SPIE Vision Tech Forum

Featured speakers for Vision Tech 2026

Armita Abadian

Business Development Manager/Technical Sales and Marketing, Optopax, Inc. (United States)

Diganta Adhikari

Global Head of On-farm IoT & Agronomic Data Platforms, Syngenta Group (United States)

Charles Altuzarra

CEO and Cofounder, Metahelios (Scotland)

John Atkinson

Principal Product Engineer, Chroma Technology Corp. (United States)

Sujoy Banerjee

Director of Product Management, Skydio (United States)

Zach Beecher

Partner, Scout Ventures (United States)

Adam Bennett

Director of Enterprise Computer Vision, Matroid, Inc. (United States)

Matthew Branch

Global Product Manager, LED Standard Products at Exaktera (Ireland)

Sambandh Bhusan Dhal

Department of Analytical Chemistry and Characterization, Directorate of Energy, Environment, Science and Technology; Idaho National Laboratory (United States)

Anas Chalak

Technology and Market Analyst, Imaging; Yole Group (France)

Laurent Chanas

Image Quality Expert, DxOMark Image Labs (France)

Xiong Chang

CEO and co-founder, Tensorfield Agriculture

Pao Chen

CTO, Violumas Inc. (COFAN Thermal Group) (United States)

Alvin Clark

Global Developer Relations Manager for Manufacturing and Industrial, NVIDIA (United States)

Gregory Cohen

Director, International Centre for Neuromorphic Systems (ICNS), Western Sydney Univ. (Australia)

Pierre Craen

Chief Technology Officer, poLight ASA (Norway)

Schuyler Cullen

Co-founder and CEO, Summer Robotics (United States)

Patrick De Guelle

Sales Manager US – South / East, Konica Minolta Sensing Americas, Inc. (Specim) (United States)

Peter Denzinger

Vice President of Engineering, Vista Solutions Inc. (Canada)

Albane Dersy

Co-founder and COO, Inbolt (France)

Sebastien Dignard

President, Macnica Americas (Canada)

Nathan Dorn

Director Agricultural Industry Relations, F3 Innovate (United States)

Brian Geisel

CEO, Symage, Inc. (United States)

G Neil Haven

Co-Founder and Senior Director of Technology, Liberty Robotics (United States)

Sam Heidari

CEO, Lumotive (United States)

Frank Jakubec

Head of Global Market Segment Sales Semicon & Electronics, Balluff (United States)

Steve Jonas

Commanding Officer, Strategic Investigations Division, San Francisco Police Department (United States)

Nick Komianos

Machine Learning Engineer and Founder, Enloq (United States)

Gary Kunkel

Engineering Director, Manufacturing Inspection & Automation Platforms, Medtronic (United States)

John Kuta

Vice President of Business Development, Optopax (United States)

Hongsuk Lee

CEO, Neurocle (Korea)

Uriel Levy

CTO, TriEye LTD (Isreal)

Mahesh Makhijani

Co‑Founder and Chief Product Officer, FotoNation (United States)

Pawel Malinowski

Portfolio Manager, imec (Belgium)

Chris Matthieu

VP, Developer Ecosystem; RealSense, Inc. (United States)

Davide Migliore

Head of Business Development, Tempo Sense (United States)

Bo Mu

Director of Algorithm Development and Camera Systems, OmniVision Technologies, Inc. (United States)

Ronald Mueller

CEO of Vision Markets GmbH and CEO of Vision Markets Marketing Consulting GmbH, Vision Markets (Germany)

Manasi Muglikar

Hexagon Robotics (Sweden)

Brandon Neustadter

VP of Sales, Datature (United States)

Russell Nibbelink

Co-founder, Overview.ai (United States)

Richard Oberreiter

Managing Director of Hamamatsu Ventures USA, the CVC for Hamamatsu Photonics K.K.

Tom Owen

UAS/DFR Program - Technical Operations Specialist & Lead Pilot, US&R CA-TF3 - Communications Lead & UAS/DSAR (United States)

Chris Padwick

Technical Fellow, Emerging Tech; Blue River Technology (United States)

Shrey Pareek

Computer Vision Scientist, Trunk Tools (United States)

Paul Reid

US Army SBIR|STTR Portfolio Manager, DEVCOM Army Research Lab, Strategic Partnerships Office

Juan Romero

Golf and Turf Pre-Sales Manager, Ecorobotix (United States)

Vern Sallee

Strategist, Axon Air (United States)

Stephen Se

Senior Engineering Manager, Teledyne FLIR (Canada)

Sam Spencer-Pittman

Private Capital Integrator, Army FUZE

Mitchell Sueker

Research Assistant Professor in Biomedical Engineering, Univ. of North Dakota (United States) and Product Manager, SafetySpect (United States)

Vooi Leng Tan

Lead Optical Designer, Optopax (United States)

Ward van der Tempel

Co-founder and CTO, VoxelSensors (Brussels)

Fartash Vasefi

Chief Technology Officer, SafetySpect, Inc. (United States)

Mark Ventura

Co-Founder and Vice President Business Development & Product Management, Optotune (Switzerland)

Yongsheng (Hanson) Wang

Head of Global Business, VP, Aqrose Technology (Germany)

Patrick Wang

Deep Learning Field Engineering Manager, Matroid, Inc. (United States)

Steve Weinstein

General Partner, America’s Frontier Fund (United States)

Milo Werner

General Partner, DCVC (United States)

Matt Willis

Director of Army FUZE, US Army (United States)

Pappu Yadav

Assistant Professor of Precision Agriculture AI Engineering, South Dakota State Univ. (United States)

Reza Zadeh

Founder and CEO, Matroid; Adjunct Professor, Stanford (United States)

Explore the technologies driving tomorrow’s solutions

On the exhibition floor, you'll find the tools and systems reshaping how industries inspect, automate, and understand the world:

Smart, embedded, and PC-based cameras
3D vision systems: stereo, structured light, LiDAR, ToF, and profilometry
Hyperspectral, multispectral, and non-visible imaging (UV, NIR, SWIR)
Optical components: lenses, filters, polarizers, mirrors, metaoptics
High-speed and event-based imaging
Illumination systems and advanced optics for diverse environments
AI-enhanced image processing and edge computing Vision-guided robotics, automation, and real-time sensing
Hardware/software solutions for complex applications
Photonics-enabled platforms ready for industrial, medical, and scientific use
Emerging tech and next-generation concepts

Whether you're evaluating solutions or identifying future capabilities, you'll find the innovations that matter.

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