iPOP 2020 COMMITTEE MEMBERS
General Co-Chairs :KAMINARIMON

Naoaki Yamanaka,
Keio University, Japan

Akio Kawabata,NTT, Japan

Organization Committee Co-Chairs:
Hiroaki Harai, NICT, Japan
Satoru Okamoto, Keio University, Japan
Takehiro Tsuritani, KDDI Research, Japan

Exhibition Committee Co-Chairs:
Hirofumi Yamaji, TOYO Corporation, Japan
Akihiro Nakamura, Spirent Communications, Japan
Vice Chairs:
Takayuki Muranaka, Alaxala Networks, Japan
Riu Hirai, Hitachi, Japan
Yoshiaki Konishi, Mitsubishi Electric, Japan
Seiki Kuwabara, NTT, Japan
Secretaries:
Takahiro Hirayama, NICT, Japan
Naoyuki Watanabe, TOYO Corporation, Japan

Technical Program Committee Co-Chairs:
Akira Hirano, Tokyo Denki University, Japan
Eiji Oki, Kyoto University, Japan
Laurent Ciavaglia, Nokia, France
Vice Chairs:
Tomohiro Otani, KDDI Research, Japan
Hideyuki Shimonishi, NEC, Japan
Secretaries:
Yohei Hasegawa, NEC, Japan
Yuta Wakayama, KDDI Research, Japan
Treasury Chair:
Satoru Okamoto, Keio University, Japan
Vice Chair:
Tooru Utsu, SCAT, Japan
Publication Co-Chairs:
Yuichi Yamagishi, Fujitsu, Japan
Satoru Okamoto, Keio University, Japan
Secretary:
Yuma Kimura, Fujitsu, Japan

Interop Co-Chairs:
Kohei Shiomoto, Tokyo City University, Japan
Yusuke Hirota, NICT, Japan
Vice Chairs:
Hyde Sugiyama, Red Hat, Japan
Shinya Nakamura, UBiqube, Japan
Advisor:Noboru Yoshikane, KDDI Research, Japan

IMPERIAL PALACETOKYO SKYTREE

Takeshi Kawasaki, NTT, Japan

Health Organization officially declared the novel
coronavirus COVID-19 a pandemic. The healthand safety of the iPOP community is our firstpriority and PIL and ISOCORE are supporting
efforts to limit the spread of the virus. Following
the advice and guidelines from healthcare
officials and local authorities, iPOP2020, willvirtually

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Local Arrangement Co-Chairs:

NOTICE: As you may be aware, the Worldnow be held
September 2020.

Bijan Jabbari,ISOCORE, USA

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10-11

Sponsors

Supported byVirtual, Web conference
Sept. 10-11, 2020
https://www.pilab.jp/ipop2020/
The International Conference on
IP＋Optical Network(iPOP2020)
Exhibition and ConferenceiPOP2020, will now be held virtually on 10-11 September 2020.
The conference is intended to share among the industry and the academia
communities, the knowledge, new findings, and experience on the stateof-the-art of “IP and Optical Networking technologies.” Within the theme,
we intend to demonstrate IP & MPLS/GMPLS networks and SDN
equipment (IP routers, ODU XCs, Optical XCs, Ethernet switches, MPLSTP nodes), protocol test equipment/tools, network operation support
tools, and other related issues. In addition, we intend to showcase SDN(Software Defined Networks) and NFV (Network Functions Virtualization).
The iPOP2020 anticipates a draw of over 300 attendees, made up ofnetwork operators, service providers, and equipment vendors.

- Exhibition & Showcase Participants at iPOP2019-

Join us and other industry leaders in the IP+Optical network technologies.
For booth reservation and all other requests, please contact iPOP2020
Exhibition Secretary (ipop2020-exhibition@pilab.jp) by July 15, 2020.
Exhibitors will be obliged to provide electronic data of poster panel andpromotional videos by the beginning of September 2020, which will beuploaded on the website of iPOP2020. And, we plan to provide interactive
sessions for exhibitors. Note that the time slot is limited and will becommitted on a first-come first-serve basis.

- Exhibition & Showcase- Exhibition & Showcase Participants at iPOP2018-

Exhibition fee
Exhibitor Level
Exhibitor Fee *1

GoldSilver

JPY150,000 JPY100,000

Exhibitor Booth *2✓✓

Website✓✓Short PV*3✓✓

Interactive Session*4✓ーShow Case*5✓✓LogoDisplay*1: Exchange rate : JPY 100 ≈ USD 0.93 (as of June 9, 2020)*2: Exhibitors will be obliged to provide electronic data of poster
panel on the iPOP website. And, exhibitors also will be privileged
to put direct links to their promotional videos (video uploadserver cannot be provided).
*3: Short promotional videos (edited by the committee) will beshown repeatedly during break time between sessions.
*4: Interactive session will be consisted of 15-minutepresentation and 5-minute Q&A part.
*5: All participants can be joined show case demonstration.

Showcase plan
We intend to showcase Network Service and Slice Management empowered by Remote Orchestration andMachine Learning, and Leading-edge Network Slice, Data Center Networks, and Disaggregation. This
year’s showcase challenges to remotely demonstrate its experiments from geographically distant sites.
We cordially invite showcase participants demonstrating the technologies including (but not limited to):(1)Remote orchestration for large scale network configuration, (2) Machine learning for networking, (3)Lifecycle management in cloud and edge computing, (4) Disaggregated packet and optical network
systems, (5) Transport network slicing.