• Technical Conference:  24 – 28 March 2024
  • Exhibition: 26 – 28 March 2024
  • San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, California, USA

2023 Panels

The panels provide an interactive learning environment and are open to all conference registrants. Similar to invited and tutorial speakers, panel topics and organizers are chosen through a highly selective nominations process.

Monday, 06 March
08:00 - 10:00

Towards Standardized PIC Testing: Challenges & Roadmaps

Organizers: Organizers: Patrick Lo, Advanced Micro Foundry, Singapore, Ashkan Seyedi, NVIDIA, USA, Wei Shi, Université Laval, Canada

Monday, 06 March
08:00 - 10:00

Virtualization in Optical Networks: A Reality Check

Organizers: Organizers: Ricardo Martinez, Catalan Telecommunication Technology Centre (CTTC), Spain, Jamie Gaudette, Microsoft, USA, Annachiara Pagano, Telecom Italia, Italy

Monday, 06 March
10:30 - 12:30

Connectivity for Beyond 5G: How Can Wireline and Wireless Optical Access Live Up to the Mobile Expectations?

Organizers: Organizers: Jim Zou, ADVA, Germany, Albert Rafel, BT, UK, Baris Erkmen HEDRON, USA, Frank Chang, Source Photonics, USA, Ke Wang, RMIT, Australia

Monday, 06 March
14:00 - 16:00

Optical Fiber Sensing: Technology and Emerging Applications - Session I

Organizers: Organizers: Raja Ahmad, Cisco Systems, USA, Ting Wang, NEC Laboratories America, USA, Georg Rademacher, NICT, Japan, Mikael Mazur, Nokia Bell Labs, USA

Monday, 06 March
16:30 - 18:30

1.6Tb/s+ Intra-DC Networks

Organizers: Organizers: Stephan Pachnicke, Christian-Albrechts Universität zu Kiel, Germany, James Chien, Marvell Technology Inc., USA, Juthika Basak, Nokia, USA

Monday, 06 March
16:30 - 18:30

Optical Fiber Sensing: Technology and Emerging Applications - Session II

Organizers: Organizers: Raja Ahmad, Cisco Systems, USA, Ting Wang, NEC Laboratories America, USA, Georg Rademacher, NICT, Japan, Mikael Mazur, Nokia Bell Labs, USA

Tuesday, 07 March
14:00 - 16:00

LiDAR Systems and Technologies with Integrated Photonics

Organizers: Organizers: Long Chen, Cisco, USA, Sylvie Menezo, SCINTIL Photonics, France, Milos Popovic, Boston University, USA, Shilong Pan, Nanjing University Aeronautics & Astronautics, China

Wednesday, 08 March
08:00 - 10:00

Advanced Packaging Technologies for Optical Modules

Organizers: Organizers: Omer Khayam, Google, USA, Joris Van Campenhout, IMEC, Belgium, Juthika Basak, Nokia, USA, Molly Piels, Juniper Networks, USA

Thursday, 09 March
08:00 - 10:00

How Can We Start to Consistently and Quantitatively Account for End-to-End Power Consumption

Organizers: Organizers: Trey Greer, NVIDIA, USA, Clint Schow,University of California, Santa Barbara ECE, USA

Thursday, 09 March
08:00 - 10:00

Promises, Prospects and Challenges of VCSELs for Data Center Interconnects, Free-Space Communications, and Sensing

Organizers: Organizers: Connie Chang-Hasnian, Berxel Photonics, China, Hai-Feng Liu,HG Genuine, China, Jim Lott, Technical University Berlin, Germany, Fotini Karinou,Microsoft Research Ltd, UK

Thursday, 09 March
14:00 - 16:00

Roadmap for Photonic AI Accelerators

Organizers: Organizers: Volker Sorger, George Washington University, USA, Nikos Pleros, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, Xian Xiao, Hewlett Packard Labs, USA, Glenn Bartolini, Coherent Corp, USA