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Optica Quantum 2.0 Conference and Exhibition

Discover the next era of quantum innovation.

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43Speakers
0Sponsors
8On the bill · sessions
43Companies · in total
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Speakers

Programmed at Optica, in alphabetical order.
Alan Liu
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder · Quintessent
Andy Bechtolsheim
Co-Founder & Chief Architect · Arista Networks
Ashkan Seyedi
Vice-President & General Manager - Optical Interconnect · ams OSRAM
Brad Booth
Chief Executive Officer · NLM Photonics
Chris Pfistner
Vice-President – Sales & Marketing · Avicena
Daniel Pérez López
Chief Technology Officer & Founder · iPronics
Dan Kuchta
Principal Hardware System Architect · NVIDIA
Dave Welch
Chief Executive Officer & Founder · AttoTude
Don Barnetson
Senior Vice President & Head of Product · Credo
Fotini Karinou
Director of Optical Technologies & Architecture · Microsoft Azure Hardware Systems & Infrastructure
Gleb Akselrod
Chief Technology Officer & Founder · Lumotive
Hendrik Coldenstrodt
Chief Technology Officer - Computing and Transportation Business Group · BizLink
Hesham Taha
General Manager · Molex
Jason Wildt
Vice President and General Manager of Photonics · Jabil
Jeff Rahn
Optical Network Engineer · Meta
Julie Adams
Business Development Executive – Chiplets and Advanced Packaging · IBM
Julie Eng
Chief Technology Officer · Coherent Corp
Kaushik Patel
Vice-President, Photonics & Silicon Engineering · Lightmatter
Lawrence van der Vegt
Head of Photonics, Advanced Semiconductor Division · MPI Corporation
Mark Filer
Architect – Physical Networking · Oracle
Matthew Sysak
Chief Technology Officer · Lumentum
Matt Streshinsky
Sr Director - Photonics · AMD
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Agenda

Selected from 8 sessions on the bill.
  • Tuesday, 20 October 2026, 11:30–13:00

    Session 2: The Optical Scale-Up Frontier: Connecting the Next Generation of AI Systems

    As AI systems scale beyond the practical limits of conventional electrical I/O, a new generation of optical interconnect architectures is emerging to connect accelerators, memory a…

  • Tuesday, 20 October 2026, 14:15–15:30

    Session 3: Architecting AI Fabrics

    As AI infrastructure scales from tightly coupled accelerator clusters to distributed AI factories, networking is becoming one of the defining elements of overall system architectur…

  • Tuesday, 20 October 2026, 16:15–17:45

    Session 4: Architecting the AI Network

    As AI infrastructure scales to increasingly large clusters and tightly coupled compute domains, the optical connectivity roadmap is evolving rapidly. Pluggable transceivers continu…

  • Tuesday, 20 October 2026, 9:15-10:45

    Session 1: Architecting AI Infrastructure: The Hyperscaler and Compute Platform Perspective

    As AI systems scale to unprecedented size, the relationship between compute and networking is being fundamentally redefined. This opening session brings together leading hyperscale…

  • Wednesday, 21 October 2026, 11:00-12:30

    Session 6 - Advanced Materials, Devices and Components for Next-Generation Optical Infrastructure

    As optical technologies move closer to compute and into increasingly integrated AI architectures, continued innovation at the materials, device and component level will be essentia…

  • Wednesday, 21 October 2026, 13:45-15:15

    Session 7 – Scaling Integrated Photonics: From Foundry to Advanced Packaging

    The ability to manufacture integrated optical technologies at semiconductor scale is becoming increasingly critical. This session will bring together leading foundries to examine h…

  • Wednesday, 21 October 2026, 15:45–17:15

    Session 7 continued – Scaling Integrated Photonics: From Foundry to Advanced Packaging (continued discussion)

    Continuation of the prior session, focusing on the evolving foundry and advanced packaging ecosystem for integrated photonics, challenges in yield, process, packaging, supply chain…

  • Wednesday, 21 October 2026, 8:45-10:15

    Session 5: Rethinking AI Infrastructure: Optical Switching and Photonic Acceleration

    As photonics moves deeper into AI infrastructure, its role is expanding beyond point-to-point connectivity. Emerging optical circuit switching technologies promise to dynamically r…

Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

An audience of 43 companies, parsed from the program.

43 companies in attendance.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page, cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

Who's in the room
0All threespeak · spons · exh
0Sponsoringsponsor only
43Companies Speakingspeaker only
Speakers by seniority

77% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite1842%
  • Founder / Owner12%
  • VP-level921%
  • Director / Head of512%
  • Manager / Lead37%
  • Engineer · IC37%
  • Marketing / Brand25%
  • Other roles25%

Of 43 on the bill · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
  1. 01Acacia Communications1V
  2. 02AMD1V
  3. 03ams OSRAM1V
  4. 04Arista Networks1V
  5. 05Artilux Inc1V
  6. 06AttoTude1V
  7. 07Avicena1V
  8. 08Ayar Labs1V
  9. 09BizLink1V
  10. 10Broadcom1V
  11. 11Ciena1V
  12. 12Coherent Corp1V
  13. 13Credo1V
  14. 14ficonTEC1V
Sponsors by tier

Tiers were not disclosed for this event.

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