Industry Horizon program

Description: 

Generally speaking, Industry Horizon encompasses current trends, forecasts, and challenges across various industrial sectors, influenced by economic conditions, technological advancements, and geopolitical factors. To be more specific, with the wider impact of AI on networking and service provider infrastructure, this program is tailored to provide valuable insights into the innovations, opportunities, and challenges shaping the future of global connectivity, compute and networking for our industry.

The 2026 Industry Horizon program target a full day series of panel discussions highlighting the latest application topics and business issues in the field of optical communications. Presentations and panel sessions feature esteemed guest speakers from industry, academic and the investment community.

We will explore and share insights into emerging technologies, standards, and manufacturing / deployment challenges, alongside look into the future direction of optical solutions and examine how the industry is scaling to meet growing AI demands, with topics such like scale-up, scale-out and scale  across architectures, CPO/NPO/XPO, uLED, silicon photonics & TFLN, photonics packaging, laser innovation, and the evolution beyond 1.6T connectivity etc.