CIOE 
Sept 5-8, 2018 – Shenzhen, China
Sept 6, 11:30am-12:05pm – Industry Invited Speech
Presenter: Cathy Liu, OIF Board Member, Broadcom
NGON & DCI Europe 
June 26-28, 2018 – Nice, France
Tuesday, June 26, 10:00am-12:00pm – OIF Workshop
Presenters: Dave Brown, Nokia, OIF President; Karl Gass, OIF PLL WG Vice Chair-Optical, Dave Ofelt, Juniper, OIF PLL WG Vice Chair – Protocol; Lyndon Ong, Ciena, OIF MA&E Committee Co-Chair-Networking; Jonathan Sadler, Coriant, OIF VP and Networking Interoperability WG Chair
Wednesday, June 27, 2018, 9:40am-10:00am – Keynote – OIF 2018 SDN T-API Interop Demo Read-Out
Presenter: Juan Pedro Fernandez – Head of Unit, Telefonica
OptiNet China 2018 
June 13-14, 2018 – Beijing, China
Tuesday, June 13 – “OIF Interop – the Key to Unlocking the Benefits of SDN T-API“
Presenter: Junjie Li, OIF Network Operator Working Group Chair, China Telecom
OFC 2018 
Mar 13-15, 2018 – San Diego, CA, USA
Tuesday, Mar 13, Theater III – OIF Panel – Enabling the Key Applications for Transport SDN
Moderator: Dave Brown, OIF President, Nokia
Presenter: Lyndon Ong, OIF MA&E Committee Co-Chair-Networking, Ciena; Jonathan Sadler, OIF VP and Networking Interoperability WG Chair, Coriant; Ricard Vilalta, Centre Tecnologic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC, Spain).
Thursday, Mar 15, Theater II – OIF Panel – 400G Coherent: What Does it Mean to You?
Moderator: Karl Gass, OIF PLL WG Vice Chair-Optical
Presenters: Sudeep Bhoja, Inphi; Tad Hofmeister, OIF Board Member, Google; Winston Way, NeoPhotonics; Tom Williams, Acacia Communications
DesignCon 2018 
Jan 31-Feb 1, 2018 – Santa Clara, CA, USA
Panel: CEI-112G: Every. Last. Thing. Matters.
Moderator: Nathan Tracy, OIF VP Marketing, TE Connectivity
Speakers: David Stauffer, OIF PLL WG Chair, Kandou Bus SA, Steve Sekel, OIF PLL Interop WG Chair, Keysight Technologies, Ed Frlan, OIF TC Vice Chair, Semtech
Knect 365 Next Generation Optical Networking USA 
Oct 23-24, 2017 – San Francisco, CA, USA
Making Transport SDN a Reality
Speaker: Lyndon Ong, OIF MA&E Committe Co-Chair – Networking
Layer123 SDN NFV World Congress 
Oct 9-10, 2017 – The Hague, Netherlands
Applications for Transport SDN Automation
Speaker: Abel Tong, Ciena, OIF Rep
OptiNet China 2017 
June 13-14, 2017 – Beijing, People’s Republic of China
OIF Interop – the Key to Unlocking Benefits of SDN
Speaker: Junjie Li, OIF Board Member, China Telecom
L123 NFV World Congress 2017 
May 2-5, 2017 – San Jose, CA
OIF Interop and NFV: The Transport API NFV Proof of Concept
Speaker: Lyndon Ong, OIF MA&E Co-Chair – Networking, Ciena
MPLS+SDN+NFV World Congress 2017 
March 21-24, 2017 – Paris, France
OIF Interop – The Key to Unlocking the Benefits of SDN
Speaker: Christoph Alter, OIF Carrier WG Rep, Orange
OFC 2017 
March 21-23, 2017 – Los Angeles, CA, USA
Expo Theater III
Enabling Next Generation Physical Layer Solutions
Moderator: Steve Sekel, Keysight, OIF PLL Interoperability WG Chair
Panelists: Ed Frlan, Semtech, OIF Technical Committee Vice Chair – A CEI-56G Overview; Karl Gass, OIF PLL WG Optical Vice Chair – Accelerating Deployment of Coherent Optical Solutions; Tad Hofmeister, Google, OIF Representative – FlexE: Ethernet Adjacencies Sized as Needed
Expo Theater III
OIF Interop – The Key to Unlocking the Benefits of SDN
Moderator: Dave Brown, OIF President, Nokia
Panelists: Victor Lopez, Demo Participant, Telefonica, OIF Representative; Lyndon Ong, Ciena, OIF MA&E Committee Co-Chair – Networking; Jonathan Sadler, Coriant, OIF Board Member and Networking Interoperability WG Chair
DesignCon 2017 
January 31-February 2, 2017 – Santa Clara, CA, USA
