Join us in San Francisco this January
On 26 January 2025 in San Francisco, CA, women from around the world will come together for A Celebration of Women in Optics. This one-day event, held at the San Francisco Marriott Marquis, will include keynotes, panels, and networking to celebrate twenty years of our Women in Optics planner. During that time, we’ve shared the stories of over 500 game-changing women working in optics and photonics. Our distinguished speakers will share their wisdom on superpowers, resilience, building the best teams and navigating the hidden curriculum. They cover a broad array of careers, from industry to academia and policy to publishing.
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Product Manager, Nu Quantum
2024 SPIE President
Professor and Director, BIO5 Institute, University of Arizona
John C. Malone Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins University
R&D Scientist, ZEISS Group
Co-Founder and Co-President, Castor Optics
Professor, École Polytechnique de Montréal
Co-Founder & CEO, MEETOPTICS
Director, CHIPS R&D Metrology Program and NIST Boulder Lab
Chairman of the Board and Chief Global & Marketing Sales Officer, Edmund Optics
Project Leader, NIST
CEO, Energetiq Technology, Inc.
Research and Instrument Scientist, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Physics Professor, ETH Zürich
Associate Professor, University of Rochester
Head of Strategic Partnerships and Chief Technical Advisor to the Dean, UC Berkeley
Professor, Vanderbilt University
Chief Executive Officer, Ruda Optical
Professor of Physics, University of Colorado at Boulder
Puente Solutions LLC
Vice President of Precision Optics and Technology Development, Edmund Optics
Professor, Deputy Director of ARC Centre of Excellence in Quantum Biotechnology, The University of Queensland
Chief Executive Officer, Orbis Diagnostics Professor of Physics & Chemical Sciences, The University of Auckland
Endowed Chair & Professor of Optics, Monroe Community College
Royal Society University Research Fellow and Lecturer in Functional Materials, Imperial College London
International Editor of Nature Photonics, Nature Publishing Group
This special 20th-anniversary edition celebrates the collective impact of women engineers, scientists, industry leaders, and academics — past, present, and future.
