Invited talks

• Invited talk at the The Global Experimentation for Future Internet (GEFI) meeting in Tokyo, Oct. 2018. Title of the talk: “CONNECT’s view on virtualisation: Testbeds, experimentation and future plans“.
• Invited tutorial at the Asian Conference on Photonic Communicaiotns (ACP), Oct. 2018. Title of the talk: “Virtualising the central office from the network functions down to the optical layer”, paper S4E.1.
• Invited tutorial at the European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC), Sept. 2018. Title of the talk: “Moving the Network to the Cloud: Multi-Tenant and Multi-Service Cloud Central Office“, paper We4D.1.
• Invited talk at theIEEE Photonics Society Summer Topicals conference, July 2018. Title of the talk: “From central office cloudification to optical network disaggregation“.
• Keynote talk at the workshop on “Mathematical Techniques in Optical Networks”, Eindhoven, Netherlands, April 16-18. Title of the talk: “The virtualisation of telecommunications networks and its effect on optical networking”.
• Keynote talk at the CPqD workshop on “Optical-Wireless Convergent Networks and 5G”, Campinas, SP, Brazil, 10th November 2017. Title of the talk: “Network convergence in future 5G networks”.
• Keynote talk at the Workshop on Optical-Wireless Convergent Networks Joining Brazilian and European Researchers and Network Operators, Ministry of Communications, Brasilia, DF, Brazil, 1st June 2017. Title of the talk: “Network convergence for high performance and sustainable 5G networks“.
• Invited as team leader for the OFC Workshop “OFCity Challenge”, held in L.A., CA, in March 2017.
• Invited talk at CommNet2, Future Networks Workshop, Middlesex University London, 16th January 2017 on “Optical Networks in the 5G era“.
• Invited tutorial at OFC, March 2016 on “Converged Metro-Access“.
• Invited as team leader for the OFC Workshop “OFCity Challenge”, held in Anaheim, CA, in March 2016.
• Keynote speaker for the IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference, Jan 2016, Las Vegas.