Dr. Masanobu　Yoshikawa　completed his doctorate in applied spectroscopy with the Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) and Raman spectroscopy at the Osaka University in 1986. After his analytical study of the one-dimensionally conducting metal-tetracyanoquinodimethanide (M-TCNQ) with FT-IR and Raman spectroscopy at the Osaka University, he joined Toray Research Center, Inc. in 1986, which is a leading analytical service company in Japan. He has mainly studied wide-gap semiconductors, using FT-IR, Raman and cathodoluminescence. He worked for Fraunhofer-Institute in Freiburg in Germany for 6 months in 1998. Furthermore, he has served as the Japanese national project leader for development of the world-first scanning near field Raman spectroscopy (SNORM) from 2003-2007, entrusted by New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) in Japan and succeeded in stress characterization of Si devices with a spatial resolution of less than 100 nm. As a result, he was awarded the Advance Analytical Instrument Development prize from the Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry (JAIMA) in 2010. He is working for Toray Research Center, Inc. as a president and a senior fellow.

Christian started his studies in biochemical engineering at the University of Stuttgart in 2002. During his studies he held a fellowship from the Foundation of German Business and worked as visiting scientist at Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA. After his studies he started his professional career in 2008 at the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation in Stuttgart. In 2017 he received his Ph.D. in Engineering from the University of Stuttgart and started his industrial career at Carl Zeiss SMT in the semiconductor industry. Since 2022 he is Head of Development and Application at SCHOTT in the business unit Advanced Optics. With his team, he is responsible for ZERODUR® cold processing driving processing innovation on a daily basis. Additionally, he holds a SIX SIGMA black belt and IMPA Level B certification.

SimonaCristescu is associate professor at Faculty of Science, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. She received her Ph.D. in physics (Magna cum laude) in 1999 in Laser Spectroscopy and currently she is the head of the Life Science Trace Detection Laboratory (www.ru.nl/TDLab).Her research is focused on detection and real-time monitoring of volatile compounds in complex gas mixtures. For this, her groupdevelops and appliesstate-of-the-art techniques and analytical methodologies using mid-IR laser-based absorption spectroscopy and mass spectrometry for a wide range of gas concentrations (from sub-ppb to percentages). Applications include: biomarkers detection for precision medicine, fruit storage, dairy farming, air pollution and wastewater monitoring, plasma diagnostics, etc.

Patrick Heissler studied physics at the University of Augsburg and Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich. He obtained his PhD from work at the Max-Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, and also conducted research at renowned institutions like the University of Utah, the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, and the Los Alamos National Lab. In addition to his scientific training, he also holds an MBA with a focus on innovation and business creation from TU Munich. With more than a decade of industry experience, Patrick has honed his skills in scaling businesses with innovative solutions for the optics community. He began his career as the CTO of a startup that provided advanced coatings and laser setups to academic and industrial customers. He then moved on to a larger corporation with a focus on banknote security features before taking over the MicroOptics Business of a German SME and scaling it to become one of the company's major revenue contributors. In May 2021, he joined SUSS MicroOptics as Chief Strategy Officer, where he continues to drive growth and innovation in the optics industry. After Focuslight acquired SUSS MicroOptics in January 2024, he is now working as Focuslight’s Corporate Chief Commercial Officer.

Dr. Sharif is an assistant professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Oklahoma. Before OU, she was a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her Ph.D. research developed Stochastic Optimization and Machine Learning Techniques for Photonic Nanostructures and Quantum Optical Systems. She has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering with a minor in Physics, two M.Sc. in Natural Science (Physics) and Electrical Engineering, and a graduate certificate in Material Science. Dr. Sharif has over 10 years of industrial experience as a research and development engineer. She was also an active member of the LIGO group from 2018 to 2020. Dr. Sharif is a director of the Quantum Nanophotonics Engineering Technology & System (QNETS) group, where they are actively working on the next generation of optical and quantum optical devices and systems at the University of Oklahoma.

Xenia Bogomolec is an Information Security Manager with a background in Mathematics and IT. In the past years, she was mostly responsible for the coordination and QA of information security standards in highly regulated organizations. Since 2022, she also steers Quant-ID (https://Quant-id.de), a consortium project for the implementation of digital identities that are resistant to Quantum attacks which is funded by the German Government.

