Market Focus Timetable 2021
The excellent Market Focus presentations at this year’s ECOC Exhibition in Bordeaux will be re-released and available to watch online at our Virtual Catch Up in November so you can catch up on any of the sessions you may have missed.
Start planning your time at the event and browse the full timetable for this year’s Market Focus. Details about each session can be found on our Session Information page.
Monday 1st November | ||||
| Topic: PIC and SiPh/Datacenters/Optics in Cloud computing | ||||
| Start | Finish | Title | Presenter | Company |
| 11:00 | 11:30 | Adoption of Silicon Photonics accelerated in 2018-2020 | Vladimir Kozlov, Founder and CEO | LightCounting |
| 11:35 | 12:05 | Integrated Silicon Photonics for High-Bandwidth Data Center Connectivity | Scott Schube, Sr. Director of Strategic Marketing | Intel |
| 12:10 | 12:40 | Advancing integrated photonics with electro-optic polymer modulators | Michael Lebby | Lightwave Logic Inc |
| 12:45 | 13:15 | Optical I/O for Chip-to-Chip Communications | Hugo Saleh, VP of Marketing and Business Development; Managing Director Ayar Labs UK Ltd | Ayar Labs UK Ltd |
| 13:20 | 13:50 | Optics in Cloud Computing -> 100G/400/800 GbE optics | Dr Sven Otte, CEO, Founder | Sicoya |
| 13:55 | 14:25 | Novel LED based parallel optical interconnects with 10Tbps/mm2 @ < 0.5pJ/bit for chip-to-chip communications | Christoph Pfistner, Marketing & Business Development | Avicena |
| 14:30 | 15:00 | The evolution and challenges to 800g optics and beyond | Frank Chang | Source Photonics |
| 15:05 | 15:35 | The Road to 800G and Beyond | Andreas Bechtolsheim | Arista |
| 15:40 | 16:10 | Post Moore Data Center Networks for 800GbE/1.6TbE | Radha Nagarajan, SVP & CTO, Optical and Copper Connectivity Business Group | Marvell |
| 16:15 | 16:45 | Deployment of 400ZR and the ongoing OIF Work to Define 800ZR/LR | Josef Berger, Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. and OIF Representative | OIF |
Tuesday 2nd November | ||||
| Topic: Optical Transmision (SDN/Network Agility)/Fibre Access (5G/cable/PON/FTTX) | ||||
| Start | Finish | Title | Presenter | Company |
| 10:20 | 10:50 | Readiness of 50G-PON in terms of technology, standard and ecosystem | Junwei Li, Senior Expert on Optical Access | China Mobile |
| 10:55 | 11:25 | Emerging Industrial Manufacturing Requirements Including Private 5G Communications, IIoT Sensors, and SecurityEPIC – European Photonics Industry Consortium | Tracey Vanik, Head of Photonics Market Research | |
| 11:30 | 12:00 | Can Optical keep up with evolving RAN requirements. ? | Peter Finn, Strategic Head of Product Li | Ericsson Telecommunicazioni SpA |
| 12:05 | 12:35 | Self-tuning Bidirectional 50GBASE-ER Optical Transceiver based on Temperature Control and Silica-based Comb Filter | Spark Xu | QXP Technologies Inc |
| 12:40 | 13:10 | Fiber vs. IAB in 5G x-haul | Stéphane Téral, Chief Analyst | LightCounting Market Research |
| 13:15 | 13:45 | Routed Optical Networking | Lorenzo Ghioni, Director of Product Management | Cisco |
| 13:50 | 14:20 | Extending OpenROADM to the Network Edge | Raj Nagarajan, Product Line Manager | Lumentum |
| 14:25 | 14:55 | High capacity pathways – Fiber innovations for a connected future | Roshene McCool, Market & Technology Development Manager | Corning |
Wednesday 3rd November | ||||
| Topic: New technologies & systems/New markets/New Packaging platforms | ||||
| Start | Finish | Title | Presenter | Company |
| 09:45 | 10:15 | Optical Communications for Satellite Networking: From Free Space Optics to Optics in Space ! | Sanjai Parthasarathi, Chief Marketing Officer | II-VI |
| 10:20 | 10:50 | High volume integrated Silicon Photonics for next generation LiDAR and other sensing applications | Robert Blum, Sr. Director of Marketing and New Business | Intel |
| 10:55 | 11:25 | Extending Coherent to the Edge – How and Why Now? | Dave Welch, Founder and Chief Innovation Officer | Infinera |
| 11:30 | 12:00 | Next steps in coherent interface standardization | Tom Williams, Director of Marketing | Acacia, now part of Cisco |
| 12:05 | 12:35 | A New Specification for Multi-Wavelength Optical Laser Sources for Advanced Integrated Optics | Chris Cole, Chair, CW-WDM MSA; Advisor, II-VI Incorporated | CW-WDM MSA |
| 12:40 | 13:10 | Integrated lithium-niobate electro-optic platform, an emerging solution enabling a wide range of high speed and power efficient applications | Mian Zhang, Ph.D, CEO and Founder | HyperLight Corporation |
| 13:15 | 13:45 | Photonics integration and digital silicon photonics, Optoelectronic integration trends and applications | Brad Booth, Chairman and President, COBO and Principal Engineer, Microsoft | Consortium for On-Board Optics |
| 13:50 | 14:20 | Co-Packaged Optics: The OIF’s Work to Standardize Higher Integration Levels for Next-Generation Data Center Systems | Jeff Hutchins, Ranovus, Director, CTO Office | OIF |
| 14:25 | 14:55 | Data center optics – 400G and above rollout and the promise of co-packaged optics | Lisa Huff, CDCMP®, Senior Principal Analyst | Omida |
| 15:00 | 15:30 | OSFP-XD vs Co-Packaged Optics | Mark Lutkowitz, Principal | fibeReality, LLC |