The following authors have been invited to speak at the upcoming meeting.
| First Name | Last Name | Institution | Country | Topic |
| Stefan | Bäumer | TNO | Netherlands | Beyond tolerancing: integrated structural, thermal and optical performance analysis to simulate real-world performance |
| Pablo | Benitez | Limbak, Spain; Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain | Spain | Extreme-performance optics for Virtual Reality applications |
| Julie | Bentley | University of Rochester | USA | VIS-SWIR high resolution zoom inspection system |
| Andrea | Berner | Zeiss | Germany | An overview on induced color aberrations |
| Florian | Bociort | TU Delft | Netherlands | Order and reducibility in the lens design landscape |
| Bill | Cassarly | Synopsys | USA | Using Pinhole Images to Understand Nonimaging Optics’ |
| Greg | Forbes | Scisense | Australia | quadrature/cubature for system assessment |
| John | Greivenkamp | University of Arizona | USA | Optics Goes to the Movies |
| Alan | Greynolds | retired | USA | Ray-pathing: A generalized extension and possible alternative to conventional ray aiming |
| Herbert | Gross | IAP University Jena | Germany | Systematic design of microscopic lenses |
| Alois | Herkommer | University of Stuttgart | Germany | Surface resolved aberration contributions in freeform optical systems |
| Juan | Minaño | Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, LPI | Spain | Freeform Aplanatism |
| Iain | Neil | ScotOptix | Switzerland | High performance front anamorphic zoom lenses employing crossed cylinder surfaces |
| Andrew | Rakich | European Southern Observatory | New Zealand | The control of misalignment induced field-aberrations in a 7-channel phased-array optical telescope |
| Jannick | Rolland | University of Rochester | USA | |
| Jose | Sasian | University of Arizona | USA | Joseph Petzval lens design approach |
| Rainer | Schuhmann | Berliner Glas | Germany | Standards in the optical industry |
| Dave | Shafer | David Shafer Optical Design | USA | My 50 Years of Optical Design Using Husserl’s Phenomenology |
| Wolfgang | Singer | Zeiss | Germany | Tackling the challenges of fully immersive augmented reality Head worn devices |
| Kristina | Uhlendorf | Sypro | Germany | Challenges using optical plastic material for the development of consumer products |
| Akira | Yabe | Akira Yabe Lens Design | Japan | My thanks to IODC lens design problems |