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PECC Summit - Optica+APC Photonic-Enabled Cloud Computing Summit

Managed and organized by Optica and sponsored by the Advanced Photonics Coalition (APC), the Summit brings together the supply chain to discuss the deployment of optics in data centers and AI infrastructure in a confidential, in-person setting.

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56Speakers
0Sponsors
34Exhibitors
43Sessions
79Companies · in total

Speakers

Programmed at PECC, in alphabetical order.

Adam Carter
Chief Executive Officer · OpenLight
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
Bryan Hall
Senior Vice President, Sales and Business Development · ColorChip
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
Principal Hardware Architect Optical Technologies · 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 Maki
APC/HPE
Jeff Rahn
Optical Network Engineer · Meta
Jose Pozo
CTO · Optica
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

Agenda

Selected from 43 sessions.

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 15:45–17:15

    Special Program: Industrializing Photonics for AI Infrastructure - From Foundry to High-Volume Manufacturing (second part)

    This special afternoon program will bring together leaders from across the photonics and semiconductor manufacturing value chain to examine how the industry moves from innovation t…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 9:00–9:15

    Welcome Remarks

  • 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…

Company intelligence

What does it mean when 79 companies show up, and 6 bet on three roles at once?

79 companies. six are betting more than once.

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
6All threespeak · spons · exh
0Sponsoringsponsor only
26Exhibitingexhibitor only
47Speakingspeaker only

In all three roles

Avicena·Ciena·Eliyan Corp.·HPE·Mojo Vision·Salience Labs

Speakers by seniority

75% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite2545%
  • Founder / Owner12%
  • VP-level1221%
  • Director / Head of47%
  • Manager / Lead47%
  • Engineer · IC35%
  • Marketing / Brand24%
  • Other roles59%

Of 56 speakers · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
#CompanyRolesSpeakers
1AvicenaExhibitor1
2CienaExhibitor1
3Eliyan Corp.Exhibitor1
4HPEExhibitor1
5Mojo VisionExhibitor1
6Salience LabsExhibitor1
7AltaraExhibitor-
8AmphenolExhibitor-
9Dicon FiberopticsExhibitor-
10EXFOExhibitor-
11FentumExhibitor-
12FlexcomputeExhibitor-
13Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)Exhibitor-
14HitachiExhibitor-
Sponsors by tier

Tiers were not disclosed for this event.