More than 100 attendees from industry, academia, and government throughout the United States—including leaders from the International Optics and Photonics Society/Optica (formerly OSA) and the Center for Optics Manufacturing/AmeriCOM and senior representatives from two national laboratories—will convene at Indian River State College's Massey Campus on Wednesday, April 12, 2023, for a discussion of photonics and optics technologies and its worldwide impact on industry sectors such as space exploration, defense, energy, advanced manufacturing, telecommunications, healthcare, and testing and measuring.