Are Coherent Transceivers About to Experience a Bandwidth Crunch?
Speaker, Mohammad Pasandi, Senior Manager, Research Scientist Engineering

QKD – An End Game or Just a Stepping Stone to the Quantum Internet?
Speaker, Robert Keys, Senior Director, Systems Design Architecture Engineering

16:00-18:30

Workshop: Coherent Optics for Next Generation 100G/200G PON: Single-Carrier or Multi-Carrier?
Speaker, James Harley, Research Scientist Engineer

The Role of Digital Twins in Optical Networking
Speaker, David Boertjes, Optical Engineer

Status of Photonic-Enabled Modules and Interconnects
Speaker, Steve Alexander, Senior Vice President & Chief Technical Officer

Closed-Form Coherent Gaussian Noise Model Applicable to Arbitrary Flexible Grid and Heterogeneous Links
Speaker, Fangyuan Zhang, Optical Engineer

Design Tradeoffs for Coherent Pluggable Optics at 800G and Beyond
Speaker, Eric Maniloff, Systems Design Architecture Engineer

Wideband Optical Amplifiers for Data Centers, Hyperscale Networks, and Telecom Networks
Speaker, Robert Keys, Senior Director, Systems Design Architecture Engineering

Open and Disaggregated Optical Networking: Where We've Been and What's Coming Next
Speaker, Sebastien Gareau, Systems Design Architecture Engineer

Data Center Summit Keynote: Interconnect Considerations for the Data Center AI Race
Speaker, Rich Baca, Principal, Strategic Accounts

Market Watch: Coherent Technology Advancements to Address Next-Gen Networking Requirements
Speaker, Will Leckie, Director, Optical Engineering
Moderator, Paulina Gomez, Senior Advisor, Portfolio Marketing

Liquid Cooling for Optical Networking Equipment
Speaker, Bezhad Mohajer, Mechanical Design Engineer

Quantum Key Distribution for High-Speed Optical-Layer Encryption
Speaker, Patrick Scully, Senior Advisor, Product Line Management

CableLabs: Empowering Access Networks with Coherent Optics
Speaker, Mark Laubach, Systems Design Architecture Engineer

Market Watch: Next Generation PON Technologies
Speaker, Joe Marsella, Vice President, Product Line Management

OIF Panel: 800ZR, 800LR and new 1600ZR/ZR+ projects
Speaker, Sebastien Gareau, Systems Design Architecture Engineer

Characterizing Fiber Nonlinearity with Deployed Equipment in Optical Line Systems
Speaker, Alex MacKay, Senior Manager, Optical Engineering