OIP 2025 Program
Schedule
To access the full conference program and schedule please click here.
Registration: There will be no onsite registration. The registration desk to collect name badge, OIP handout, etc. is located in the main lobby at the Elizabeth Hotel, and will be open from 8 AM to 3 PM during the conference.
Keynote Speakers
Ola Tørudbakken
Ola Tørudbakken
Ola Tørudbakken
Sr. Director of Infrastructure
Meta, Norway
Ola is an engineer and entrepreneur with more than 30 years of experience building distributed systems. Ola currently serves as Senior Director of AI Systems at Meta. Previously Ola was SVP Systems at Graphcore, driving their 2nd generation AI systems. Ola came to Graphcore through the acquisi
Sr. Director of Infrastructure
Meta, Norway
Ola is an engineer and entrepreneur with more than 30 years of experience building distributed systems. Ola currently serves as Senior Director of AI Systems at Meta. Previously Ola was SVP Systems at Graphcore, driving their 2nd generation AI systems. Ola came to Graphcore through the acquisition of Skala Technologies, an AI startup he co-founded. Prior to Skala, Ola worked as Chief Architect at Oracle. Ola joined Oracle through the acquisition of Sun Microsystems. At Sun, Ola served as Distinguished Engineer, amongst many things responsible for the famous 3456-port Magnum Infiniband Switch now on display in the Computer Museum, Silicon Valley. Prior to Sun Ola was at Dolphin ICS, acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2000. Ola started his career as a research scientist at SINTEF, a Norwegian industrial research organization.
Ola is a recognized industry expert in distributed systems, holds over 48 patents, has published several papers in leading publications, and participated in numerous standardization bodies. Ola holds an MSc degree in Computer Science from University of Oslo in 1994
Near Margalit
Ola Tørudbakken
Ola Tørudbakken
GM and VP of Optical Systems Division
Broadcom, USA
Dr. Near Margalit has held several executive positions in the optical connectivity industry. He founded Zaffire Inc., a metro DWDM Optical Networking company before moving on to lead Source Photonics as CEO from 2002-2013, growing the company to one of the premier optical transceiver ve
GM and VP of Optical Systems Division
Broadcom, USA
Dr. Near Margalit has held several executive positions in the optical connectivity industry. He founded Zaffire Inc., a metro DWDM Optical Networking company before moving on to lead Source Photonics as CEO from 2002-2013, growing the company to one of the premier optical transceiver vendors. He was the CTO and Head of Product Development for Intel's Silicon Photonics for the commercial introduction of Silicon Photonics in 2015-2016. From 2018 to present he has been with the Optical Systems Division of Broadcom where he is currently the VP and General Manager of the division. He holds a Ph.D in Optoelectronics from UC Santa Barbara and a B.S. in Applied Physics from CalTech.
Invited Speakers
Barak Freedman
Tony Chan Carusone
Tony Chan Carusone
Sr. Director of Product Engineering
NVIDIA, Israel
Tony Chan Carusone
Tony Chan Carusone
Tony Chan Carusone
CTO and Professor
Alphawave Semi, University of Toronto, Canada
Sajjad Moazeni
Tony Chan Carusone
Sajjad Moazeni
Assistant Professor
University of Washington, USA
Mike Li
Victor Torres Company
Sajjad Moazeni
Intel Fellow
Intel, USA
Akihiro Noriki
Victor Torres Company
Victor Torres Company
Senior Researcher
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan
Victor Torres Company
Victor Torres Company
Victor Torres Company
Professor, Photonics, Microtechnology and Nanoscience
Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Rebecca K. Schaevitz
Rebecca K. Schaevitz
Rebecca K. Schaevitz
Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer
Mixx Technologies, Inc., USA
Joaquin Matres
Rebecca K. Schaevitz
Rebecca K. Schaevitz
Founder
GDSFactory, USA
Kevin Dezfulian
Rebecca K. Schaevitz
Kevin Dezfulian
Distinguished Engineer
GlobalFoundries, USA
Lenin Patra
Vivek Raghunathan
Kevin Dezfulian
