Local Organising Committee, Prague (registration, accommodation, logistics, social programme matters)

General Chair:

Pavel Peterka, Institute of Photonics and Electronics, Czech Academy of Sciences

Honorary Chair:

Jiři Čtyroký, Institute of Photonics and Electronics, Czech Academy of Sciences

Local Organizing Committee Members:

Ivan Richter, Czech Technical University in Prague
Matěj Komanec, Czech Technical University in Prague
Ivan Kašík, Institute of Photonics and Electronics, Czech Academy of Sciences
Filip Todorov, Institute of Photonics and Electronics, Czech Academy of Sciences

ICTON Organising Committee, Warsaw (submission, Proceedings, and technical programme matters)

Chairman:

Marian Marciniak, National Institute of Telecommunications, 1 Szachowa Street, 04-894 Warsaw, Poland, Phone: +48 22 5128715, Fax +48 22 5128 347, e-mail: marian.marciniak@ieee.org

Vice-Chair:

Marek Jaworski

Members:

Krzysztof Borzycki
Mirosław Klinkowski
Dorota Marciniak
Hanna Skrobek
Marcin Szamotulski
Mariusz Zdanowicz

Website Manager:

Paweł Woźniak

ICTON Scientific Committee

Trevor Benson (Honorary Chair), University of Nottingham, UK
Crina Cojocaru (Student Participation Chair), Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Michał Murawski (Chair), IEEE Photonics Society Poland Chapter Chairman, Military Academy of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
Krzysztof Murawski (Past-Chair), IEEE Photonics Society Poland Chapter Past-Chair, Military Academy of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
Patryk Urban (Past-Past Chair), West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin, Poland
Jarosław Turkiewicz (Past-Past Chair), Warsaw Univ. of Technology, Poland
Dominik Dorosz (Past-Past Chair), AGH University of Science and Technology, Cracow, Poland
Piotr Nyga (Past-Past Chair), Military Academy of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
Krzysztof Abramski, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Prince Anandarajah, Dublin City University, Ireland
Gaetano Assanto, Universitá di Roma III, Italy
Vasily Astratov, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
Hovik Baghdasaryan, National Polytechnic University of Armenia
Mario Bertolotti, Universitá di Roma I, Italy
Carlos Bock, Fundació i2CAT, Barcelona, Spain
Pierpaolo Boffi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Maciej Bugajski, Institute of Electron Technology, Poland
José Capmany Francoy, Universitat de Valencia, Spain
Gabriella Cincotti, University Roma Tre, Italy
Anders Clausen, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
Stelios Couris, University of Patras & ICEHT/FORTH, Greece
Victor Croitoru, University Politehnica Bucharest, Romania
Jiři Čtyroký, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague
Beata Derkowska-Zielińska, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland
Armin Ehrhardt, Deutsche Telekom Netzproduktion GmbH, Technical Engineering Center, Germany
Ronald Freund, Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich-Hertz-Institut, Germany
Alexander Fuerbach, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
Ramona Galatus, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Rogéria Rocha Gonçalves, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Igor Goncharenko, Institute for Command Engineers, Minsk, Belarus
Roger J. Green, University of Warwick, UK
Norbert Hanik, Technische Universität München, Germany
Haroldo Takashi Hattori, School of Engineering and Information Technology UNSW Canberra, Australia
Marek Jaworski, National Institute of Telecommunications, Warsaw, Poland
Victor Katok, Kiev Telecommunications Institute, Ukraine
Hitoshi Kawaguchi, Yamagata University, Japan
Leonid Kazowsky, Stanford University, USA
Mohammed Khenfouch, UNISA-South Africa
Marian Kowalewski, National Institute of Telecommunications, Warsaw, Poland
Pandelis Kourtessis, University of Hertfordshire, UK
Klaus-Dieter Langer, Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich-Hertz-Institut, Germany
Uri Mahlab, Holon Institute of Technology, Holon, Israel
Marian Marciniak, National Institute of Telecommunications, Warsaw, Poland
Carmen Mas Machuca, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany
Carmo Medeiros, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Włodzimierz Nakwaski, Technical University of Lodz, Poland
Igor Nefedov, Aalto University, Finland
Alexander Nerukh, Kharkov Technical University of Radio & Electronics, Ukraine
Alexander Nosich, Institute of Radiophysics & Electronics, Kharkov, NAS Ukraine
Sergiusz Patela, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland
Klaus Petermann, Technical University, Berlin, Germany
Marco Petrovich, University of Southampton, UK
Reinhold Pregla, Fern Universität, Hagen, Germany
Francesco Prudenzano, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Werner Rosenkranz, University of Kiel, Germany
Marco Ruffini, University of Dublin, Trinity College, Ireland
Genaro Saavedra, Universitat de València, Spain
Bouchta Sahraoui, Université d’Angers, France
Stefano Selleri, Università degli Studi di Parma, Italy
Concita Sibilia, Universitá di Roma I, Italy
Luigi Sirleto, Institute for Microelectronics and Microsystems, Napoli, Italy
Josep Solé-Pareta, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Otto Strobel, Esslingen University of Applied Sciences, Germany
George A. Stanciu, University Politehnica Bucharest, Romania
Masatoshi Suzuki, KDDI R&D Labs, Japan
Stefano Taccheo, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Antonio Teixeira, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Lars Thylén, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Ioannis Tomkos, University of Patras, Greece
Giorgio M. Tosi Beleffi, Ministry of Economic Development, Italy
Ian White, University of Cambridge, UK
Kaikai Xu, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Anna Zawadzka, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland

23rd European Symposium on Photonic Crystals (ESPC)

Technical Program Committee

Katia Gallo (Co-Chair), Royal Institute of Technology, Kista, Sweden
Nigel Johnson (Co-Chair), University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Bozena Jaskorzynska (Honorary Chair), Royal Institute of Technology, Kista, Sweden
Richard De La Rue (Honorary Chair), University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Srinivasan Anand, Royal Institute of Technology, Kista, Sweden
Trevor Benson, University of Nottingham, UK
Anders Bjarklev, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
Crina Cojocaru, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Jiři Čtyroký, Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
Antonella D’Orazio, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Martin Kristensen, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
Vladimir Kuzmiak, Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
Cefe López, Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid (CSIC), Spain
Marian Marciniak, National Institute of Telecommunications, Warsaw, Poland
Włodzimierz Nakwaski, Technical University of Łódź, Poland
Igor Nefedov, Aalto University, Finland
Susumu Noda, Department of Electronic Science and Engineering, Kyoto University, Japan
Marco Petrovich, Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, UK
Reinhold Pregla, Fern Universität, Hagen, Germany
Judy Rorison, University of Bristol, UK
Philip Russell, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Erlangen, Germany
Concita Sibilia, Università di Roma I ‘La Sapienza’, Italy (COST P11 Chair)
Clivia Sotomayor Torres, International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, Braga, Portugal
Tomasz Szoplik, University of Warsaw, Poland
Wacław Urbańczyk, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland
Ramon Vilaseca, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain

23rd Workshop on All-Optical Routing (WAOR)

Technical Program Committee

Josep Solé-Pareta (Originator & Honorary Chair), Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Salvatore Spadaro (Co-Chair), Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Emmanouel Varvarigos (Co-Chair), University of Patras, Greece
Markos Anastasopoulos, University of Bristol, UK
Roberto Battiti, Universita’ di Trento, Italy
Franco Callegati, Universita’ di Bologna, Italy
Davide Careglio, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Jaume Comellas, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Halima Elbiaze, Université du Québec á Montréal, Canada
Andrea Fumagalli, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Marija Furdek, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Maurice Gagnaire, Ecole Nationale Superiéure des Telecommunications, Paris, France
Goff Hill, Gtel Consultancy Limited, UK
Mirosław Klinkowski, National Institute of Telecommunications, Warsaw, Poland
Antonio Manzalini, Telecom Italia Lab, Italy
Marian Marciniak, National Institute of Telecommunications, Warsaw, Poland
Xavier Masip-Bruin, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Andrea Melloni, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Branko Mikac, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Harald Overby, Norwegian University of Technology and Science, Norway
Jordi Perelló, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Mario Pickavet, University of Gent, Belgium
Christina (Tanya) Politi, University of Peloponnese, Tripolis, Greece
Sergio Sánchez-Lopez, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Josep Segarra, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Alexandros Stavdas, University of Peloponnese, Greece
Anna Tzanakaki, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Harmen van As, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Krzysztof Wajda, AGH University of Science and Technology, Cracow, Poland
Moshe Zukerman, City University of Hong Kong, China

21st Global Optical & Wireless Networking Seminar (GOWN)

Technical Program Committee

Carmo Medeiros (Chair), University of Coimbra, Portugal
Carlos Bock, Fundació i2CAT, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Adolfo Cartaxo, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Michael Crisp, University of Cambridge, UK
Maurice Gagnaire, École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, Paris, France
Antonio Hurtado, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
Ken-ichi Kitayama, Osaka University, Japan
Roberto Llorente Sáez, Technical University of Valencia, Spain
Martin Maier, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), Montréal, Canada
Paulo Monteiro, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Anna Pizzinat, Advanced Studies on Home and Access networks, Orange, France
Manoj Thakur, University College London, UK
Henrique Salgado, INESC Porto, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Xiaoke Yi, University of Sydney, Australia

20th Anniversary Reliability Issues in Next Generation Optical Networks Workshop (RONEXT)

Technical Program Committee

Marija Furdek (Chair), Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Carmen Mas Machuca (Co-Chair), Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany
Lena Wosinska (Co-Chair), Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Hakki Cankaya, Fujitsu, USA
Piero Castoldi, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy
Tibor Cinkler, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Hiroshi Hasegawa, Nagoya University, Japan
Andrea Fumagalli, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Marian Marciniak, National Institute of Telecommunications, Warsaw, Poland
Darli Mello, University of Campinas, Brazil
Carlos Natalino, Silva Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Sara Renee Ruepp, Technical University of Denmark
Nina Skorin-Kapov, Centro Universitario de la Defensa, Spain
Salvatore Spadaro, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Anna Tzanakaki, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Luca Valcarenghi, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy

20th Anniversary Optical Wireless Workshop (OWW)

Technical Program Committee

Fary Ghassemlooy (Co-Chair), Northumbria University, UK
Roger J. Green (Co-Chair), University of Warwick, UK
Erich Leitgeb (Co-Chair), Graz University of Technology, Austria
Goran Djordjevic, University of Nis, Serbia
Mohammad-Ali Khalighi, Institut Fresnel, École Centrale Marseille, France
Arnesh Vijay, Nokia UK Ltd, Cambridge, UK
Mike Wolf, Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany

20th Anniversary Photonic Integrated Components & Applications Workshop (PICAW)

Technical Program Committee

Stefano Taccheo (Chair), Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Trevor Benson, University of Nottingham, UK
Karin Ennser, University of Swansea, UK
Marian Marciniak, National Institute of Telecommunications, Warsaw, Poland
Markus Pollnau, Advanced Technology Institute, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Surrey, UK
Herbert Venghaus, Heinrich Hertz Institute, Berlin, Germany
Ian H. White, University of Cambridge, UK

19th Nanophotonics for All-Optical Networking Workshop (NAON)

Technical Program Committee

Judy Rorison (Honorary Chair), Bristol University, UK, (COST 288 Chair)
Włodzimierz Nakwaski (Honorary-Chair), Technical University of Łódź, Poland
Trevor Benson (Co-Chair), University of Nottingham, UK
Tomasz Czyszanowski (Co-Chair), Technical University of Łódź, Poland
Eugene Avrutin, University of York, UK
Katia Gallo, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden
Valerii Kononenko, Institute of Physics NASB, Minsk, Belarus
Marian Marciniak, National Institute of Telecommunications, Warsaw, Poland
Krassimir Panajotov, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Phillip Sewell, University of Nottingham, UK

19th Workshop on Photonic Microresonators and Resonant Devices (PMRD, former PAM)

Pablo Bianucci (Chair), Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Yuliya Semenova (Co-Chair), Technological University Dublin, Ireland
Daniele Farnesi (Co-Chair), IFAC-CNR Institute of Applied Physics, Italy
Svetlana Boriskina (Honorary Chair), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Misha Sumetsky (Honorary Chair), Aston Institute of Photonics Technologies, Aston University, Birmingham, UK

19th Special Session on Novel Glasses for photonic devices

Angela Seddon (Co-Chair), University of Nottingham, UK
David Furniss (Co-Chair), University of Nottingham, UK

16th Workshop on Broadband Access and Edge Networking

Technical Program Committee

Ernesto Ciaramella (Chair), Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy
Ioannis Tomkos, University of Patras, Greece
Marco Presi, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy
Ivan Cano, Huawei Technologies, Germany

16th Sub-Wavelength Photonics Conference (SWP)

Crina Cojocaru (Chair), Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Trevor Benson (Honorary Chair), University of Nottingham, UK

15th Anniversary Workshop on Communication in Transportation Systems (CTS)

Technical Program Committee

Kira Kastell (Chair), Hamm-Lippstadt University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Otto Strobel (Honorary Chair), Esslingen University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Piet de Pauw, Melexis N.V., Ieper, Belgium
Roger J. Green, University of Warwick, UK
Klaus-Dieter Langer, Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich-Hertz-Institut, Germany
Marian Marciniak, National Institute of Telecommunications, Warsaw, Poland
Vjatsheslav Shevtsov, Moscow Aviation Institute, Russia

14th Workshop on Green Optical Communications (GOC)

Technical Program Committee

Carmen Mas Machuca (Chair), Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany
Lena Wosinska (Co-Chair), Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Luca Valcarenghi (Co-Chair), Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy
Ivan Andonovic, University of Strathclyde, UK
Alejandra Beghelli, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile
Isabella Cerutti, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy
Jaafar Elmirghani, King’s College London, UK
Matteo Fiorani, Ericsson AB, Sweden
Andreas Gladisch, Deutsche Telekom, Germany
Daniel Kilper, University of Arizona, USA
Mirosław Klinkowski, National Institute of Telecommunications, Poland
Marian Marciniak, National Institute of Telecommunications, Poland
Paolo Monti, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Annalisa Morea, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, Italy
Mario Pickavet, iMinds, Belgium
Ken-ichi Sato, Nagoya University, Japan
Dominic Schupke, EADS, Germany
Anna Tzanakaki, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

14th Special Session on Microwave Photonics (MWP)

Technical Program Committee

Robert Minasian (Co-Chair), The University of Sydney, Australia
Eszter Udvary (Co-Chair), Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Beatrice Cabon, Grenoble INP – MINATEC, France
José Capmany, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain

11th Workshop on 6G Network Operation (6GNeO)

Marc Ruiz (Co-Chair), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Luis Velasco (Co-Chair), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

10th Anniversary Workshop on Technology for Data Center Interconnects (DACINT)

Technical Program Committee

Lech Wosinski (Honorary Chair), Royal Institute of Technology KTH, Sweden
Jarosław Turkiewicz (Chair), Warsaw Univ. of Technology, Poland
Sergei Popov (Co-Chair), Royal Institute of Technology KTH, Sweden
Daoxin Dai, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
Seppo Honkanen, University of Eastern Finland
Richard De La Rue, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Lars Thylén, Royal Institute of Technology KTH, Sweden

10th Anniversary Workshop on Datacenter Networks (DCN)

Technical Program Committee

Jiajia Chen (Chair), Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Leonid Kazowsky (Chair), Stanford University, USA
Lena Wosinska (Co-Chair), Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Ken-ichi Sato (Co-Chair), Nagoya University, Japan
Robert Forchheimer, Linköping University, Sweden
Ken-ichi Kitayama, Osaka University, Japan
Thomas Pfeiffer, Alcatel-Lucent, Germany
Marco Schiano, Telecom Italia, Italy
Xin (Scott) Yin, INTEC/IMEC, Ghent University, Belgium
Moshe Zukerman, City University of Hong Kong, China

10th Anniversary Workshop on 5G Transport Networks (5GT)

Technical Program Committee

Slavisa Aleksic, Hochschule für Telekommunikation Leipzig, Germany
Stephane Gosselin, Orange Labs, France
Young Lee, Huawei Technologies, Plano, TX, USA
Marian Marciniak, National Institute of Telecommunications, Warsaw, Poland
Jonas Mårtensson, Acreo Swedish ICT, Stockholm, Sweden
Peter Öhlen, Ericsson Research, Stockholm, Sweden
Anna Tzanakaki, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Luca Valcarenghi, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy
Joachim Westphal, Deutsche Telekom, Berlin, Germany
Hagen Woesner, BISDN, Berlin, Germany

9th Workshop on Fiber-Wireless Network Technologies and Architectures towards 5G and Beyond (FiWiN5G)

Workshop Chairs

Nikos Pleros, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Antonella Bogoni, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy
John Mitchell, University College London, UK

9th Workshop on Quantum Photonics (QPhot)

Workshop Chairs

Daryl Beggs (Chair), University of Cardiff, UK
Ruth Oulton (Co-Chair), University of Bristol, UK

9th Workshop on Multi-Layer Network Orchestration (NetOrch)

Technical Program Committee

Domenico Siracusa (Co-Chair), CREATE-NET, Italy
Andrea Fumagalli (Co-Chair), The University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Ioannis Tomkos (Co-Chair), University of Patras, Greece
Mohit Chamania, ADVA Optical Networking, Germany
Ori Gerstel, Sedona Systems, Israel
Hiroshi Hasegawa, Nagoya University, Japan
Stephane Junique, ACREO, Sweden
Dimitrios Klonidis, Athens Information Technology, Greece
Victor Lopez, Telefonica, Spain
Barbara Martini, CNIT Pisa, Italy
Massimo Tornatore, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Suresh Subramaniam, George Washington University, USA
Thomas Szyrkowiec, ADVA Optical Networking, Germany

8th Workshop on High Capacity SDM-WDM Optical Networking (SDM-WDM)

Technical Program Committee

Dan Marom (Chair), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Ioannis Tomkos (Co-Chair), University of Patras, Greece
Chigo Okonkwo, TU/e, Netherlands
Ezra Ip, NEC Labs, NJ, USA
David Richardson, University of Southampton, UK
Ben Puttnam, NICT, Tokyo, Japan
Roland Ryf, Nokia Bell Labs, NJ, USA
Joseph Kahn, Stanford University, USA
Salvatore Spadaro, UPC, Spain
Miquel Garrich Alabarce, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

8th Workshop on Flexible and High-Capacity Optical Networks (Flex-ON)

Technical Program Committee

Fernando Guiomar (Chair), Instituto de Telecomunicações, Aveiro, Portugal
Andrea Carena (Co-Chair), Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Armando Pinto (Co-Chair), Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
John Cartledge, Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada
Vittorio Curri, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Fabrizio Forghieri, CISCO Photonics Italy Srl, Vimercate, Italy
Marian Marciniak, National Institute of Telecommunications, Poland
Antonio Napoli, Coriant GmbH, Munich, Germany
Chigo Okonkwo, TU/e, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Jacklyn Reis, CPqD, Campinas, SP, Brazil
António Teixeira, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Ioannis Tomkos, University of Patras, Greece
Darko Zibar, Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark

8th Workshop on Novel Optical Amplifiers (NOA)

Technical Program Committee

Paweł Rosa (Chair), National Institute of Telecommunications, Poland
Armando Pinto (Co-Chair), Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Mingming Tan (Co-Chair), Aston University, Birmingham, UK

8th Workshop on Super-Resolution Imaging and Sensing (SRIS)

Technical Program Committee

Vasily Astratov (Chair), University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, USA
Ori Cheshnovsky, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Shi-Wei Chu, National Taiwan University, Taiwan, R.O.C
Javier Garcia de Abajo, ICFO, Barcelona, Spain
Femius Koenderink, FOM Institute AMOLF
Geoffroy Lerosey, Institut Langevin, Paris, France

7th Workshop on Optical Microscopy Techniques (OMT)

Technical Programme Committee

George A. Stanciu (Chair), National University of Science and Technology Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Zeev Zalevski (Co-Chair), Bar Ilan University, Israel
George Boudebs, Université d’Angers, France
Brana Jelenkovic, Institute of Physics, Belgrade, Serbia
Stefan G. Stanciu, National University of Science and Technology Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania

6th Conference on Advanced Fibre Lasers and Coherent Sources (AFLaser)

Stefano Taccheo (Chair), Politecnico di Torino, Chairman of COST Action MP1401 AFLaser – Advanced fibre laser and coherent source as tools for society, manufacturing and lifescience (2014-2018)

6th Workshop on Integration of Optical and Satellite Communication Systems into 5G Edge Networks (OSCto5G)

Technical Program Committee

Pouria Sayyad Khodashenas (Chair), Fundació I2cat, Spain
Hamzeh Khalili (Co-Chair), CTTC, Spain
Daniel Camps Mur, Fundació I2cat, Spain
Jaume Comellas, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain
Ramon Duran Barroso, University of Valladolid, Spain
Sergi Figuerola Fernandez, Fundació I2cat, Spain
Eduard Grasa Gras, Fundació I2cat, Spain
Dimitrios Klonidis, Athens Information Technology, Greece
Pablo Pavon, Technical University of Cartagena, Spain
Erwan Pincemin, Orange Labs, France
Harri Saarnisaari, University of Oulu, Finland
Behnam Shariati, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain
Muhammad Shuaib Siddiqui, Fundació I2cat, Spain
Ioannis Tomkos, University of Patras, Greece

6th Workshop on Quantum Communications (QC)

Technical Program Committee

Armando Pinto (Chair), University of Aveiro, and Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal
Virginia D’Auria (Co-Chair), Institut de Physique de Nice, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France
Vicente Martin (Co-Chair), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Nelson Muga (Co-Chair), University of Aveiro, and Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal
Alberto Porzio (Co-Chair), Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering—DICEM, University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, I-03043 Cassino, Italy
Nuno Silva (Co-Chair), University of Aveiro, and Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal

6th Workshop on Multi-band Open Optical Networks (MOON)

Technical Program Committee

Vittorio Curri (Chair), Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Antonio Napoli (Co-Chair), Infinera, Munich, Germany
Victor Lopez (Co-Chair), Telefonica, Spain
Mattia Cantono, Google, San Francisco, USA
Davide Calonico, INRiM, Italy
Mark Filer, Microsoft, Seattle, Washington, USA
Johannes Fischer, Fraunhofer Institut Berlin, Germany
Wladek Forysiak, Aston Institute of Technology, UK
Robert Killey, UCL, London, UK
Jeremie Renaudier, Nokia Bell Labs, France

6th Workshop on Machine Learning for Optical Communications (MALOC)

Technical Program Committee

Luis Velasco, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Antonio Napoli, Nokia

6th Workshop on THz Photonics (THzPho)

Technical Program Committee

Andreas Stöhr (Chair), University Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Guillermo Carpintero (Co-Chair), Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Björn Globisch (Co-Chair), Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz Institut, Berlin, Germany
Martin Hofmann (Co-Chair), Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
Mauro Pereira (Co-Chair), Academy of Science of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
Sascha Preu (Co-Chair), Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
Cyril Renaud (Co-Chair), University College London, UK

5th Anniversary Workshop on Progress in Nonlinear Photonics and Applications (PNPA)

Luigi Sirleto (Co-Chair), IMM CNR, Naples, Italy
Giancarlo C. Righini (Co-Chair), IFAC CNR, Florence, Italy
Richard De La Rue (Co-Chair), University of Glasgow, UK

5th Anniversary Workshop on Photonic Technologies for Future High-Capacity Metro Networks (PhotoMAN)

Technical Program Committee

Pierpaolo Boffi (Chair), Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Michela Svaluto Moreolo (Co-Chair), CTTC, Spain
Giorgio Parladori (Co-Chair), SM Optics, Italy

5th Anniversary Workshop on SDN-NFV Challenges and Solutions (SDN-NFV)

Technical Program Committee

Cataldo Guaragnella (Co-Chair), Politecnico di Bari; Italy
Giorgio Parladori (Co-Chair), SM Optics, Italy
Giuseppe Piro (Co-Chair), Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Gennaro Boggia, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Luigi Alfredo Grieco, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Michele Ruta, Politecnico di Bari, Italy

5th Anniversary Workshop on Softwarization and Virtualization of Optical Access Networks (OptSoft)

Technical Program Committee

Hamzeh Khalili (Chair), CTTC, Spain
Fatemehsadat Tabatabaeimehr, CTTC, Spain
David Rincon Rivera, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
Josep Sole Pareta, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
Behnam Shariati, Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute HHI, Germany

5th Anniversary Workshop on Microstructured Optical Fibers (MOF)

Technical Program Committee

Walter Belardi (Chair), University of Parma, Italy
Ole Bang, Danish Technical University, Denmark
Jonathan Hu, Baylor University, USA
Peter Mosley, University of Bath, UK
Pavel Peterka, The Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
Bishnu Pal, Mahindra Ecole Centrale, India
Azizur Rahman, City University of London, UK
Pier Sazio, University of Southampton, UK
Markus Schmidt, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany

4th Special Session on Space-Division Multiplexing for High-Capacity Transmission (SDM)

Filipe Marques Ferreira (Chair), University College London, UK
Fabio Aparecido Barbosa (Co-Chair), University College London, UK
Rekha Yadav (Co-Chair), University College London, UK

4th Workshop ‘Women in telecommunication and optical networks: Highlighting diverse voices in optical networks’ (WeInTel)

Workshop Chair Ladies

Sima Barzegar, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona, Spain
Pantea Nadimi Goki, CNIT, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy

4th Workshop on Enabling technologies toward 6G Networks (TECHto6G)

Technical Program Committee

Hamzeh Khalili (Chair), CTTC, Spain
Josep Mangues-Bafalluy (Co-Chair), CTTC, Spain
Rasoul Nikbakht, Keysight Technologies, Spain
David Rincon Rivera, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
Sarang Kahvazadeh, CTTC, Spain

3rd Special Session on Novel Optical Fiber Sensing Techniques (NOFSeT)

Giuseppe Rizzelli (Chair), Dipartimento di Elettronica e Telecomunicazioni, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

3rd Special Session on Aerospace Photonics

Caterina Ciminelli (Chairlady), Politecnico di Bari, Italy

3rd ICTON Demo Zone

Committee

Luis Velasco, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona Spain
Francesco Paolucci, CNIT, Pisa, Italy
Ramón Casellas, CTTC, Barcelona, Spain
Pol González, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain

2nd Workshop on Photonic Metasurfaces

Francesco Dell’Olio (Chair), Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Teresa Natale (Co-Chair), Politecnico di Bari, Italy 
Dimitrios Zografopoulos (Co-Chair), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece,
and Italian Research Council, Italy

2nd Workshop on Trustworthiness and Physical Layer Security (TPLS)

Pantea Nadimi Goki (Chair), CNIT, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy
Bernhard Etzlinger (Co-Chair), Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria
Sima Barzegar (Co-Chair), Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona, Spain
Luca Poti (Honorary Chair), CNIT, Italy

NEW! EWOC final conference on optical-wireless convergence for future 6G networks

Technical Programme Committee

Zoran Vujicic (Chair), Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal
Roberto Gaudino, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Peter Ottosson, HUAWEI Technologies Sweden
Jonathan Rodriguez, University of South Wales, UK
Arifur Rahman, IS-WIRELESS, Poland
Maria C. Santos, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Giang Nguyen, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany