Keynotes
João Pedro, Senior Principal Engineer, Infinera, Portugal
Dimitra Simeonidou, Full Professor, University of Bristol, Co-Director of the Bristol Digital Futures Institute and the Director of Smart Internet Lab, United Kingdom
Helmut Griesser, Director of Advanced Technology,  ADVA Network Security,  Germany

Tutorials
Marija Furdek, Assistant Professor, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
Vittorio Curri, Full Professor at the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Biswanath Mukherjee, Distinguished Professor, University of California, Davis, USA

Invited
Marc Ruiz Ramírez, Assistant Professor, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Andrea Sgambelluri, Assistant Professor at TeCIP Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy
John P. Eason, Network Modeling and Optimization Engineer, Meta , USA
Paulo P. Monteiro, Associate Professor, University of Aveiro, Institute of Telecommunications, Portugal
Marina Settembre, Senior Researcher, Scientific Direction, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Rome, Italy
Yongli Zhao, Professor, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
Alejandra Beghelli, Lecturer of Optical Communications and Networks, Optical Networks group, Electronic & Electrical Engineering Department, University College London, United Kingdom
Ben Puttnam, Chief Senior Researcher, Photonic Network Laboratory, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan
Juliana de Santi, Federal University of Technology – Paraná (UTFPR), Curitiba, PR, Brazil.
Piero Castoldi, Professor at TeCIP Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy
Derek Nesset, Optical Access Research and Standards, Huawei Technologies, UK
Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas (Thas), Professor, Deputy Dean Research, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, The University of Melbourne, Australia

Workshops