Dr Julius LAWSON DAKU completed his PhD in quantum mechanics and atom interferometry with highest honour in 1997. He then switched to the industry where he designed and developed innovative algorithms and approaches for instrumentation and physical simulation. Then he founded optoPartner, a company dedicated to bringing complex instruments, especially photonics ones, to the state of the art regarding their embedded intelligence and their integration into their environment. He is also vice-president of the Optics and Photonics Hub of Systematic, the French cluster dedicated to the deep tech ecosystem.

I am Dr. JAYNSTEIN, Founder & CEO of JAYNSTEIN LLC in Mesa, AZ. Let me introduce what I do in this amazing business adventure. What is the JAYNSTEIN Æ Model? My research during the last 5 years concluded in the summer of 2022 with the Best Radical Scientist Award in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and some publications that I call the JAYNSTEIN Æ Model. What is JAYNSTEIN Æ Tech? Now this research is transformed into new wearables for mindfulness to increase the performance of your mind called JAYNSTEIN Æ Tech. There are no competitors for these new mindfulness areas in the revolution of sports. To be honest, being a pioneer is more than being a Scientist and an Engineer.

Steffen pursued a Physics degree at the University of Konstanz, specializing in solid-state physics and quantum optics, where his research focused on generating squeezed light. He successfully earned his PhD in Physics in 1996, jointly from the University of Konstanz and MPI Berlin-Adlershof, with a thesis on Stimulated Light Scattering with Bessel Beams. Following this, he spent seven years at The Boston Consulting Group as a Principal from 1997 to 2004. Subsequently, he worked at SAP from 2005 to 2015, holding various senior management roles. From 2015 to 2022, he served as the Vice President of Sales DACH at the Gerson Lehrman Group, an Expert Network Provider. In 2023, Steffen took on the role of Chief Operating Officer at Cerabyte, where he oversees optics and hardware development.

Mads S Bergholt is a Senior Lecturer at King’s College London leading the Label-free Bioimaging Laboratory (www.bergholtlab.com). He received his MSc. Degree in Engineering, Physics and Technology (optics) from the University of Southern Denmark and his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from National University of Singapore in 2014. He was then awarded a Marie Curie Fellowship at Imperial College London and a King’s Prize Fellowship at King’s College London. He was given the United Kingdom Regenerative Medicine Platform (UKRMP) Special Merit Prize and the FACSS Innovation Award. His group at King’s College London is working on biomedical optics, linear/non-linear optical spectroscopy/imaging, endoscopy and artificial intelligence.

Hugo Águas,is Associate Professor at the Materials Science Department of NOVA School of Science and Technology of NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal, and Photovoltaics research group leader at CEMOP-UNINOVA. He received his PhD in 2005 in Optoelectronics Engineering. He holds a patent for Solar Tiles comprising the development of silicon thin film technology for direct application in ceramic tiles building elements, which was given the Innovation Award in Energy Live Expo in 2014. He has a publication record of more than 188 publications recorded by WoK. The number of citation times registered in the WoK is above 3800 and has an H-index of 37.

Alois Herkommer received his PhD in physics in 1995 from the University of Ulm in the area of quantum optics. In 1996 he joined Carl Zeiss in Oberkochen and worked on the optical design of high performance lithographic and metrology systems. From 2000 to 2005 he was with the optical design group at Carl Zeiss Laser Optics GmbH. Afterwards he headed the illumination design group and later the systems design group at the Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH. In 2011he joined the Institut für Technische Optik at the University of Stuttgart.

Kianoush Rassels earned his master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands in 1998. He initially began his career in nano-technology and later transitioned to the medical sector, where he has gained over 25 years of experience at both national and international levels. Throughout his career, Kianoush has contributed to a range of scientific areas. He actively participated in research focused on segmenting the coronary arteries of the heart using Computed-Tomography. His expertise extends beyond research, as he has also served as a Research & Development Director, bringing valuable board experience and a solid business background to his role. Kianoush's research interests lie in Bio-Remote sensing, IoT, Grid Computing, and embedded systems within the medical field. He is particularly dedicated to applied research relating to neonates and the elderly. With his knowledge and experience, he continues to drive advancements in these areas, making a notable impact on the medical community and society. He is presently working as a researcher at the Department of Biomechanical Engineering / TU-Delft (Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands).

