Program at a Glance

Thursday 30, July 2026
Event
 Time(JST)
 Presentation
Exhibition
12:00 - 18:00

Showcase
12:00-12:45
Registration & Exhibition
12:45 - 14:00
 iPOP Plenary
 Presider: Hiroaki Harai, NICT, Japan

Opening Address
 Naoaki Yamanaka, General Co-Chair, Keio University, Japan
 Bijan Jabbari, General Co-Chair, ISOCORE, USA(Online)
 Toshihiko Tamura, General Co-Chair, NTT, Inc., Japan
Keynote
  K-1 "Why Coherent Pluggables Drive the Next Infrastructure Transformation for AI"
       Dr. Masahisa Kawashima, NTT, Inc., Japan
iPOP Program Introduction
  iPOP Technical Program Committee Secretary: Takehiro Sato, Kyoto University, Japan
iPOP Exhibition Introduction
  iPOP Exhibition Committee Co-Chair: Akihiro Nakamura, VIAVI Solutions, Japan
Local Arrangement
  iPOP Local Arrangement Chair
14:00-14:30
 Showcase Presentation
  Interop Showcase Committee Co-Chair:
        Yusuke Hirota, NICT, Japan
        Kenichi Baba, Kogakuin University, Japan
        Shinya Nakamura, Marubun Corporation, Japan
14:30 - 16:00
 Invited Talk Session (1):
 Chair: Rie Hayashi, NTT, Inc., Japan

  I1-1 Mr. Junichi Sugiyama, 1FINITY Inc., Japan
  I1-2 Mr. Kazunori Mukasa, Lightera Japan Co., Ltd., Japan
  I1-3 Mr. Mingqi Wu, NEC Corporation, Japan
16:00-16:30
Break & Exhibition
16:30-18:00
 Invited Talk Session (2):
  Chair: Takehiro Tsuritani, KDDI Research, Inc., Japan

  I2-1 Mr. Takahito Tanimura, Hitachi, Ltd., Japan
  I2-2 Prof. Takashi Kurimoto, National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan
  I2-3 Dr. Hideki Nishizawa, NTT, Inc., Japan

18:00-18:10
Break
18:10-20:00
Reception

Friday 31, July 2026
Event
 Time(JST)
 Presentation
Exhibition
9:00 - 15:00

Showcase
9:00-9:15
 Special Plenary Address:
 Presider: Naoaki Yamanaka, Keio University, Japan

  SP1-1"International Collaborations Spearheading OpenROADM Multi-Source Agreement Technologies"
       Prof. Andrea Fumagalli, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA (Online)
9:15-10:00
 iPOP Plenary
 Presider: Kohei Shiomoto, Tokyo City University, Japan

Keynote
  K-2 "OpenROADM Technology in Support of the IOWN Global Forum Mission"
       Mr. Junichi Kawasaki, KDDI Research, Inc., Japan
10:00-11:00
Break & Exhibition
11:00-12:00
 Sponsor Session
  Chair: Yoichi Sato, Open Systems Laboratory, Japan

  B-1 Toshiya Matsuda, NTT, Inc., Japan
  B-2 Hiroyuki Tsuda, Keio University, Japan
12:00-13:30
Lunch Session & Exhibition
13:30-15:00
 Poster Session / Exhibition
  P-1 Hao-Wen Weng Lin, National Sun Yat-sen University, ROC
  P-2 Shogo Nakao, NTT, Inc., Japan
  P-3 Masashi Yokoyama, Tokyo City University, Japan
  P-4 Kazuki Yamada, Tokyo City University, Japan

  PP-1 Yuto Terada, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan
  PP-2 Kimitami Yanai, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan
  PP-3 Ryotaro Osada, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan
  PP-4 Yumeno Seki, Keio University, Japan
  PP-5 Naoyuki Funaoka, Keio University, Japan
15:00-16:30
 Special Panel Session
 Theme: Toward interconnection and collaboration of optical networks
 Moderator:
      Sugang Xu, NICT, Japan
 Panelists:
      Tomonori Takeda, NTT, Inc., Japan
      Nozomu Takama, NEC Corporation, Japan
      Yuki Ban, 1FINITY Inc., Japan
      Junichi Kawasaki, KDDI Research, Inc., Japan
      Mitsuhiro Kuchitsu, Rakuten Mobile, Inc., Japan
16:30-16:50
 Closing
  Satoru Okamoto, Organization Committee Co-Chair, Keio University, Japan