SPIE Photonics West

SPIE Photonics West 2027 takes place 30 January to 4 February 2027 in San Francisco, California. SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, describes it as the world's largest optics and photonics technologies event. The Photonics West Exhibition runs 2–4 February, with the BiOS Expo on 30–31 January. The week brings together more than 100 conferences across six application areas, including AR, VR and MR, biomedical optics (BiOS), industrial lasers (LASE), optoelectronics (OPTO), Quantum West and the Embedded Vision Summit. Attendees can choose from 60 courses, and the industry program now includes five stages. Co-located events are the SPIE Global Business Forum on 1 February 2027 and the SPIE Prism Awards on 3 February 2027, each with separate registration. The exhibitions bring together companies showing products that use lasers, optoelectronics, biomedical optics, AR/VR and embedded vision technologies.