This transition from electronics to photonics will increase capacity and reduce latency while also decreasing power consumption to drive down carbon emissions. Creating a more distributed infrastructure will enable greater use of local renewable energy.

Energy efficient, ultra-performing networks and computing infrastructure will accelerate innovation and business growth, revolutionizing entire industries.

The IOWN Global Forum is special because we bring everyone together – 
we are creating an ecosystem. 
As members, businesses can find
the sustainability adjacencies they wouldn’t have otherwise discovered: the conversations and relationships that can really create value and grow their businesses.

Business and sustainability use cases including:

• Enable growth-driving use cases for business – using ubiquitous computing so that sensors, wearables, devices and more can reach their full potential,
e.g., precision farming; transformed automotive industry; and digital twins in energy.
• Internet infrastructure alone could account for 5% of global power use by 2050 – not including the power needs of digital devices.
• Allows organizations to do more with technology while using less carbon than they do today – i.e. use gen AI at scale while staying on track to hit net-zero goals.
• In an optical and photonics-based world, computing devices will rarely need charging, and server farms will require fewer machines as each will be able to process many times more data than the servers of today.