Schedule

Description:

The traditional layered IP/DWDM network architecture – where the IP layer is housed in a separate infrastructure and operated/managed independently from the optical layer - has successfully accommodated the exponential growth of traffic for the past two decades. Coherent technology innovation has enabled network capacity growth while reducing the cost per bit in the optical layer. Network Processing Units (NPUs) in IP routers can today process many Terabits per ASIC. However, with Shannon’s capacity limit and the end of Moore’s law in sight, how will networks continue to evolve?

Smart pluggable optics may enable future growth while eliminating the redundant hardware, control plane and management layers, leading to increased efficiency in cost and energy, enabling true integrated IP over DWDM. However, will power and space constraints limit their optical performance and hence limit the use cases that smart pluggable modules can address? How can we effectively manage such smart pluggable modules? Traditionally, personnel responsible for Layer 3 operations have been unfamiliar with the network planning required for complex Layer 0/1 network configuration. Automation and software-defined network functionality can help with this, but are they enough? Is it possible to decouple advances in module transport capabilities from the development cycles of the host routers such that management software does not need to be rewritten or upgraded with every improvement in smart optics capabilities?

In this workshop, we will explore these various aspects of introducing smart pluggable optics to new network architectures. In Part I, we will focus on use cases for integrated IP over DWDM versus traditional layered IP and transport solutions. In Part II, we will discuss the control and management challenges of an integrated IP over DWDM network architecture.

Organizers

• Alejandra  Beghelli, University College London, UnitedKingdom
• Fatima Gunning, Tyndall National Institute, Ireland
• Norm Swenson, Norman Swenson Consulting, USA
• Dirk Van den Borne, Juniper Networks, Germany

Speakers

• Ian Alderdice, Ciena, USA
• Oscar González de Dios, Telefonica, Spain
• Steven Hand, Infinera, USA
• Tad Hofmeister, Google, USA
• Maxim Kuschnerov, Huawei Technologies, Germany
• Qingyun (Wendell) Liu, AT&T, USA
• Fenghai Liu, Director of Product Line Management, Cisco, USA
• Tim Pennell, Juniper Networks, USA
• Glenn Wellbrock, Verizon, USA
• Jim Zou, ADVA, Germany

Description:

After more than 30 years of research and more than ten years since the first field deployments, quantum dot (QD) based lasers and semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs) have recently begun generating strong interest. QDs offer unique properties and additional degrees of freedom in design compared to traditional quantum wells. They are being explored for use in various applications and monolithic integration into silicon photonics manufacturing platforms. Is this resurgence based on the improved quality of the quantum dots or fundamentally new properties? Is isolator-free on-chip silicon integration the "killer app"? Is this success transferable back to III/V substrates like InP or GaAs? Where further can quantum dots go in performance? Will CdSe, ZSe, or other colloidal quantum dots play a role?

Organizers

• Tomoyuki Akiyama, Fujitsu, Japan
• Hai-Feng Liu, HGGenuine Optics Tech Co.,Ltd, China
• Martin Schell, Fraunhofer HHI, Germany

Speakers

• Namyoung Anh, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
• Yasuhiko Arakawa, Tokyo University, Japan
• John Bowers, UCSB, USA
• Alexey Kovsh, Alfalume, Inc, USA
• Alan Y Liu, Quintessent Inc., USA
• Huiyun Liu, University College London, UnitedKingdom
• Martin Moehrle, Fraunhofer HHI, Germany
• Johann Peter Reithmaier, University of Kassel, Germany
• Stephan  Reitzenstein, Technical University of Berlin, Germany
• Mitsuru Sugawara, QD Laser, Japan
• Maksym Sich, Aegiq, UnitedKingdom

Description:

Recently the remote work/entertainment situation enforced by the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has shown the importance of upgrading the access network to enable needed services. 

In this workshop, we will discuss the status of optical access, how optical access will look in the future, and if we are in good shape.

Copper access is being upgraded to optical access because of increasing demand for more data rate for super-broadband services with minimum latency for fixed networks’ applications for residential and business users that have evolved, like gaming, holograms, AR/VR, Industry 4.0, live sport/music viewing, etc. 

In addition to the residential and business use cases, another use case that will shape future optical access is mobile backhauling. This use case requires optical links that are capable of high data rates. Mobile users’ high data rates and applications have evolved, meaning convergence of fixed and mobile services, the use of small cells, sensors, IoT, more flexibility, and strict requirements for latency is needed. But what data rate do we need for 5G, 20 Gb/s per user? Do we need a peak rate over 100 Gb/s by 2030 for 6G? 

