• Technical Conference:  30 March – 03 April 2025
  • Exhibition: 01 – 03 April 2025
  • Moscone Center, San Francisco, California, USA

2025 Show Floor Programs

The three exhibit hall theaters feature presentations by experts from major global brands and key industry organizations. Get high-level perspectives on hot topics like intra and inter data center connectivity, infrastructure and machine learning/automation. Learn about the state of the industry, emerging trends and recommended courses of action for how to tackle today’s toughest business challenges.

N5 Market Watch, Network Operator Summit and Data Center Summit Sub-Committee Chair:
Werner Weiershausen, Deutsche Telekom Technik GmbH, Germany

2025 Show Floor Programming Coordinators
Scott Wilkinson, Cignal AI, USA


 

Market Watch (MW)

Panel I: State of the Industry: Now and in 2030

Panel II: New Technologies Driving Spectral Efficiency Gains in Next-Gen Networks - Beyond Modems

Panel III: Optical Modules, Transceivers and Applications

Panel IV: Inside Data Centers: Pluggable Optics Evolution

Panel V: Optical Network Evolution for AI/ML, Architectures and Drivers

Panel VI: Digital Twin, Telemetry, Monitoring and Testing

Data Center Summit (DCS)

Data Center Summit Keynote Speaker

Panel I: Trends at Data Centers: Architectures, Enablers and Challenges

Panel II: AI Impact Inside and Outside of Data Centers

Network Operator Summit (NOS)

Network Operator Summit Keynote Speaker

Panel I: Interoperation of Optical Pluggable Transceivers and IP/Optical Integration

Panel II: Optical Access, Radio Access Networks, Front- and Backhaul

 

Access Networks

Advances in International Standards on Optical Networks Towards 2030

Out of the Darkness: A Sneak Peek at CableLabs’ CPON Specifications

Network Infrastructure

The Emerging Photonics Ecosystem for AI/ML Interconnects 

Optical Solutions for Open Cloud RAN with 6G


Open ROADM MSA Updates and Demonstration

Photonics in Current and Future Machine Learning Network Infrastructure

 

Optical Systems and Components

Coherent Optics Unleashed: From 400ZR Success to 800ZR/LR Advancements and 1600ZR Kick-off 


Coherent Moving to Client Optics


Optical Interconnects for AI

The Marriage of AI and Optical Networking

Intra and Inter Data Center Connectivity
Progress and Opportunities Towards Short Reach Optical Interconnects

Lighting the Path to Exascale AI: Photonics in High-Performance Clusters

Advanced Photonics Coalition Session

Open XR Optics Update

 

Standard and Industry Group Updates

Will the Complexity and Higher Link Speeds of Hyperscale Data Centers Hinder Interoperability?

Standards Update on Higher Speed PON, latest OTN technologies and Interoperable Optical Interfaces

AIM Photonics Presents PICs, Heterogeneous Integration & Packaging for Next-Gen Integrated Photonics

How Optical Interconnects to meet AI Demand?