Paddy French received his B.Sc. in mathematics and M.Sc. in electronics from Southampton University, UK, in 1981 and 1982, respectively. In 1986 he obtained his Ph.D., also from Southampton University, which was a study of the piezoresistive effect in polysilicon. After 18 months as a post doc at Delft University, The Netherlands, he moved to Japan in 1988. For 3 years he worked on sensors for automotives at the Central Engineering Laboratories of Nissan Motor Company. He returned to Delft University in May 1991 and became a scientific staff member. In 1999 he was awarded the Antoni van Leeuwenhoek chair and was from 2002 to 2012 head of the Electronic Instrumentation Laboratory. In 2019 he moved to the bioelectronics Laboratory. He was Editor-in-chief of Sensors and Actuators A and General Editor of Sensors and Actuators A&B from 2002-2018. He is an IEEE Fellow and the IAAM. His research interests are integrated sensor systems and technology in particular for medical and environmental applications.

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Prof. Friedrich Grimm was born in Stuttgart in 1954. He studied architecture at the University of Stuttgart and at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago in 1980. After having finished his studies in 1981, he worked as an employed architect and later on temporarily joined the scientific staff of the Institute for Building Construction at the University of Stuttgart. During his practice as a freelanced architect, since 1989 he took part in competitions and completed several multifamily houses in southern Germany. Due to a series of books, which he has written in the field of steel construction, edited by Ernst & Sohn in Berlin (2003), and one the subject of one family homes, edited by Callwey in Munich (2006), he was nominated a professor honorary in 2009 by the faculty one, for architecture and urban design at the university of Stuttgart. In 2016, he founded the RES- Institute as a completely independant think tank in the field of renewable energies. Since then he works with passion and endurance on projects matching the RES-Institutes obligation to provide blueprints for a friendly climate on earth.

Dr. Wei is currently a research professor at Peng Cheng Laboratory, Shenzhen, China. He received a PhD from the University of Wales, UK in 2011. His research interests include optics communications, photonic switching/signal processing, advanced modulation/coding, digital signal processing, algorithms, and machine learning. He edited one book and (co-)authored over 180 peer-reviewed journal/conference papers including Nature Electronics (IF = 34.3), Photonics Research, OFC, ECOC, etc, as well as over 20 invited. He has experimentally demonstrated a few world first real-time and offline optical communication systems for Data- and Tel-communications applications, which was reported by various scientific and technical media and organizations. He holds several US/European patents. Prof. Wei is a Marie Curie fellow and a senior member of IEEE and Optica (formerly OSA).

Dr. Carroll received his PhD. in Condensed Matter Physics from Wesleyan University in CT working on charged defect formation in complex oxides. His postdoctoral work was at the University of Pennsylvania involving analytical scanning probes in a variety of oxide systems. However, Dr. Carroll's research interests moved toward organics while he was a researcher at the Max-Planck Institut in Stuttgart. Dr. Carroll's research today focuses on materials systems of reduced dimension with topological complexity. Included in these systems are electroluminescent polymers wherein singlet to triplet ratios can be controlled through symmetry breaking. Dr. Carroll has over 400 publications, 32 patents, and is a fellow of the American Physical Society. He is currently the director of the Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials at Wake Forest University.

Marco completed his PhD in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Naples, specializing in airborne remote sensing for air quality and land management. Having worked on various aerospace projects in Italy, most recently as coordinator of the Environmental Research Aircraft Lab of the Italian National Research Council, Marco moved to the Netherlands. Marco is currently leading the scale-up of the remote sensing business at cosine as well as the setup of the space factory for the series production of smart remote sensing instruments for Earth Observation.

Prof. Alina Karabchevsky is a Professor at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), Editor of the Scientific Reports journal and the Chair of IEEE Women in Engineering Affinity Group (Israel Section). She is the Head of the Light-on-a-Chip Integrated Photonic center at the BGU. Her main research interests lie in the areas of integrated photonics and microfibers, all-dielectric photonics, plasmonics, microfluidics and optomechanics.

