Asia Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP) is one of the largest conference in the Asia-Pacific region on optical communication, photonics and relevant technologies, which has been held annually tracing back to 2001. 

State Key Lab of Information Photonics and Optical Communications (IPOC) was founded by Prof. Peida Ye in 1965. In 2011, the lab became the state key lab. In 2024, ACP and IPOC will be jointly held. IPOC has been held by five times, four of which were held jointly with ACP in 2013, 2015, 2020, and 2022, respectively.