Google’s Vinton Cerf to Keynote Executive Forum

Dr. Vinton Cerf of Google will keynote the 2010 Executive Forum on March 22, co-sponsored by the Optical Society (OSA) and Lightwave, and held in conjunction with OFC/NFOEC 2010 in San Diego. This year’s forum, “Technology Innovations and Business Transformations; Optical Communications in 2010 and Beyond,” will provide industry executives with networking opportunities, and insights and analysis from the field's leading business and financial experts on tomorrow's trends and opportunities.

Cerf is known as the “father of the Internet” and currently serves as vice president and chief Internet evangelist at Google. In his keynote address, Cerf will provide a macro view of how the Internet and broadband technology have provided a platform for global innovation. He will address how today's climate and tomorrow's needs will drive future requirements and policies to help ensure the benefits of a broadband society are made available to the greatest number of people in a dynamic environment that continues to foster innovation.

Additional Executive Forum topics to be discussed by industry leaders at Sun Microsystems, Opnext, Finisar, EMCORE Corporation, Sierra Monolithics, Inc. and Mintera Corporation include demand for 40G – 100G technology, worldwide perspectives on broadband stimulus and views from Wall Street.