2025 Symposia and Special Sessions

Monday, 31 March 08:00 - 12:30	The Year of Quantum: Applications, Architectures and Enabling Technologies for Quantum Communication and Computing Organizers: Cheri Sorace-Agaskar, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA (Lead); Eleni Diamanti, CNRS, France; Rui Lin, Chalmers Tekniska Högskola, Sweden; Taofiq Paraiso, Toshiba Research Europe Ltd, UK; Lai Zhou, BAQIS, China
Tuesday, 01 April 14:00 - 18:30	Hybrid Satellite/Terrestrial Networks: Where Does the Fiber End, and Satellite Take Over? Organizers: Dirk van den Borne, Juniper Networks Inc., Germany (Lead); Oskars Ozolins, Riga Technical University, Latvia; Maria Morant Pérez, Universitat Politècnica de Valencia, Spain; Ting Wang, NEC Laboratories America Inc., USA; Jim Zou, Adtran, Germany
Wednesday, 02 April 14:00 - 18:30	Advanced Packaging and Integrated Optics for Scale-Up AI interconnects Organizers: Juthika Basak, Advanced Micro Devices, USA (Lead); Dan Kuchta, Nvidia, USA (Lead); Trey Greer, NVIDIA Corp., USA; Georg Michellogianakis, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA; Samuel Palermo, Texas A&M Univ., USA; Angelina Totovic, Celestial AI, Greece

Monday, 31 March 14:00 - 18:30	Generative AI and ML in Networking: From Proof of Concept to Production Organizers: Deepa Venkitesh, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India (Lead); Qiong (Jo) Zhang, Amazon Web Services, USA (Lead); Mattia Cantono, Google LLC, USA; Olga Vassilieva, Fujitsu Network Communications, Inc., USA; Ricard Vilalta, Centre Tecnològic Telecom de Catalunya, Spain
Thursday, 03 April 14:00 - 16:00	Frontiers of Optical Network Architecture Summit – Network Architecture Evolution in the Age of AI Organizers: Vincent Chan, MIT, USA; Jun Shan Wey, Verizon, USA