We will consider energy efficiency, low carbon emission networks, and resilient networks (lifeline, battery, etc..) for future access. Optical networks are also expected to assist with societal requirements (fire assistance, sensors for agriculture, water level monitoring, climate, etc.) to support the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by the United Nations.

To enable all the emerging use cases for optical access, a cost-effective symmetrical data rate of 100 Gb/s and beyond will be needed. In addition, new optical access standards, and what comes after the 25G and 50G-PON standards? Topics for discussion include IM/DD versus coherent, introduction of flexibility, and point-to-point versus point-to multipoint architectures. Will optical access standards move forward for all types of architectures? Will cost-effective coherent access be feasible?

Organizers

• Naveena Genay, Orange Labs Network, France
• Tetsuya Kawanishi, Waseda University, Japan
• Dora Van Veen, Nokia, USA

Speakers

• Pham Tien Dat, National Institute of Information and Communications, Japan
• Saifuddin Faruk, University of Cambridge, UnitedKingdom
• Roberto Gaudino, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
• Ed Harstead, Nokia, Germany
• Paulo Monteiro, University of Aveiro, Portugal
• Derek Nesset, Huawei Technologies, Germany
• Kazuki Tanaka, KDDI Research, INC., Japan
• Jun Shan Wey, Verizon, USA

Description:

Scaling quantum computing architectures is trending towards interconnected quantum processing units. For several platforms that require increasingly larger dilution refrigerators, communication between the modular quantum chips based on electrical/RF connections is a limitation due to the limited thermal load capacity the refrigerator can support. Other platforms expected to operate at higher temperatures would eventually face similar challenges. Optical interconnects are a potential answer to this scaling challenge to enable multi-chip communication. Such topologies would require the conversion of qubits to optical wavelengths for some platforms and, more generally, transmission over a networked quantum computing architecture, i.e., notionally a “quantum data center.”

Further, control of quantum computers necessitates a hybrid computing framework with both classical and quantum resources. In the first session, this workshop will encapsulate industry strategies for scaling quantum computing for various qubit technologies with classical control frameworks. The secondary session will cover the technologies and challenges facing quantum interconnects. 
 
Session 1: This session will give an overview of different technologies/platforms the industry is pursuing to build a scalable quantum computing architecture. The Speakers will present their chosen technology, their vision toward a scalable computing platform, the challenges and the role of optics in their roadmap. 

Join us for Session II, scheduled from 16:00-18:30

Organizers

• Eleni Diamanti, CNRS and Sorbonne University, France
• Fotini Karinou, Microsoft Research Ltd, UnitedKingdom
• Daniel  Kilper, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
• Mekena Metcalf, Lawrence Berkley Natl. Lab, USA

Session 1 Speakers

• 13:00-13:20 - Jason   Orcutt, Principal Research Scientist, IBM Quantum, USA
• 13:20-13:40 - Jungsang Kim, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, IonQ Inc., USA
• 13:40-14:00 - Richard Rouse, Partner Hardware Engineer, Azure Quantum, USA
• 14:00-14:20 - Mercedes Gimeon-Segovia, VP System Architecture, PsiQuantum, USA
• 14:20-14:40 - Carmen Palacios Berraquero , CEO, NuQuantum , UnitedKingdom
• 14:40-15:00 - Galan Moody, Assistant Professor, Quantum Photonics Lab, University of California Santa Barbara, USA
• 15:00-15:30 - Panel discussion

Description:

After a decade of intense research and animated discussions around new approaches to increase the spectral efficiency (SE) of single-mode optical fiber transmission systems, we now see a significant slow-down in achievable SE gains as improvements become more challenging and costly. Therefore, the question of improving system SE therefore appears to be beyond the scope of just modem improvements for the first time in many years. As a result, the balance between optical transmission power, SE gains, and investment cost needed to develop more advanced solutions is ever so harder to strike. Yet, no one knows with absolute certainty how much fiber capacity gain can be achieved in the coming years and with what level of implementation complexity.

