18 Mar 2026
17:00 - 19:00
Concourse F
This is the annual workshop of the Photonics Society of Chinese Heritage (PSC) and will also include the announcement of the winners of the Tingye Li Memorial Scholarship.
As AI clusters continue to scale, the bottleneck is shifting from raw bandwidth to fabric architecture, power efficiency, and utilization. This workshop explores photonic switching as a system level path to building next generation AI fabrics. Two directions will be explored: data center scale optical circuit switching (OCS) and electrical switching enabled by photonic fabrics, such as co packaged optics (CPO) for high density and energy efficient I/O. The workshop will also discuss emerging photonic switching technologies and the manufacturing and fabrication ecosystem needed for next generation AI infrastructure.
Join leaders from hyperscalers, system vendors, startups, and fabrication platforms to share perspectives and identify practical paths toward scalable AI fabrics.
To register for the workshop and dinner, please sign up here.
Speakers
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Vladimir Kozlov
CEO, LightCounting, United States
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Cedric Lam
Principal Engineer (Director), Google, United States
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Shenggao Li
Director, TSMC, United States
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Rao Lingampall
Senior Director of Engineering - AI Infrastructure, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, United States
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Daniel Perez-Lopez
Cofounder and CTO, iPronics, United States
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Craig Thompson
Vice President LinkX Products, Networking Group, NVIDIA, United States