Tuesday, 07 March,
14:00
–
18:30
Room 1AB
Organizers
Fotini Karinou, Microsoft, UK
Yuanqiu Luo, Futurewei Technologies
Albert Rafel, British Telecommunications, UK
Luca Valcarenghi, Scuola Superiore Sant Anna de Pisa, Italy
Elaine Wong, University of Melbourne, Australia
Description
The United Nation's 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is a shared blueprint for global peace and prosperity, for the planet and its people, now and into the future. Core to this agenda are 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that form an urgent call for action by all countries. Ending poverty and other deprivations must go hand-in-hand with strategies that close the digital divide, improve health and education, reduce inequality, and eliminate greenhouse gas emissions. The role of photonics, e.g., when deployed around a smart city framework and in rural underserved communities, is crucial to meeting the UN SDGs in a timely manner. However, even with its critical role as the digital backbone of society, the infrastructure itself can become a significant sustainability burden. It is thus imperative that future optical communication systems and networks are integrated in the society ensuring environmental sustainability as they evolve.
This OFC 2023 symposium, as the first in a series of OFC symposia on this topic, will specifically aim to:(a) reflect on the smartcity predictions made by OFCity 2015 competition teams towards sustainability, and (b) discuss related recent R&D efforts and future opportunities towards achieving SDGs from data center network operators, telecom network operators, system and technology providers, and academia. Through the discussions, we aim to highlight crucial next steps for the OFC Community to focus on the next years.
Speakers
Session I
Kasandra Pilay; Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), South Africa
Pretoria Digital Divide in the Developing World of Africa
Marco Ruffini; University of Dublin Trinity College, Ireland
Connected OFCity Challenge: Technology Innovations for a Smart City Project
Thomas Karagiannis; Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK
The Role of Photonics in Sustainability and in Quantifying Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Yosuke Aragane; NTT, Japan
Innovative Optical and Wireless Network (IOWN) for a Sustainable World
Session II
Marcus Brunner; Huawei Technologies, Switzerland
How Optical Technology in F5G Support Fulfilling the UN Sustainability Goals
Naveena Genay; Orange Labs, France
Standards and Optical Technologies to Decrease Power Consumption: What is Being Done and Remains to be Done
James (Dezhi) Zhang, China Telecom Corp Ltd, China
Energy Saving of Optical Access Systems