:15 UV Photonics and Rare-earth Doped Amplifiers with Sputter-deposited Aluminium Oxide Waveguides Presented by Dawson Bonneville - University of Twente 09:30 Presentation by Nanoscribe Presented by Mareike Trappen - Nanoscribe 09:45 Presentation by imec Presented by Leili Shiramin - imec 10:00 Photonic Integrated Circuit Packaging Presented by Liam Moroney - Alter Technology 10:15 Morning Break 10:55 Comparing PIC Platforms: What’s the Best Fit? Presented by Sam Dale - IDTechEx 11:10 Structuring and Uniformity Improvement of Thin Film LN and other Waveguide Materials Presented by Marcel Demmler - scia Systems GmbH 11:25 Presentation by PICadvanced Presented by Name to be advised - PICadvanced 11:40 Industry Ready Photonic Integration using Photonic Wire Bonds & Facet-Attached Micro-Lenses Presented by Dr. Laura Horan - Vanguard Automation 11:55 The Future Role of Bonding in Photonic Integrated Circuits and Co-Packaged Optics Presented by Dr. Bernd Dielacher - EV Group 12:10 Advancing TFLN PICs to Meet Market Demand and Scale Production Presented by Hamed Sattari - CCRAFT 12:25 Lunch Break Delivering more data: AI, machine learning and tomorrow's computing Sponsored by OPTICA 13:55 Optical Interconnects for Next Generation of AI Systems Presented by Ana González - iPronics 14:10 The Evolving Role of Optics in AI Clusters Presented by Vlad Kozlov - LightCounting 14:25 Integrated Neuromorphic Photonics and Optical Computing Accelerators Presented by Matěj Hejda - Hewlett Packard Enterprise 14:40 Accelerating Photonic Design for Next Generation Computing with Multiphysics Simulation Presented by Dylan McGuire - Ansys 14:55 Driving Functional Test Closer to the Chip Presented by Matt Adams - VIAVI Solutions 15:10 Presentation by Keysight Technologies Presented by Name to be advised - Keysight Technologies 15:25 Presentation by VPIphotonics Presented by Name to be advised - VPIphotonics 15:40 Afternoon Break 16:20 Presentation by ficonTEC Presented by Name to be advised - ficonTEC 16:35 Presentation by Lightium Presented by Name to be advised - Lightium 16:50 Presentation by NVIDIA Presented by Ashkan Seyedi - NVIDIA 17:05 The Future of Optical Interconnects is 3D Printed Freeform Optics Presented by Dr. Sebastian Skacel - Vanguard Automation 17:20 Title to be confirmed Presented by Martin Fiers - Luceda Photonics 17:35 Closing Remarks 18:30 Networking Drinks / Dinner Reception

Wednesday 9th April 2025 starting at 08:00 CET

08:00 Registration and welcome refreshments 08:50 Housekeeping by Michael Lebby and David Cheskis - Conference Chairs Optimising materials and architectures to progress PICs 09:00 Enabling Increasingly Dense fiber-to-chip Connections in Datacenters Presented by Benoit Fleury - Corning 09:15 InP PIC Platform and Architectures for Data-Center Applications Presented by Mehrdad Ziari - Infinera 09:30 What about the PIC Manufacturing Sweet Spot? Presented by Twan Korthorst - New Origin 09:45 Presentation by APEX Technologies Presented by Name to be advised - APEX Technologies 10:00 Presentation by Physik Instrumente Presented by Scott Jordan - Physik Instrumente 10:15 PANEL SESSION Accelerating the Adoption of Advanced Photonic Integrated Circuits Using Design Standardisation in PIC Packaging ficonTEC, and imec Moderated by Jon Pugh, Director of PIC and Quantum Technologies at OPTICA 10:45 Morning Break Harnessing PICs in healthcare, autonomous vehicles and beyond 11:25 Scaling up LiDAR with Silicon Photonics Presented by François Simoens - SteerLight 11:40 Aluminum Oxide PICs for UV Microscopy and Sensing Presented by Nicolas Le Thomas - Ghent University 11:55 The Future of PICs in Agrifood, Healthcare & Industrial Sensing Presented by Peter van Arkel - PhotonDelta 12:10 PIC for Automotive LiDAR Presented by Marcus Dahlem - imec 12:25 SiN PICs for Optical Coherence Tomography Presented by Rainer Hainberger - AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH 12:40 Industrial Chemical Detection with On-chip Raman Technology Presented by Ivan-Lazar Bundalo - InSpek 12:55 Lunch Break Advancing quantum 2.0 technologies with PICs 14:25 Advancing Quantum Communications with PICs Presented by Taofiq K. Paraïso - Toshiba Europe Limited 14:40 Presentation by Yole Group Presented by Eric Mounier - Yole Group 14:55 Modular, Fibre-Interconnected Architectures for Photonic Quantum Computers Presented by Thien-An Nguyen - Orca Computing 15:10 Closing Remarks