• A Hybrid Conference – In-Person and Virtual Presentations
  • Technical Conference:  24 – 28 March 2024
  • Exhibition: 26 – 28 March 2024
  • San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, California, USA

Workshops

The workshops provide opportunities to discuss and debate the latest technologies. Workshop topics are controversial in nature and meant to be highly interactive amongst both the speakers and the audience. The format of each session is determined by the organizers. In the past, many workshops have consisted of a series of short presentations (5 to 10 minutes) from people involved in the field followed by a panel discussion driven by questions from the audience.

Sunday, 24 March
13:00 - 15:30

Neural Networks for Optical Fiber Transmission: Hype or Hope?

Organizers: Ming-Fang (Yvonne) Huang, NEC Labs America, USA, Yi Cai, Soochow University, China, Amirhossein Ghazisaeidi, Nokia Bell Labs, France

Sunday, 24 March
13:00 - 15:30

Are Coherent Transceivers About to Experience a Bandwidth Crunch?

Organizers: David Millar, Infinera, Canada, Toshiaki Koike-Akino, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, USA, Di Che, Nokia Bell Labs, USA

Sunday, 24 March
13:00 - 15:30

How Can Generative AI be Used for Network Operations?

Organizers: Ashwin Gumaste, Infinera Corp., USA, Ricard Vilalta, CTTC, Spain, Anurag Sharma, Google Inc., USA

Sunday, 24 March
13:00 - 15:30

Co-Packaged Optics: Is it Only for the Cloud or Also for the Edge AI Services?

Organizers: Shu Namiki, AIST, Japan; Nicola Calabretta, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands; Mahdi Nikdast, Colorado State University, USA

Sunday, 24 March
13:00 - 15:30

How Can OFC, with a Real Life Test-Bed, Accelerate Innovation in the Optical Photonic Networks?

Organizers: Cees de Laat, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, Reza Nejabati, University of Bristol, UK, Andrew Lord, British Telecom, UK, Gwennael Amice, EXFO , Canada

Sunday, 24 March
13:00 - 15:30

Multi-Fiber/Multi-Core Is Inevitable, Do We Even Need the S-Band?

Organizers: Lidia Galdino, Corning Inc., UK, Erwan Pincemin, Orange Labs, France, Jesse Simsarian, Nokia Bell Labs, USA

Sunday, 24 March
16:00 - 18:30

Will Heterogeneous Integration Meet the Needs of Future Applications?

Organizers: Dan Pitt, Palo Alto Innovation Advisors, USA, Mengjie Yu, University of Southern California, USA, Patrick Lo, Advanced Micro Foundry, Singapore, Lukas Chrostowski, University of British Columbia, Canada

Sunday, 24 March
16:00 - 18:30

QKD – An End-Game or Just a Stepping Stone to the Quantum Internet?

Organizers: Andrew Lord, British Telecom, UK, Tobias Gehring, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark,, Gregory Kanter, NuCrypt, USA

Sunday, 24 March
16:00 - 18:30

Coherent Optics for Next Generation 100G/200G PON: Single-Carrier or Multi-Carrier?

Organizers: Haipeng Zhang, CableLabs, USA, Ashkan Seyedi, NVIDIA Corp., USA, Lilin Yi, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, Jim Zou, ADVA, Germany, Dario Pilori, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

Sunday, 24 March
16:00 - 18:30

Will Optical Switches Become a Key Element in High-Performance AI/ML Datacenter Networks?

Organizers: Wenhua Lin, Intel Corp., USA, Qixiang Cheng, Cambridge University, UK, Kazuhiro Ikeda, AIST, Japan

Sunday, 24 March
16:00 - 18:30

Which Types of Fiber Will Be the Most Suitable for Network Operators in the Near Future?

Organizers: TJ Xia, Verizon Communications Inc., USA, Mattia Cantono, Google LLC, USA, Binbin Guan, Microsoft, USA, Atsushi Nakamura, NTT, Japan

Sunday, 24 March
16:00 - 18:30

Will Linear Pluggable Optics (LPO) Have a Future Beyond 112G?

Organizers: Jiangqiang Li, LightsAI, USA, Andreas Matiss, Corning, USA, Clint Schow, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, Katharine Schmidtke, Eribel Systems, USA