This workshop will address a fundamental question: is it still worth trying to squeeze more SE out of optical fiber transmission systems? And if not, what are the most attractive alternative options to keep up with the current network capacity demand? Other questions to discuss in this workshop will include the following:

• Increasing number of spatial paths (more fibers per cables, new fiber designs, etc.) is promising, but is it the only way forward?
• Is it worth realizing the remaining SE gains, and which tools should we use? Are ultra-wide bandwidth solutions also valid contenders?
• What is the practical limit on bit-rate per wavelength (1.6Tb/s, 3.2Tb/s, etc.)? Are there any options to overcome this limit?
• Pluggable transceivers have somewhat reduced performance with significantly reduced power and size. Will they enable the next wave of capacity growth throughout the network?
• How much network capacity growth do we need in different parts of the networks (today and in the future)? Should we think about network capacity vs. p-t-p route capacity?

Organizers

• Gabriele Liga, Eindoven University of Technology, Netherlands
• Sergejs Makovejs, Corning Incorporated, UnitedKingdom
• David Milar, Infinera, USA

Session 1 Speakers

• Cristian Antonelli, UnivAQ, Italy
• Marco Secondini, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna , Italy
• Metodi Yankov, University of Denmark, Denmark
• Jeff Rahn, Meta, USA
• Massimilliano Salsi, Google, USA
• Glenn Wellbrock, Verizon, USA

Session 2 Speakers

• John Downie, Corning Incorporated, USA
• Takemi Hasegawa, Sumitomo Electric Industries, Japan
• Eduardo Mateo, NEC Corporation, Japan
• Kishore Kota, Marvell Technology, USA
• Rob Maher, Infinera, USA
• Vahid Aref, Nokia, Canada

Description:
Despite the continuous debate between IM-DD and Coherent, it is an irresistible trend that Coherent has gradually encroached the market share of IM-DD. The extensive deployment of 400ZR over the past few years has marked a big success of Coherent to single-span transmissions like metro/datacenter inter-connects. Currently, academia and industry are actively developing next-generation coherent solutions targeting even shorter distances such as <10km datacenter intra-connects and optical access networks. Besides the advances of DSP/Photonic integration, a hotly pursued pathway to accelerate the expansion of Coherent is Coherent Lite, aiming to simplify or even remove the power-hungry DSP by using lower symbol rate, simpler modulation format, and specially designed analog electronic or optical subsystems.

Though the coherent camp has the ambition to rule the world, the IM-DD camp believes they’ll hold their last stand where the parallel optics solve all the problems and Coherent makes no sense. The question is whether such a stand exists, and if so, where is the eventual boundary between IM-DD and Coherent? The boundary can be characterized by various metrics like data rate, distance, power consumption and transceiver cost, and may be closely related to the application drivers. This workshop will discuss such boundaries and address typical questions like:

• Will Coherent Lite find its position in the competition between IM-DD and Coherent?
• Is there a practical technique for an all-analog coherent system to avoid the ADC and DSP?
• Will there be a common and interoperable implementation for Coherent like 400ZR for shorter-distance applications, or will the solutions be diversified?
• Will the local oscillator wavelength management kill the application of Coherent to ultra-short-reach uncooled applications?
• Is it worth sending a remote light through a separate link for self-homodyne coherent detection?
• Can coherent access really meet the end users’ stringent power/cost limit, and if so, how far we’re away from that?

This workshop will invite speakers from academia, system and module vendors, datacenter and access operators to provide a diversity of perspectives.

Organizers

• Di Che, Nokia Bell Labs, USA
• Sam Palermo, Texas A&M University, USA
• Paola Parolari, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• Clint Schow, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

Speakers

• Hector Andrade, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
• Tao Gui, Huawei Technologies, China
• Zhensheng Jia, Cable Labs, USA
• Erji  Mao, Google, USA
• Radha Nagarajan, Marvell Technology, USA
• Seb J. Savory, University of Cambridge, UnitedKingdom
• Fabienne Saliou, Orange Labs, France
• Matthew Sysak, Ayar Labs, USA
• Yawei Yin, Microsoft, USA
• Hongbin Zhang, Cisco, USA

Registration is limited to 35 seats to provide attendees with direct access to our team of experts, so reserve your seat today!​

Setup and networking: 13:00 - 14:00
Training starts promptly at 14:00

Organizers: Optica Foundation & VPIphotonics

This workshop will show you how to conceptualize and evaluate optical transmission systems from a communication engineer’s perspective by using professional simulation software. You will learn how to efficiently simulate optical transmission systems and automate the design and analysis of new technologies using VPIphotonics Design Suite. We will investigate transmission systems scenarios for applications ranging from data center interconnects to high-capacity core network links to optical satellite communication links. We will explore general system design concepts, demonstrate how to investigate the impact of performance-limiting effects, and assess how to mitigate or compensate for them.

