While PICs are well established, they still face technological limitations. How can new materials and devices improve their performance and expand their range of functionalities, and how can we accelerate these innovations to market?

Data communications networks face numerous challenges, including soaring AI-driven demands, high energy consumption, and the possibility of future quantum technologies breaking current encryption methods. How can PICs help to solve these issues and underpin the high-speed, energy-efficient, quantum-secure networks of the future?

Integrated photonics has a wide range of potential applications. From self-driving cars to miniaturised molecular sensors and non-invasive healthcare, how are PICs making these possibilities a reality?

Computing power is integral to the modern world, but established technologies have limits, and novel systems could herald more powerful devices. From fully photonic processing to photonics for neuromorphic and quantum computing, how are PICs transforming the way we process data?