Photonics Industry Summit

27 September 2023

Washington DC, United States

SPIE Photonics Industry Summit

A one-day event designed for leaders within the optics and photonics industry

Mark your calendar and plan to attend in September

Gather with critical decision makers 27 September 2023 in Washington, DC, for SPIE Photonics Industry Summit. This one-day forum focused on the optics and photonics industry as an essential enabler of emerging technology. The full-day program will host U.S. government leaders discussing federal policy and funding important to the optics and photonics industry with an audience of more than 150 company representatives. Our collective goal in meeting is to raise the profile of the optics and photonics industry, while learning more about the priorities of the U.S. government in this technology space.

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Review the lineup of speakers from 2022

As we build the 2023 program, see who presented at last year's Summit. An outline of the upcoming program will be shared in May.

Kent Rochford

SPIE CEO

Steve Daines

U.S. Senator, Montana

Kei Koizumi

Principal Deputy Director for Policy, Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP)

Isik C. Kizilyalli

Associate Director for Technology at the Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy (ARPA-E)

Maynard Holliday

Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Critical Technologies, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, Department of Defense (DOD)

Laurie Locascio

Director, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Bruce Tromberg

Director, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, National Institutes of Health

Thyagarajan Nandagopal

Acting Division Director of Technology, Innovation and Partnerships (TIP), National Science Foundation (NSF)

Thea Rozman Kendler

Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration, Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), U.S. Dept. of Commerce

Industry moderators and speakers

Tom Battley

Vice President Government and Partnerships, American Center for Optics Manufacturing (AmeriCOM)

Jenn Cable

President, Thorlabs

Ravi Guntupalli

Vice President & General Manager, Teledyne

Bernard Kress

Director of XR Engineering, Google

Jay Kumler

President, JENOPTIK Optical Systems

Roy Streetz

Vice President of the Advanced Electronic System, Excelitas Technologies

Samuel Sadoulet

Chief Executive Officer, Edmund Optics

Joe Spilman

President, Optimax

Mark A. Tolbert

CEO, TOPTICA Photonics, Inc.

Robert Walker

Vice President, Strategy & Business Development, Leonardo Electronics US, Inc.

Craig Walling

President, Hamamatsu Corporation, the North American subsidiary of Hamamatsu Photonics K.K

Kirk Warden

President, LaCroix Precision Optics

Photonics innovation enables new opportunities for industry

The value of light-enabled products and services is estimated to be between $7 trillion and $10 trillion annually, which means the science and application of light—known as photonics—represents roughly 11% of the world’s economy.
Read about this statistic and more in the SPIE Optics & Photonics 2022 Industry Report.