27-28 August 2025
Suwon
With over 20 years of experience in product marketing and management, Eric is a leader in driving innovation and product adoption across the semiconductor industry. His technical expertise spans photonics, processors, interconnects, and networking. All of these technologies are instrumental in shaping his vision for today’s advanced computing systems.
Throughout his career, Eric has held key management and leadership roles at Broadcom, MediaTek, and Marvell, consistently working at the forefront of technological innovation. At Marvell, he led the product team at the Networking Business Unit, where he played a pivotal role in expanding the company’s presence in the Ethernet Switching market.
Today, Eric serves as Head of Product Marketing at Lightmatter, where he is spearheading efforts to bring silicon photonics to XPUs and AI networking, with a focus on accelerating AI performance while maximizing power efficiency.
Lightmatter is leading the revolution in AI data center infrastructure and enabling the next giant leaps in human progress. The company was founded in 2017 out of MIT, with two of its co-founders – CEO Nick Harris, Ph.D. and Chief Scientist Darius Bunandar, Ph.D. – renowned as preeminent scientists in the field. Lightmatter has raised $850 million in funding by leading investors including Fidelity, Google Ventures, Sequoia, Spark, T Rowe Price, and Viking, and was most recently valued at $4.4 billion. Initially founded in Boston, Lightmatter moved its headquarters to Mountain View in 2023. It currently employs 230 employees across its headquarters in Silicon Valley, as well as offices in Boston, Toronto, Oregon and Arizona.