Dawn of Photonic Intelligence

​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 lunch conference during Deeptech Week in SF.

​On the agenda:

• ​Roundtable 1: Copper’s Last Mile: How Silicon Photonics Is Reshaping AI Compute and Networking Roadmaps

  • ​Speakers: M. Ashkan Seyedi (NVIDIA), Susan Schofer (SOSV), Dr. Josué Lopez (DCVC) and Geoffrey Tate (Ayar Labs)

• ​Roundtable 2: Building (and Betting On) the Photonic Intelligence Stack: VC Perspectives on Commercialization and Scale

  • ​Speakers: Josh Miner (Maverick Silicon), Adam Draper (Boost), Jerry Yang (HCVC) and Kevin Chen (Lam Capital)

​Lunch is on us. Seats are limited.

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​Hosted by OVNI Capital · Deeptech Week San Francisco · June 23, 2025

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