Professor Yosef Ben Ezra Professor Yosef Ben Ezra, PhD is Chief Technology Officer of NewPhotonics and Dean of Engineering Faculty at Holon Institute
Lorenzo Ghioni Lorenzo Ghioni, Sr. Director, Product Management and Technical Marketing, Optical Systems and Coherent Optics, Cisco Lorenzo has more than 25 years of experience in
Lisa Huff Lisa Huff is a Senior
Principal Analyst, Optical Components at Omdia. She joined Ovum (now Omdia) as a Principal Analyst, Optical Components in March 2018. Prior to that, she had her
of Technology. Ben Ezra currently leads
NewPhotonics engineering on Optical DSP for pluggable and co-package transceivers and non-invasive methods for calibrating and monitoring integrated photonic systems and programmable photonic devices. His previous technology experience includes radio over fiber, optical communication, integrated photonics, autonomous driving, artificial intelligence, and machine learning/vision. He has co-authored over ninety papers for international journals and conferences in semiconductor physics, nonlinear effects, and optical communication. He is the author of 15 scientific book chapters and 50 patents.
telecommunications product management, mainly focused on Optical Transport and he is a strong advocate for Cisco Routed Optical Networking solutions. Working with Cisco since 2000, he has managed long haul and extended long haul products focusing on flexible and integrated transport networks for the last 20 years. Currently leading the Product Management and Technical Marketing teams for Optical Systems and Coherent Optics, Lorenzo was part of the original Cisco core team developing Converged Transport functionalities and ROADM solutions for multiple Cisco platforms including ONS 15454 MSTP, NCS 2000, NCS 4000 and NCS 1000. Based in Vimercate, Italy, Lorenzo obtained his master’s degree in Telecommunication Engineering from Politecnico di Milano university. Prior to Cisco, he was a Product Line Manager for Pirelli Optical System. He holds multiple patents in the optical transport field.
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.
Jeff Hutchins Jeff Hutchins works in the CTO's Office at RANOVUS focused on next-generation
Benoit Fleury Benoit Fleury has been with Corning for 11 years where is he now Director of CPO Business Development. Prior to Corning Benoit has worked in the optical and wireless domains in a variety
energy efficient optical interconnect solutions
utilizing silicon photonics. He is the OIF's vice chair of the
Energy Efficient Interfaces track at the OIF as well as a board member and has led a variety of standards efforts.
Ana González Dr. Ana González is currently Director of Strategic Partnerships at iPRONICS. Her role is to investigate new applications and identify potential partners for the implementation of Field
of business and technical roles. He holds Master’s and Bachelor’s Degrees in Electrical Engineering from Concordia and McGill Universities in Montreal, and is an IEEE Senior Member.
Steven Jones Steven Jones is a business development manager for optics and photonics at CADFEM supporting clients across Europe. During his career he has worked with simulation for a range of
Nikolaus Flöry Nikolaus Flöry is CTO at vario-optics, In this role he oversees and manages vario- optics’ technology portfolio and supports customers in developing next-generation optical PCBs. He holds a
Programmable Photonic Gate Arrays (FPPGAs) including relationships with the supply chain and supporting customer operations. Former R&D Manager at EPIC (European Photonics Industry Consortium), she has a solid network at the Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC) industry with a large experience reaching out commercial partners and new adopters of PIC technologies. Her expertise lies in the development of optical systems and the investigation of applications such as Sensing and Datacom. She received her bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the University Autonomous of Barcelona (UAB) and her PhD degree from the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2).
applications incorporating nanophotonics, imaging system design, illumination design, and environmental factors. He holds a Ph.D. from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden and obtained his M.Sc./B.Sc. from the University of Victoria in Canada.
Phd in photonics from ETH Zürich and joined vario-optics in 2020 as Business Development Manager, before starting to serve as CTO in 2024.
Raza Khan Raza Khan is Semtech’s director of marketing for Wireless Products in Semtech’s Signal Integrity Products Group and chief marketing officer of MOPA (Mobile Optical Pluggable
Karl Gass Karl Gass has over 30 years’ experience in rf and optical technology and product development. He has chaired the optical track of the Optical Internetworking Forum’s Physical and Link
Drew Guckenberger Drew Guckenberger is
Alliance) with over 15 years of experience in the semiconductor industry. In his current role, he oversees the strategy, product line development and market development for integrated circuit (IC) solutions for optical transport needs within the wireless market. Mr. Khan holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Western University and a double major Masters of Business Administration in Strategic Marketing and Management of Innovation and Technology (MINT) from McMaster University.
currently Vice President of the High Speed Interconnect Business Unit at MaxLinear. He has more than 20 years of experience in the optical communications field. Prior
Layer Working Group for the last 24 years, guiding over 20 projects to completion. Mr. Gass is an electrical engineering graduate of The Ohio State University.
to MaxLinear, Drew held various engineering and PLM leadership positions at Luxtera, Molex and Cisco. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University and has a BASc in engineering from the University of Waterloo.
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