Speakers

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 ...

Mr. Daniele Androni C.E.O. of  Subphoton, HW engineer with 30 years of experience in opto-electronics design and power electronics. Owner of 7 patents in electronics and optical telecommunication systems. Worked for Alcatel and Pirelli with growing responsibility. Since 2008 he contributed to...

Jean-Christophe ANTONA (Ecole Polytechnique 1998,Telecom Paris 2000, PhD 2011) is currently in charge of Research & Technology projects and Line Modeling within Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN) in Nozay, France.He joined Alcatel Corporate Research Center in 2000 to study Kerr-induced...

Aneesha joined Cisco in 2017 as a Product Line Manager. Armed with a strong technical background for Optical DWDM telecommunications technologies, she has amassed a wealth of experience in Enterprises, SP and OTT products. She was nominated in 2019 to be part of the first Google Subsea school...

Jean-Francois Baget joined Alcatel Submarine Network in 1994 and has been involved in various technical functions in design, integration and engineering:• He is currently Technical Marketing Manager and Product Line Manager for submerged Equipment in ASN Product Strategy Group.• From 2007 to...

Bamdad Bakhshi is director for the Department of Network and Transmission Testing at SubCom. Since May 2000, he has held several positions at the company, both within engineering and product line management. Dr. Bakhski’s responsibilities include leading laboratory and field transmission...

Kasyapa Balemarthy received his Bachelor’s degree from IIT-Kanpur, India and the Ph.D. degree from Georgia Tech, USA both in Electrical Engineering. After working at Bell Labs on high-speed data transmission problems, he is currently with the Global Fiber R&D team at OFS. Dr. Kasyapa currently...

Stuart Barnes is Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer of Xtera. He received a BSc (Engineering) and PhD from Queen Mary College, University of London and is Emeritus Professor of Electrical Engineering at Southampton University. He was Programme Chairman of SubOptic 2019 in New Orleans. Prior to...

Scott R. Bickham is a Development Fellow in the Corning Research and Development Corp. supporting Corning Optical Communications. He received a B.S. in physics from Purdue University in 1984 and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from Cornell University in 1991 and 1995, respectively. ...

Alain Biston is President & CEO, Alcatel Submarine Networks. Alain has been working for more than 25 yearsin telecoms, with Nortel, then Alcatel-Lucent / Nokia, holding management and leadership positions in R&D,Product Line, Industrial Operations, Sales & Marketing, Business Unit...

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 ...

Dr Sebastien Blaise is an experienced numerical software developer whose leading expertise is applied in Fugro's geotechnical and geohazard consulting business. Sebastien's specialism is in modelling geohazard for submarine infrastructure risk assessment. He also develops numerical software ...

Jean-Pierre Blondel is Global Project Manager within Alcatel Submarine Networks. He got positions as research engineer, engineering manager and is currently Project manager.

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 ...

Iago Bojczuk is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at Cambridge University. His work explores the material, cultural, economic, and political dimensions of Big Tech infrastructures and the formation of cloud regions in the Global South. He's a Research Assistant for the...

Kent Bressie is a partner with HWG LLP in Washington DC and heads its international practice. An experton telecommunications, international trade and investment, and national security regulation, he representscommunications and technology companies and investors in a wide variety of cross-border...

Nancy is responsible for program management at Telstra International, where she drives corporate social responsibility initiatives. She started her career at Telstra as a graduate, after rotating through the infrastructure and M&A teams.

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...

Mattia Cantono is a staff network architect at Google where he focuses on next generation terrestrialand subsea optical architectures. Mattia obtained his Ph.D. magna cum laude in 2018 in Electronic andCommunication Engineering at Politecnico di Torino with a thesis on physical layer aware open...

Leslie Cao (Cao Pijia) is the Senior Director of System Solution Department in HMN Tech. Leslie joinedthe organization in 2009 bringing over 18 years of technical and management experience in the globaltelecommunications industry. From 2006 to 2008 Leslie was a team leader of networks solution...

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 ...

Rob Cash Born / Lives - Wolverhampton, UK Age - 54 Title - Operations Manager Summary - 28 years’ experience in the submarine cable handling systems and marine product deployment and retrievals markets.  Was proud to be part of the Dowty & Parkburn Controls team that...

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 ...

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...

Gail began working with Global Marine Group as part of the marketing team from 1996 to 2001. Following several years working in other sectors including professional services, retail and manufacturing in both large corporations and small start-ups, she returned to Global Marine Group in 2014 heading ...

