The World General Congress for Optics and Photonics of the International Commission for Optics (ICO) and the International Society on Optics Within Life Sciences (OWLS) will be held from 5th September to 9th September 2022 in Dresden, Germany. The TU Dresden is hosting the World Congress ICO-25 | OWLS-16, 2022 and the main theme is "Advancing Society with Light", emphasizing the importance of modern light technology for society. The 60+ years anniversary of the laser will be celebrated too. Light has the potential to recognize the origins of diseases, to prevent them, or to cure them early and gently. This is one of the central topics of OWLS, which was founded at the ICO-15 Congress in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 1990. Therefore, a special commemorative event for the 30+ years anniversary of the foundation of OWLS in Germany will be organized.