The IEEE Summer Topicals Meeting Series 2024 will be held from 15th July to 17th July 2024 at Bridgetown, Barbados. It serves as an international forum to facilitate information exchange between various technical communities using or affected by rapidly growing areas of technology or “Hot Topics” related to the general field of Photonics. This intimate environment provides the opportunity to learn about emerging fields and to interact with research and technology leaders. Historically, the conference hosts 4-7 individual topics and attracts 200+ participants with 30-50 participants attending each topic. This intimate environment of a small conference provides the opportunity to learn about emerging fields and to interact with the research and technology leaders. This year’s Summer Topicals will co-locate with the Photonics in Switching and Computing Conference (PSC). PSC is a fantastic conference to see the latest groundbreaking research in optical networking, high-performance computing, and emerging technologies such as optical and quantum computing.