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
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Harish Babu
Verizon Communications Inc., United States
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Behnam Shariati
, Germany
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Ricard Vilalta
Centre Tecnològic Telecom de Catalunya, Spain