Mr. Thomas Mika reports

POET TECHNOLOGIES TO HOST VIRTUAL ANNUAL AND SPECIAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS ON JUNE 30

Poet Technologies Inc. will virtually host its annual and special meeting of shareholders via a virtual on-line platform on June 30, 2023, at 1 p.m. ET. In conjunction with the meeting, senior management will also provide a business update presentation followed by a question and answer session.

Holding a virtual meeting enables all shareholders, regardless of geographic location and share ownership, to have an equal opportunity to participate at the meeting. Shareholders will not be able to attend the meeting in person. Formal notice of the meeting date and record date has been provided to the regulatory authorities and the TSX Venture Exchange by Computershare Investor Services Inc., the company's transfer agent. A management information circular containing detailed instructions as well as an outline of the matters to be acted upon during the meeting has also been mailed to shareholders of record and filed on SEDAR.

Registered shareholders of Poet's common stock as of the close of business on May 15, 2023, are entitled to vote by either completing the provided proxy materials or as part of attending the live audio webcast.

Non-registered shareholders, including those who hold shares in the name of a bank, trust company, securities dealer or broker, or other intermediary, may vote by following the instructions on the voting instruction form provided to them by their intermediary. For questions related to any such voting instructions, shareholders should contact their bank, trust company, securities dealer or broker, or other intermediary through which they hold their shares.

For assistance with the completion and delivery of a proxy, shareholders may contact Computershare Investor Services Inc. at 1-800-564-6253 (toll-free North America) or 1-514-982-7555 (international).

About Poet Technologies Inc.

Poet Technologies is a design and development company offering integration solutions based on the Poet Optical Interposer, a novel platform that allows the seamless integration of electronic and photonic devices into a single chip using advanced wafer-level semiconductor manufacturing techniques and packaging methods. Poet's Optical Interposer eliminates costly components and labour-intensive assembly, alignment and testing methods employed in conventional photonics. The cost-efficient integration scheme and scalability of the Poet Optical Interposer brings value to any device or system that integrates electronics and photonics, including some of the highest-growth areas of computing, such as artificial intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT), autonomous vehicles, and high-speed networking for cloud service providers and data centres. Poet is headquartered in Toronto, with operations in Allentown, Pa., Shenzhen, China, and Singapore.

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