CEI-112G: The Next Wave of Electrical Interfaces
Moderator: Nathan Tracy, OIF VP Marketing, TE Connectivity
Panelists: Ed Frlan, OIF Physical & Link Layer Working Group Chair, Semtech; Brian Holden, OIF MA&E Committee Co-Chair PLL, Kandou Bus; Tom Palkert, OIF Physical & Link Layer Working Group Vice Chair – Electrical, Macom;
Broadband World Forum 
October 18-20, 2016 – London, UK
OIF Topic: Control Plane Interoperability – towards open optical networks
Speaker: Christophe Alter, OIF Carrier Working Group Rep, Orange
IIR Next Generation Optical Networking USA
October 11-12, 2016 – Palo Alto, CA, USA
OIF Topic: OIF Interop – The Key to Unlocking the Benefits of SDN
Speaker: Lyndon Ong, OIF Market Awareness & Education Committee co-chair, Ciena
Layer123 SDN and OpenFlow World Congress
October 10-14, 2016 – The Hague, Netherlands
OIF Topic: OIF Interop – The Key to Unlocking the Benefits of SDN
Speaker: Christophe Alter, OIF Carrier Working Group Rep, Orange
EA TEF 2016 – The Road to Ethernet 2026
September 29, 2016 – Santa Clara, CA, USA
Panel: Ethernet Flexes Its Ports
Panelist: Tom Issenhuth, OIF Board Member, Microsoft
Panel: Are Standardized Ethernet Optics Obsolete
Panelist: Nathan Tracy, OIF Technical Committee Chair, TE Connectivity
ECOC – Market Focus 2016 
September 20, 2016 – Dusseldorf, Germany
OIF Interop – The Key to Unlocking the Benefits of SDN
Speaker: Nathan Tracy, OIF Technical Committee Chair, TE Connectivity
IIR Next Generation Optical Networking Europe 
June 28-July 1, 2016 – Nice, France
June 30, 2016 – 12:00pm-1:10pm
Session: Beyond 100G: Optimizing Capacity and Reach with ROADMS, Flexgrid and Super Channels
OIF Topic: Defining Requirements and Specifications for 400G & all Modulations – 200G, 300G, 500G etc.
Speaker: Karl Gass, OIF Physical & Link Layer Working Group Vice Chair – Optical
July 1, 2016 – 9:00am-10:45am
Session: Transport SDN & NFV – What Does It Mean for Optical Networking?
OIF Topic: Transport SDN Deployment – A Starter Kit
Speaker: Karl Gass, OIF
21st European Conference on Networks and Optical Communications (NOC)
June 1-3, 2016 – Lisbon, Portugal
Industrial Session on Transport SDN
OIF Topic: The Importance of Rich APIs in Transport SDN
Speaker: Jonathan Sadler, OIF Technical Committee Vice Chair and Interim Networking Interoperability Working Group Chair, Coriant
L123 NFV World Congress 
April 19-22, 2016 – San Jose, CA, USA
Virtual Transport Network Services – a framework for transport network virtualization using SDN
Speaker: Lyndon Ong, OIF Market Awareness & Education Committee co-chair, Ciena
IIR Next Generation Optical Networking Latin America 
April 6-7, 2016 – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Accelerating the Deployment of Practical, Programmable Transport Networks
Speaker: Juliano Rodrigues Fernandes deOliveira, OIF Carrier Working Group member, CPqD
FOE 2016 
April 6-8, 2016 – Tokyo, Japan
Optical Module Points of Standardization
Speaker: Karl Gass, OIF Physical & Link Layer Working Group Vice Chair – Optical
OFC 2016 
March 22-24, 2016 – Anaheim, CA, USA
Booth #3619
Expo Theater II
CEI-56G – Signal Integrity to the Forefront
Moderator: Nathan Tracy, TE Connectivity, OIF Technical Committee Chair
Panelists: Tom Palkert, Molex, OIF Physical & Link Layer Working Group Vice Chair – Electrical; Steve Sekel, Keysight Technologies, OIF Physical & Link Layer Interoperability Working Group Chair; Dave Stauffer, Kandou Bus, S.A., OIF Physical & Link Layer Working Group Chair
Expo Theater III
Transport SDN – Getting Down to Business
Moderator: Dave Brown, Nokia, OIF Vice President – Marketing
