Plenary Talks

• Simon Fafard (Broadcom)
  
  ‘High performance laser power converters and applications’

Special Talks

• Hatem Zeine (Ossia)
  
  ‘Wireless power transfer and maximum power theorem’

Invited Talks

• Yasuhiko Takeda (Toyota Central R&D Labs., Inc.)
  
  ‘Light trapping for temperature-insensitive high-efficient laser power converters’
• Henning Helmers (Fraunhofer)
  
  ‘Photonic power converters for telecom optical wavelength bands’
• Dinh Hoa Nguyen (Kyushu Univ.)
  
  ‘Bidirectional optical wireless power transfer via optical transceivers’
• Satoshi Kamiyama (Meijyo Univ.)
  
  ‘Crystal grow and characterization of nitride-based multi-quantum shell/nanowire lasers’
• Hiromichi Imai (SoftBank Inc.)
  
  ‘Beam-tracking technology developed for free-space optical communication and its application to optical wireless power transfer’
• Ilya Galaktionov (Institute of geosphere dynamics RAS)
  
  ‘Adaptive optical system with bimorph mirror for wireless energy transfer through a moderately scattering aerosol’
• Carmen Vázquez (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
  
  ‘Power over fiber in support of C-RAN 5G cellular networks’
• Mitchell Cox (University of the Witwatersrand)
  
  ‘Wireless optical communication with structured light’
• Ortal Alpert (Wi-Charge Ltd.)
  
  ‘Lessons and feedback from 2.5 years of continuous operation of an optical wireless power system in Hotel’s public area’
• Qingwen Liu (Tongji University)
  
  ‘Optical power transfer channel analysis of resonant beam system’
• Tom Nugent (PowerLight Technologies)
  
  ‘Commercialization of long range, high power laser power beaming’

Some additional invited speakers are under negotiation.