We are delighted to welcome the WDM & Next Generation Optical Networking Advisory board for 2012. These renowned experts have helped shaped the event programme so that it contains the most relevant and current agenda topics. We thank them for their contribution and continued support:Luc Ceuppens , Vice President, Product Marketing, Platform Systems Group, Juniper Networks Uwe Fischer , Head of Product Management for Optical Networks, Nokia Siemens Networks Frédéric Chatter , Head of Wireline Transmission Solutions, France Telecom John D’Ambrosia , Chair, Ethernet Alliance Kevin Drury , Optics Product Marketing Director, Alcatel-Lucent Sultan Dawood , Senior Marketing Manager, Service Provider Marketing, Routing & Switching Group, Cisco Dr Merrion Edwards , Regional Marketing Manager, EMEA & India, Corning Optical Fiber Dr Zhu Fei , Senior. Director, System Architecture, Network Products, Huawei Nicolas Fischbach , Director of Network Strategy and Architecture, Colt Telecom Eve Griliches , Managing Partner, ACG Research Mervyn Kelly , EMEA Marketing Director, Ciena Clayton Nash , General Manager, Ethernet Products, BT Openreach Hans Martin-Foisel , Carrier Working Group Chair, OIF & Head of Hybrid Network, Fixed Mobile Engineering, Deutsche Telekom Ian Redpath , Principal Analyst, Ovum Marcel Rijinders , Director EMEA Managed services, Verizon Andrew Schmitt , Directing Analyst, Infonetics