Past Industry Programs
25 June 2019, 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
OIDA VIP Industry Leaders Speed Meeting
23 June 2019, 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
OSA & OIDA Member Reception
7 May 2019, 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
OIDA VIP Industry Leaders Speed Meeting
7 May 2019, 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
OIDA Market Update Dinner
5 March 2019, 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
OIDA VIP Industry Leaders Speed Meeting
4 March 2019, 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
The premier event for leaders in optical networking and communications, OIDA Executive Forum provides attendees with an exclusive opportunity to hear insider perspectives in an uncensored environment, while participating in high-level networking.
This annual event showcases prominent industry leaders in the optical networking and communications sector as they present the latest technological advances and business models. Attendees participate in cutting-edge discussions and unmatched peer-to-peer networking as they hear real world solutions to help better manage their businesses.
3 March 2019, 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
These capabilities include component design, fabrication, packaging and test. However, these capabilities are fragmented, both from a geographic, but more importantly, an integrated ecosystem perspective. There is an urgent need for the different parts of the integrated photonic ecosystem to collaborate and to build a more efficient manufacturing supply chain, similar to that for integrated electronics. Overcoming this challenge will be a critical step forward in accelerating the mass market uptake of integrated photonics.
This workshop will review and address the key challenges associated with manufacturing integrated photonic components. Invited speakers will discuss critical aspects of the ecosystem, providing insights on the current manufacturing challenges and what is being done to address them. Panel sessions will provide a unique opportunity for speakers and the audience to propose and review ways to strengthen collaborations across the ecosystem and to build a more effective manufacturing supply chain. The workshop is especially suited to those interested in providing integrated photonic manufacturing services and to the users of these services.
5 February 2019, 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
OIDA Market Update Reception
14 May 2018, 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
Who should attend:
• Business development and strategic marketing staff from industry, including large companies and start-ups
• Private and corporate investors
• Program managers and research directors from government funding and research agencies
• Directors from university centers
Theme:
The Executive Forum-style event aims to match applications needing improvement with promising early-stage technologies to lead eventually to commercial solutions in a range of sectors, spanning consumer to industrial markets. While the ultimate activity is “matchmaking” with this end in mind, the workshop will focus on segments within the field that have particular promise today, such as Smart Cities, mobility and automation, Big Data and AI, and manufacturing issues related to these products. Some key questions for discussion will be:
• What is needed from the photonics industry? What are the problems that optics and photonics can have the greatest impact?
• What are the enabling technologies that have the most promise?
• What are the bottlenecks or “showstoppers” among photonics technologies today, and potential solutions?
12 March 2018, 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
Held every year in conjunction with OFC, the OSA Executive Forum features C-level panelists in an informal, uncensored setting discussing the latest issues facing companies in the business.
11 March 2018, 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
Fifth generation (5G) wireless and the Internet of Things (IoT) are introducing a wide range of new applications that will depend on performance enhancements across multiple dimensions, including low latency, high capacity, and enhanced resilience. Densification of network access points and capacity will be essential to achieving these performance advances and increased functionality. Standards groups are calling for bandwidth densities as high as 10 Tb/s/km2. High speed access points fulfilling this bandwidth density will be challenged by footprint, power, and cost limitations on facilities that include street lights, kiosks, and traffic lights.
Photonic devices provide capacity and latency that can meet the demanding requirements of 5G and IoT applications. Developing integrated photonic devices that can scale to high volume manufacturing while meeting the tight power and cost constraints promise to open up these rapidly growing markets to photonic devices.
This workshop will examine this opportunity for integrated photonics through plenary and invited talks by leading experts in the field covering the following topics:
The 5G and IoT markets as they related to integrated photonic devices—where are the largest opportunities and where is the low hanging fruit for photonics to have impact? Overview of the high level business and technical metrics that integrated photonics needs to meet for these applications. Major themes and approaches used in 5G and IoT that are relevant to photonic systems. Learn about cloud radio access networks, CPRI, radio over fiber, NFV and SDN. In depth analysis of the major technical challenges related to scalable manufacturing, low power, and low cost of integrated photonics in emerging 5G and IoT applications. Including presentations of the state of the art technologies. Reports from large international R&D programs on integrated photonics and their strategies for 5G and IoT.
The workshop is targeted at companies and innovators considering or already investing in integrated photonics to meet their future product requirements, and who need to understand key manufacturing challenges and how they can be addressed.
