Join Keysight at Global Photonics Economic Forum 2026 in Málaga, where Keysight President and CEO Satish Dhanasekaran will share his perspective on the forces reshaping the technology landscape, from AI infrastructure and optical networking to advanced manufacturing and digital engineering.
As demand for AI continues to drive unprecedented investment in compute, networking, and photonic technologies, business leaders face critical questions around scaling innovation, accelerating time-to-market, managing complexity, and maximizing return on capital investments.
Connect with Keysight's executive leadership team to discuss the strategic and technological trends that will define the next decade of communications and computing.
DATE: September 24th, 2026
LOCATION: Málaga, Spain
KEY EVENTS
14:55 - 15:20 CEO Keynote:Accelerating Optical Innovations
16:25 - 17:10 CEO Panel discussion
17:45 Keysight Sponsored Executive Reception & Networking Dinner
Why Innovators Engage with Keysight
AI is transforming every layer of the technology ecosystem
From AI factories and hyperscale data centers to photonic interconnects and next-generation semiconductors, today's leaders must balance aggressive growth targets with increasing technology complexity and execution risk.
Keysight Works With Many of the World’s Leading Innovators To Help Them:
- Reduce Technology Risk: Make critical technology decisions with greater confidence through digital engineering, emulation, and validation strategies that identify issues before deployment.
- Accelerate Time-to-Revenue: Enable development teams to bring complex technologies to market faster by reducing design iterations and shortening validation cycles.
- Maximize Infrastructure ROI: Optimize performance, efficiency, and scalability across AI data centers, networking infrastructure, optical transport, and advanced packaging environments.
- Improve Cross-Organizational Execution: Break down silos between design, simulation, software, and test teams to create more predictable and efficient development workflows.
- Scale Innovation Faster: Support rapid adoption of emerging technologies including AI networking, co-packaged optics, silicon photonics, and next-generation interconnect architectures.
Agenda
14:55 - 15:20 Keynote by Satish Dhanasekaran: Accelerating Optical Innovations
Satish Dhanasekaran will explore whether optical technology can scale fast enough to keep the AI revolution moving. As optics moves deeper into the data center, the industry must solve increasingly complex challenges in density, power, thermal performance, signal integrity, and interoperability. He will discuss how open standards, measurement science, and connected design-to-deployment workflows can help the optical ecosystem innovate at unprecedented speed and scale
16:25 - 17:10 CEO Panel discussion
The photonics industry is entering a period of capital intensity, geopolitical pressure, and AI-driven demand growth unlike anything seen before.
Join the CEOs of leading technology companies as they discuss:
- Investment priorities for the AI era
- Scaling global photonics innovation
- Navigating supply chain and geopolitical challenges
- Driving sustainable growth amid increasing infrastructure demands
- The technologies expected to define the next five years
17:45 Keysight Sponsored Executive Reception & Networking Dinner
Join Keysight executives, industry leaders, investors, and technology innovators for an evening of networking and discussion at La Pergola del Mediterraneo
The Global Photonics Economic Forum brings together CEOs, industry leaders, and investors to address AI-driven growth, geopolitical challenges, supply chain resilience, and the future of photonics and semiconductors. Join the conversations shaping technology investment, innovation, and global competitiveness.