Dawn of Photonic Intelligence

Photonic startups are on fire.

GPUs are hitting a wall. Copper is hitting a wall. The AI clusters we're building today are so power-hungry, so bandwidth-constrained, that the only path forward runs through light.

Dawn of Photonic Intelligence brings together executives at Nvidia, Intel and more of the people who are driving this transition for a lunch conference during Deeptech Week in SF.

On the agenda:

• 5PM: Arrival

• 6PM: Roundtable 1
  Copper’s Last Mile: How Silicon Photonics Is Reshaping AI Compute and Networking Roadmaps
  Speakers: M. Ashkan Seyedi (NVIDIA), Susan Schofer (SOSV), Dr. Josué Lopez (DCVC) and Geoffrey Tate (Ayar Labs)

• 630PM: Francesco Manegatti presents NcodiN

• 645PM: Alex Maierean presents Phantom Photonics

• 7PM: Roundtable 2
  Building (and Betting On) the Photonic Intelligence Stack: VC Perspectives on Commercialization and Scale
  Speakers: Josh Miner (Maverick Silicon), Srini Ananth (Intel Capital), Jerry Yang (HCVC) and Kevin Chen (Lam Capital)

• 730PM: Scott Burroughs presents Uviquity

• 745PM: Julia Mossbridge presents American Electrodynamics

• 8PM: Dinner time.

• 9PM: End of event.

Seats are limited. Apply to attend

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