 Vince Ferretti
Senior Standards Manager, Global Technical & Industry Standards, Corning Incorporated
Vince Ferretti, Senior Standards Manager, Global Technical & Industry Standards, is responsible for the development, coordination and communication of Corning’s standards strategy across Corning’s optical fiber, cabling, connectivity and wireless systems and products. Vince joined Corning in 1993 and has extensive experience in product management, engineering, sales, marketing, market development and strategy, while working in a diverse and global environment. His roles within Corning have spanned Corning’s Japan, OEM, carrier and enterprise market segments, the majority spent in FTTH, Wireless and LAN applications. He joined Corning’s Standards team in 2018. Vince currently represents Corning and the United States as Assistant Secretary of TC 86, and in IEC SC86A (Fiber and Cable), IEC SC86C (Sensors), IEC SC46 JW8 (Hybrid Cables), and ISCO TC22 SC32 WG10 (Automotive Optical Connectivity). He is the liaison officer between IEC SC86A and IEEE 802.3, IEC SC86C and ITU-T SG15, and IEC TC86 and ISO TC22 SC32. He manages Corning participation in IEEE 802.3 study groups/task forces (Optical Access and Ethernet Transport Systems). Vince serves as Promotion and Coordination Vice-Chair and Associate Rapporteur of Q5 for ITU-T Study Group 15. He actively participates in the following ITU-T Questions (Q2, Q5, Q6, Q7, Q8). Prior to joining Corning, Vince was an US Naval officer and nuclear engineer serving in the US submarine force.
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Takashi Matsui
Group Leader, Access Network Service Systems Laboratories, NTT Inc
Dr. Takashi Matsui is currently a Distinguished Researcher and Group leader at Access Network Service Systems Laboratories, NTT, Inc., working on advanced optical fiber and cable technologies including optical fibers for the space division multiplexing. He has been actively involved in international standardization activities in ITU-T SG15 and IEC TC86 and serves as a Program Chair at OFC2026.
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 Alexis Carbo Mesegue
Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN)
Alexis Carbó Meseguer joined Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN) in 2018 after completing his Ph.D. at Nokia Bell Labs and Télécom SudParis. At ASN, his work focused first on the physical characterization and performance optimization of optical fiber transmission systems, including the study of Signal Droop, GAWBS, and EEPN effects in long-haul links, as well as the development of automation techniques to streamline subsea open cable commissioning. Also, he has been deeply involved in the modeling and experimental validation of optical amplifiers, proposing a digital-twin-based framework to accurately predict submarine cable capacity. More recently, Alexis led groundbreaking experiments demonstrating the world’s longest transmission using a 2-core multicore fiber (MCF), reaching a record distance of 20,512 km, thus validating its feasibility for transoceanic systems. His research also encompasses the study of emerging fiber technologies, particularly the comparative analysis of multicore and hollow-core fibers, to assess their potential for future high-capacity submarine networks. In 2022, he was named Distinguished Member of Technical Staff (DMTS) by Nokia, recognizing his outstanding technical contributions to Network Infrastructure development.
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 Paulo Serra
Head of Innovation Management, ANACOM
Paulo Serra has over 30 years of experience in the telecommunications sector. Currently Head of Innovation Management at ANACOM, the Portuguese National Regulatory Authority, he leads a multidisciplinary team that fosters innovation across key areas of the digital ecosystem — including submarine cables, data centres, artificial intelligence, virtual worlds, quantum technologies, and 5G/6G — in alignment with ANACOM’s regulatory mission. At the beginning of his career at ANACOM, he played a pivotal role in significant developments within Portugal’s communications landscape, such as the introduction of digital terrestrial television and 3G networks. He later dedicated a decade to European and international regulatory fora, including direct support to the BEREC presidency in 2015. From 2016 to 2022, he coordinated ANACOM’s QoS Unit, overseeing networks performance and user experience metrics across the communications sector. Before joining ANACOM, Paulo held commercial and marketing positions at France Telecom and Telecom Italia. He holds a degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering (Telecommunications and Electronics), an MBA, and a Master’s in Business Administration.
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Lei Shen
YOFC
Lei Shen is a senior expert of Yangtze Optical Fiber and Cable Joint Stock Limited Company, Wuhan, Hubei province. He is also working in the State key Laboratory of Optical Fiber and Cable Manufacture technology. His group is focus on the design, fabrication and measurement of new optical fiber and cable products for outside plant, indoor, and FTTH applications. He received his Ph.D. degree in Experimental mechanics from Huazhong university of science and technology.
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Patrick Tourreau
Director of Engineering, Photon Kinetics
Patrick Tourreau is the Director of Engineering at Photon Kinetics Inc. (USA). He holds a degree of Engineering in Physics from ESPCI, Paris, and a Master in Electronics and Signal Processing from the University of Paris 6. He has spent his career dedicated to the development of high performance optical and optoelectronics instrumentation in both France and the USA. For the last 18 years, Patrick has worked on the development of automated test systems for the complete characterization of standard and specialty optical fibers (e.g., spectral attenuation, cutoff wavelength, geometry, MFD, DMD, etc.). Most recently he has been focused on solving the unique measurement challenges posed by multicore optical fibers. Patrick is also an active participant in the fiber measurement standardization activities ongoing in both the IEC and TIA.
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 Yoshifumi Wakisaka
Associate Distinguished Researcher, NTT
Yoshifumi Wakisaka joined NTT Access Network Service Systems Laboratories, Ibaraki, Japan, 2017. He is currently an Associate Distinguished Researcher. His research interest focuses on optical fiber sensing technology, specifically distributed acoustic sensing. He is a member of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) of Japan and the Japan Society of Applied Physics (JSAP).
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Jun Shan Wey
Associate Fellow, Verizon
Jun Shan Wey is an Associate Fellow in Technology Standards Planning at Verizon. Her work focuses on industry standards ecosystem development for optical access and transport networks, representing Verizon in ITU-T SG15, FSAN, and ATIS. Along with serving as ITU-T SG15 Q2 Associate Rapporteur and WP1 Coordinator, she is the editor of G.dfos Recommendation and co-editor of G.suppl.VHSP supplement. Shan is a Fellow of OPTICA and Senior Member of IEEE. She received a B.S. from the National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan and Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, College Park, both in Electrical Engineering.
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