The West Lake Photonics Symposium (WPS) aims at providing a platform to gather the global leaders in optics and photonics. The symposium features the discussions on Advanced Photonics in the future. The WPS 2018 will be held by College of Optical Science and Engineering, at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, on 26 Oct. 2018. The city of Hangzhou, where Zhejiang University locates is well known for the West-Lake cultural landscape, which was inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List in 2011.