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, ADVA, 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
Luis Velasco, Full 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.
Paul Anthony Haigh, Development Engineer, Toshiba Europe Limited, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Paola Iovanna, Principal Researcher, Ericksson, Italy
Derek Nesset, Huawei Technologies, Munich Research Centre, Germany 
Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas (Thas), University of Melbourne, Australia

Workshops