UPCOMING EVENTS
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DesignCon 2025
January 28-30, 2025 – Santa Clara, CA
OIF Panel: “OIF Update on 224 Gbps & 448 Gbps Common Electrical I/O (CEI) Development”
Wednesday, January 29, 2025 – 4pm-5:15pm PT – Ballroom C
Moderator: Nathan Tracy, OIF President, TE Connectivity
Panelists: Cathy Liu, OIF VP, Broadcom; Mike Li, OIF Board Member, Intel; Srinivas Venkataraman, Meta; John Calvin, Keysight and Nathan Tracy
OIF Panel: “Energy Efficient Interfaces for the Next Generation of AI Compute”
Thursday, January 30, 2025 – 1:15pm-2pm – Chiphead Theater
Moderator: Jeff Hutchins, OIF PLL WG EEI Vice Chair and Secretary/Treasurer, Ranovus
Panelists: Mike Klempa, OIF PLL Interoperability WG Chair, Alphawave Semi; Sam Kocsis, OIF Technical Committee Vice Chair, Amphenol; Nathan Tracy, OIF President, TE Connectivity and Jeff Hutchins
OFC 2025
April 1-3, 2025 – San Francisco, CA
OIF Panel: “Coherent Optics Unleashed: 400ZR Success to 800ZR/LR Advancements and 1600ZR/ZR+ Kick-off – An OIF Update”
Wednesday, April 2, 2025 – 4pm-5pm – Theater I
Moderator: Karl Gass, OIF PLL WG Optical Vice Chair
OIF Panel: “Optical Interconnects for AI”
Thursday, April 3, 2025 – 12:30pm-1:30pm – Theater II
Moderator: Tom Issenhuth, OIF MA&E Committee Co-Chair PLL, Huawei
Panelists: Ashkan Seyedi, Nvidia; Chris Cole, Coherent; Jeff Hutchins, OIF PLL WG EEI Vice Chair and Secretary/Treasurer, Ranovus; Tom Palkert, OIF Editor, MACOM
RECENT EVENTS
October 22-23, 2024 – Santa Clara, CA
TEF Panel Slot: “The State of the Today’s Industry’s SDO’ and MSA’s”
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
Panelist: Nathan Tracy, OIF President and Board Member, TE Connectivity – “OIF Addresses the Paths to Next Generation AI”
TEF Panel Slot: “Considerations for next generation AI compute interconnect”
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
Panelist: Jeff Hutchins, OIF PLL WG EEI Vice Chair and Board Member, Ranovus – “Considerations for Next Generation AI Compute Interconnect”
TEF Panel Slot: “Exploration of AI Interconnect”
Tuesday, October 22, 2024 – 3:55pm PDT
Panelist: Cathy Liu, OIF Board Member, Broadcom Inc. – “Performance Analysis at 400+ Gbps Over Next Generation VSR Channels”
TEF Panel Slot: “The Future of Electrical Signaling”
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
Panelist: Mike Li, OIF Board Member, Intel – “Electrical I/O at 448 Gbps”
TEF Panel Slot: “Industry SDO’s and MSA’s – Going Forward”
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
Panelist: Nathan Tracy, OIF President and Board Member, TE Connectivity
October 22, 2024 – Webinar
“Making IP over DWDM a Reality” – Working with partners including OIF, Heavy Reading has launched an Industry Initiative project aimed at making the case for IP over DWDM adoption, particularly among CSPs. In this special webinar, Heavy Reading and project partners dive into the details of IP over DWDM architectures, including opportunities, challenges, use cases and enabling hardware and software technologies.
Tuesday, October 22
Presenter: Ian Alderdice, OIF Physical and Link Layer (PLL) Working Group Management Co-Vice Chair, Ciena
October 15-17, 2024 – San Jose, California
Summit Session: “Standards Update: Reducing Optical Power Consumption”
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
Presenter: Nathan Tracy, OIF President and Board Member, TE Connectivity
October 8-10, 2024 – Paris, France
OIF Speaking Slot: “Pluggable Coherent Optics – The New Frontier, An OIF Update”
Thursday, October 10, 2024
Presenter: Dave Brown, OIF Director of Communications, Nokia
October 9, 2024 – Webinar
“Network Path State Machine”
Wednesday, October 9, 2024
Presenter: Eric Maniloff, Ciena

September 23-25, 2024 – Frankfurt, Germany
OIF Speaking Slot: “Coherent Optics in the Datacenter”
Monday, September 23, 2024
Presenter: Karl Gass, OIF PLL WG Optical Vice Chair
OIF Speaking Slot: “CMIS – Is Plug-and-Play Possible?”
Monday, September 23, 2024
Presenter: Doug Cattarusa, OIF Editor, Cisco
OIF Speaking Slot: “Energy Efficient Interfaces for the Next Generation of AI Compute”
Tuesday, September 24, 2024
Presenter: Jeff Hutchins, OIF PLL WG EEI Vice Chair and Board Member, Ranovus