OSAI – Photonics and Optical Interconnects for AI

Date:
September 9, 2025
Time:
4:00 AM – 5:00 AM
OSAI - Photonics and Optical Interconnects for AI

As a follow-up to and building upon our past Open Systems for AI Workshops on the “Data Center Physical Infrastructure” work area, we continue to advance our understanding by exploring Data Center IT Infrastructure. This workshop will bring together various engineer and architect practitioners to share their knowledge and vision and allow for a melding of forward thinking in this space.

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8:008:10Welcome & Introduction [Slides]
  • Cliff Grossner (OCP)
8:108:30Break the Rack with Light [Slides]
  • Simon McCormack (Drut Technologies)
8:308:50448Gbps Signaling Through Sub-Nyquist Transmission Lines [Slides]
  • John Calvin (Keysight)
8:509:10448Gb/s Solution for AI Scale Up and Scale Out Interconnect [Slides]
  • Naim Ben-Hamida (Ciena)
  • Bilal Riaz (Ciena)
9:109:20BREAK
9:209:40Scaling Up AI with WDM optics [Slides]
  • Nicolas Herriau (Xscape Photonics)
  • Ali Dormiani (Xscape Photonics)
9:4010:00Pluggable Optics for Immersion Cooling [Slides]
  • Tiger Ninomiya (Accelink)
10:0010:20Accelerating Frontier MoE Training
with 3D Integrated Optics [Slides]
  • Taylor Groves (LightMatter)
10:2010:30Closing
  • Cliff Grossner (OCP)