Vivek has over 18 years of experience in silicon photonics. He was a Sr. Principal Engineer, Product Architect and Program Leader for Integrated Silicon Photonics at Broadcom driving key core technology development required to co-package optics with switches and demonstrated industry’s first 25.6T Ethernet switch co-packaged with silicon photonics chiplets. Prior to joining Broadcom, he was a Principal Engineer at Rockley Photonics where he led silicon photonics product integration for their data-com product line. He started his career at Intel where he led next generation GPU to HBM interconnect technology development and the commercialization of their first Silicon-photonics-based transceivers. He received his PhD from MIT in Material Science and Engineering.

Alex is a world leader in quantum and nonlinear photonics. He performed many of the key demonstrations of nonlinear optical devices in silicon photonics, including parametric amplifiers and optical frequency comb generators. He also holds appointments in the departments of Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering at Columbia University. He was awarded the Townes Medal in 2019 and is a Fellow of Optica, the American Physical Society, and IEEE.

Yoshi has over 20 years of research experience in nonlinear silicon photonics and optical frequency combs. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed journal papers and is a co-inventor on 8 patents.

He is a Fellow of Optica, the 2017 Optica Ambassador, and is the recipient of the 2017 Tingye Li Innovation Price. He holds an M.S. and Ph.D. in Applied Physics, as well as an M.Eng. and B.S. in Engineering Physics, all from Cornell University.

Nicolas has over 25 years of experience in the photonics space. He joins Xscape from Lumentum where he was the General Manager of its Datacom business unit after serving as the Vice President of Strategy. In prior roles, he spent 16 years at NeoPhotonics as Director of Product engineering and General Manager of the Transceiver business unit serving the Hyperscale Cloud Datacenters. He started his career as Principal Engineer at Dicon Fiberoptics then Lightconnect with focus on integrating Optical and MEMS technologies.

Nicolas received a Master of Science in Physics/Optics from Paris-Sud University and an Executive MBA from Northwestern - Kellogg School of Management.

Vikram brings over two decades of deep technical and product leadership in photonics. A key member of the core team that successfully commercialized silicon photonics at Intel, he played a pivotal role in bringing breakthrough optical technologies from lab to market. Prior to that, he was an early member of the technical team at Luxtera, where he drove pioneering efforts in silicon photonics.

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He has a Ph.D. from USC and a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT, Madras.

Sowmitra has nearly 15 years of experience in strategy, corporate finance, and M&A.

Sowmitra specialises in business plan and forecast preparation, cost modelling (Opex and Capex), returns assessment, cash flow projections, scenario analysis, fundraising and M&A. Sowmitra has held senior roles at organisations such as EY-Parthenon and Deloitte, leading and delivering strategic projects for businesses - including aspects covering value creation, cost engineering and margin enhancement.

Sowmitra holds an MBA in strategy and finance from HEC Paris, a Master's in Eng. from the University of Texas, Austin, and a Bachelor's in Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

Karthik Vaithianathan has over 24 years of experience defining and implementing SoCs, Accelerators, Systems, andSoftware for various applications including General-Purpose (x86) Computing, Video Signal Processing, ComputerVision, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), and Large Language Models (LLMs). In his recent role as anentrepreneur, he defined and launched a distributed edge computing framework called Garuda REAP for LLMinference and training. Before that as a Lead SoC architect at Intel Corporation, Karthik was responsible for thearchitecture definition/performance of four SoCs/Accelerators including Skylake Accelerated Compute Extension(ACE). Karthik has 10 approved patents, 10 patent publications, and over 12 published papers. Karthik received hisMS in Electrical Engineering from Arizona State University at Tempe, and a B.S. in Electronics and CommunicationEngineering from Guindy College of Engineering at Chennai, India.

Brian has 10 years of experience in silicon photonics and silica-on-silicon chip design and layout, for telecom, high-performance computing, and LiDAR applications.  Previously, he taught physics and photonics at a Bachelor of Photonics program in Canada.  He has over 40 peer-reviewed publications and one book chapter, with nearly 1000 citations, and 2 patents awarded or pending.  He received a MS and PhD in Optical Sciences from University of Arizona, an MS in Engineering Sciences from Dartmouth College, and a B.Eng in Engineering Physics from McMaster University.

Joseph has been in the optical communications industry for over 25 years and been involved in product development of optical transceivers, optical components and subsystems.  He spent 16 years at Neophotonics, leading the Coherent Receiver program and continuing in that role at Lumentum after its acquisition of Neophotonics.  Earlier in his career, he was a co-founder of Beam Express, an optical transceiver company which was acquired by Neophotonics.  In addition, he was in product development roles at Pine Photonics and Opnext.  He is a co-inventor on 7 patents in optical communications.  He received a Masters and PhD degrees from the University of Toronto, with specialization in optoelectronics and a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.