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...

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 ...

Jo is a Technical Program Manager at Google and was the technical and commercial lead for the recentlydeployed Equiano Submarine System in West Africa.She has worked in the submarine cable industry for over 25 years. Prior to joining Google, she held positions atLumen, Level 3, Cable & Wireless ...

Erick Contag is a strategist, who is passionate about building and operating sustainable digital infrastructures. He has over 30years of executive management, entrepreneurship, marketing & sales, and business development expertise. He has managedC-level relationships and telecommunications /...

Over the past 30 years of his career, Lex has built exceptionally strong credentials in the design of versatile, cost-effective and energy-efficient data center infrastructure. He has supervised the design and build process for more than 70 data centers and developed close to 600,000 m² of gross...

Jose Cordero is a Product Manager for Multibeam Systems (shallow waters) at Kongsberg Sensors andRobotics. As a naval officer and as a hydrographic surveyor, he has more than 20 years of experiencein maritime operations and hydrographic data collection and processing in the global ocean. Hehas...

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...

René oversees the global business development of services provided by Fugro to the subsea cable industrysuch as desktop studies and route surveys. René has been an employee of Fugro for over 20 years. In 2009he became responsible for managing Fugro Hydrographic Services in Asia Pacific. In this...

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...

Emmanuel Danjou has been the Head of Business Development of Alcatel Submarine Networks since September 2018.During his career, Emmanuel is highly recognized and respected with over 24 years’ experience in the Telecommunications. He occupied several management positions in...

Paul DavisonSMDDeputy CEOSMD is the market leader, and a proudly independent design and manufacturing authority, for subsea vehicles in submarine telecoms, offshore wind, oil & gas, survey and mineral extraction markets.Paul joined SMD in 1994 after completing engineering degrees at Newcastle...

Yves Delisle led the first initiatives in the emerging submarine upgrade business for Nortel Networks in 2008.Since then, he has made significant contributions to the development of the test methodology used over submarine foreign line system to support the growth of Ciena’s upgrade business.He...

Paul has worked with Global Marine Group (GMG) since 1998 in a variety of roles. In his current position he is responsible for overseeing installation project delivery in the telecoms business unit.

Jas is Senior VP Professional Services and Global Infrastructure Development at Aqua Comms and gained over 30 years global experience Senior roles in understanding of subsea and the operator environment.Industry experience from  working key organisations such as HMN Technologies (with...

Simone Donadello was born in Mantova, Italy, in 1987. He received the M.S. and the Ph.D. degrees in Physics from the University of Trento, Italy, in 2012 and 2016, respectively, discussing an experimental thesis on quantum systems and ultracold atomic gases. He joined Politecnico di...

Maxime Droques is Product Line Manager for cables, accessories, and optical fibres within Alcatel Submarine Networks. He manages development programs for new products and solutions. He received the Ph.D. degree in photonics from University of Lille, France. His background covers linear and...

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 ...

Currently the head of Project Finance at Alcatel Submarine Network (ASN),  Laure has more than 20 years of experience in the high tech and finance industries. She left the banking world in November 2015 to return to ASN where she had started her career in 1999.She is a Telecommunications engineer...

Sumudu Edirisinghe obtained BEng in Electronic Systems Engineering in 1997 and PhD in 2002 from the University of Essex, UK. Over the next 20 years he has been working as an R&D and a design Engineer for several telecommunication equipment manufactures in Europe and USA.He holds several US...

Katherine Edwards works for Vodafone as a Senior SubSea Investment Manager.She is a chartered engineer, having started her career developing a computer controlled test system for Pirelli cables to automate transmission loss measurements for their fibre. She then worked as a satellite engineer...

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 ...

Zhang Fang, Senior Network Solution Manager of HMN Technologies, Co Ltd. She joined HMN Tech and is engaged in the network planning and design of marine cable system since 2011. She has rich experience in the end-to-end process of marine cable business, network system design and marine cable...

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 ...

Tony started work at BT's Research labs investigating cable problems and then moved to Alcatel Australia, becoming involved in testing and commissioning subsea systems. A move to Bell Labs gave him experience in terminal design and troubleshooting, after which he went to Alcatel Submarine...

Vincent Gatineau is the Chief Marketing and Sales Officer for EllaLink. Vincent was part of the Sales & Marketing team of Alcatel Submarine Networks for nine years, following the EllaLink project since its first days, among other major system developments. Previously, Vincent has held various...

