EVENT FOCUS ECOC 2024
FRANKFURT WELCOMES ECOC 2024! 23 - 25 SEPTEMBER 2024, Messe Frankfurt, Germany Frankfurt am Maine, the global hub for commerce, culture, education, tourism and transport in the former West Germany, plays host to this year’s ECOC Expo and Conference. The exhibition will once again showcase the latest products and services, as well as providing an unrivalled opportunity to meet and network with key suppliers and industry leaders. Join colleagues, customers and peers, along with international exhibitors, for three days of networking, sharing ideas, learning and developing new business leads. Visitors to ECOC 2024 can expect the full panoply of events including the ever-popular Market Focus, the FTTx Focus, Industry Awards and the Product Focus.
THE CONFERENCE The ECOC 2024 Conference will be celebrating its 50th edition and is also taking place in Frankfurt, in the heart of the Rhine-Main metropolitan region of Germany, on 22nd – 26th September 2024. The European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) is the continent’s largest event in the field and one of the most prestigious and traditional events on optical communications worldwide. ECOC, as one of the leading conferences on optical communications, attracts scientists and researchers from across the world. Not only top universities, but also the world’s biggest and most influential companies present their astonishing breakthroughs from materials and devices to systems and networks, and their insightful visions for the future. ECOC is the key meeting place to share knowledge, exchange ideas, foster innovation and start collaborations on a global level. Situated on the Main river, Frankfurt is one of the major financial centres of the European continent, with the headquarters of the European Central Bank, Deutsche Bundesbank, Frankfurt Stock Exchange, Deutsche Bank, DZ Bank, KfW, Commerzbank, DekaBank, Helaba, and several cloud and fintech startups, and other institutes. Frankfurt’s DE-CIX is the world’s largest internet exchange point, and Messe Frankfurt is one of the world’s largest trade fairs.
Now in its 18th year the Market Focus Theatre, sponsored by Acacia, now part of Cisco, has become one of the highlights of the ECOC Exhibition attracting the world’s best speakers from the industry globally. Every year the Market Focus is a focal point of the show and has become a key event to get up-to-date knowledge from across the industry in key technical areas and discover the latest commercial trends in optical communications.
The ECOC Exhibition Industry Awards return for 2024 once again, emphasising technology and product commercialisation; they highlight significant achievements in advancing the business of optical communications, transport, networking, fibre-based products, photonic integration circuits and related developments. New for 2024, the Awards Committee has established the first competition for Post Deadline Awards. A key criterion for the Post Deadline Awards is world class products and technology. Results need to demonstrate that the product or technology is clearly state-of-the-art and best-in-class. The winners will be announced live at the exhibition in the Product Focus Theatre on Tuesday 24th September.
The Product Focus theatre, sponsored by Open XR Forum, will once again be one of the focal points of the exhibition hall and a place to hear about the latest innovations and product announcements. Product Focus features presentations covering the latest innovative products, live demonstrations and technology announcements. The Product Focus sessions will run parallel to Market Focus. Each 30-minute session can be for any use- a live product demonstration, panel discussion, presentation, a pre-recorded video or a Q&A session. The Product Focus theatre is also home to the ECOC Exhibition Industry Awards.
The FTTX Focus area will showcase a range of fibre-related products and brings together the very latest fibre to the ‘x’ in eight dedicated zones each focusing on a specific area of fibre, where exhibitors will display new and existing products.
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