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Meet the Product Focus speakers
Product Focus once again had a full timetable over the three days of ECOC Exhibition, showcasing the latest innovation and insight. Some of the excellent presentations will be available to download from the timetable below. Slides will be added as we receive them. please note not all presentation will be available.
Monday 23rd Sept |
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| Start time | Finish time | Title | Speaker | Company |
| 10:00 | 10:30 | IOWN Global Forum leading Open All-Photonic Network | Yoshitake Tajima (NTT), Lieven Levrau (Nokia | IOWN Global Forum |
| 10:40 | 11:10 | PhotonForge: Unified Software Platform for Multi-Physics Simulation and Photonic Integrated Circuit Design | Dr. Prashanta Kharel | Flexcompute |
| 11:20 | 11:50 | Coherent Pluggable Technology Advancing Next Generation Optical Networks | Bo Zhang , Senior Principal Engineer, Marvell | Marvell |
| 12:00 | 12:30 | Highly scalable 800G and 1.6T Module designs using Optical Interposer based Engines | Raju Kankipati, SVP/GM | POET Technologies |
| 13:00 | 14:00 | IOWN Global Forum leading Open All-Photonic Network | Yoshitake Tajima (NTT), Yu Tanaka (Fujitsu), Philippe Chanclou (Orange), Ryo Inohara (KDDI) |
IOWN Global Forum |
| 14:10 | 14:40 | Real-world applications and deployment scenarios of ICE-X Intelligent Coherent Pluggables | Fady Masoud | Infinera |
| 14:50 | 15:20 | Redefining Data Center Topologies with Mid-Board Optical Transceivers | Matthew Burns | Samtec |
| 15:30 | 16:00 | Integrating Active Components in Low-Loss Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) | Michael Geiselmann | Ligentec |
| 16:10 | 16:40 | Augmented Silicon Photonics for demanding Data Center and AI/ML network | Yannick Paillard | Scintil |
Tuesday 24th Sept |
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| 10:00 | 11:30 | The Open XR Forum Industry Update | Multiple | Infinera – Open XR Forum |
| 11:45 | 12:55 | ECOC Exhibition Industry Awards | ECOC Exhibition | |
| 13:00 | 13:30 | Reliability Test Solution for SiPh/CPO High-Variety Manufacturing | Jeff Lee, VP of Sales & Marketing | Chroma Germany |
| 13:40 | 14:40 | Special Requirements for Optical Connectivity in AI | Multiple | IPEC |
| 14:50 | 15:20 | MicroLEDs – Not just for fancy displays! A new paradigm in ultra-low power optical interconnects for AI | Simon Richmond | Avicena |
| 15:30 | 17:00 | ITU-T SG15 – Standards update on higher speed PON, latest OTN technologies and interoperable optical interfaces | Moderator: Glenn Parsons, Ericsson, Chair of ITU-T Study Group 15 | ITU |
| Frank Effenberger, Futurewei Technologies | ||||
| Fabio Cavaliere, Ericsson | ||||
| Bert Klaps, Huawei Technologies Düsseldorf GmbH | ||||
Wednesday 25th Sept |
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| 10:00 | 10:30 | The keys to seamless integrated photonics characterization – EXFO’s OPAL series of PIC testing solutions | Dr François Couny | EXFO |
| 10:30 | 13:00 | EPIC TechWatch | see https://epic-photonics.com/events/epic-techwatch-at-ecoc-2024/ | EPIC |
| 13:10 | 13:40 | 50G PON – Technological enablers, application scenarios and deployments. | Maxim Kuschnerov | Huawei Technologies |
| 13:50 | 14:20 | Challenges in PIC testing: volume, high-speed and reliability (email to request) | Iñigo Artundo | VLC Photonics |
| 14:30 | 15:00 | IOWN Global Forum leading Open All-Photonic Network | Yoshitake Tajima (NTT), Flavio Cirillo (NEC) | IOWN Global Forum |
| 15:10 | 15:40 | KD7251: Automotive Optical Multi-Protocol Transceiver | Rubén Pérez-Aranda | KD Approaching Shannon’s Limit |