Dr. Tommy Geisler, is Lead Engineer at OFS Fitel Denmark ApS.He has a PhD degree from the Technical University of Denmark. He has worked at OFS for more than 23 years and has been responsible for both the development and production of various transmission, submarine, dispersion compensating and...

Dr. Lorraine Gray is Director of Permitting at Pioneer Consulting. With 25 years in marine management, Dr. Gray is an early pioneer of Marine Spatial Planning. She has carried out projects on zoning cables, renewables and aquaculture for Scottish and English governments, has written guidance on...

My name is Martin Greber and I'm working for Alcatel Submarine Networks for 12 years now. After 6 years in WDM transponder development in R&D department, I moved to ASN technical Services to develop an international customer relationship and technical support on all ASN network equipment.I...

Dr. Grubb is currently a Global Optical Architect at Facebook, overseeing the build of several new open submarine cable systems and introducing new optical technologies for Facebooks global network.  Prior to Facebook, he was a Fellow at Infinera where for 14 years he directed work on next...

Matteo Gumier is Account Director at Alcatel Submarine Networks. He has over 20 years of experience incombined terrestrial and Subsea Networking, with scope ranging from solution architect to Sales supportand account director. In his last 10 years in the Subsea industry, he has been involved in the ...

Lijun Hao is a structural and Materials Engineer, Joining the Product and Solution HMN Technologies Co., Ltd.in 2014.He has been engaged in product structure development, material selection and certification of wet plant product.

Takemi Hasegawa is an R&D manager at Optical Communications Laboratory, Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. (SEI). He is in charge of development of optical fibers for submarine transmission including novel multi-core fibers, in addition to optical fibers for components. He joined SEI in...

Gang He Joined EXFO in 1992. He is currently principal research scientist in EXFO’s R&D department. His main research interests include advanced optical design, innovative spectral characterization methods, guided wave behavior and T&M technologies on next generation networks. He has been...

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...

Tadafumi Hirose is an engineer in the OCC's Submarine Systems Division Engineering Department. He joined OCC's Submarine Systems Division in 2013.He received his B.S. from Kyushu University in 2013.His responsibilities is cable Department.

Steve has over 38 years in the submarine and telecommunication industries; firstly, at C&W (Marine) then Lumen (ex-Level 3) and in recent times at Global Marine as its Maintenance Account Director.  Steve has also been actively involved with cable projection issues for over 23 years and is...

Dr. Alan Hollander is Infinera's Sr. Director Subsea Systems Engineering.Based in Amsterdam, Alan leads the global subsea engineering team responsible for network upgrade solutions. Acting as a key technical advisor both externally and internally, Alan has been involved with some of the largest ...

Bruce M. HoweResearch Professor, University of Hawaiʻi at MānoaDr. Howe leads the Joint Task Force (JTF) SMART Cable initiative, (Science Monitoring And Reliable Telecommunications) to incorporate sensors into the global submarine telecommunication cable system for climate, ocean circulation and...

Michael Hubbard has worked in the field of high-capacity fiber optic telecommunications since 1998.  He has held various roles covering the physics of optical propagation, digital client HW architecture, coherent optical terminal development for subsea telecommunications, and next generation...

Gioia Indelicato is Administration Manager at Oceans & Cables Ltd.Being in the submarine cable industry since 2010, she was able to deepen her knowledge and specializing in this field, giving her contribution to many projects.Actively supports Italian Hydrographic Society to spread hydrography...

Venkat is the Director of Engineering Software at Makai Ocean Engineering. In addition to overseeing the activities of the commercial submarine cable group, he is also involved with Makai’s R&D work in seafloor classification, object detection, dynamics path planning, etc. Makai’s cable group...

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...

Dr. Camino Kavanagh is a visiting Senior Fellow with the Dept. of War Studies, King’s College London where her her research interests relate to: digital technologies, international security, conflict and global governance.For the past decade Camino has also worked as an independent...

Takeshi Kawasaki is a Director of Network Services at NTT Ltd. Japan and currently responsible for thesubsea cable business. He is focused mainly on new subsea cable construction, engineering, operation, andmaintenance. Before NTT Ltd. Japan, he was a Senior Research Engineer in R&D at NTT...

