SubOptic 2023, the industry-renowned submarine telecoms conference, will be held in Bangkok, Thailand from 13-16 March 2023. A triennial event, the SubOptic conference is the longest running and most comprehensive conference series in the world for the submarine cable industry.
The event promises to be the best yet with a comprehensive world class agenda, an exhibition showcasing the latest subsea technologies and a multitude of networking opportunities. All set in the vibrant and exciting city of Bangkok, an Asian hub and gateway to the East.
Urs Hölzle
Senior VP of Technical Infrastructure
Google
Thomas E. Abell
Chief of Digital Technology for Development
Asian Development Bank
Steinar Bjørnstad is strategic competence and research manager at Tampnet AS, Stavanger, Norway. He is also Senior research scientist at Simula MET, Oslo - Norway. He holds a Ph.d. in optical communication from NTNU, Trondheim, Norway and has published more than 60 papers and patents within optical ...
Alexis Carbó Meseguer joined ASN in 2018 after 4 years in Nokia Bell Labs. Since then, he worked in the modeling and characterization of subsea systems.He pioneered the development of an automated technique to reduce the time dedicated to Subsea Open Cable commissioning. In the meantime, he studied ...
Dr Mike Clare is a Principal Researcher in Ocean Biogeoscience at the National Oceanography Centre, UK.His research focuses on dynamic processes that operate in the deep sea, the influence of climate changeand human activities on the seafloor, and assessing risks to seafloor infrastructure, which...
James Francis is a Cable Route Engineer within Alcatel Submarine Network’s Marine Operations Department in Greenwich, London. He joined ASN four years ago after previously working as a surveyor, and a small vessel skipper on the River Thames. James’ role oversees the planning, surveying, and marine ...
Scott Mabin is a Chartered Mechanical engineer with over 18 years experience in heavy industry. Scott began his career as an engineer in the power generation sector before moving into developing equipment for offshore and subsea applications. Scott has spent the last 11 years creating bespoke and...
Giuseppe Marra is a Principal Research Scientist in the Time and Frequency group at the National PhysicalLaboratory in the UK. His primary research interest is in the dissemination of ultra-stable optical signalsover continental and intercontinental optical fibre links, with focus on those derived...
Serguei Papernyi is a Senior Research Scientist with MPB Communications Inc. Serguei received his doctorate in physics and mathematics from Vavilov State Optical Institute in 1984. His work in Vavilov, was related to high-peak-power Nd lasers, pulse compression and optical phase conjugation using...
Oli Pope is the Founder of Route Position, a marine consultancy specialising in subsea cable landing site assessment, Desktop Study (DTS), marine route planning and risk mitigation. Oli is driving Autonomous implementation in the subsea cable sector and undertakes Business Development consultancy...
Madanagopal Ramachandran received the B.E.degree in computer science and engineeringfrom Bharathiar University, Coimbatore,India, in 2002 and the M.S. and Ph.D.degrees in computer science and engineeringfrom the Indian Institute of Technology,Madras, India, in 2008 and 2020. He iscurrently a Senior ...
Siddharth Varughese is a Principal Optical Engineer with Infinera Corporation’s subsea division. He is an experienced researcher and development engineer specializing in performance analysis for optical communication systems. In his current role, he is responsible for designing and conducting field ...
Fatih Yaman received his Ph.D. in Optical Engineering from The Institute of Optics at University of Rochester in 2006. After postdoctoral research at CREOL, he joined NEC Laboratories of America in 2010 as a research staff member. His current research interests include performance optimization of...
Stuart Blythe is a partner with the global law firm, Baker Botts, based in its London office. He is dual U.S./English law qualified and advises on a wide range of corporate and commercial transactions in theTechnology and Telecoms sectors. He has significant industry experience, having spent nearly ...
Laurent Campagne is a Senior Consultant at AQEST, a French consultancy company created more than 10 years ago and specialized since its creation in Telecommunication Submarine Networks. AQEST provides its experience and expertise for all types of activities related to optical submarine cables from...
Ranjith is the founder and CEO of iColo.io, a carrier neutral data center operator that designs, builds andoperates open access data centers in Kenya. Ranjith’s career spans New York and Silicon Valley, building thetechnology platforms for companies like Verizon Wireless and as a Product Manager at ...
Mike is co-chair of the international telecoms practice at global law firm DLA Piper LLP and the leadpartner for digital infrastructure. He is rated amongst the leading telecoms lawyers globally by all thevarious guides and was the editor of the Communications Law Handbook. The legal guide Chambers ...