Gage Hills is an Assistant Professor in Electrical Engineering at Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, where he leads the Nano-Design Research Group. His research focuses on developing energy-efficient computing systems, by combining new technology advances across nanomaterials, devices, sensors, circuits, architectures, and integration techniques.

Edmund Harbord is currently a senior lecturer in Quantum Communications Technologies at the University of Bristol, and has a background in semiconductor quantum photonics. He is interested in how the quantum devices can enhance the physical layer in telecommunications systems. After reading physics at the University of Oxford, he received his PhD in semiconductor dots from Imperial College London. Following a career break, when he was awarded a Daiwa Scholarship, he joined the laboratory of Yasuhiko Arakawa at the University of Tokyo as a Specially Appointed Foreign Researcher, before being awarded a JSPS Fellowship. Returning to the UK to join Ruth Oulton's EU FET-Open project SPANGL4Q, he was a Researcher Co-Investigator on EPSRC funded project SPIN SPACE, before being appointed to a lectureship at Bristol. His New Investigator Award "Tamm Assisted Metasurface Emitting Lasers for sensing and datacomms" has recently been funded by EPSRC. He is an elected member of the committee Quantum Electronics and Photonics group at the Institute of Physics.

Jacopo Catani is Senior Researcher at the National Institute of Optics (CNR-INO) in Sesto Fiorentino (Italy) and leads a research group (https://owc.ino.cnr.it) on Optical Wireless (OWC) and Visible Light Communications (VLC). His research interests include VLC for Intelligent transportation systems, Li-Fi applications, and free-space optical (FSO) communications.

Martijn Anthonissen works at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Computational Illumination Optics group. This is one of the few mathematics groups worldwide working on optical design problems from illumination optics. The group has a healthy portfolio of PhD positions and close collaborations with industrial partners. The group has three research tracks: freeform design, improved direct methods and imaging optics.

Mahrokh Avazpour got her PhD in Applied Physics in 2019, with a focus on designing the mode locked fibre lasers for generating short pulses, particularly soliton pulses. She was awarded the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions co-fund Sparkle Fellowship in 2022, and is currently working at the Optical Communications laboratory in the School of Electronic Engineering at Dublin City University. Her research involves the generation of optical frequency combs using fiber lasers. Mahrokh has presented her research at international meetings and has published scientific papers, as well as book chapters. She was awarded a gold medal at the Seoul International Invention Fair in 2013 in recognition of her research achievements.

Atilla Hasekioglu, PhD (RPI, USA) in Electrical Engineering. During his PhD, he worked on semiconductor device modeling and simulating image sensors. After working at the Canadian Space Agency, Montreal, Canada as a researcher, he joined the National Research Institute of Electronics & Cryptology (UEKAE),the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK), in Turkey as a lead researcher. He has worked cryptology, cyber security, quantum cryptography, quantum computing, quantum information and imaging related projects. In 2014, he became the Director of Cyber Security Institute. Currently, he is working as a project manager and coordinating quantum technologies related projects. He alsoparticipates in ETSI Quantum Key Distribution Standardization group activities as a vice-chair. He represents Turkey as a deputy member for Quantum Community Network (QCN) in Europe. He is a representative of TUBITAK Informatics and Information Security Research Center (BILGEM)for Quantum Industry Consortium (QuIC) in Europe.

Dr. Houssain Kettani received the Bachelor's degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Eastern Mediterranean University, Cyprus, and Master’s and Doctorate degrees both in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Dr. Kettani has over twenty years of academic experience, he served as faculty member at the University of South Alabama, Jackson State University, Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, Fort Hays State University, Florida Polytechnic University, Dakota State University and University of South Carolina Aiken. He is currently a professor of computer science at Al-Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco. Dr. Kettani also has served as Staff Research Assistant at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Visiting Research Professor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Visiting Research Professor at the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center at the University of Alaska and Visiting Professor at the Joint Institute for Computational Sciences at the University of Tennessee. Dr. Kettani’s current research interests include cybersecurity and data analytics. He presented his research in over one hundred refereed conferences and journal publications and according to Google Scholar, his work received close to one thousand citations by researchers all over the world. He chaired over one hundred international conferences throughout the world and successfully secured external funding in millions of dollars for research and education from US federal agencies such as NSF, DOE, DOD, and NRC