Robert is the Senior Director of R&D in the Optical Transmission team at Ciena, where his team has a focus on the system performance of terrestrial and submarine line systems. The team is responsible for the optical design of the photonics devices and verifies the performance of all the...

Ola Khaled has over eighteen years’ experience in the areas of international customers’ relations and business development. She is currently working as Senior Manager of International Business Development at Telecom Egypt. Her educational background includes a Professional Master of Engineering...

Michelle is an active member of the CMS Digital Infrastructure team and is a partnerin the CMS Corporate Transaction group. She has significant experience in advising clients in thedigital infrastructure sector, including on subsea cable matters (includingMarguerite Investment Fund and...

Atsushi Kuwahara is a Managing Director, Head of Submarine Network Business at NEC Corporation. He hasover 29 years of experience in the submarine network industry, where he held various roles such as Sales &Marketing, Administration and Production of submarine cable.Atsushi has a Bachelor of...

Mr. Stephen Lentz is Chief Technology Officer of Subsea Data Systems (SDS).  He is previously Director of Network Development at Ocean Specialists, Inc. (OSI) where he supported commercial telecommunications, oil & gas, and scientific cable system projects.  Prior to joining OSI, Mr. Lentz  was ...

Jiang Lin was born in Hube province, China, in 1986. He received the master’s degree in photoelectric information engineering from Huazhong University of Science&Technology in 2011. In 2013 He joined in Huawei Marine Networks, which has changed name to HMN Technologies in 2021, and has been...

Dr. Nate Lindsey holds a PhD in Earth and Planetary Science from the University of California, Berkeley in the subject of distributed fiber-optic seismology, and a MSc from the University of Edinburgh in geophysics. His work focuses on human-relevant problems such as critical infrastructure...

David Lloyd has over twenty years of experience in the Telecommunications industry, with a corespecialization in network engineering and planning. He has held senior technical roles with GTT, HiberniaNetworks, Telenor, 360networks, and is currently a Senior Network Architect at EXA (previously...

Chongguang Ma (Andy) is the General Manager of MEA region in HMN Tech. Chongguang joined the organization in 2014 bringing over 12 years of technical and management experience in the global telecommunications industry. From 2011 to 2014 Chongguang was a senior solution manager in Huawei...

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...

Jeremie Maillet is the VP Marine Operations of Alcatel Submarine Networks since January 2017 and General Manager of ASN Marine since 2015.Jeremie started his seaman career in 1996. He developed broad experience over the years, occupying roles such as Engineer, Chief Officer on ASN’s cable...

Aaron MairDirector Seagard Ltd.I have 50 years in the marine industry starting as an apprentice deckhand on a fishing trawler. I eventually went to college and became a skipper owner of different vessels. I then entered the merchant navy and sailed as chief officer and later captain of wind farm...

Sergejs Makovejs is a Senior Commercial Technology Associate at Corning with global strategic responsibility for development direction of long-haul and submarine fibers. He received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from UCL and an Executive MBA from Warwick Business School. He has authored >50...

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...

MASUDA Daishi (masuda.occ@nec.com) is a manager in the OCC’s Submarine System Plant Engineering Department. His current roles are management of new cable development, optical fiber evaluation and design of cable connection hardware for submarine cable systems. He joined OCC’s Submarine Systems...

Reja Mateen has been working at British Telecommunication (BT) plc, UK as a Subsea Systems Engineering Manager since 2014 where she is responsible for system engineering aspects of planning, installation, maintenance and recovery of subsea cables within the BT worldwide subsea network. She...

Eduardo Mateo was born in Madrid, Spain. He received his Ph.D. degree in Physics in 2005 in the fieldof Integrated Nonlinear Optics. He was a Research Scientist at the CREOL (Orlando, FL) conductingpioneering research in nonlinear fiber optics, optical fiber communications and digital signal...

Alan Mauldin is a Research Director at TeleGeography. He manages the company’s infrastructure researchgroup, focusing primarily on submarine cables, terrestrial networks, international Internet infrastructure,and bandwidth demand modelling. He also advises clients with due diligence...

Glenn Maule has 25+ years experience with African Service Providers, and joined Liquid Telecom in 2017.Over the last six years, Glenn has managed the Wholesale Sales Teams, Sales Operations and is currentlyresponsible for Liquid DataPort’s Global Sales initiatives.Glenn was at the start of the...