Topics include:

• Professional simulation software design environment
• Intensity-modulated direct detection systems
• Digital coherent systems
• Free-space optical systems

This workshop targets students and early-career professionals who want to learn how to utilize a professional simulation and design environment for their engineering and research tasks in optical transmission systems. Basic knowledge of technologies, concepts, and methodologies of the various transmission systems is helpful.

This workshop includes a 4-hour session of lectures, guided labs, and independent work with 1-on-1 support. Attendees will be provided access to the software in a cloud-based environment using their own private laptops.

Registration is limited to 35 seats to provide attendees with direct access to our team of experts, so reserve your seat today!

Description:

Rising network traffic, driven by consumer bandwidth demand, creates a capacity challenge for networks of all types. The search for scalable capacity has become a driving force in network systems. Space Division Multiplexing (SDM) is a viable approach as it increases the relative core density in a given system. In data center applications, it could solve practical installation problems of very large fiber counts in data center interconnect (DCI) links. In a submarine, it offers a path towards 1-5 Pb/s subsea cable capacity. The latter presents the ultimate challenge due to high-reliability requirements and power-limited cable designs on top of the high-capacity transmission. The debate will therefore focus on which technology will emerge to meet challenging 5 Pbps cable capacity targets in submarine. Scalability, ecosystem readiness, compatibility with incumbent systems, and mechanical robustness are among the factors to be addressed for two leading solutions: multicore (MCF) and reduced geometry (Cladding or Coating) fibers.

Organizers

• Tetsuya Hayashi, Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd , Japan
• Inna Kozmina, Corning, USA
• Pierre Sillard, Prysmian Group, France
• Benyuan  Zhu, OFS Laboratories, USA

Speakers

• Mattia Cantono, Google, USA
• Olivier Courtois, Alcatel Submarine Networks, France
• Hans Damdgaard, OFS Labs, Denmark
• Lidia Galdino, Corning Incorporated, UnitedKingdom
• Stephen Grubb, Meta, USA
• Takemi Hasegawa, Sumitomo Electric Industries, Japan
• Takanori Inoue, NEC Laboratories, Japan
• Victor Kopp, Chiral Photonics, USA
• Alexei Pilipetskii, SubCom LLC, USA
• Shigehiro Takasaka, Furukawa Electric Co., Japan

Description:

Machine learning models increase x10 every 18 months. Custom processors (TPUs, NPUs, xPUs) used for ML tasks support significantly higher I/O bandwidth compared to CPUs. However, the scalability and training time significantly depends on network performance. Current electronic multi-layer networks, due to over-subscription and large network diameter, lead to significant overheads and could limit the scale and efficiency of the system and ML applications. This workshop will explore methods used to scale models (data/model/hybrid parallelism) across hundreds and thousands of processing units, discuss existing network solutions and explore the potential and challenges of optical networks. Both current and future technologies will be presented and explored. Some of the questions that we aim to answer include but are not limited to include:

• Can electronic packet switching and traditional pluggable transceivers sustain the performance and power consumption demanded by the rapid growth of ML models?
• What are the requirements for broad adoption of fast all-optical switching and networking?
• Will optical networks change how we design distributed deep learning training systems and processes?

Part 1. Session on methods and current systems to support large-scale ML models. 

Part 2. Potential and challenges of optical networks for ML systems.

Organizers

• Hitesh Ballani, Microsoft, UnitedKingdom
• Manya Ghobhadi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
• Georgios Zervas, University College London, UnitedKingdom

Speakers

• Larry Denison, NVIDIA, USA
• Michael Geiselmann, LIGENTEC, Switzerland
• Alessandro Ottino, University College London, UnitedKingdom
• Sergey Shumarayev, Intel Corporation, USA
• Vladimir  Stojanovic , University of California, Berkeley, USA
• Cen Wang, KDDI, Japan

Description:

With access to fiber broadband, the user experience is strongly linked to home network performance. Towards this direction, Fiber-to-the-Room (FTTR) is now being investigated as a perennial deep-fiber infrastructure within ITU-T SG15 and ETSI F5G. FTTR poses a lot of questions concerning its opportunities. It also positions wireless in-house access in a new context: FTTR as an extender for WiFi6 promises Gbps connectivity in a quasi-interference-free environment, with considerable potential for wireless bandwidth upgrades when moving to (sub-)mm-wave technology readily maturing through Beyond-5G efforts. Will FiWi deployment within the premises cannibalize efforts to make LiFi a commodity? Are there still unmet requirements that can only be addressed through LiFi? Will LiFi co-exist or rather cease to exist? The workshop aims to address these pressing questions by bringing together speakers from academia and industry to discuss the deployment aspects of future home networks backed by FTTR technology and the roles of light- and radio-based wireless access.

Organizers

• Chi-Wai Chow, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
• Bernhard Schrenk, Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria
• Eduward Tangdiongga, Eindoven University of Technology, Netherlands

Speakers

• Benjamin Azoulay, Oledcomm, France
• Rene Bonk, Nokia Bell Labs, Germany
• Philippe Chanclou, Orange Labs, France
• Steve Hranilovic, McMaster University, Canada
• Anthony Ng'oma, Corning Incorporated, USA
• Nikola Serafimovski, pureLiFi Ltd, UnitedKingdom

Description:

Scaling quantum computing architectures is trending towards interconnected quantum processing units. For several platforms that require increasingly larger dilution refrigerators, communication between the modular quantum chips based on electrical/RF connections is a limitation due to the limited thermal load capacity the refrigerator can support. Other platforms expected to operate at higher temperatures would eventually face similar challenges. Optical interconnects are a potential answer to this scaling challenge to enable multi-chip communication. Such topologies would require the conversion of qubits to optical wavelengths for some platforms and, more generally, transmission over a networked quantum computing architecture, i.e., notionally a “quantum data center.”

Further, control of quantum computers necessitates a hybrid computing framework with both classical and quantum resources. In the first session, this workshop will encapsulate industry strategies for scaling quantum computing for various qubit technologies with classical control frameworks. The secondary session will cover the technologies and challenges facing quantum interconnects. 
 
Session 2: This session will focus on different material platforms and devices as building blocks to enable various essential quantum system functionalities and their integration and packaging aspects to address system challenges induced by cryogenic environments. 

Join us for Session I, scheduled from 13:00-15:30
 

Organizers

• Eleni Diamanti, CNRS and Sorbonne University, France
• Fotini Karinou, Microsoft Research Ltd, UnitedKingdom
• Daniel  Kilper, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
• Mekena Metcalf, Lawrence Berkley Natl. Lab, USA

Session 2 Speakers

• 16:00-16:20 - Jelena Vuckovic, Professor in Global Leadership, Professor of Electrical Engineering and by courtesy of Applied Physics, Stanford University, USA
• 16:20-16:40 - Marko Loncar, Professor, Harvard University, USA
• 16:40-17:00 - Simon Gröblacher, CEO & Co-Founder, QPhoX, Netherlands
• 17:00-17:20 - John Bowers, Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
• 17:20-17:40 - Pri Narang, Professor in Physical Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
• 17:40-18:00 - Peter  O'Brien, Head of the Photonics Packaging Group, Tyndall National Institute, Ireland
• 18:00-18:30 - Panel discussion

Description:

Optical Wireless Communication (OWC), also called free-space optical communication, has recently evolved in many significant ways and is now employed in a wide range of applications extending to space. Long-distance, high-data-rate communication in space is becoming increasingly important to support science data transfer, telemetry, remote monitoring, and Internet connectivity. As a result, there is a trend in space communication to transition from radio frequency-based links to links using optical beams. Key motivations are an unregulated spectrum, smaller size/weight, lower power consumption per bit, larger bandwidth, and significantly smaller beam diffraction, resulting in much smaller link loss and, thus, higher capacity. The promising OWC applications in space will include Low Earth Orbit satellite constellations and High-Altitude Platform Stations with Optical Inter-Satellite Links (OISLs), inter-satellite mesh networks, low latency networking, and integration of satellites and 5G-and-beyond. In addition, quantum technologies attract great interest for their potential applications in computing, sensing, and communications. Satellite-based quantum communications are interesting in this context for linking securely quantum devices to provide groundbreaking services leveraging space networks at a global scale. Several challenges need to be overcome to make future applications based on space optical links a reality. The workshop discuss the gigabit-per-second speed communication, the pointing-and-acquisition-tuning of OISLs at extremely high orbital speeds, the dynamic network routing, and the economic viability for OWC in space as well as the novel and secure space network concept based on optical technologies for satellite quantum information networks.

