RFOC 2024

ROMANIAN FIBER OPTIC CONFERENCE 2024

Program

08:00 – Exhibition / Welcome Coffee / Networking

09:00 –Sorin BOGDAN, AFOR's President, „Conference opening”

9.10 – 9.30: Awards of first edition of WorldSkills Competition on Fiber Optic Splicer:

Victor Dumitrache, WorldSkills Romania, Program Director

Angela Rosca, Technical College Augustin Maior Cluj, Director

Tiberiu Gandu, ANISP (Romanian Association of ISP providers), Board Member

9.30 – 11.30: Perspectives on Fiber Optic future

1. Dinu Dragomir, Teledatanet, CEO - Future of fiber optic X (TBC)

2. Valentin Luca, Camusat, Country Managing Director – Future of Fiber Optic Infrastructure. Synergies for Open Access Fiber Optic networks

3. Alexandru Stanean, TeraPlast CEO – Future of ducts for Fiber Optic infrastructure

4. Cristian Gheorghe, Prysmian – Director telecom - Future of fiber optic is linked to Communities

5. Danut Codrici, STS colonel inginer– The importance of fiber optic infrastructure in the provision of special telecommunications services

6. Cezar Lovin, R&M – Future of Fiber Optic Connectivity

7. Lucian Bogaciu, Total Group Telecom – Future of Fiber Optic underground infrastructures

8. Andrew AINSLEY, Hexatronic - Microducts and Airblown fibre technology

11:30 - 12:30 Q&A session - Perspective on Fiber Optic future with speakers and audience

12.30 – 13.30: Lunch and networking

14.00 – 16.00: Visits at Exhibition booths. Networking. Free professional discussions.

16:00 - 16:30 Free networking and closing of the Conference

Subjects to be discussed this year at Romanian Fiber Optic Conference:

– As Romania is leading in Europe at coverage rate for FTTH/B with 96,1% where are going the fiber optic deployments in 2030-2035?
– If Romania has more than 50% of fiber optic specialists working abroad how many of them will be in Romania in the next 5 years?
– Which it will be the future jobs in Fiber Optic industry in 2030-2035?
– The challenge of new technologies like AI will impact the labor market in fiber optic industry soon?
– FTTR (Fiber-to-the-Room) is coming after FTTH/B more and more but how it will grow up in Europe?
– Re-thinking Broadband Access Networks is starting from the applications and Customers or from the technology of fiber optic advance?
– Indoor fiber optic cabling against copper structured cable or WiFi6/7 or LiFi in the buildings?
– Which innovations you see for fiber optic industry to drive changes in the next 5 years in Romania and Europe?
– Fiber Optic Networks for next generations can be built by robots?
– Which are the margins of fiber optic extension to everywhere?
– Types of actual and future trainings in fiber optic in Romania & in Europe with VET focus.
– The future trends in next level of Connectivity for people, communities, buildings, machines and objects