Dr. Mikael Mazur received his PhD from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden in 2019. In his dissertation he studied optical frequency combs in optical communications, focusing on signal processing schemes enabled by the comb coherence. In Jan 2020 he joined Bell Labs, NJ, as a member of...

Mick joined Standard Telephones & Cables in 1985 and started his career as a transmission engineer in fiberoptics for terrestrial systems. He moved to the submarine division in 1988 and has held various positionswithin the Marine installation department both offshore and back office following...

Dr. Mertz is currently a Fellow in the Advanced Optical Development group at Infinera developing advanced modulation formats, automation software, and fiber sensing solutions for subsea communications. He was awarded OSA’s 2021 Paul F. Forman Team Engineering Excellence Award and holds over 30...

Dr. Lothar Moeller is a research & development engineer with SubCom, where he focuses on nonlinear propagation phenomena and test and measurement technologies relevant to subsea telecommunication systems. Previously, he worked for Bell Labs Research, where he developed novel modulation and...

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...

Ronaldo Moidano, affiliated to Blue Marine Telecom– Zmax Blue Ship Group, Project Manager, graduated in Electrical Engineering, Post-graduated in Material Engineering, MBAs in Business Administration and Company Finances. 30 + years of experience working at Brazilian and multinational...

Maurizio joined Makai in 2014 as a Physicist in the Subsea Cable Software group. He attended Rutgers University, where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Physics.Maurizio supports the technical aspects of Makai's software development, as well as the product’s business development and...

Jan Petter Morten is working as Principal Engineer in the R&D department the ASN Norway office in Trondheim. The focus for his work is on DAS applications and signal processing. He received a PhD in theoretical physics in 2008 from NTNU, Norway.  He has experience in geophysical...

Kohei Nakamura received the B.E. degree in communication engineering from the Shibaura Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, in 2013 and joined NEC Corporation the same year. He is currently an Engineer with Submarine Network Division, where he is responsible for high-capacity submarine...

Sho Nakayama is an engineer in the OCC's Submarine Systems Division Engineering Department.He joined OCC's Submarine Systems Division in 2018.He received his M.S. from Hokkaido University in 2018.

Gwenn Nedelec is Project Management Officer Director for Southern Cross Cables Ltd, based in Auckland New Zealand. Gwenn joined SCCL in 2002. Gwenn was Project Director for the build of the new SXNEXT cable between Australia and the US, which became operational in July 2022.

Alexander Nikolaidis has been a Network Planner at Meta since 2015, where he specializes in long-term supply strategy, network design, and risk assessment.Prior to joining Meta, he worked for the Office of the CTO at Ciena, focusing on new technology modeling and network cost optimization.

Heiner Ottersberg is NSW Director Engineering of Prysmian Group. Heiner took a Diploma from the University of Emden in Electrical Engineering specializing in Telecom. Since 2001 Heiner has worked at Norddeutsche Seekabelwerke GmbH (NSW) took successively more senior roles in cable design, system...

Jol Paling is the CEO and founder of SubSea Networks Ltd., a subsea consulting company specialising innew build submarine cable projects. Jol has previously held executive and engineering positions in BT, STC,Alcatel Submarine Networks, Global Crossing and Level(3), before setting up SubSea...

Andy is responsible for marine engineering and planning of submarine cable systems at Meta, and serveson the Executive Committee of the International Submarine Cable Protection Committee. Andy has beenintricately involved in a dozen trans-oceanic cable builds over the last seven years. Prior to...

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...

Mounish Patel Principle EngineerSubmarine Systems Engineering at Vodafone. Been working in the Submarine Cable industry for over 25 years.

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 ...

Dr Philippe Perrier joined Meta’s Subsea Team as Submarine Cable Systems Engineer at the end of 2021 in Singapore. His main responsibilities include the successful delivery of submarine cable systems in APAC and to drive technology developments for the next generation of high-capacity submarine...

Philip Pilgrim lives in eastern Canada and is the Subsea Business Development Leader for Nokia in NorthAmerica. He also contributes to SubTel Forum’s bi-monthly magazine. In his over thirty years in thesubmarine telecoms industry, he has worked for subsea operators, suppliers, and consultants on...

Ulises R. Pin is a partner in the Telecommunications Media and Technology Group at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP, an international law firm. Mr. Pin represents US and foreign communications and technology companies on corporate, financial, and regulatory matters. Ulises represents clients before ...

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...

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...

Xiaoyong Qin, HMN Technologies Co., Ltd, system engineer, the main research field is Open Cable Access Equipment (OCAE).

