POET Technologies Inc.

 Venkatesan is still scheduled to speak at the PIC International in Brussels in early March.

His topic: 

Realizing gains in energy efficiency, component cost and size-reduction through photonic integrated solutions

http://www.picinternational.net/abstracts

However, he has not yet submitted his abstract. I would think some sort of news would precede this, then again, last year he cancelled, so who can say what to expect.