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Technical Conference: 07 - 11 March 2027
Exhibition: 09 - 11 March 2027
Los Angeles Convention Center | Los Angeles, California, United States

Technical Conference: 07 - 11 March 2027
Exhibition: 09 - 11 March 2027
Los Angeles Convention Center | Los Angeles, California, United States

Panel: Classical, Quantum-Inspired, or Quantum? Mapping the Photonic Computing Advantage Spectrum

Photonics is being pursued across three distinct computing paradigms: classical unconventional (Ising machines, photonic neural networks), quantum-inspired (coherent Ising machines, variational circuits), and genuinely quantum (photonic qubits, boson sampling); yet these communities rarely converge. Each claims advantage for different problem classes and timescales, and the boundary between them is no longer clean. This joint N2/SC-Q workshop/symposium maps the full spectrum in a single structured session, asking where photonic computing delivers practical advantage today, where it plausibly will within five years, and whether any paradigm represents a discontinuous leap rather than incremental gain over classical electronics.

Organizers

  • John Jarman

    Nu Quantum, United States

  • Metej Hejda

    Hewlett Packard Labs, Belgium

  • Natalia Herrera Valencia

    Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom

  • Patty Stabile

    Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands