Invited Speakers

FS: Fiber Sensing using Deployed Telecom Networks

Invited Speakers

Andrew Barbour, USGS, USA
Steinar Bjørnstad, Tampnet, Norway
Robert Clapp, Stanford University, USA
Michael Clare, National Oceanography Centre, UK
Simone Donadello, Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica, Italy
David Hill, Sintela, UK
Sander Jansen, Adtran, Germany
Valey Kamalov, Valey Kamalov LLC, USA
Martin Karrenbach, Seismics Unusual, USA
Pierre Mertz, Infinera, USA
David Neilson, Nokia Bell Labs, USA
Sebastian Noe, ETH, Switzerland
Paul Ohodnicki, University of Pittsburg, USA
‪Nicola Piana Agostinetti, University of Milan Bicocca, Italy
Charlotte Rowe, Los Alamos National Labaratory, USA
Francesco Simeone, INGV, ITA
Zack Spica, University of Michigan, USA
Emanuele Virgillito, PoliTo, Italy
Herbert Wang, University of Wisconsin, USA
Simon Webster, NEC, UK
Ethan Williams, University of Washington, USA

FONTS: Future Optical Networks and Transmission Systems

Invited Speakers
Cristian Antonelli, University of L’Aquila, Italy
Yoshinari Awaji, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan
Florian Azendorf, Adtran, Meiningen, Germany
Martin Boettcher, Heraeus Comvance, Germany
Ruby Bravo Ospina University of Campinas Brazil
Bill Corcoran, Monash University, Australia
Guilhem de Valicourt, Nubis Communications, USA
Gabriele Di Rosa, Adtran, Munich, Germany
Daniel J. Elson, KDDI Research, Japan
Filipe Ferreira, University College London, UK
Wladek Forysiak, Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies – AiPT, UK
Vladimir Gordienko, Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies – AiPT, UK
Fukutaro Hamaoka, NTT, Japan
Masahiko Jinno, Kagawa University, Japan
Tomoyuki Kato, Fujitsu, Japan
Martin Lavery, University of Glasgow, UK
Zhixin Liu, University College London (UCL), UK
Dan Marom, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Chigo Okonkwo, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
João Pedro, Infinera, Lisbon, Portugal
Luca Poti, National Inter-University Consortium for Telecommunications (CNIT), Italy
Siddhart Ramachandran, Boston Univ., USA
Chris Roeloffze, LioniX International, Netherlands
Leslie Ann Rusch, LaVal University, Canada
Roland Ryf, Nokia Bell Labs, USA
Taiji Sakamoto, NTT, Japan
Eric Sillekens, University College London, UK
Radan Slavík, Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, UK
Shigehiro Takasaka, Furukawa Electric, Japan
Yuta Wakayama, KDDI Research, Japan

FSOC: Free Space Optical Communications for Next Generation Satellite Networks and Beyond

Invited Speakers
Francis Bennet
Adam Heiniger, TOPTICA Photonics Inc., USA
Yannik Horst
David Mackey
Rainer Martini
Jeffery Nicholson, OFS Labs, USA
Stephen Ralph, Georgia Tech, USA
Nicholas Rattenbury, University of Auckland, Australia
Hayato Sano, Mitsubishi Electric, Japan
Curt Schieler
Angel Velasco, NASA (JPL), Australia
Shiro Yamakawa, JAXA, Japan

OIIP: Optical Interconnects and Integrated Photonics for AI/ML/HPC Applications

Keynote Speaker
Yosuke Aragane, NTT, Japan

Invited Speakers
Rich Baca, Ciena, USA
Eric Bernier, Huawei, Canada
John Bowers, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Jose Castro, Panduit Corporation, USA
Kamil Gradkowski, Tyndall National Institute, Europe
Takaaki Ishigure, Keio University, Japan
Daniel KuchtaI, BM, USA
Ryan Latchman, Macom, USA
Bernard Lee, Senko Advanced Components, USA
Ruben Luis, NICT, Japan
Shinji Matsuo, NTT, Japan
J Metz, AMD, USA
Kazuya Nagashima, Furukawa Electric, Japan
Nikola Nedovic, Nvidia, USA
Andrew Oliviero, Belden Inc, USA
Christos Pappas, Aristotle University, Greece
Richard Pitwon, Resolute Photonics, Ireland
Radek Roucka, Ayar Labs, USA
Bob Shine, Telescent, USA
Bassem Tossoun, Hewlett Packard Labs, USA
Ting Wang, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, China
Jianying Zhou, Hisense Broadband, US

