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.

-	Are we Ready for Hollow Core Fiber Networks? Organizers: Natalie Wheeler (Lead), Univ. of Southampton, UK; Jose Antonio-Lopez, Univ. of Central Florida, CREOL, USA; Vladimir Gordienko, Aston Univ., UK; Hesham Sakr, Microsoft Corp., UK; Yi Sun, OFS Fitel LLC, LLC
-	High Power CW Lasers Organizers: Milos Popovic (Lead), Boston Univ., USA; Hai-Feng Liu, HG Genuine Optics Tech Co Ltd, USA; Wei Shi, Université Laval, Canada
-	How do Co-Packaged Optics Become Manufacturable? Organizers: Yoojin Ban (Lead), IMEC, Belgium; Juthika Basak, Advanced Micro Devices, USA; Takako Hirokawa, GlobalFoundries, USA; Sudip Shekhar, Univ. of British Columbia, Canada; Antonio Tartaglia, Ericsson, Italy
-	How to Get More Out of Fibre Access Networks? Organizers: Paul Wright (Lead), British Telecommunications, UK; Chathurika Ranaweera, Deakin Univ., Australia; Simon Rommel, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Netherland; Gaël Simon, Orange Labs, France; Lilin Yi, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
-	How Will Future Subsea Systems Look Like? Organizers: Jeremie Renaudier (Lead), Nokia Bell Labs, France; Jean-Christophe Antona, Alcatel Submarine Networks Inc., France; Ezra Ip, NEC Laboratories America Inc., USA; Shikui Shen, China Unicom, China
-	Is Coherent DSP Solved? Are we Running Out of Innovation? Organizers: David Millar (Lead), Infinera Corp., USA; Yi Cai, ZTE TX Inc., USA; Gabriele Liga, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Netherlands; Zhixin Liu, University College London, UK
-	Linear Algebra Optics: Applications and Commercial Perspectives Organizers: Nikos Pleros (Lead), Aristoteleio Panepistimio Thessalonikis, Greece; Chaoran Huang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
-	Networks of the Future and Next-Generation Production Organizers: Sana Bellamine (Lead), CENIC MMBI, USA; Scotty Strachan (Lead), Nevada System of Higher Education, USA; Akbar Kara, Ciena, USA; James Stewart, Utah Education and Telehealth Network, USA; Christopher Tracy, Energy Sciences Network, USA
-	Short and Sweet: How Do We Cost-Optimize a 10 Meter Link for Scaling Up Machine Learning Clusters? Organizers: Trey Greer (Lead), NVIDIA, USA; Connie Chang-Hasnain, HC Meta Ple. Ltd., USA
-	Telecom and Sensing Living Together: Is it a Healthy Relationship? Organizers: Oskars Ozolins (Lead), Riga Technical University, Latvia; Prince Anandarajah, Dublin City University, Ireland; Bernhard Schrenk, Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria; Hiroshi Takahashi, NTT Corp., Japan
-	Towards 400G/λ IM-DD: How to Pick up the Next Factor of 2? Organizers: Robert Borkowski (Lead), Nokia Bell Labs, USA; Patrick Lo, Advanced Micro Foundry Pte Ltd, Singapore; Ying Zhao, Aloe Semiconductor Inc., USA; Chen Zhu, Baidu Inc., China
-	Unifying Control and Management of Disaggregated Networks with Pluggable Transponders - Who Controls the Pluggables? Organizers: Yvan Pointurier (Lead), Huawei Technologies, France; Juan Pedro Fernández-Palacios, Telefonica R&D, Spain; Ricard Vilalta, Centre Tecnològic Telecom de Catalunya, Spain
-	Watts the Limit? Powering Optical Network Growth Organizers: Binbin Guan (Lead), Microsoft Corp., USA; Mattia Cantono, Google LLC, USA; Lynn Nelson, AT&T Labs, USA; Luca Valcarenghi, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy

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