Nick Harris: Founder and CEO of Lightmatter

Title: Transforming AI Infrastructure with the Power of 3D Photonics

Abstract: 3D photonics’ edgeless I/O paradigm overcomes the reach and bandwidth limits of traditional interconnects, linking thousands of GPUs with unprecedented scale-up throughput and energy efficiency. This talk will unpack the enabling technologies—silicon photonics integration, 3D packaging and high-density laser arrays—that make faster, more efficient AI model training and next-generation data-center architectures possible.

Biography: Nick Harris is the founder and CEO of Lightmatter, a pioneering photonic-computing company that is redefining AI infrastructure. An MIT-trained engineer and scientist, he won the MIT Technology Review’s TR35 award and holds numerous patents on revolutionary photonic technologies. His prolific research—published in top-tier journals such as Nature—has seeded new fields in photonic AI interconnects, processor design, and quantum computing. Under his leadership, Lightmatter has introduced the world’s fastest AI interconnects and set the industry benchmark for energy-efficient, high-performance 3D photonics, shaping the future of computing.