International OSA Network of Students (IONS) is an annual networking conference organized by Students’ Chapters of various institutes supported by Optical Society of America (OSA). In this year 2016, OSA Student Chapter, Indian School of Mines (ISM), Dhanbad has got the opportunity to organise IONS Dhanbad 2016 at Dhanbad, India during September 7 to 10, 2016. IONS Dhanbad is being co-hosted by OSA Student Chapters of Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (IITKgp), India and International School of Photonics (ISP), Cochin, India.