Exhibits and Show Floor Programs Gain Access to Thought Leaders, Hot Products and Ground-breaking Technologies The future of optical networking and communications TECHNICAL CONFERENCE 8 – 12 March 2020 SHORT COURSES 8 – 9 March 2020 EXHIBITION 10 – 12 March 2020 San Diego, California, USA ofcconference.org Location San Diego Convention Center 111 W Harbor Drive San Diego, California 92101 USA Dates 10 February 2020 Advance Registration Deadline (23:59 EST) 14 February 2020 Hotel Reservation Deadline 8 – 12 March 2020 Technical Conference 8 – 9 March 2020 Short Courses 10 – 12 March 2020 Exhibits and Show Floor Programs Support General Information +1.202.416.1907 +1.800.766.4672 [email protected] Registration +1.855.326.8341 +1.224.563.3121 [email protected] Hotel Reservations +1.800.465.9101 +1.240.439.2949 [email protected] It’s Here! The Year’s Premier Event in Telecom and Data Center Optics OFC is the world’s largest conference and exhibition for optical communications and networking professionals. Nearly 15,000 manufacturers, developers, end users and other business and technology leaders attend from 70 countries seeking the future direction of the industry. OFC is the go-to source for information on new products and forward-looking market intelligence and trends. It’s Free! Exhibits Pass Plus Registration Includes: • Access to the exhibition with over 700 exhibitors • Market Watch — 7 panel discussions covering the latest application topics and trending business issues. • Network Operator Summit — keynote and 2 panels provide the inside perspective from network operators and service providers — their issues, drivers and requirements. • Data Center Summit — keynote and 1 panel address different aspects of optical technologies that impact data centers. • Over 20 business programs on the show floor • Plenary Session featuring 3 industry luminaries • 10 interactive hot topic workshops • OFC Career Zone Live • OFC 2020 Buyers’ Guide Register today for Exhibits Pass Plus! ofcconference.org/registration Schedule Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, 8 March 9 March 10 March 11 March 12 March General Registration* 07:30 – 07:30 – 07:00 – 07:30 – 07:30 – 19:00 18:00 18:00 17:00 16:00 Exhibition and 10:00 – 10:00 – 10:00 – Show Floor 17:00 17:00 16:00 Unopposed 10:00 – 12:30 – 12:30 – Exhibit-only Time 14:00 14:00 14:00 OFC Career 10:00– 10:00– 10:00 – Zone Live 17:00 17:00 16:00 Short Courses 09:00 – 08:30 – (fee required) 20:00 17:30 Workshops 13:00 – 18:00 Plenary 08:00 – 10:00 Poster Sessions 10:30 – 10:30 – 12:30 12:30 Special Keynote: 18:15 – Celebrating 50 Years 19:00 of Light-speed Connections Conference Reception 19:00 – (Ticket required 20:30 for Exhibits Pass Plus attendees) Show Floor Programs MARKET WATCH (SPONSORED BY HUAWEI) Panel I: State of the Industry 10:30 – 12:00 Panel II: 5G and Re-thinking Access Networks 12:30 – 14:00 Panel III: Optical Interconnect and Computing 14:30 – for Scaling Machine Learning (ML) Systems 16:00 Panel IV: What Is Next for Data Center Interconnects? 15:30 – 17:00 Panel V: Inside the Data Center 10:30 – 12:00 Panel VI: Advanced Packaging and 12:30 – Photonic Integration 14:00 Panel VII: IP+WDM Architecture Evolution 14:30 – 16:00 NETWORK OPERATOR SUMMIT Keynote: Chih-Lin I, China Mobile Chief Scientist, 10:30 – Wireless Technologies, China Mobile Research 11:15 Institute, China Panel I: Next Generation Access Network 11:15 – 12:45 Panel II: Transport on a Plug 13:30 – 15:00 DATA CENTER SUMMIT (SPONSORED BY INNOLIGHT) Keynote: Jeffrey Cox, Partner Director Network 11:30 – Architecture, Microsoft, USA 12:15 Data Center 2020 — Less Hyperscale and More 12:15 – Co-location and Compute at the Edge? 13:45 All times reflect Pacific Time Zone * Hours subject to change Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, 10 March 11 March 12 March INFRASTRUCTURE MAKEOVER AND NETWORKING 5G Architectures and Service Considerations 12:15 – 13:15 Accelerating ROI on the Road to SDN 16:00 – 17:00 The Disaggregated Transport Network (TIP) 11:30 – 13:00 Cloud Network Evolution Bandwidth Drivers 13:15 – (IEEE Future Directions) 14:45 Open, Multi-vendor Networks — Design, 15:30 – Management and Operations (OpenConfig) 17:00 INTRA AND INTER DATA CENTER CONNECTIVITY Ethernet Interoperability and Deployments — New and 10:15 – Legacy Solutions Work Together (Ethernet Alliance) 11:15 400ZR Specifications Update (OIF) 13:30 – 14:30 Embedded Optics and How They Should Be Done 15:00 – to Support the OEM Eco-system 17:00 New High-bandwidth, Non-DSP Interface for Data 15:00 – Center and Campus Interconnects (Open Eye MSA) 16:00 Design Consideration of Next Generation Ethernet 10:15 – Switches With Higher Speed Optics 11:15 System Evaluation of On-board Optics (COBO) 11:30 – 12:30 OTHER AIM Photonics Member Successes and Updates 11:00 – (AIM Photonics) 12:00 Standards Update on 5G Transport, Higher Speed 14:45 – PON, Latest OTN Technologies and Interoperable 15:45 Optical Coherent Interfaces (ITU-T SG15) 112 Gbps Electrical Interfaces — An OIF Update 16:15 – on CEI-112G 