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
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
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
Jan Söderström
V.P. and Head of Technology Office Silicon Valley, Ericsson
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
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
Andreas Bechtolsheim
Chairman, Chief Development Officer and Co-Founder, Arista
Tom Hausken
Senior Industry Advisor, Optica
Hidenori Takahasi
Senior Manager, KDDI Research Inc.
