SPIE 2026 Optics + Photonics Exhibition, held at the San Diego Convention Center, was conducted from 8/23 to 8/27 over five days. The conference featured both poster and oral presentations, alongside an extensive exhibition floor where numerous companies showcased optics- and photonics-related technologies spanning applications from imaging systems and sensors to laser and semiconductor manufacturing. I presented my paper, “Medical Image Classification: Methodology and Performance Evaluation on MedMNIST,” as part of the medical imaging session, which featured three oral presentations that afternoon. It is composed of a 15-minute presentation and a 5-minute Q&A. During the Q&A for my talk, an audience member raised a question regarding the computational aspects of my method. One of the other two presentations in the session were also from our MCL which is EEG connectivity maps classification by Qi Cao. Overall, the conference offered valuable opportunities to engage with the broader optics and photonics community, receive constructive feedback on our work, and gain insight into how classification methodologies are being applied across diverse imaging modalities.