ECOC 2015 - PROGRAMME

MONDAY 28 SEPTEMBER 2015 PLENARY SPEAKERS

10:00-10:10 Welcome and opening by conference chairs

10:10-10:25
An end to end vision of networks transformation;
from access to Core
Enrique Blanco, Global CTO Telefnica,
Spain

Biography
Chief Technology Officer, Telefnica
Enrique Blanco was born in Madrid in 1959. He has a degree in Physics
from the University Complutense of Madrid and a Masters Degree in
Management (PDG) from IESE Business School (University of Navarra). He
also received a Master Degree in Technology from the EOI.
He joined Telefnica 27 years ago after 3 years working for ITT in digital
switching software design. He has mainly developed his professional career
in Telefnicas Spanish operating business, working in the technology area
from 1986 to 1999. He then moved to Telefnica International where he was
responsible for Networks and Platforms.
He returned to Telefnicas Spanish operating business to take up several Director
roles in the operations division related to development and management systems,
partners and networks. He was then appointed Director of Operations and
Engineering, with a team of about 18,000 employees.
In September 2011, Enrique Blanco became the Chief Technology Officer
within the Global Resources Division of Telefnica SA.

10;50 - 11:15
Optical technologies for 5G
Dr. Thibaut Kleiner, Head of Unit Network
Technologies at the European Commission
DG CONNECT

10:25 - 10:50
Fibre technology and the capacity crunch: Where to next?

Prof. David N. Payne, Optoelectronics Research
Centre, University of Southampton, UK

Biography
Professor Sir David Neil Payne CBE FRS FREng is a leading Professor at the
University of Southampton and Director of the Optoelectronics Research
Centre. A world class pioneer of technology, his work has had a great impact
on telecommunications and laser technology over the last forty years. The vast
transmission capacity of todays internet results directly from the erbium-doped
fibre amplifier (EDFA) invented by David and his team in the 1980s. His pioneering
work in fibre fabrication in the 70s resulted in almost all of the special fibres in
use today including fibre lasers which are currently undergoing rapid growth for
application in manufacturing and defence. David has made numerous leading
contributions to many diverse fields of photonics and is widely acknowledged as
an inventor of key components. Currently, his main research interest is high-power
fibre lasers. With US funding, he led the team that broke the kilowatt barrier
for fibre laser output to international acclaim and now holds many other fibre
laser performance records. An original member of the Highly Cited Researchers
(USA) he is honoured as one of the most referenced, influential researchers in
the world. He has published over 650 Conference and Journal papers and is a
frequent plenary and invited speaker at major international optics conferences.
As an entrepreneur Davids activities have led to a cluster of 11 photonics spin
out companies in and around Southampton - helping to boost the local economy.
He founded SPI Lasers PLC, which has recently been purchased by the Trumpf
Corporation of Germany for $40M. Recently elected Chairman of the Marconi
Society and to the Russian Academy of Sciences, David is a fellow of the Royal
Society and the Royal Academy of Engineering. He became a Commander of
the British Empire in the 2007 New Years Honours list. In addition he has been
awarded the top American, European and Japanese prizes in photonics. Recent
awards include the Marconi Prize in 2008 and the 2007 IEE Photonics Award the
first to be awarded to a person outside the USA. Most recently, in 2010, David
received the AILU (Association of Laser Users) Award for his pioneering work with
fibre lasers.

11:20 - 11:45
How we created Internet Will you join me to a future
that for some people is already the present?

Andreu Ve, Digital Champion for Spain, European
Comission

Biography
Mr. Kleiner is heading unit E1 Network Technologies - in DG CONNECT,
European Commission. This unit is in charge of Reasearch & Innovation in
the area of wireless optical networks, network architectures, Internet of
Things, Satcom and manages the 5G-PPP.

Biography
Andreu Ve, PhD Telecommunication engineer, Digital Champion for Spain
(European Commission) and The internet biographer will conduct the
lecture How we created Internet Will you join me to a future that for some
people is already the present?

Thibaut has worked for the European Commission since 2001, occupying
a number of positions, notably in the field of competition policy, where
he was head of unit in charge of coordination, and member of Cabinet of
Neelie Kroes in her previous mandate, where he notably supervised state aid
(including during the banking crisis). An economist by training, he holds a
Master from HEC Paris and a PhD from the London School of Economics.

During his talk, Ve, tell the incredible story of a telecommunication

engineer that decided to leave behind his home village to start a lifetime
trip to discover the true origins of the Internet. He will share anecdotes
while attempting to bring optical fibre cables across countryside villages
where telecom operators never go, trying to convince Ministers, EU vice
presidents, Prime ministers and majors. This experience took Ve, to set an
original proposal Volunteers for the Optical fibre to light catalunya again
where he defends the application of the triple helix model in the optical fibre
deployment, a simple technic that have achieved spectacular results for little
villages where it has been tested. http://wiwiw.org/CatFiber.pdf

11:45-12:00 Concluding Remarks and Closing