On Demand
13 December 2017, 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
This webinar will focus on these and other recent performance milestones enabled by advanced coherent technologies, from both real-world deployments and research demonstrations
14 November 2017, 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
The OIDA Funding Accelerator Speed Meetings: SBIR/STTR focusing on optics and photonics funding, will be held in Washington, DC on 14 November 2017. This event will give U.S. companies with less than 500 employees an opportunity to meet one-on-one with program officers from multiple U.S. federal agencies, all in one place, in one day - minimizing your time investment and increasing your chances for new government funding.
This OIDA event will give you an insider perspective on what agencies are looking to fund; as well as provide you with up-to-date information on each agency's SBIR/STTR funding process, and how you can enhance your probability of success. In addition, the event will help government agencies better understand what OSA Industry Development Associates (OIDA) members can offer and how the optics and photonics technologies can help them meet their goals.
This event is exclusive to OIDA Members. For more information and to secure your company's reservation, please e-mail OSA Director of Corporate Membership, Andrew Dougherty at adougherty@osa.org to RSVP.
20 March 2017, 8:00 AM - 8:00 PM
Held every year in conjunction with OFC, the OSA Executive Forum features C-level panelists in an informal, uncensored setting discussing the latest issues facing companies in the business.
20 March 2017, 8:00 AM - 8:00 PM
Held every year in conjunction with OFC, the OSA Executive Forum features C-level panelists in an informal, uncensored setting discussing the latest issues facing companies in the business.
19 March 2017, 8:08 AM - 8:00 PM
Integrated photonics presents significant opportunities to develop compact and highly functional systems for a range of communication and sensor applications. However, it has unique manufacturing challenges which can limit its commercial exploitation. These challenges are most apparent during the transition from research prototyping to product development and volume manufacture, often referred to as ‘the valley of death’.
17 November 2016, 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
The OIDA Funding Accelerator Speed Meetings: SBIR/STTR focusing on optics and photonics funding, will be held in Washington, DC on 17 November 2016. This event will give U.S. companies with less than 500 employees an opportunity to meet one-on-one with program officers from multiple U.S. federal agencies, all in one place, in one day — minimizing your time investment and increasing your chances for new government funding.
25 July 2016, 12:00 AM - 11:59 PM
Advances in optical technologies and their use in commercial applications.
Recent advances in applied optics have resulted in technological
breakthroughs with significant commercial implications. The
environmental, defense, oil & gas, food & beverage, medical, and
pharmaceutical industries are just a few of the sectors that are
consistently pushing the boundaries in applied industrial optics (AIO).
At AIO, researchers with experience in overcoming the challenges of
deploying and commercializing new technology meet research groups
striving to get their technology out of the lab. In addition to
traditional presentations, AIO hosts panel sessions aimed at fostering
dialog and new collaborations amongst attendees. Topic categories
include: instrumentation, metrology, imaging systems, applied
spectroscopy, wearable devices, clinical diagnostics, harsh environment
systems, and emerging laser, fiber, and photonic technologies.
21 March 2016, 8:00 AM - 8:00 PM
Held every year in conjunction with OFC, the OSA Executive Forum features C-level panelists in an informal, uncensored setting discussing the latest issues facing companies in the business.
20 March 2016, 8:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Learn New Strategies to Develop Your Integrated Photonics High Volume Packaging Roadmap
8 March 2016, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
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2 March 2016, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Coherent detection and digital signal processing have led to a new and exciting paradigm in optical fiber communications, as they provide a substantial improvement in transport system capacity and functionality. Optical networking, and in particular the use of super-channel wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) technology, is the ideal way to efficiently transport extremely large amounts of data over long-haul terrestrial and subsea networks.
10 December 2015, 1:00 PM - 7:00 PM
OSA is partnering with Plug and Play, a business accelerator that specializes in growing tech startups, to provide startup companies who have innovative optics and photonics technologies with a unique opportunity to find the funding they need to accelerate their business growth.
3 November 2015, 9:00 AM - 7:00 PM
This workshop continues a series of OIDA workshops that reviews the state of the art in photonic integration.
It aims to address several questions related to the limits of commercialization of integrated photonics:
2 November 2015, 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
The Optical Society (OSA) will host a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) funding accelerator event on 02 November 2015. This meeting will bring together industry entrepreneurs and government agencies with the purpose of directing the development and funding of new advancements in photonics. SBIR programs are the U.S. government’s largest source of early stage research and development (R&D) funding for small business. During this meeting, members of The Optical Society will learn how to participate in and compete for funding and engage in Federal R&D programs and to commercialize photonics innovations. SBIR events, like this one, are a coveted opportunity for those involved in the advanced technology communities, including women- and minority-owned firms.