Technical Conference: 15 - 19 March 2026
Exhibition: 17 - 19 March 2026
Los Angeles Convention Center | Los Angeles, California, United States

Technical Conference: 15 - 19 March 2026
Exhibition: 17 - 19 March 2026
Los Angeles Convention Center | Los Angeles, California, United States

Symposia: Generative AI for Optical Networking: From Design Automation to Self-Operating Networks

Generative AI (GenAI) will fundamentally change the way optical systems, and networks are conceived and operated. This symposium brings perspectives from experts applying GenAI to real-world problems in optical networking: network digital twins and optimization, synthetic dataset generation, and LLM-/agent-driven planning for provisioning, predictive maintenance, restoration, automation, and more. The symposium will also address intent-to-policy pipelines for closed-loop automation, guardrails, data governance, and interoperability issues for their deployment. Speakers from cloud platforms, carriers, and vendors will present concrete use cases, architectures, and lessons learned, and will discuss practical integration for multi-vendor, multi-layer deployments.
 
The key topics to address in this symposium are:

  • GenAI Solutions for optical networking, including network digital twins, optimization, and automation;
  • Agentic Operations for provisioning, predictive maintenance, restoration, autonomous networks — LLM/tool-use pipelines from intent to verified actions;
  • Safety and Governance — guardrails, policy engines, auditability, and red-team evaluation of AI in closed-loop optical systems and networks;
  • Standards and Interoperability — practical integration for multi-vendor, multi-layer deployments.

Organizers

  • Harish Babu

    Verizon Communications Inc., United States

  • Behnam Shariati

    Fraunhofer Inst Nachricht Henrich-Hertz, Germany

  • Ricard Vilalta

    Centre Tecnològic Telecom de Catalunya, Spain

Speakers

  • Akhil Gokul

    Ericsson, United States

    Talk: Agentic AI and Autonomous Networks: Shaping the Future of Connectivity

  • Yvan Pointurier

    Huawei Technologies, France

    Talk: GenAI and Digital Twins for Network Automation

  • Sangit Rawlley

    JLA Advisors, United States

    Talk: AI Native MNO: Incumbents Lose Ground as AI Take Over

  • Reza Rokui

    Ciena, Canada

    Talk: From Automation to Autonomy: AI Multi-Agents Dynamic Workflow Powering Next-Gen IP/Optical Operations

  • Takahito Tanimura

    Hitachi Ltd, Japan

    Talk: Leveraging Small and Large Language Model Agents for Optical Network Control

  • Imen Grida Ben Yahia

    Amazon Web Services, United Kingdom

    Talk: Self-Governing Networks with Agentic AI and Data-Centric Approaches