David Coughlan is CEO of SubCom, a position he has held since 2018 when he rejoined the business afterserving as its General Manager from 2001 to 2014. As a key stakeholder in the subsea cable industry formore than 20 years, Mr. Coughlan has led the development and implementation of SubCom’s core...
Graham has more than 44 years’ experience as a marine geoscientist, and is Managing Director GlobalSubsea Cable Business for the EGS Survey Group of companies, and Executive Director of EGS Survey PtyLtd, Australia and EGS Americas Inc., USA. Graham has specialized in submarine cable route planning ...
Darwin Evans is Director of Product Line Management responsible for submarine applications at Ciena.Darwin received his B.S. in Engineering from the University of Manitoba in 1998 and joined Nortel Networksworking in a number of engineering and product development roles until the acquisition of the ...
JOHN HEDGPETH is Worldwide Applications Engineering Manager at Corning, supporting optical fiber products, inclusive of submarine optical fiber. John has held several positions during his 10-year tenure at Corning, including manufacturing support, quality management and product line management for...
Georg Mohs is the Vice President of Research and Development and Chief Technology Officer at SubCom,a vertically integrated supplier of turnkey intercontinental undersea telecommunications systems andassociated services. He holds 18 international and US patents and has authored or coauthored more...
Cynthia is a Senior Infrastructure Program Manager for Submarine Cables at Meta. She leads severalsubmarine cable deployment programs in the EMEA region to support Meta’s backbone network growth andcontinued demand and to enhance connectivity for tens of millions of people - giving them access to a ...
As Director, Sales – West Africa, Nikki focuses on extending WIOCC’s footprint across West Africa. Nikkihas been in the telecoms industry for over 20 years and joined WIOCC in 2016 after eight years with TataCommunications, where she sold a wide range of Data services across numerous countries in...
Dean Veverka is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of the 45,000km Southern Cross Cable Network (SX1,SX2 and NEXT) and is responsible for all Regulatory, Engineering and Operational aspects of the network.An Electrical Engineer and Business Management Graduate, he has over 42 years’ experience in...
Alice DeJuvigny Colarossi is an attorney in the transportation and shipping team of the law firm Reed Smith LLP, based in the New York office. She represents vessel, cargo and submarine cable owners, as well as their financiers, in a wide range of transactional, contentious and regulatory matters...
Alice has worked for Ciena since 2018 as Senior Consultant in the Global Submarine Sales team. She started her career in submarine systems as a design engineer at STC Submarine Systems on the historic Greenwich site in the UK.Alice has been heavily involved in SubOptic for the last four conference ...
Frankie Targett, Submarine Cable Engineer for Vodafone Group. She joined the Vodafone Submarine Engineering team as a graduate in early 2021 and has since become a full-time member of the team specialising in operations and maintenance of submarine systems with a keen interest in cable engineering...
Ahmad Abdo received his B.Eng., M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada, in 2003, 2006 and 2018 respectively. He has been part of Ciena Corp., based in Ottawa, for more than 15 years where he is currently a principal systems engineer focusing ...
François-Xavier Abrial, head of Marine business development at Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN) has been involved in the planning, engineering, implementation and commissioning of undersea cable system projects worldwide since late 1990s. Mr Abrial holds a MS from Georgia Tech Institute/ Electrical ...
With a decade of experience in development of optical networking solutions, Richa Daga is passionate about technologies connecting the world. She is a Software Engineer at Cisco and works in the development of open line systems and network convergence product lines.Richa is also a global technical...
Andrew Kam is an optical engineer for the Optical Systems Performance team at Ciena in Ottawa, Canada. He received his BEng in Engineering Physics (2016) at Carleton University, and MASc in Photonics (2018) at the University of Toronto. At Ciena, Andrew mainly focuses on the development of optical...
Bevan Slattery is Founder and Owner of SODA, a hub for innovation, digital infrastructure and environmentalsustainability. SODA supports and invests in some of Australia’s most transformative businesses. Its currentinfrastructure portfolio includes SUBCO, an independent specialist submarine cable...
Mei Du received her Ph.D from The University of Chicago studying femtosecond spectroscopy. She started hertelecommunication career in Optical Fiber Research Department, Lucent Bell labs where she has worked onforward pumping distributed Raman amplification and high-speed transmission from 40Gb/s to ...
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