18 Mar 2026
16:00 - 17:00
Expo Theater I
The era of AI networking is here, bringing unprecedented demands on speed, scale, and efficiency. As AI workloads grow exponentially, understanding how to architect networking infrastructure at scale is critical to delivering reliability, performance, and efficiency. The challenges require systems to support 1.6 Terabit speeds, advanced thermal management, and open networking architectures. What are the impacts to optical systems and optics? How will 800GbE and emerging 1.6TbE modules be used? How are advanced packaging and co-packaging driving more power-efficient, scalable optical systems? How are coherent technologies supporting AI architectures? What systems, software, optical, and optics are needed to architect the critical infrastructure for the AI era? This panel will examine the innovations, technologies, and architectures required inside and connecting data centers for the future of AI.
Sponsored By:
Moderator
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Scott Wilkinson
Cignal AI, United States
Panelists
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Lorenzo Ghioni
Vice President, Product Management & Technical Marketing, Cisco , Italy
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Mark Nowell
Cisco Fellow, Canada
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Ron Horan
Vice President, Engineering, Cisco , United States
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Tom Williams
Vice President, Marketing, Acacia, United States