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Speakers

Optica Executive Forum at OFC 2025

Aaron Werley

Zayo, SVP Engineering

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Adit Narasimha

Astera Labs, VP Emerging Technologies

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Amin Vahdat

Google, VP and GM, Machine Learning, Systems, and Cloud AI

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Andreas Bechtolsheim

Arista, Chairman, Chief Development Officer and Co-Founder

Ashkan Seyedi

NVIDIA, Director, LinkX Products

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Colin Wallace

Microsoft, General Manager of Cloud Network Engineering, Azure Fiber

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Drew Alduino

Meta Platforms, Optical Engineer

Gary Smith

Ciena, President & CEO

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Helen Xenos

Ciena, Sr. Director, Optical Solutions Marketing

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Hong Hou

President, CEO & Board Member, Semtech Corporation

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James Feger

Lumen, SVP Product Segments

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James Zhang

Eoptolink, VP Commerce and Director of Business Development

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Julie Eng

Coherent, CTO

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Loi Nguyen

Marvell, Executive VP & GM, Optical BU

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Manish Mehta

Broadcom, VP of Marketing and Operations, Optical Systems Division

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Michael Hurlston

Lumentum, President and Chief Executive Officer

Pradeep Sindhu

Microsoft, Corporate VP, Silicon

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Rang-Chen (Ryan) Yu

TeraHop, VP Marketing

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Ryan Latchman

MACOM, VP High Performance Connectivity Product Marketing

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Tom Williams

Acacia, VP of Marketing

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Aleksandra Boskovic

Corning Optical Communications, VP, COC Technology Development

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Christoph Pfistner

Avicena Tech, VP Sales & Marketing

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Jose Pozo

Optica, Chief Technology Officer

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Lisa Huff

Omdia, Senior Principal Analyst, Optical Components

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Mark Filer

Stealth Startup, Area Tech Lead

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Michael Lebby

GenusTechnik Inc., CEO

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Natarajan "Subu" Subrahmanyan

Verition Fund Management, TMT Portfolio Manager

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Sanjai Parthasarathi

Coherent Corp, Chief Marketing Officer

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Tim Doiron

Infinera, Vice President, Solution Marketing

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