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Chris Cole Chair, CW-WDM MSA Chris is the Chair of the CW-WDM MSA and an Adviser to II-VI Incorporated, in the Office of the CTO, investigating
Gert Grammel Chair of OOPT-PSE Working Group, Juniper Networks / Telecominfraproject
Aldo Gutierrez Product Line Manager at EXFO Aldo Gutierrez is Product Line Manager in
Gert Grammel holds a Dipl.- Ing. degree in Cybernetics
Manufacturing Design and Research at EXFO.
advanced optical interfaces. Before, he was VP, Advanced Development, Finisar Corp. where he led the definition and development of 10 through 400 Gb/s optical interfaces for datacom and telecom applications. He delivered multiple generations of optical transceivers leading to ~$1billion of Finisar revenue. The 40G, 100G and 200G interfaces he proposed in the IEEE constitute the majority of optical datacom links in datacenters, and account for billions of optics industry revenue. Chris is an IEEE Fellow elected for "contributions to 10G, 40G, and 100G Optical Ethernet and OTN interfaces." His bibliography has over 300 articles, presentations, contributions, lectures and patents in the areas of optics, communications, signal processing, integrated circuits, and ultrasound. Chris received B.S. in Aeronautics and Astronautics, and B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dave Welch PhD. Founder and Chief Innovation Officer, Infinera Innovation Officer and member of the Board of Directors. He holds over 130 patents in optical transmission technologies, and has authored over 300 technical publications in the same field. In recognition of his technical contributions to the optical industry, he has been awarded the OSA’s Adolph Lomb Medal, Joseph Fraunhofer Award and John Tyndall Award, the IET’s JJ Thompson Medal for Achievement in Electronics, and the IEEE Ernst Weber Managerial Leadership Award. He is a Fellow of the OSA and the IEEE. In 2016, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Dr. Welch holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Delaware and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University. David F. Welch, Ph.D. co-founded Infinera in 2001, and serves as Chief
obtained in 1993 and is since 2011 with Juniper Networks. In 1999 he spearheaded the introduction of intelligent control planes in transport networks (GMPLS) thereby modernizing the controller architecture and network resilience to cope with technology integration. As a member of the Telecominfraproject.com (TIP) since 2016, Gert is leading the Physical Simulation Environment (PSE) Group. TIP is an engineering-focused initiative driven by operators, equipment suppliers, and network integrators to disaggregate optical networks and achieve interoperability. During his tenure, the PSE Group developed GNPy, an open optical performance planning and design tool enabling the industry to benchmark proprietary implementations with a public reference implementation. He currently works with the PSE-team on evolving GNPy as a digital twin of optical networks by leveraging advances in AI/ML. Sven Otte Global Business Director of Optoelectronics at FCI. Before joining FCI he was Global Vice President of Engineering at MergeOptics, Senior IC Design Engineer at Multilink Technologies and Senior System Architect at Santel Networks in Fremont, USA. Sven holds a Ph.D. in optical communications from the University of Kiel and authored several articles about electronic dispersion compensation for high speed optical transmission systems and Silicon Photonics technologies Lisa Huff Senior Principal Analyst, Optical Components, Omdia Lisa Huff is a Senior She joined Ovum (now Omdia) as a Principal Analyst, Optical Components in March 2018. Prior to that, she had her own market research and consulting firm, Discerning Analytics, LLC (DA) for nine years. Lisa is a Certified Data Center Management Professional (CDCMP®) and degreed electrical engineer with over 35 years experience. Her expertise is in data centers, optical components, data communications cabling and connectivity and networking equipment. Lisa has authored over 60 technical papers and market research reports and has chaired and presented at many industry conferences. Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Sicoya Sven Otte is the Chief Executive Officer and Co- Founder of Sicoya. Prior to Sicoya Sven was the Principal Analyst, Optical Components at Omdia.
He has more than five years of experience in research and development in the field of optical communications. He has brought his expertise to around 20 international scientific conferences and has also collaborated in more than 15 peer-reviewed articles as author and coauthor. He holds a bachelor's and master's degree in electrical engineering from the National Autonomous University of Mexico and a PhD in physics from the University of Rennes 1. At EXFO, Aldo supports and launches tactical activities related to optical spectrum analyzers, tunable filters, BER testers, optical scopes and 400G transport & datacom solutions. Scott Wilkinson Lead Analyst, Cignal AI
Harald Graber Chief Commercial Officer, Effect Photonics Harald holds an MBA and has more than 20 years of experience in the optical communications industry
within Tier 1 companies in the United States, Europe and Asia. Prior to EFFECT Photonics, Harald served in various senior roles in Sales, Marketing, Product Management & R&D at BWI, Coriant, Nokia Siemens Networks, Alcatel-Lucent and Lucent Technologies. Eric Maniloff Systems Architect, Ciena
Eric Maniloff is a Systems Architect responsible for designing next-generation coherent optical solutions that address data center,
metro and long-haul applications. During his more than 20 years in the telecommunications industry, Eric has contributed to projects including the first DSP-enabled dispersion compensating optical transport equipment, the first coherent optical product and advanced coherent pluggable modules. In addition to his work with line-side optical products, Eric’s expertise extends to client- side optical modules. Eric has contributed to many industry MSA developments and represents Ciena in the IEEE Standards Association. Eric received a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Union College, as well as master’s and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Colorado. Prior to joining Ciena, he held positions at ETH in Zurich and Los Alamos National Labs
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