Ronana Bracken Service Requirements Program Director, Broadcom Forum
Service Requirements Program Director at the Broadband Forum, where he leads a services-led approach to network standards, mapping end-customer requirements (B2C, B2B, B2B2x) to network standards. He brings over 25 years in telecom, including product management, business development, and standards leadership across the Broadband Forum, TM Forum, and Incognito Software (Lumine Group). His background spans FTTH, cloud-native automation, and service activation
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Marcus Brunner Vice-Chair ETSI ISG F5G
Chief Expert Standardization, WBBA WG Chair and Vice-Chair ETSI ISG F5G. He received his Ph.D. from ETH Zurich in 1999. He is active in research, development, and standardization with detailed experience in a variety of fields in telecommunication and IT (Fixed Broadband, Cloud, mobile 5G). He is contributing to various international organizations on future networking technologies including the World Broadband Association and ETSI ISG F5G.
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Philippe Chanclou
Fixed Access Networks Team Manager, Orange
Philippe Chanclou received the Ph. D. and Habilitation degrees in 1999 and 2007. Since 2004, he joined Orange Labs where he was engaged in research on the next generation optical access networks. He is manager of Fixed Access Networks team which involves on FTTx topics for Home, Enterprise and Cell site and fiber sensing.
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Frank Effenberger Rapporteur of ITU-T Q2/15
Fellow at Futurewei Technologies and Rapporteur of ITU-T Q2/15. Dr. Effenberger has worked in the optical access field for over 35 years at Bellcore, Quantum Bridge Communications (Motorola), and Futurewei Technologies, where he is now the Fellow for fixed access network technology. His team works on forward-looking fiber access technologies and has played a foundational role in the development of all the major PON systems in use today. These systems are responsible for delivering fiber broadband to over 1 billion users worldwide. Frank is the rapporteur for ITU-T Q2/15, is a Fellow of the OSA and the IEEE, and holds 140 US patents.
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 Luiz Anet Neto
Professor, IMT Atlantic
Associate professor at IMT Atlantique in the Optics Department. He received the M.Sc. degree in Photonic Systems from U. Federal Fluminense, Brazil. He also holds a M.Sc. in Physics and Photonics from ENSTB, Brest, France, and a Ph.D. degree by the Université de Limoges after working as an R&D engineer at Orange Labs, Lannion, France. His research interests include advanced optical modulation schemes, digital signal processing techniques, WDM(A)/TDM(A)/FDM(A) solutions for next generation passive optical networks, and the impacts of virtualization.
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Yuan Liquan Fixed network standard Team Manager, ZTE
Manager of Fixed network standard team, leading the research on standardization of Optical network and home network. He continuously promotes ITU-T SG15/Broadband Forum/CCSA/IEEE 802.3/WAA standards. Since 2006, Dr. Yuan has contributed to Optical access Network specifications, for example XG-PON/XGS-PON/50G-PON, 10G-EPON/25/50G-EPON, TR101/TR156. He is the WAA Deputy Secretary-General.
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Bhushan Padhiar FSAN Vice Chair
Principal Member of Technical Staff at AT&T, driving broadband strategy and AI-enabled network innovation. He leads the evaluation and adoption of next-generation access technologies that deliver multi-gigabit connectivity and autonomous broadband operations. Bhushan currently serves as FSAN Vice-Chair and ITU VHSP Editor , helping shape future ITU standards for broadband technologies beyond 50GS-PON.
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Qinghua Tian
Professor, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Doctoral supervisor at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT). Her research and teaching interests lie in optical communications and artificial intelligence, with a focus on optical access networks and free-space optical communications. She has led or participated in more than 20 national, provincial, ministerial, and industry-funded research projects. She has published over 100 academic papers in major domestic and international journals and conferences.
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 Ning Wang
Senior Engineer, China Mobile
Senior Engineer, Department of Fundamental Network Technology, China Mobile Research Institute. Dr. Ning Wang received his PhD degree in optics and photonics from University of Central Florida in 2020. He then joined China Mobile Research Institute working on research and standardization of next generation optical access networks. His interests include high-speed PON, FTTR, optoelectronic devices and nonlinear fiber optics. He has published over 30 journal papers and conference proceedings.
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