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 ...

Alan Rand, Managing Director of AMSS Global Modular Solutions, is a senior executive with more than 30 years of successful modular experience. Alan has demonstrated expertise in all aspects of mission critical modular construction management for multi-million-dollar projects. Focused areas of...

Gustavo RegnicoliHead of Business Development at R&GAlways associated to optical networks and submarine dry plant, have operational management roles at Nortel Networks and Infinera, where played Regional Director role for LATAM.Understanding all operational perspectives, leading R&G...

Elizabeth Rivera Hartling is a Subsea Optical Network Architect at Meta, focused on optical transmissiontechnology and optimizing Meta’s Subsea Open Cable designs to build a scalable, high capacity, costeffectivesubsea network to meet growing bandwidth demands. Elizabeth has been designing and...

My name is Daniel Saathoff, 39 or 40 years old. Depending on the certain date of my oral presentation.After many years of military service,I graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering. During the studies, I came into contact with the submarine cable industry at Norddeutche Seekabelwerke...

Massimiliano Salsi is a network architect with Google. He has experience in submarine cable design, optical communications and digital signal processing.

Joerg is responsible for all operational aspects of Xtera’s business. As part of his role, he has driven the successful deployment of various submarine systems and upgrades. Prior to his current role he ran Xtera’s Systems Engineering group and was the driving force behind Xtera's entry into...

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 ...

Kristina is a PhD student at the SFI Centre for Geophysical Forecasting (CGF), Department of Electronic Systems, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). She is working on embedding optical polarization-based geophysical activity sensors in optical data communication systems. The...

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...

Seasoned Telecom Engineer with a demonstrated history of working for 30 Years in TelecommunicationsIndustry. Since last 18 Years working in the area of Optical Fibre Submarine Cable Systems-NetworkPlanning and Engineering, Project Management roles. Planned and Built the New Submarine Cable...

Nicole Starosielski is author or co-editor of over thirty articles and five books on media, infrastructure, and environments,including: The Undersea Network (2015), a book about the history and cultures of the subsea cable industry.Starosielski’s most recent project, Sustainable Subsea...

Dr. Igor Stouklov, a director of OFP Ltd,  has a number of advanced degrees in Physics, Optics, and Engineering from some of the world’s best technical schools and over 35 years of experience. He has co-founded 4 successful start-ups and has worked for several large public companies, with...

Jayne is the Senior Strategic Negotiator in Google’s Global Network Acquisition Group, where she has helpedlead subsea developments for the past 15 years. Jayne has led various submarine cable initiatives in mostparts of the world: North-South...

Tim Stronge is Vice President of Research at TeleGeography. His areas of expertise include internationalvoice traffic, terrestrial and submarine cable systems, and international bandwidth markets. Since joiningTeleGeography in 1996, Tim has served as a principal analyst in most areas of...

Tim Stuch is a Global Optical Architect for Meta, overseeing the design and build of several new Open Cable submarine systems and introducing new optical technologies in the Meta global network.  Working on subsea projects for the last 15 years, Tim has been designing, deploying, and operating IP...

This is Xianpu Su, and I have worked in HMN Technologies for over 12 years. As the project technical manager, I'm responsible for the network design, and implementation of technical solution during the delivery process of the submarine cable system. Besides of the experience of several...

Anjali Sugadev is the Law and Policy Lead for the Sustainable Subsea Networks project of the SubOptic Foundation. Anjali is also a consultant specializing in the policy challenges faced by subsea cable systems. She is a recipient of 2015 Rhodes Academy Submarine Cables Writing Award and has...

Ryota SuganumaJoined Kokusai Cable Ship Co., Ltd. in 2009Boarding a cable ship as a cable engineer.Also engaged in construction as a UJ Jointer and ROV operator.Also active as a project member to build a new cable ship.Manages construction projects for telecommunications cables now.

Hitoshi Takeshita received his B.E. and M.E. degrees in Electrical Engineering and information from the University of Tokyo, Japan in 1993 and 1995 and his Ph.D. degree in information and communication engineering from the University of Nagoya, Japan in 2019. In 1995, he joined NEC...

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...

Andrew Thompson is a Senior Engineer at Meta in the Edge & Network Services (ENS) Division. In his currentrole Andrew is part of the leadership team responsible for the strategic growth of the ENS within Meta ENSto improve reliability of the Network/Optical Operations &...