ROP: Reconfigurable Optics and Photonics

Keynote Speaker
Paul Prucnal Princeton University USA

Invited Speakers
Sengsong An, University of North Texas, USA
Wim Bogaerts, Ghent University-IMEC, Belgium
Maurizio Burla, TU Berlin, Germany
Dmitry Chigrin, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Tian Gu, MIT, USA
Tingyi Gu, University of Delaware, USA
Sangyoon Han, Daegu Gyeongbuk Inst. of Sci. and Tech., Korea
Michael Haney, University of Southern California, ISI, USA
Di Liang, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, USA
Mo Li, University of Washington, USA
Francesco Morichetti, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Carlos Ríos, University of Maryland, College Park, USA
Kyoungsik, Yu KAIST, Korea
Yuan Yuan, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, USA

VMIP: Visible to Mid-IR Integrated Photonics for Quantum Technologies and Applications

Keynote Speaker:
Jonathan Hoffman, DARPA, USA

Invited Speakers
Anu Agarwal MIT, USA
Vladimir Aksyuk, NIST, USA
Simone Assali, CEA, France
Ganesh Balakrishnan, University of New Mexico, USA
Rodolphe Boudo, FEMTO-ST, France
Dan Buca, Juelich Research Center, Germany
Bruce Claflin, AFRL, USA
Patrick Del Vecchio, Polytechnique Montréal, Canada
Corin Gawith, Covesion, UK
Samir Ghosh,Tyndall College, Ireland
Jeremy Glick, UT Austin, USA
Fabian Hartmann, Wuerzburg, Germany
Matthew Hummon, NIST
Dan Buca Juelich, Research Center, Germany
Uriel Levy, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Marko Loncar, Harvard
Vito Lucivero, University Bari, Italy
Giuseppe Marra, NPL
Tanja Mehlstaeubler, Physikalisch-Technishe Bundesanstalt Nationales lgtrolegMetrologieinstitut (PTB)
Greg Moille, NIST, USA
Milos Nedeljkovic, University of Southhapton, UK
Robert Niffenegger, UMASS Amherst, USA
Scott Papp, NIST, USA
Douglas Paul, University Glasgow, UK
Fabio Pezzoli, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy
Ghosh Samir, Tyndall College, Ireland
Christine Silberhorn, University of Paderborn, Germany
Alexei Tchelnokov, CEA-Leti, France
Fisher Yu, University of Arkansas, USA

FODC: Future Optical, Datacenter and Computing Networks and Their Enabling Devices

Invited Speakers:
Hector Andrade, Lucidean, Inc., USA
Keren Bergman, Columbia University, USA
Budsara Boriboon, NICT, Japan
Fatima Gunning, Tyndall National Institute, Ireland
Di Liang, University of Michigan, USA
Yoshiho Maeda, NTT, Japan
Dan Maron, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem
Alex Meng, Columbia University, USA
Jose Manuel Rivas Moscoso, Telefonica, Spain
David Neilson, Nokia Bell Labs, USA
Ryuta Shiraki, Kyoto University, Japan
Ken Tanizawa, Tamagawa University, Japan

FNPGA: From Neuromorphic Photonics to Generative AI Era

Invited Speakers:
Lorenzo De Marinis, Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy
Elena Goi, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), China
Guifang Li, Queen’s University, Canada
Giulia Marcucci, University of Glasgow, UK
Mitsumasa Nakajima, NTT, Japan
Mahdi Nikdast
Carlos Rios Ocampo, University of Maryland, USA

QTCN: Quantum Technologies for Computing and Networks

Invited Speakers:
Stefano Azzini
Avik Dutt
Jelena Notaros, MIT, USA
Pepijn Pinkse, University of Twente, Netherlands
Tim Schröder, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
Carsten Schuck University of Muenster, Germany
Hong Tang, Yale University, USA

Simon Bilodeau, Meta Reality Labs, USA
Alex Hammond, Meta
Joaquin Matres Abril, Google X