17:00 3D Sensing Uses in Consumer and 12:15 – Automotive Markets 13:30 POF Symposium (POFTO) 13:45 – 14:45 Fiber Types and Amplifiers: Choices and Trade-offs 15:00 – 16:00 COMMERCIALLY SPONSORED SESSIONS Preparing the Transport Network for 5G 13:50 – (Juniper Networks) 14:50 Revolutionizing the Economics of Pluggable Optics 10:15 – with Silicon Photonics (Juniper Networks) 11:15 Transforming Network Operations Through 12:45 – Automation (Juniper Networks) 13:45 Unleashing the Full Potential of Silicon Photonics 13:30 – (Acacia Communications Inc.) 14:30 Beyond 400ZR…What Comes Next? 11:00 – (Acacia Communications Inc.) 12:00 PRODUCT SHOWCASES Company Product Presentations 10:15 – 10:15 – 10:15 – 10:45 13:30 10:45 14:30 – 15:30 3 Special Sessions Plenary Workshops The plenary speakers at OFC include Interactive workshops discuss and an industrial leader and a research debate the latest technologies leader, both covering topics related featuring a panel of invited speakers. to the technical core of the conference, See complete descriptions and and a visionary speaker linking topics speakers at ofcconference.org/ outside OFC’s focus to the conference. workshops 800G and Beyond: Will Coherent Qi Bi Prevail at Short-Reach Distances? President, China Telecom Technology Are Radical Photonic Devices and Innovation Center, Chief Architectures Needed for Future Technology Office, Data Centers? China Telecom Beijing Research Institute Converged 5G and Heterogeneous Services Access Networks: How 5G Evolution: Challenges to Achieve Ultra-low Latency and and Opportunities High Reliability? Does Disaggregation Support Data Karsten Danzmann Center Evolution? Vice Managing Director, Laser Interferometry Network Analytics in the Age of and Gravitational Wave Machine Learning: How to Share Astronomy, Max Planck Data and Maximize Synergies Institute for Gravitational Among Transport Systems and Physics, Germany Network Operators The Challenge and Impact of Optical Components for Detecting Ripples in Spacetime fJ/bit Exascale Computing: How and When? Optics for Neuromorphic Sir David Payne Computing and Machine Learning: Director, Status, Prospects and Challenges Optoelectronics Research Centre, Trends and Perspectives in Space- University of division Multiplexed Transmission Southampton, UK and Related Devices What ROADM/OXC Technologies Is There a Future for Silica Will Cost-effectively Enable as an Optical Material? Dynamic and Reconfigurable Optical Networks in 5G Era? What Will Drive the Transition to Coherent Intra-Data-Center Optics? ofcconference.org Special Events Celebrating 50 Years of Light-speed Connections In 1970, two significant technical of silicon photonics to mention a achievements led to the few. This special presentation from development of practical fiber optical one of our industry’s leaders looks communications: the demonstration back at 50 years of discovery and of low-loss fibers (16dB/km) and concludes with an overview of how the first CW room-temperature these technologies have impacted semiconductor laser. Since then, our world — from instant, worldwide numerous other breakthroughs have communication to enabling 5G, the led to increasing the bandwidth and Internet and the Internet of Things. reach of fiber links, enabling the World Wide Web, video streaming, The Timeline of Innovation As we look back at the discoveries of trans-oceanic high-capacity links, high- years past and speculate about what capacity wireless communications and is yet to come, OFC unveils a unique many other data services. show-floor exhibit that surveys 50 At the 2020 OFC Conference and years of optical fiber innovations — Exhibition, come celebrate the from the first demonstration of low- successes of the OFC community that loss fiber in 1970 to efficient 400GbE have facilitated light-speed connections transport at any distance today. between individuals across geographic Browse the timeline of milestones, and oceanic boundaries. and see the progression of invention through artifacts and imagery. Highlights include: Conference Reception Special Keynote The special keynote will be followed The evolution of technology is by an enhanced, themed conference often a history of firsts. The initial reception featuring an array of food demonstration of low-loss fibers and and drink. (Requires a ticket for CW diode lasers have led to other Exhibits Pass Plus attendees.) important developments including; the first electrically pumped VCSEL, INNOVATOR SPONSOR the first transatlantic fiber cable, commercial WDM systems, the PREMIER SPONSOR deployment of InP photonic integrated circuits and the commercialization 5 Exhibition Fit a Year’s Worth of Meetings into Just Three Days! Visit more than 700 participating companies showcasing network equipment and software, active and passive components, test and manufacturing equipment, data center/IT products and cable and fiber. Only OFC offers the size and scope to compare and contrast vendors, giving you the information you need to make all your technology decisions in one place.