David Tossell graduated from the Danish Maritime University in Svendborg in 1984 as Master Mariner and served as officer in specialised vessels including salvage vessels before joining the Danish Cableship fleet.David has served as Captain in the ASN fleet up until 2007. With his transition to...

Pierre is passionate about tackling complex issues in a multi-disciplinary environment and he gets great satisfaction out of working with a team of experts to do what no one could have done on their own.   Submarine cable systems, with its multiple technical disciplines, international...

Gavin Tully has over 15 years of experience in the undersea telecommunications industry. He currently serves as managing partner at Pioneer Consulting, the full-service submarine fiber optic telecommunications consulting and project management company. Prior to becoming a partner in 2018, Tully...

Anders TysdalCTO of Infrastructure and Head of External AffairsTampnet

Giuseppe Valentino leads the Backbone & Infrastructure Solutions in Telecom Italia Sparkle - ProductManagement team. He joined the company in 2003 and he has held many senior positions.From 1996 to 2002 he worked for GTS/Ebone, a pioneer in IP and cross-border fiber backbonesdevelopment in...

Cedric Vandenweghe is Subsea Terminal Product Line Manager with over 20 years of experience in the submarine and terrestrial telecommunication technology industry. As a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff (DMTS) at NOKIA Bell Labs, he has been instrumental to design and deliver innovative WDM...

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 ...

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...

Dave Walters has 51 years of experience in cable transmission systems. As a Cambridge University physics graduate, he worked on the development of an electrical analogue transatlantic cable system and then took part in its marine installation in 1973. He later worked for 17 years at the STL...

Wang Yanpu joined HMN in 2008. Since then, he has been working on the research of submarine cabletransmission systems in the system integration laboratory. He is engaged in the design and verification oflarge capacity and long distance submarine system solutions. In recent years, he has been...

After a 10 year apprenticeship with Standard Telephone and Cables designing, manufacturing, installingand repairing systems worldwide, Gary was fortunate to be part of the creation of ASN. Gary led teamsdeveloping and manufacturing the first submarine optical amplifiers and associated wet...

Alasdair joined STC (now ASN) in 1985 having left Newcastle University with a degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. On leaving ASN he worked in C&W(Marine) then IT International Telecom, Flute Ltd, Hibernia Networks. Following a short tenure as Subsea Programme Director for Digicel...

Stuart joined the Global Marine Group, a leading worldwide submarine cable installation and maintenanceprovider, almost 25 years ago. Following other roles across the business including managing the Group’sAtlantic Cable Maintenance Agreement contract, since 2009 he has led the Route Engineering...

John is a Project Manager for the ICPC. His work involves managing ICPC Projects which further the aimsand objectives of the ICPC. He also manages the ICPC Recommendations and working as part of theSecretariat Team to support the ongoing work of the ICPC.He is also the Liaison Officer for ESCA (The ...

Hideki YAMAGUCHI received the B.S. degree in Systems Engineering from Shizuoka University, japan in 2001 and the M.S. degree in Basic Production Engineering from Toyota Technological Institute, Japan in 2003. In 2003, he joined Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Japan.

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...

Zhongwen’s research focuses on turning fiber-optic cables into seismic networks to study earthquakes andother subsurface processes. The goal is to help build safer and more sustainable communities by improvingearthquake early warning and ocean monitoring. Zhongwen received his PhD in 2013 from...

ZHANG Donghai, HMN Technologies, Business Development Director.More than 18 years of experience in telecommunication domain, both in terrestrial network and submarine network, familiar with Ethernet, transmission network and IP. Focused on submarine cable industry from 2008, have significant...

Zhen LI has 12-year experience as a Route Engineer / Client Reps / Survey Manager / carrying out route engineering, Desktop Study, inshore and offshore geophysical & geotechnical surveys, burial assessment survey and DTS & survey manager for projects in...

Zhenfei Qi, Working in HMN Technologies Co., Ltd, my country in Tianjin, China.  hardware engineer and 5 years working experience in submarine cable system design, participated in the development project of Branch Unit and Repeater. Leading the technical research of 18kV high-voltage switching...

Benyuan Zhu is a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff (DMTS) at OFS Laboratories, where he currently focuses on DWDM transmission, new fibres and amplifier technologies development. He joined Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies in Holmdel, NJ USA as an MTS in 1999, then became MTS at OFS Labs...