Gagik Ayvazyan earned his PhD in physics and technology of semiconductor materials and devices at St. Petersburg State University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics in 1989. He is a Corresponding Member at the International Academy of Engineering (Moscow, RF). Gagik Ayvazyan has more than 30 years of experience as a teacher and scientific researcher. In particular, from 1989 to 2001, he headed the Technology Department at Transistor Co. (Yerevan) and then the Advanced Technology Group at Barva Innovation Center (Talin, Armenia). Since 1992, Dr. Ayvazyan has been an Associate Professor at the National Polytechnic University of Armenia in Yerevan. He is also a Scientific Expert at the International Commercialization Reactor (Riga, Latvia).

Physicist, National University of Colombia, graduated in 1975 as the best graduating from the College of Science of the National University. He completed his graduate studies at the same university and graduated as Master Science in 1978. During his research work, he built the first plasma ion source in the country and he won the DAAD -National University scholarship for doctoral studies in Germany. He graduated as a Doctor of Natural Sciences of the Technical University of Kaiserslautern and his thesis on interactions between lasers and ion beams was qualified Magna cum Laude.

Junpeng Liang received the Ph.D degrees in physical electronics from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, in 2017. From October 2017 to July 2019, he was an Engineer with the Fujitsu Research and Develop Center (FRDC), Beijing, China, working on the 600G coherent optical transmission project. Since August 2019, he has been with ZTE as a Senior Engineer, working on 400G DSP chip project and 800G high-speed coherent optical transmission project. Since July 2023, he join the Pengcheng Labratory.His research interests include coherent optical communication,optical access network, optical fiber design and digital signal processing.

Lilia Morales Chacon MD, PhD is a full professor at the Medical University in Havana Cuba. She has worked at the International Center for Neurological Restoration since 1990. Dr. Morales Chacon is considered a leader in the field of epilepsy in Cuba and Latin-America. At present, she is the head of the Cuban League against Epilepsy and a member of the Executive of the Cuban Neuroscience Society. She was a member of the Executive of the Latin American Commission of the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) from the period 2013-2021.

Wenxing Xu is a mineralogist and materials scientist, known for her expertise in gemstones. She earned her Master's and PhD degrees from the University of Mainz in Germany. With roles as a Senior Gemmologist at Gübelin Gem Lab and a Research Scientist at GIA, she has focused her studies on gemstone materials and origin determination.

Tomohiro Maeda is an Assistant professor at the Aoyama Gakuin University Faculty of Science and Engineering Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering in Japan. In 2018 he received the Hokkaido Branch Federation Conference of Electrical and Information Related Societies Young People's Excellent Paper Presentation Award, December 2018. Optical Society of Japan 2019 Optics Encouragement Award, October 2019.

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Zhaopeng Xu received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from Peking University, Beijing, China, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Melbourne, VIC, Australia, in 2015, 2018, and 2022 respectively. He is now a Research Scientist in Peng Cheng Laboratory, Shenzhen, China. He has authored more than 50 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences. His current research interests include digital signal processing and machine learning for optical communications.

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Saad H. Girei received his Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical and Electronic Engineering) from Modibbo Adama University Yola and Master of Science (Photonics and Optical System Engineering), from Putra University Malaysia in 2006 and 2014, respectively. He received his PhD degree (Photonics and Sensor Technology) in 2021 from the Department of Computer and Communication System Engineering, Putra University Malaysia. Saad Girei is currently a registered member of the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN), Institute of Electrical Electronic Engineers (IEEE), Optical Society of America (OSA), and Fiber Optics Cabling, among others. His present research interests are Sensor Fabrication, Internet of Things, Artificial intelligence, Smart Systems, nanotechnology, and optoelectronics. Saad Girei is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computer Engineering Technology, Federal Polytechnic Mubi, Adamawa State, Nigeria.

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