The TOP Conference 2027 is now inviting speaking proposals from experts across industry, academia, research, and the technology supply chain. This is your opportunity to present to an international audience of engineers, researchers, and decision-makers driving the next generation of optical communications and photonics.
We’re seeking presentations across a wide range of topics, including telecommunications, data centres, photonic components, free space optics, intelligent optical networks, and quantum communications. Whether you’re advancing high-speed transport, silicon photonics, AI-driven optical networking, energy-efficient data centres, satellite optics, or quantum technologies, we want to hear your perspective. Submit a short summary of your proposed presentation and join the conversations shaping the future of connected, intelligent, and quantum-enabled optical networks.
Call for student participation!
Do you test the performance of the newest devices in your research lab? Or your simulation tool enabled R&D for new modulator? Or maybe you are testing innovative optimisation algorithms with in-field data? Need to highlight your collaboration portfolio? Want more people to know of your group’s skills, tools and abilities? TOP Conference 2027 is the right place for it!
TOP conference aims to strengthen the collaboration spirit in the UK telecom. For the special academia-industry showcase, we are open for proposals from students and early career researchers. Share your success story of collaboration with an industrial partner, how it benefited your lab and what exciting tool or product made it to life!
If you are a PhD student interested in sharing your latest results and networking with industrialists and academics at TOP, please send:
- a title
- 150-word summary of your poster based on one of the topic areas
- a headshot photo
- a short biography
to submissions@topconference.com.
Notes for Poster Presenters
You will be notified by email by 6th February if your abstract has been accepted by the committee.
If successful, please prepare your poster and bring it with you
The poster format is A0 (84.1 cm wide x 118.9 cm high). The poster boards are 100cm wide and 200cm high.
Poster presenters should stay by their poster during the breaks to meet with attendees and answer their questions.
Please note: The poster area is not supplied with electricity.
Poster judging:
Posters will be judged during the Drinks Reception. Please ensure you are next to your posters and available during this time, to present an overview to the judges, this should be no more then 2 minutes.
Student posters will be judged on scientific/engineering content, originality and potential impact of the research work presented, and overall clarity and effectiveness of the presentation.
The winner will be announced following the panel session. There will be a prize of an Amazon voucher for the Best Poster 2027, awarded at the conference.
Poster previews:
This year we will be asking poster presenters to also prepare a 2-minute video preview of your poster, which will be shared on our website ahead of the conference.
Poster preview videos should be no longer than 2 minutes in length and supplied to us as a mp4 video file, or as a youtube link via email to info@topconference.com
