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Optica Executive Forum at OFC 2026

16 March 2026

JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE
Los Angeles, California UNITED STATES

Below are the speakers for the 2025 event. We are finalizing speakers for the 2026 event and will announce them shortly.

Aaron Werley

Zayo, SVP Engineering

Amin Vahdat

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

Andreas Bechtolsheim

Arista, Chairman, Chief Development Officer and Co-Founder

Ashkan Seyedi

NVIDIA, Director, LinkX Products

Colin Wallace

Microsoft, General Manager of Cloud Network Engineering, Azure Fiber

Drew Alduino

Meta Platforms, Optical Engineer

Gary Smith

Ciena, President & CEO

Helen Xenos

Ciena, Sr. Director, Optical Solutions Marketing

Hong Hou

President, CEO & Board Member, Semtech Corporation

James Feger

Lumen, SVP Product Segments

James Zhang

Eoptolink, VP Commerce and Director of Business Development

Jim Anderson

Coherent, CEO

Julie Eng

Coherent, CTO

Loi Nguyen

Marvell, Executive VP & GM, Optical BU

Manish Mehta

Broadcom, VP of Marketing and Operations, Optical Systems Division

Michael Hurlston

Lumentum, President and Chief Executive Officer

Pradeep Sindhu

Microsoft, Corporate VP, Silicon

Rang-Chen (Ryan) Yu

TeraHop, VP Marketing

Ryan Latchman

MACOM, VP High Performance Connectivity Product Marketing

Tom Williams

Acacia, VP of Marketing

Walid Wakim

Nokia, CTO of Systems

Aleksandra Boskovic

Corning Optical Communications, VP, COC Technology Development

Christoph Pfistner

Avicena Tech, VP Sales & Marketing

Jose Pozo

Optica, Chief Technology Officer

Lisa Huff

Omdia, Senior Principal Analyst, Optical Components

Mark Filer

Stealth Startup, Area Tech Lead

Michael Lebby

GenusTechnik Inc., CEO

Natarajan "Subu" Subrahmanyan

Verition Fund Management, TMT Portfolio Manager

Sanjai Parthasarathi

Coherent Corp, Chief Marketing Officer

Tim Doiron

Nokia, Vice President, Solution Marketing