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Physical Ai Investor Mixer
Dawn of Photonic Intelligence
June 23, 2026 at San Francisco in San Francisco, CA
Photonic startups are on fire.
GPUs are hitting a wall. Copper is hitting a wall. The AI clusters we're building today are so power-hungry, so bandwidth-constrained, that the only path forward runs through light.
Dawn of Photonic Intelligence brings together executives at Nvidia, Intel and more of the people who are driving this transition for a dinner conference during Deeptech Week in SF.
On the agenda:
5PM: Arrival
530PM: Guillaume Verdon presents Extropic
6PM: Roundtable 1
Copper’s Last Mile: How Silicon Photonics Is Reshaping AI Compute and Networking RoadmapsSpeakers: M. Ashkan Seyedi (NVIDIA), Susan Schofer (SOSV), Dr. Josué Lopez (DCVC) and Geoffrey Tate (Ayar Labs)
630PM: Francesco Manegatti presents NcodiN
645PM: Alex Maierean presents Phantom Photonics
7PM: Roundtable 2
Building (and Betting On) the Photonic Intelligence Stack: VC Perspectives on Commercialization and ScaleSpeakers: Josh Miner (Maverick Silicon), Srini Ananth (Intel Capital), Jerry Yang (HCVC) and Kevin Chen (Lam Capital)
730PM: Scott Burroughs presents Uviquity
745PM: Julia Mossbridge presents American Electrodynamics
8PM: Dinner time.
9PM: End of event.
Full booklet with speaker profiles can be found here:
https://www.papermark.com/view/cmq0brjfu000xle04h7l0ptmi
Seats are limited. Apply to attend
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Hosted by OVNI Capital · Deeptech Week San Francisco · June 23, 2025
This event is part of Deep Tech Week. Create a free profile at deep-tech-week.com/register to help hosts approve your registration and build your schedule for the week.
Date:
June 23, 2026
Time:
5:00 PM
9:00 PM
Event website: https://luma.com/k2lo2mi9
Event type:
Business
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