Our fantastic line-up of speakers contains experts from the across the optical networking industry, with an unprecedented number of service provider presentations. There may still be a couple of speaking slots available, so if you have an interesting case study you wish to present, please contact the conference producer Sarah Bailey on:
sbailey@iir-telecoms.com or +44 (0)20 8123 3519.
The confirmed speakers for 2011 are:
- Andrew Schmitt, Directing Analyst, Infonetics
- Anders Lindgren, Senior Network Developer, Telia Sonera
- Nicolas Fischbach, Network Architecture Director, COLT Telecom Switzerland
- Randy Nicklas, CTO, XO Communications
- Pathmal Gunawardana, Head of Transport Networks - North America, NSN
- Martina Grohs, Head of Optical Packet Transport, Deutsche Telekom
- Werner Weiershausen, Senior PM & Technology Consultant, Deutsche Telekom
- Luc Ceuppens, Vice President Marketing, Juniper Networks
- Roger Payne, Core Transport Optical Networks Innovation, BT Innovate & Design
- Eve Griliches, Managing Partner, ACG Research
- Michael Sedlick, Director Product Line Management, Optics Division – Alcatel-Lucent
- Steven Van Kerckhove, Network Engineer, BELNET
- Peter Roorda, PLM, JDSU
- Xavier Clivaz, Senior ICT Consultant, Swisscom
- Alberto Valsecchi, Vice President, Marketing & Communication, Optics Division, Alcatel-Lucent
- David O'Neill, Senior Product Manager - Optics, Transport Networking Division, ECI Telecom
- Uwe Fischer, Head of Optical Networks Product Management, NSN
- Marie Morin, WDM Network Evolution, Orange - France Telecom
- Frédéric Chatter, Optical and Ethernet transport networks Project Manager, Orange - France Telecom
- Andrew Bach, Senior Vice President and Global Head of Network Services, NYSE Euronext
- Sam Bucci, Vice President Terrestrial Optics Product Unit, Optics Division - Alcatel-Lucent
- Marcel Rijnders, Director EMEA Managed Services, Verizon
- Zhu Fei, Senior Marketing Manager, Huawei
- Michael Howard, Principal Analyst and Co-Founder, Infonetics
- Merrion Edwards, Head of Market and Sales Development EMEA, Corning
- Bertrand Clesca, Managing Director EMEA, Xtera Communications, USA
- Byoung-Whi Kim, Project Leader, WDM-PON Team, ETRI Research Institute, Korea
- Zeev Draer, VP Strategic Marketing, MRV & Executive from Luxemburg Telecom
- Ian Redpath, Principal Analyst, Ovum
- Roberto Clemente, Technology & Operations, Technical Planning, Telecom Italia
- Tim King, Director, Product Management, European Markets Group, Level 3 Communications
- Wolfgang Hemetzberger, Head of Fixed Network Planning Transport & Core, Telekom Austria
- Per Larsson, Senior network architect, Optical & Transmission System, TDC
- Alberto Adan, Manager of Multiservice Transport Network Planning, Telefonica
- Senior representative, Optical Transport Business Unit, Cisco
- David O'Neill, Senior Product Manager - Optics, Transport Networking Division, ECI Telecom
- Yann Loussouarn, Network Transport Evolution, Senior Engineer, France Telecom - Orange Labs
- Colin G Wallace, Director, Global Submarine Systems Engineering, Ciena
- Frank Wiener, VP Marketing and International Sales, Cyan
- Rafael Khazani, Design & Applications Senior Manager, Cellcom
- Nassim Salem Haddaji, Executive Manager Transmission Planning Support, Mobily, Saudi Arabia
- Vikas Arora, Chief Technology Officer, EXFO
- Gijs van Kersen, Solution Marketing Manager, Juniper Networks
- Sten Nordell, CTO, Transmode
- Rob Adams, VP Marketing and PLM, Ekinops
- Athanasios Mantzoros, Backbone Network Planner, WIND Hellas
- Dan Blumenthal, Director, Terabit Optical Ethernet Centre
- John D'ambrosia, Chair, IEEE P802.3ba 40Gb/s and 100Gb/s Ethernet Task Force
- Hans-Martin Foisel, Deutsche Telekom & OIF Carrier Work Group
- David Dunphy, Principal Analyst, Telecom Strategy Partners
- Stephan Rettenberger, VP Marketing, ADVA
- Maria Ángeles Mingo Gómez, Technical Advisor, Telefonica
- Franck Chevalier, Manager, Analysys Mason
- Jose Alves dos Santos Junior, Technology & Architecture Consultant, Transport Networks, Oi Brazil
- Julien Poirrier, Senior Marketing Manager, Huawei
- Lars Pedersen, CTO, Applied Micro
- Geoff Bennett, Director of Strategic Marketing, Infinera
- Enrique Maciel, Manager, O&M Transport Network, ANTEL
- Roberto Rossi, Chief Supervisor, O&M Transport Network, ANTEL
- Rüediger Kunze, Senior Expert Standardization, Deutsche Telekom
- Raymond Zhang, Chief Network & Cloud Infrastructure Architect, BT
- Chris Ducker, Senior Manager Marketing Propositions, Virgin Media
- Greg Nehib, Senior Product Line Manager, OTBU/Cisco
- Mauro Macchi, Director Business Development Management, OTBU/Cisco
