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World Congress 2026 Europe • Jul 10, 2026 • Session details

Photonic Computing: Programming a New Class of AI Accelerators (incl. Live Coding)

Christoph Lohrmann , Utz Bacher

Photonic computing bypasses GPU constraints by using light to process operations natively, cutting model sizes in half. Watch us live code standard PyTorch models directly to optical chips.

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