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Andy Bechtelsheim Andreas “Andy” Bechtolsheim is Chairman, Chief DevelopmentOfficer and Co- Founder of Arista Networks. Previously, Andy was a Co Founder and Chief System Architect at Sun Microsystems,
Hacene Chaouch Hacene Chaouch is a
Dr. Frank Effenberger Dr. Effenberger has worked in the optical access field for over 30 years at Bellcore, Quantum Bridge Communications (Motorola), and Futurewei Technologies, where he is now the Fellow
Distinguished Engineer with Arista Networks. His work focuses on enabling the next generation of optical
connectivity for data centers and AI/ML clusters. Recently, he has been working on advancing more power efficient E|O interfaces that can offer both lower latency and lower cost
responsible for next generation server, storage, and network architectures. Andy received a M.S. in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 1976 and was a doctoral student in Computer Engineering at Stanford University from 1977 to 1982. He has been honored with a Fulbright scholarship, the Stanford Entrepreneur Company of the year award, the Smithsonian Leadership Award for Innovation, the EY 2015 US Entrepreneur of the Year Award (together with Jayshree Ullal) and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
for fixed access network technology. His team works on forward-looking fiber access technologies and has played a foundational role in the development of all the major PON systems in use today. Frank is the rapporteur for ITU-T Q2/15, is a Fellow of the OSA and the IEEE, and holds 140 US patents.
Chris Cole Chris is the Chair of the CW-WDM MSA and an Adviser to II-VI Incorporated, in the Office of the CTO, investigating advanced optical interfaces. Before, he was VP, Advanced
Julie Eng Julie Sheridan Eng was named Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Coherent in 2022. Prior to becoming CTO, Dr. Eng served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Coherent/II-VI’s
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.
Michael Bishop Michael is a Senior Thermal Architect at Ciena, responsible for the development of thermal management architectures for next-generation optical transport and routing platforms. He holds a Master’s
Optoelectronic Devices and Modules Business Unit. In that role, she oversaw engineering, product management, and operations for GaAs vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs), InP directly modulated lasers (DMLs) and detectors, and CMOS/BiCMOS integrated circuits for datacom and 3D sensing applications. In this role, teams she managed ramped GaAs and InP devices for high volume consumer applications. Dr. Eng joined Coherent/II-VI in 2018 via the II-VI acquisition of Finisar. She held various senior management positions at Finisar since joining the company in 2003, including Executive Vice President and General Manager of 3D Sensing, and Executive Vice President of Datacom Engineering. Over the 15 years she managed Datacom and Transceiver Engineering, teams she managed released over 180 fiber optic transceiver products to manufacture and demonstrated numerous industry firsts. Prior to joining Finisar, Dr. Eng was part of AT&T/Lucent/Agere, where she managed datacom transceivers. Dr. Eng is a Past Chair of the IEEE Committee on Women in Engineering and presently serves on the Board of Directors of Optica (formerly the Optical Society of America). She has published over a dozen papers, co-authored a book chapter, holds six U.S. patents, and has given numerous invited talks. She holds a B.A. degree summa cum laude in Physics from Bryn Mawr College and a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering with honors from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). She earned M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. In 2022, she was elected Fellow of Optica for distinguished contributions to the advancement of optics and photonics.
Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada. He is a 37-year veteran of the optics and electronics cooling industry and holds over 20 patents in this field.
Doug Cattarusa Doug Cattarusa has more than 10 years of experience working in the data center and telecommunication industries focusing on the application and integration of optical modules. He has a strong background
Andrea Di Giglio Andrea Di Giglio (Dr.Eng) received a Dr. Eng. degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Pisa (Italy) and the Engineering License degree from Scuola S. Anna. He joined
in optics, optical line systems, management interface and interoperability testing. Over the last 2 years he has become an active member in OIF (Optical Internetworking Forum), publishing multiple whitepapers and presenting a Common Management Interface Specification (CMIS) tutorial webinar. Based in the San Francisco Bay area, Doug is an electrical engineering graduate of California Polytechnic State University with a focus on optical engineering.
Telecom Italia Lab (formerly CSELT), that is the Telecom Italia Group’s Company for study, research, experimentation, and qualification in the field of Telecommunications and Information Technology. The fields of his research are addressed toward Internet Security, Storage Area Networks and Optical Networks Architecture. He was involved in the architectural Work Package of the IST Project Nobel (Phase 1 and 2) “Next generation Optical networks for Broadband European Leadership” as Work Package leader and ICT STRONGEST as project coordinator. Dr. Di Giglio is the author of dozens of publications, including books, conference papers and workshops and it is currently the project coordinator of 5G-SOLUTIONS, flagship project for European Commission research for the Verticals’ usage of 5G Connectivity.
Frank Chang Frank Chang is an expert of photonic IC technologies, optics transceivers and optical networking, and currently is employed as Chief Engineer for transceiver design at Source Photonics in West Hills
of Los Angeles area. Previously he was senior Principle Engineer for Optics Interconnect at CTO Optics Office of Inphi Corp for over 5 years after 12 years’ service at Vitesse Semiconductors. He also held various project and management positions with Cisco/Pirelli, JDS Uniphase etc for working on the design, development, and commercialization of fiber optics components. He specializes in PAM4 related optics design and leads optical system engineering efforts for physical layer IC platform and chipset solutions. He has over 20 years of working experience in high-speed optical interconnects with 95 peer-reviewed journal/conference articles and 4 book chapters. He obtained his Ph.D in Optoelectronics from the Ecole Polytechnique, University of Montreal, Canada.
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