This year, the Photonics North conference (May 26-28, 2020) introduced for the first time a session on “Photonics and AI” organized and chaired by Lora Ramunno, Antonio Calà Lesina and Mario Krenn (University of Toronto and Vector Institute). The session was very successful and featured two keynote talks (Marin Soljacic, MIT and Aydogan Ozcan, UCLA) and 9 invited talks: James Pond (Lumerical Ansys), Sean Molesky (Princeton University), Fabio Sciarrino (Sapienza University of Rome), Dan-Xia Xu (NRC Canada), Bhavin Shastri (Queen’s University), and many others
