| 1. | Yasuhiko Arakawa | Tokyo University, Japan | Advances and Practical Implementation of Qunatum Dot Lasers |
| 2. | Uwe Bandelow | Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics, Berlin, Germany | Semiconductor Lasers for High Speed Applications: Modeling and Simulation |
| 3. | Pallab Bhattacharya | University of Michigan, USA | Hot carrier dynamics in quantum wells and dots and high speed lasers |
| 4. | Dieter Bimberg | Technical University Berlin, Germany | Nanophotonics for Datacom and Ethernet |
| 5. | Mircea Guina | Tampere University of Technology, Finland | Dilute nitride/SOI technology platform for ultrafast optical interconnects |
| 6. | Damien Lambert | Infinera, USA | Status of Large-Scale Monolithic InP Photonic Integrated Circuits |
| 7. | Ursula Keller | ETH Zurich, Switzerland | MIXSEL: a novel ultrafast semiconductor laser with multi-Watt average output power |
| 8. | Vincent Reboud | Catalan Institute of Nanotechnology, Barcelona, Spain | Realization of photonic components by nanoimprint lithography |
| 9. | Johann Peter Reithmaier | University of Kassel, Germany | Low-cost high-speed lasers based on surface defined lateral gratings |
| 10. | Abderrahim Ramdane | LPN, CNRS, Marcoussis, France | Sub-picosecond pulse generation at ultra-high repetition rates using quantum dot based mode locked lasers |
| 11. | Ute Troppenz | Heinrich Hertz Institute, Berlin, Germany | High Speed Directly Modulated Passive Feedback Lasers and Their Applications |