Vice President and CTO
Marvel Semiconductor, USA
Vivek Raghunathan
Vivek Raghunathan
Vivek Raghunathan
Co-Founder and CEO
Xscape Photonics, USA
Lucas Yeary
Vivek Raghunathan
Vivek Raghunathan
Engineer and Supervisor
Corning Inc., USA
Yang Chen
Hamidreza Aghasi
Hamidreza Aghasi
Director of Product Development
Senko Advanced Components, USA
Hamidreza Aghasi
Hamidreza Aghasi
Hamidreza Aghasi
Assistant Professor
University of California, Irvine, USA
Nicole Heidel
Hamidreza Aghasi
Gordon Morrison
Program Manager
SRI International, USA
Gordon Morrison
Gordon Morrison
Gordon Morrison
Vice President of Engineering
Freedom Photonics & EM4, USA
Erik Norberg
Gordon Morrison
Erik Norberg
Sr. Director Silicon Photonics Platform OpenLight, USA
Luke Graham
Gordon Morrison
Erik Norberg
CTO
Dallas Quantum Devices, USA
Yoojin Ban
Darius Bunandar
Jacob Scheuer
Program Manager Optical I/O
imec, Belgium
Jacob Scheuer
Darius Bunandar
Jacob Scheuer
Professor
Tel Aviv University, Israel
Darius Bunandar
Darius Bunandar
Srinivas Venkataraman
Chief Scientist
Lightmatter, USA
Srinivas Venkataraman
Srinivas Venkataraman
Srinivas Venkataraman
Senior Hardware Engineer
Meta, USA
Dusan Gostimirovic
Srinivas Venkataraman
Dusan Gostimirovic
Co-Founder at PreFab Photonics and Postdoc
McGill University, Canada
Preet Virk
Srinivas Venkataraman
Dusan Gostimirovic
Co-Founder and COO
Celestial AI, USA
Anand Ramaswamy
Anand Ramaswamy
Anand Ramaswamy
Solutions Marketing Manager
Broadcom, USA
Samir Chaudhry
Anand Ramaswamy
Anand Ramaswamy
Vice President & Customer Design Enablement
Tower Semiconductor, USA
John Shalf
Anand Ramaswamy
Surya Bhattacharya
Department Head, Computing Research Div.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Surya Bhattacharya
Surya Bhattacharya
Surya Bhattacharya
Director, System in Package
Institute of Microelectronics, Singapore
Erman Timurdogan
Surya Bhattacharya
Erman Timurdogan
Director, Silicon Photonics R&D
Lumentum, USA
Farhang Yazdani
Surya Bhattacharya
Erman Timurdogan
President and CTO
BroadPak Corporation, USA
Matt Traverso
Stephen E. Ralph
Matt Traverso
Distinguished Engineer
Marvel Technology, USA
Dan Kuchta
Stephen E. Ralph
Matt Traverso
Principal Hardware System Architect
Nvidia, USA
Stephen E. Ralph
Stephen E. Ralph
Stephen E. Ralph
Professor
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Bassem Tossoun
Mihai Vidrighin
Stephen E. Ralph
Principal Research Scientist
Hewlett Packard Labs, USA
John Jost
Mihai Vidrighin
Mihai Vidrighin
Co-Founder and Co-CEO
Enlightra, Switzerland
Mihai Vidrighin
Mihai Vidrighin
Mihai Vidrighin
Senior Director of Photonic Circuits
PsiQuantum, USA
Adam Healey
Christopher Striemer
Adam Healey
Fellow, Physical Layer Products Division
Broadcom, USA
Hang Jin
Christopher Striemer
Adam Healey
Engineering Director
Maxlinear, USA
Christopher Striemer
Christopher Striemer
Christopher Striemer
Dr. of Test, Assembly and Packaging Operations AIM Photonics, USA
Workshops and Panels
WS1: Optics for Scale-Up
WS3: Advanced Optical Packaging for High-Volume Manufacturing
WS2: Next Generation SerDes for Optical Interconnects
Speakers
- Matt Traverso, Marvel Tech, USA
- Ola Tørudbakken, Meta, Norway
- Preet Virk, Celestial AI, USA
- Darius Bunandar, Lightmatter, USA
- Anand Ramaswamy, Broadcom, USA
WS2: Next Generation SerDes for Optical Interconnects
WS3: Advanced Optical Packaging for High-Volume Manufacturing
WS2: Next Generation SerDes for Optical Interconnects
Speakers
- Adam Healey, Broadcom, USA
- Mike Li, Intel, USA
- Tony Carusone, Alphawave, Canada
- Srinivas Venkataraman, Meta, USA
- Hamidreza Aghasi, UCI, USA
- Lenin Patra, Marvel Sem., USA
- Sridhar Ramesh, MaxLinear, USA
WS3: Advanced Optical Packaging for High-Volume Manufacturing
WS3: Advanced Optical Packaging for High-Volume Manufacturing
WS3: Advanced Optical Packaging for High-Volume Manufacturing
Speakers
- Rebecca Schavitz, Mixx Tech., USA
- Dan Kuchta, Nvidia, USA
- Lucas Yeary, Corning Inc., USA
- Yang Chen, Senko, USA
- Kevin Dezfulian, GlobalFound., USA
- Surya Bhattacharya, IME, Singapore
- Farhang Yazdani, BroadPak, USA