KEYNOTE SPEAKERS (in alphabetical order, tentative titles)

Ingo Fischer
(IFISC, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain)
From understanding complex laser dynamics to information processing

Toshiyuki Nakagaki
(Hokkaido University, Japan)
Cell shape and movement adaptive to environmental changes in a single-celled organism
(Ig Nobel Prize Winner in 2008 and 2010)

INVITED SPEAKERS (in alphabetical order, tentative titles)

Daniel Brunner
(FEMTO-ST, UBFC/CNRS, France)
A complete, parallel and autonomous photonic neural network in a semiconductor multimode laser

Sze-Chun Chan
(City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Revisiting external cavity modes for laser dynamical switching

Johannes Hillbrand
(ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Towards phase-stable and integrated dual-comb spectrometers based on mid-infrared semiconductor lasers

Yanhua Hong
(Bangor University, UK)
Nonlinear dynamics of discrete-mode lasers and their applications

Antonio Hurtado
(University of Strathclyde, UK)
Nonlinear dynamics in VCSELs for neuromorphic photonics

Fan-Yi Lin
(National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
Advancement of 3D chaos lidar

Kathy Lüdge
(Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)
Stabilizing delay-coupled nanolasers via polarization-lifetime tuning

Mitsumasa Nakajima
(NTT Device Technology Labs., Japan)
Reservoir computing on coherent photonic linear processor towards PMAC/s

Makoto Naruse
(The University of Tokyo, Japan)
Reinforcement learning by photonics

Marc Sciamanna
(CentraleSupélec, France)
Optical injection dynamics of frequency combs in diode lasers

Olivier Spitz
(Telecom Paris, France)
Realizing free-space optical communications with mid infrared quantum cascade devices

Satoshi Sunada
(Kanazawa University, Japan)
Photonic neural field dynamics and deep learning

Anbang Wang
(Taiyuan University of Technology, China)
Chaos key distribution using semiconductor lasers