TOP Conference offers prime networking and learning opportunities for professionals from across the optical and photonic industry, to focus on the development and application of optics in telecommunications, data centres, photonic components, and free-space optics.

The two-day event includes over 30 sessions across six key areas. The 2025 conference programme is in it’s final stages of planning and will be released in the coming weeks.

See what you can expect from TOP Conference in our previous conference programmes

TOP Conference 2024          TOP Conference 2023          TOP Conference 2022 

Who attends TOP Conference?

TOP Conference is open to industry supply companies, technologists and academia plus those with an interest in Telecoms, Optics or Photonics. Attendees to our previous events have included those from companies including:

AdtranADVA Optical NetworkingAFEAircisionAmadeus Capital Partners
AMS TechnologiesArchangel LightworksAston Institute of Photonic TechnologiesAston UniversityAVoptics
BAE SystemsBAI CommunicationsBangor UniversityBay Photonics LtdBritish Telecom (BT)
Budapest University Of Technology And Economics (BME)CADFEM UKICailabsCambridge ConsultantsCity University of New York
CoherentCompound Semiconductor CentreCOMSOLCorningCSA Catapult
CSconnectedDarius Communications LtdDiamond SADigital CatapultDomino
DSP CentreEFFECT PhotonicsEindhoven University of TechnologyEKINOPSELUXI
EnlightraEPIC – European Photonics Industry ConsortiumEPIC AssociationEPIC CentreEXFO
EXFO Germany GmbHFinchettoFraunhofer UK Research LtdFujitsu Research of Europe, LimitedFurukawa Electric Europe
Ghent UniversityHamamatsu Photonics UK LtdHelios Energia LtdHeriot-Watt UniversityHouse of Commons
Huawei Tech. Dues. GmbHHuawei Technologies R&D UKHuawei UKHUBER+SUHNER PolatisIET
InfineraInfineraInnovate UKIpswich Research Centre – Huawei Technologies UK R&DJuniper Networks
JX Metals Corporation Frankfurt OfficeKETS Quantum SecurityKeysight TechnologiesLaser 2000 UKLuceda NV – Luceda Photonics
LumentumMarolabs Co,LtdMICROSOFTMicrosoft Research Ltd.Mitsubishi Materials USA Corp.
Nature PortfolioNeosNICTNokiaNu Quantum
OfcomOpenlight PhotonicsOpticaOptica (formerly OSA)Optical Connections News
Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, UKORCA ComputingOriole NetworksPasscomm LtdPhotonics Leadership Group
Photonics Leadership GrpPOLITECNICO DI MILANOResolute PhotonicsSantec Europe LtdSemtech
SENKO Advanced Components, Inc.SET CorporationSilversevenSocionext EuropeSpringer Nature
Sumitomo ElectricSYLEX s.r.o.Tech 116 LtdTechnology ScotlandThe University of Warwick
ThorlabsTimebeatToshiba Europe LtdUKTINUniversity  of Southampton
University College London (UCL)University of BristolUniversity of CambridgeUniversity of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaUniversity of Glasgow
UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAMUniversity of OxfordUniversity of SouthamptonUniversity of StrathclydeUniversity of Stuttgart
University of TwenteUniversity of WarwickVanguard Automation GmbHVIAVI SolutionsVPI Photonics

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