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Please note the timetable below is subject to change.
Find the Product Focus theatre in Pavillion 1 in the Exhibition Hall.
Monday 21st September |
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| Start time | Finish time | Title | Speaker | Company |
| 09:35 | 09:55 | Introducing FastSelfClean™ connector technology – Self-cleaning fiber-optic connector for high-density AI factory connectivity | Earl Parsons | Commscope |
| 10:00 | 10:20 | Scale-Up Optical Interconnects: Why DWDM Laser Source Architecture Is the Next Design Battleground | John Anderton | Photon Bridge |
| 10:25 | 10:45 | Building Ethernet for AI Data Centers: From High-Speed Interconnects to Scalable Infrastructure | Yumeng Yang | Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd |
| 10:50 | 11:10 | Extending the world’s connectivity with light: integrated optical phased arrays for wireless optical communication | Mahesh Krishnaswamy | Taara |
| 11:15 | 11:45 | Optical components for the evolution of intra-data center connectivity | Neel Patel and Teresa Monteiro | Nokia |
| 11:55 | 12:25 | Near-Packaged Optics for AI Scale-Up Networks: Comparing with Pluggable Optics and CPO | Lian Qin | Marvell |
| 12:35 | 12:55 | The Innovative Optical and Wireless Network (IOWN) Global Forum Overview and Latest Work | Various | Iown Global Forum |
| 13:00 | 13:20 | Scalable TFLN Manufacturing via RF-Sputtering for CPO | Yohei Sakano | Shincron CO.,LTD |
| 13:25 | 13:45 | AI use cases in broadband access networks | Maxim Kuschnerov | Huawei Technologies |
| 14:00 | 15:00 | IPEC: Technical Insights Into Near Packaged Optics (NPO) | Lu Liu Mingwang Mao Haijiang Yu Toshiyasu Ito Huafa Gao |
CAICT Meituan Genuine Optics Yamaichi Electronics Netonx |
| 15:05 | 15:35 | Pluggable or embedded? Case studies from real world deployments | Oriol Bertran Pardo and Fady Masoud | Nokia |
| 15:40 | 17:00 | ECOC Exhibition Industry Awards | ECOC Exhibition | |
Tuesday 22nd September |
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| Start time | Finish time | Title | Speaker | Company |
| 09:35 | 09:55 | Scaling and Automation for E-PIC Device-Agnostic High-Volume Wafer & Die Testing, Future-Proofing, and Industry-Standardization Compliance | Lawrence van der Vegt | MPI Corporation |
| 10:00 | 10:20 | Scaling Silicon Photonics and Co-Packaged Optics Test for High-Volume Manufacturing | Dimitri Malsam | Advantest Europe |
| 10:25 | 11:25 | Nokia Open XR Forum | Various | Nokia Open XR Forum |
| 11:30 | 11:50 | Intelligent Optical Route Protection for Resilient and Quantum-Safe Transport Networks | Fernando Gutierrez | FIBERNET S.L. |
| 11:55 | 12:15 | Taking OCS from scale-out to scale-up | Maximilian Thürmer | Salience Labs |
| 12:25 | 12:45 | Photonics Innovation scaled at the Institute for Microelectronics Stuttgart | Niels Quack | IMS CHIPS |
| 12:50 | 13:10 | Enabling the Next Phase of AI Infrastructure | Steven Alleston | OpenLight Photonics |
| 13:15 | 13:35 | The Innovative Optical and Wireless Network (IOWN) Global Forum Overview and Latest Work | tbc | Iown Global Forum |
| 13:40 | 14:00 | The Innovative Optical and Wireless Network (IOWN) Global Forum Overview and Latest Work | tbc | Iown Global Forum |
| 14:05 | 14:25 | NPO Interconnect as the Pragmatic Strategy for CPO Scale-Up | Alon Sella | New Photonics |
| 14:30 | 16:00 | PICs for Quantum-Secure Communication” (co-organised by PhotonDelta, EPIC and CUbiQ Technologies) Hosts Abdul Rahim, Ivan Nikitski & Chigo Okonkwo |
Matheus Ribeiro-Sena Taofiq Paraïso Igor Servello Rui Santos Jörn Epping |
Deutsche Telekom AG Toshiba Europe KeeQuant PhotonBridge Twin Photonics |
| 16:05 | 16:25 | Scaling Silicon Photonics Platforms: Foundry PDKs and Ecosystems for 400G and Beyond | Robert Blum | Lightwave Logic, Inc |
| 16:30 | 16:50 | Enabling Scalable Semiconductor Manufacturing : Laser-Based Trimming and Cleaning | Simon Duval | Femtum |
Wednesday 23rd September |
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| Start time | Finish time | Title | Speaker | Company |
| 10:00 | 12:30 | EPIC TechWatch at ECOC | Various | EPIC |
| 12:35 | 12:55 | Enable better AI model performance with all-optical networking | Jim Finch | Salience Labs |
| 13:00 | 13:40 | Architecting the Mobile Optical Future in the AI Era
Moderator: Stefan Dahlfort, Ericsson and MOPA |
Mark Watts Per Beming Andrew Bender Raza Khan |
Verizon Ericsson Nokia Semtech and MOPA |
| 14:00 | 14:45 | Panel session: Inside the AI Fabric: Scaling the Networks Behind Tomorrow’s AI Factories | Peter Fretty, Lightwave & Data Center Frontier
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| 14:50 | 15:10 | The Quantum Secure Solution: Quantum-authenticated communications for broad applications in security | Massimo DiBlasio | Quantum Computing Inc |
| 15:15 | 15:35 | External Cavity hybrid laser for high power, multiwavelength external light source | Raju Kankipati | POET Technologies Inc |
| 15:40 | 16:00 | Typical OCS Technology, Application and Some Thoughts | Kai Li | Guangdong Xichang Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd |