SC1: NOVEL FIBRES, FIBRE DEVICES AND AMPLIFIERS
| Name | Title | Affiliation | Country |
| Wilfried Blanc | Nanoparticles in optical fiber, issue and opportunity of light scattering | Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, Institut de physique de Nice | France |
SC2: DISCRETE PHOTONIC DEVICES AND TECHNOLOGIES
| Name | Title | Affiliation | Country |
| Juerg Leuthold | Plasmonic-based devices for ultrafast communication | ETH Zurich | Switzerland |
SC3: PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS, ASSEMBLIES AND PACKAGING
| Name | Title | Affiliation | Country |
| Alex Gaeta | Optical Frequency Combs from device to applications | Columbia University, New York, USA | USA |
SC5: OPTICAL TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS
| Name | Title | Affiliation | Country |
| Gerhard Kramer | Information Theory of the Optical Channel | Technical University of Munich (DGFI-TUM) | Germany |
SC6: ARCHITECTURE, MODELLING AND PERFORMANCE OF OPTICAL NETWORKS
| Name | Title | Affiliation | Country |
| Francesco Musumeci | Machine-Learning-Assisted Optical Network Failure Management: Challenges and Pitfalls | Politecnico di Milano | Italy |
SC7: ACCESS, INDOOR AND SHORT-REACH SYSTEMS FOR DATA CENTRES AND MOBILE NETWORKS
| Name | Title | Affiliation | Country |
| Seb Savory | Simplified Transceivers for Coherent-Lite Systems | University of Cambridge | UK |
SC8: SENSING AND MICROWAVE PHOTONICS
| Name | Title | Affiliation | Country |
| Ezra Ip | Fiber sensing with and for optical networks | NEC Laboratories America | USA |
SC10: CONTROL AND MANAGEMENT OF OPTICAL NETWORKS
| Name | Title | Affiliation | Country |
| Piero Castoldi | Control of optical networks: a reality check and future perspectives | Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna | Italy |