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2023 Executive Forum at OFC



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2023 Executive Forum at OFC

06 March 2023

Hilton San Diego Bayfront, San Diego, California USA

Executive Forum - The Premier Annual Event for Leaders in Optical Networking and Communications

Co-located with OFC, the Premier Event in Telecom and Data Center Optics' this is an Optica Industry Event. The Executive Forum features C-level panelists in an informal, uncensored setting discussing the latest issues facing the industry and your business. Leaders from top companies discuss critical technology advancements and business opportunities that will shape the network in 2023 and the future.

For over 20 years, the Optica Executive Forum has been the premier annual event for leaders in optical networking and communications.  The 2023 event will be co-located with OFC 2023, the largest and most important gathering of the optical communications community.  The Optica Executive Forum is hosted by Optica’s corporate membership engagement program. The Executive Forum features C-level speakers in an informal, unscripted setting discussing the latest business issues facing the industry and your company. Leaders from top companies discuss the business opportunities that will shape the network in 2023 and the future.

The 2023 program will feature a keynote presentation, three panel discussions, a lightning startup round, and an executive fireside chat. This event is an exclusive opportunity for attendees to spend a full day with senior executives, connect with the industry leaders and decision-makers, and ask challenging questions.

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Archive Speakers

Anees Shaikh

Senior Staff Engineer, Google

Presentation to be added


Beck Mason

Senior Vice President and General Manager,Telecom Transmission, Lumentum

Presentation to be added


Bikash Koley

Vice President, Global Networking, Google


Bill Gartner

Senior Vice President/GM of Optical Systems and Optics Group, Cisco Systems


Chuck Mattera

CEO, II-VI

Presentation to be added


David F. Welch

Founder and Chief Innovation Officer, Infinera


David Heard

Chief Executive Officer & Director, Infinera


Dhiraj Mallick

Vice President, Engineering & Business Development, Cerebras Systems

Presentation to be added


Ed Tiedemann

Senior Vice-President, Engineering, Qualcomm Fellow, Qualcomm


Eve Griliches

Senior Product Marketing, Optical BU, Cisco Systems


Greg Pettine

EVP of Business Development, EdgeMicro

Presentation to be added


Hans-Juergen Schmidtke

Director of Engineering, Facebook

Presentation to be added


Hwa-Jung Han

Director of Emerging Technology, Verizon

Presentation to be added


Jan Söderström

V.P. and Head of Technology Office Silicon Valley, Ericsson


Jason Hoffman

Chairman and CEO, MobiledgeX

Presentation to be added


Kailem Anderson

Vice President, Portfolio and Engineering, Blue Planet/Ciena

Presentation to be added


Kartik Sethuraman

Principal Software Architect, NEC Corporation of America

Presentation to be added


Ron Johnson

Senior Director of Architecture and Product Management, Cisco Systems


Seungjoo Hong

Manager, SK Telecom

Presentation to be added


Shamim Akhtar

Chief Optical & RF Network Infrastructure Architect, Apple


William King

Co-founder & CTO, Subspace


Xiang Liu

VP of Optical Technologies, Futurewei Technologies

Presentation to be added


Other Speakers

Elizabeth Rogan

CEO, Optica


Meet the Speakers

Giovanni Barbarossa

Chief Strategy Officer and President, Materials Segment, Coherent

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Andreas Bechtolsheim

Chairman, Chief Development Officer and Co-Founder, Arista


Sumithra Bhojan

Director Member of Technical Staff, AT&T

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Aleksandra Boskovic

VP, COC Technology Development, Corning Optical Communications

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Mattia Cantono

Optical Network Architect, Google

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Paul Choiseul

Vice President of Innovation - OCTO, American Towers

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Larry Dennison

Director of Network Research, NVIDIA

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Mischa Dohler

VP Emerging Technologies, Ericsson Inc.

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Tim Doiron

Vice President, Solution Marketing, Infinera

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Mark Englund

Founder & CEO, FiberSense

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Bill Gartner

Senior Vice President/GM of Optical Systems and Optics Group, Cisco

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Ana González

Director of Strategic Partnerships, iPRONICS

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Eve Griliches

Sr Product Marketing, Optical BU, Cisco Systems

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Dan Harding

CEO, Nubis Communications

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Tom Hausken

Senior Industry Advisor, Optica


Lisa Huff

Senior Principal Analyst, Optical Components, Data Centers, Connectivity, Omdia

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Daryl Inniss

Director New Business Development, OFS

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T.S. Khurana

Vice President of Infrastructure, Meta

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Alexey Kovsh

CEO and Co-founder, Alfalume

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Di Liang

Director/Sr. Staff Engineer, Alibaba

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Andrew Lord

Senior Manager of Optical Research, BT

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Aaron Maharry

CEO, Lucidean

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Robert Maher

Chief Technology Officer, Infinera

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Sylvie Menezo

CEO, SCINTIL Photonics

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Jose Pozo

Chief Technology Officer, Optica

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Christian Reimer

Co-Founder and Head of Product, HyperLight

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Elizabeth Rogan

Chief Executive Officer Optica

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Katharine E. Schmidtke

Director of Sourcing for ASICS and Custom Silicon, Meta

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Natarajan "Subu" Subrahmanyan

TMT Portfolio Manager, Verition Fund Management

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Hidenori Takahasi

Senior Manager, KDDI Research Inc.


Ryohei Urata

Principal Engineer/Director, Google

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Ram Velaga

Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Core Switching Group, Broadcom

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Glenn Wellbrock

Director, Verizon

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Tom Williams

Vice President of Marketing, Acacia Communications

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