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Nathan Tracy Nathan Tracy is a Technologist on the system architecture team for TE Connectivity’s Data and Devices business unit, where he is responsible for driving standards activities, providing
Edward Walter Edward Walter is a System Design Architecture Engineer
Dr. Jack Jian Xu Dr. Jack Jian Xu is VP Marketing, Telecom Vertical in Chief Marketing Office at Coherent Corp.. He has been in Telecom industry for 25+ years starting at Nortel and in various companies
at Ciena, specializing in Passive Optical Network (PON) R&D. With two decades of experience and over 100 patents, he
input on new technology requirements, and working with key customers to enable new system architectures. Nathan has more than 30 years of experience in technology development, marketing, and business development for TE in areas including RF/microwave, and high speed signaling technology for the networking, telecom, wireless, automotive and defense markets. Nathan is active in several industry standards and associations. He currently serves the OIF as President and is a regular attendee and contributor to IEEE 802.3, and Ethernet Alliance. Additionally, he is active in a number of industry MSAs and forums where he has held leadership roles. Nathan earned his Bachelor of Science Electrical Engineering Technology degree from the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth.
collaborates with standards organizations like CableLabs, ITU-T, and the Broadband Forum. Edward regularly presents at conferences and has earned the prestigious AT&T Science & Technology Medal for his work on XGS PON. He has shaped strategies for access technology evolution and successfully managed a broadband access lab team, overseeing device, feature, and network testing for broadband deployment. His leadership and expertise have been pivotal in advancing broadband initiatives.
which have become part of the rich heritage of Coherent. He was a pioneer in the development of the first liquid crystal-based DGE and WB platform in 2000 at LambdaFlex (acquired by Avanex/Coherent), then VP of global sales and marketing for CoAdna/Coherent, a major supplier of WSS for the first ROADM deployment at Verizon’s metro networks. He was the first product manager for micro ITLA for 100G+ coherent application and closed many strategic design-wins for Emcore/Intel. Jack graduated from The University of Science and Technology China and holds a Ph.D. in Physics from Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.
Dave Welch David F. Welch, Ph.D. co- founded Infinera in 2001, and serves as Chief Innovation Officer and member of the Board of Directors. He holds over 130 patents in optical transmission technologies,
Rang-Chen Yu Dr. Rang-Chen Yu is currently
Senior Vice President of Sifotonics Technologies. Before joining SiFotonics, Dr. Yu was Vice President and General Manager of Optoelectronic Solutions business unit of Oplink Communications (Acquired by Molex). Dr. Yu has been an active promoter of silicon photonics technologies and a key contributor to numerous optical networking industry standards and MSAs. He was Global Vice President for Source Photonics, and Senior Director of system engineering of Agility Communications (acquired by JDSU). He earned his Ph. D. in Solid State Physics at University of Pennsylvania, and B. S. in Physics from Peking University.
Christian Urricariet Christian Urricariet is
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.
Senior Director of Product Marketing for Integrated Photonics Solutions at Intel. He previously held various
product management, product marketing, and business development roles at Finisar Corporation and Raychem. For more than twenty years, he has introduced multiple cutting-edge optical connectivity solutions for hyperscale data centers, system OEMs, telecom service providers, and enterprises worldwide. Christian holds an Electrical Engineering degree with a specialization in optoelectronics.
Scott Wilkinson Scott Wilkinson has worked in the telecommunications industry for over 25 years. As Lead Analyst for Optical Components at Cignal AI, he conducts quantitative and qualitative research on
Tony Zeng Q3 Associate Rapporteur, WP1 EWM coordinator, F5G liaison Rapporteur in ITU-T | Standard Director, Optical Business Product Line, Huawei France Tony is now the standard director
Sascha Vorbeck Sascha Vorbeck was born in Dortmund Germany. He is holding a PHD Degree from the TU Dortmund and is a distinguished Expert in Telecommunications. He has over 25 years of
the optical components market. Dr. Wilkinson held senior positions in product management, technical marketing, and systems engineering for Hitachi, ECI Telecom, MRV, Fujitsu, Kestrel Solutions, and Parama Networks. A noted speaker at telecom conferences and events, Wilkinson is also a frequent contributor to trade publications and is the author of the book “Telecommedy”. Wilkinson has a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
of EU in Huawei Optical Business Product Line, leading optical standard group for ITU-T SG15, IEEE 802.11, ETSI ISG F5G, BBF, CCSA TC6, etc. He actively participates in various standard areas of optical network, e.g. access & in-premises networking technologies, Wi-Fi, network management, IoT protocols. In ITU-T SG15 Q3, Tony focus on fibre based in- premises technologies, including Fibre-to-The- Room (G.fin), Unified wire-line communication standard series (G.hn), light communication standard (G.vlc). He is now the Associate Rapporteur of ITU-T Q3/SG15.
Experience spanning academic, consulting, expert and management Roles. Sascha brings a deep expertise to his current position as VP of Architecture and Strategy for IP- and Transport Networks at Deutsche Telekom AG. His career is marked by significant contributions to the field, including authoring more than 40 research papers and holding six Patents. Sascha's work focuses on pioneering, developing and implementing Strategies, Network- and IT- Architectures that drive Innovation and Efficiency in IP- and Transport Networks.
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