Organizers

• Eleni Diamanti, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, France
• Morio Toyoshima, National Institute of Information & Communications Tech, Japan
• Murat Yuksel, University of Central Florida, USA

Speakers

• Guray Acar, European Space Agency, Netherlands
• Mohammed-Slim Alouini, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, SaudiArabia
• Baris Erkmen, Hedron, USA
• Bryan S. Robinson, MIT Lincoln Lab, USA
• Cyrille Laborde, Thales Alenia Space, France
• Juan Yin, University of Science and Technology of China, China

Description:

There are different approaches to improing energy efficiency in and between data centers. We can continue to press toward higher baud rates and higher bits per symbol or use multiplexing techniques over optical wavelength, subcarrier frequency, and spatial/fiber cores at lower baud rates. Which approach results in the best efficiency in terms of overall power consumption for the end-to-end system? IT should include the power consumption of electrical interconnect, light generation, detection, amplification, signal processing, SERDES, and FEC. This workshop will address this topic in two sessions, within the data center (chip to chip) and between data centers.

Short Reach,  <100 meters

The first session will deal with short-reach interconnect within a rack or between racks.  Energy per bit is vital in these short optical interconnects.  

• In the context of the bandwidth needed for 100 Tbps switches, where is the sweet spot in the battle between high channel bit rates vs. high fiber counts and channels per fiber? 
• In lieu of higher channel data rates, what’s the best way to increase the number of channels per fiber core or fiber cores around the host ASIC?
• On the host ASIC side, can we save power with the wider and slower electrical interfaces made possible with co-packaged optics? 

Long Reach, up to 10km

The second session will look at communications between data centers.

• Which technologies and multiplexing techniques promise the most energy efficiency to achieve these distances? Is it intensity modulation/direct detection on multiple lanes, coherent subcarrier multiplexing, simplified coherent, or something else?
• What’s the role of DSP in a power-efficient transponder? Does DSP actually result in net power savings?
• What key technologies must be demonstrated to realize these energy-efficient techniques in practical product offerings?

Organizers

• Di Che, Nokia Bell Labs, USA
• Trey Greer, NVIDIA, USA
• Norm Swenson, Norman Swenson Consulting, USA
• Xian  Zhou, University of Science & Technology Beijing, China

Speakers

• Keren Bergmen, Columbia University, USA
• Arash Farhood, Marvell Technology, USA
• Joe Kahn, Stanford University, USA
• Dan Kuchta, IBM, USA
• Di Liang, Alibaba Group, USA
• Karl Muth, Broadcom, USA
• Sunil Priyadarshi, Intel Corporation, USA
• Dave Welch, Infinera, USA

Organizers: Henrique Buglia, University College London, United Kingdom; Marco Eppenberger, PsiQuantum, USA; Menno van den Hout, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands; Vincent van Vliet, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands

Advisory Committee: Nicolas Fontaine, Nokia Bell Labs, USA; Binbin Guan, Microsoft, USA; Roland Ryf, Nokia Bell Labs, USA; Jochen Schroeder, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

Come and learn the most powerful techniques expert researchers and professionals use to enhance productivity and make life easier. Join us and take this chance to upgrade your work methods and discuss while enjoying lots of food and drinks in an informal, relaxed, and fun way.

Our everyday research is most fun and productive when we concentrate on creative problem-solving. Good news: tools are available for almost all other tasks to make your engineering life easier. Many software packages written by the large community allow you to quickly and easily automate menial tasks, build graphical user interfaces, visualize data, and much more! This event aims to bring awareness of these packages by hosting multiple interactive demos of mostly free and open-source software built in easy-to-learn languages such as Python. The demos are set up around informal discussion tables with plenty of time for inspiring discussion and questions, alternated with lighting talks and videos showing the usage of these tools.

This event is an opportunity to learn how to tap into and use the available public resources and learn about the newest tools developed by Ph.D. students and researchers alike. From students to highly experienced experts, everybody is welcome to learn and share ways to boost their research. Benefit and learn from the trial-and-error of others and get a kickstart in productivity!

List of demos can be accessed at: https://hack-your-research.gitlab.io/post/ofc_2023/