EVENT FOCUS ECOC 2024
Frankfurt am Maine, the global hub for commerce, culture, education, tourism and transport in the former West Germany, played host to this year’s ECOC Expo and Conference. Once again, the exhibition showcased the latest products and services, as well as providing an unrivalled opportunity to meet and network with key suppliers and industry leaders. Colleagues, customers and peers, along with international exhibitors got together for three days of networking, sharing ideas, learning and developing new business leads. Visitors to ECOC 2024 were treated to the full panoply of events including the ever-popular Market Focus, the FTTx Focus, Industry Awards and the Product Focus. 23rd – 25th SEPTEMBER 2024, Messe Frankfurt, Germany FRANKFURT WELCOMES ECOC 2024!
demonstrations, panel discussions, presentations, pre-recorded video and Q&A sessions. The Product Focus theatre was also the venue for the ECOC Exhibition Industry Awards ceremony.
MARKET FOCUS 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. PRODUCT FOCUS The Product Focus theatre, sponsored by Open XR Forum, was once again one of the focal points of the exhibition hall and the place to hear about the latest innovations and product announcements. Product Focus featured presentations covering the latest innovative products, live demonstrations and technology announcements. The Product Focus sessions ran parallel to Market Focus. It consisted of 30-minute sessions used for live product
FTTX FOCUS The FTTX Focus area showcased a range of fibre-related products and brought together the very latest fibre to the ‘x’ in eight dedicated zones each focusing on a specific area of fibre, where exhibitors displayed new and existing products.
The ECOC Exhibition Industry Awards returned for 2024,
emphasising technology and product commercialisation; they highlighted 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 established the first competition for Post Deadline Awards. A key criterion for the Post Deadline Awards is world class products and technology. Results needed to demonstrate that the product or technology is clearly state-of-the-art and best-in-class. The winners were announced live at the exhibition in the Product Focus Theatre on Tuesday 24th September.
THE CONFERENCE The ECOC24 Conference celebrated its 50th edition 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, attracted scientists and researchers from across the world. Not only top universities, but also the world’s biggest and most influential companies presented 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.
The Demo Zone attracted a lot of interest.
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