Chris Phare Chris Phare is the co-founder and Chief Science Officer of Voyant Photonics, where he leads architecture and
Bilal Riaz Bilal Riaz is Director of
Brian Smith Brian Smith is responsible for optical transport product and technology strategy within the CTO office at Lumentum. Prior to joining Lumentum in 2014, Brian held various product management and
Product Line Management at Ciena. With a strong focus on driving innovation in the field of high-speed networking, Bilal is responsible for leading the development
development of complex silicon photonic LIDAR. Before founding Voyant,
Dr. Phare received his PhD from the Lipson Nanophotonics Group at Cornell University and served as a postdoc at Columbia University, where he worked on high speed modulators and heterogeneous integration of new materials into photonic circuits.
of next-generation optical modems, including pluggables. With a keen eye for emerging trends and technologies, Bilal's role allows him to be at the forefront of the rapidly evolving landscape of high-bandwidth electro-optics and packaging technologies. Prior to his current position, Bilal spent nearly 15 years in Ciena's Digital Signal Processing team, where he played a pivotal role in designing coherent ASICs. Additionally, he led the NPI Optical Team, overseeing the development and implementation of volume manufacturing test processes across multiple coherent technology generations.
optical networking design roles in a career spanning more than 25 years in the optical networking industry.
Dr. Nagarajan Sridhar Dr. Nagarajan Sridhar is the Senior Director at the Chief Marketing Office, Coherent Inc., with a rich 26-year tenure in the semiconductor industry, primarily at Texas Instruments (TI).
Jose Pozo Jose Pozo is member of the Executive Board of Optica (former OSA) as the Chief Technology Officer, since 1 March 2022. Originally from Spain, Jose Pozo has spent more than 25 years
His expertise spans leadership roles in business development, marketing, technology development, and manufacturing operations. Currently, at Coherent, he spearheads the strategy and expansion of the automotive business, thermal management solutions and marketing communications across verticals. Sridhar is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, holding a B.S., an M.S., and a Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo, complemented by an MBA from the Kelly School of Business, Indiana University.
Alberto Rodríguez-Pérez Alberto Rodríguez-Pérez worked on his Ph.D. at the Institute of Microelectronics of Seville, Spain, earning special recognition for the excellence research work. In 2013, he joined NXP
working in photonics. Before joining Optica, Jose was already well-known in Europe for his role as CTO of EPIC, European Photonics Industry Consortium. During his 6 years as CTO, EPIC grew from 200 to 800 corporate members, was the organization number 21 in Europe receiving funding from the commission in the Horizon 2020 program, and grew from 2 employees to 15. Before that, Jose was a Senior Photonics Technology Consultant with PNO Consultants, with some of the main accounts such as CERN, Thales or TE Connectivity. He has worked at TNO, The Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research, and as a post-doctoral researcher at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. He earned a PhD in quantum physics from the University of Bristol, UK, and an M.Sc. and B.Eng. in telecom engineering from UPNA, Spain / VUB, Belgium.
Semiconductors in Netherlands, focusing on high-speed serial interface transceivers. In 2014, he joined KD in Spain, where he created and lead the Analog & Mixed Signal department for high-speed optical communication systems. He is also Associate Professor at the University Carlos III of Madrid and serves as Associate Editor for the IEEE TCAS-I magazine. His research interests include high-speed optical and wireline digitally-assisted transceivers, SerDes, high speed ADCs, PLLs, TIA and VCSEL drivers
Ben Stevens Ben Stevens received his MEng in electronic engineering in 2005 and PhD in advanced GaAs based lasers in 2010, both from the University of Sheffield. He then worked as an MOVPE
epitaxial grower at the EPSRC National Centre for III-V Technologies until he joined IQE in 2016, just in time for the 6” volume VCSEL ramp. He is now the Director responsible for Photonics Product Engineering within IQE’s Smart Connected Devices Business Unit.
Muhammad Sarwa Muhammad Sarwar is currently distinguished global planner at Fujitsu
Anand Ramaswamy Anand Ramaswamy is a Solutions Marketing Manager for the Optical Systems Division at Broadcom responsible for developing Broadcom’s Silicon photonics and next generation co-
Network Communications. He is responsible for strategy and planning of portfolio offerings. He holds MS
Erman Timurdogan Erman Timurdogan, Ph.D., is the director of silicon photonics R&D at Lumentum, focusing on next-generation integrated laser-on-silicon and transceiver silicon photonics platforms. Prior to joining Lumentum, he
degree in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University in New York and is author of 10+ US patents related to data communications, optical transport, and network security.
packaged optics (CPO) strategy. Prior to joining Broadcom, Anand held a variety of technical leadership positions at OpenLight Photonics, Juniper Networks and silicon photonics startup, Aurrion. Anand holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering (with a minor in Physics) from the University of Southern California.
Dr. Sebastian Skacel Sebastian Skacel is Head of Applications Engineering, Support and Services at Vanguard Automation GmbH, overseeing customer engagements including technical demonstrations,
was the director of photonics high-speed design at Rockley Photonics and previously served as the director of optical communications and process design kit engineering at Analog Photonics. Timurdogan received his doctorate in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He has contributed to numerous books, patents, and publications in the field of silicon photonics.
delivery of products and solutions as well as customer success. He also spearheads many of Vanguard’s business development and strategic marketing efforts. Prior to joining Vanguard, Sebastian worked in academia as well as in the automotive industry (Harman International) in Germany, the United Kingdom, Italy, and Russia. Sebastian holds a PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) degree in Physics from Karlsruhe Institute of Technologies (KIT) for which he was granted a scholarship of the Heinrich Böll Foundation. His PhD was in the field of superconducting quantum circuits such as qubits
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