Panelists: Lyndon Ong, Ciena, OIF MA&E Committee Co-Chair – Networking; Jonathan Sadler, Coriant, OIF Technical Committee Vice Chair; Vishnu Shukla, Verizon, OIF Carrier Working Group Chair
Open Networking Summit 2016
March 14-17, 2016 – Santa Clara, CA, USA
Toolkit for Transport SDN Deployment
Speaker: Lyndon Ong, OIF Market Awareness & Education Committee co-chair, Ciena
IEEE GLOBECOM 2015
December 8, 2015 – 4:15pm-6:00pm – San Diego, CA, USA
Gearing up for Transport SDN Deployment – a starter kit for early adopters
Moderator: Dave Brown, Alcatel-Lucent, OIF VP of Marketing
Panelists: Lyndon Ong, Ciena, OIF MA&E Committee Co-Chair, Networking; Jonathan Sadler, Coriant, OIF Technical Committee Co-Chair; Vishnu Shukla, Verizon, OIF Carrier Working Group Chair
Carrier Network Virtualization
December 2, 2015 – 2:20pm-2:40pm – Palo Alto, CA, USA
Addressing the Interoperability Question
Speaker: Lyndon Ong, Ciena, OIF MA&E Committee Co-Chair, Networking
ONF Webinar with OIF: Solving Interoperability & Operations Issues — The Guide to SDN for Optical Networks
December 2, 2015 – 10:00am-11:00am
Panelists: Dave Brown, Alcatel-Lucent and OIF VP of Marketing; Lyndon Ong, Ciena and OIF Market Awareness & Education Committee Co-Chair; Vishnu Shukla, Verizon, OIF Carrier Working Group Chair
Moderated by Roy Chua of SDxCentral.
LR Next-Generation Network Components
November 5, 2015 – 11:45am-12:45pm – Santa Clara, CA, USA
Data Center Interconnects Panel: The Plumbing Between & Inside Systems
Panelist: Tom Palkert, OIF PLL WG – Electrical, Vice Chair
L123 SDN & OpenFlow World Congress
October 12-16, 2015 – Dusseldorf, Germany
Transport SDN Deployment Toolkit
OIF Panel: Lyndon Ong, Ciena, OIF MA&E Co-Chair – Networking; Vishnu Shukla, Verizon, OIF Carrier Working Group Chair
IIR WDM & Next Generation Optical Networking USA
October 7, 2015 – Dallas, TX, USA
9:20am-9:40am
The OIF and Carrier SDN: Accelerating the Deployment of Practical, Programmable Transport Networks
Speaker: Dave Brown, Alcatel-Lucent, OIF VP of Marketing
10:05am-10.35am
The Big Debate: What Does the Optical Industry want to see from SDN and Virtualisation vs What can SDN & Virtualisation Industry Deliver to the Optical Industry?
Panelist: Dave Brown, Alcatel-Lucent, OIF VP of Marketing
ECOC 2015
Valencia, Spain
September 28, 2015 – 2:05pm-2:35pm – Market Focus Theater
OIF’s CEI 56G Interfaces – Key Building Blocks for Optics in Next Generation 400G Data Centers
Speaker: Ed Frlan, Semtech, OIF Physical and Link Layer Interoperability Working Group Chair
September 29, 2015 – 1:35pm-2:05pm – Market Focus Theater
Gearing up for transport-SDN deployment A starter kit for early adopters
Christophe Betoule, Orange and Jonathan Sadler, Coriant, OIF Technical Committee Vice Chair
IIR WDM & Next Generation Optical Networking Europe
June 24, 2015 – Nice, France
Speaker: John McDonough, NEC, OIF Vice President
Light Reading’s Big Telecom Event 
June 9-10, 2015 – Chicago, IL, USA
OIF Workshop: Gearing Up For Transport SDN Deployment
TIA 2015: Network of the Future 
June 2-4, 2015 – Dallas, TX, USA
Panelist: Vishnu Shukla, Verizon, OIF President
L123 SDN & OpenFlow Asia-Pacific Congress
May 26-28, 2015 – Singapore
Recent Developments in Transport SDN
Speaker: Junjie Li, China Telecom, OIF Board Member
Fiber Optics Expo 2015
Tokyo, Japan
April 9, 2015 – 1:30pm-4:00pm
Enabling 400Gb/s Data Center with OIF CEI-56G Electronic Interface Technologies
Speakers:
Nathan Tracy, TE Connectivity, OIF Technical Committee Chair;
Tom Palkert, MoSys, OIF Physical & Link Layer Working Group Vice Chair – Electrical Vice Chair
