IROMANIAN FIBER OPTIC CONFERENCE 2025
Hotel CARO, 164A Barbu Văcărescu Street, Bucharest
PROGRAM
9:00 – Expo / Welcome Coffee / Networking
Fiber Optic Talks
10:00 – Sorin BOGDAN, President of AFOR – opening speech
10:20 – Vincent GARNIER, Director General of the FTTH Council Europe
Panel 1 – Operators and Authorities
10:30 – Adrian RĂCĂȘAN, CEO, NETCITY – “The Sustainability of Optical Fiber Cables – Can They Be Recycled?”
10:50 – Iulian GIMIGA, Passive Access Network Manager, Orange Romania – “Trends in Future FTTH Deployments”
11:00 – Florin DRAGOMIR, Head of Technical Regulations Department, ANCOM – “Optical Fiber in Communication Networks in Romania”
11:10 – Ionuț CORBU, Senior Fiber Optic Designer, Prime Telecom – “The role of fiber optic infrastructure in the digital development of society.”
Guests: Digi Romania, Vodafone.
Panel 2 – Future Infrastructures for Fiber Optics in Romania
11:20 – Diana BUZOIANU – Deputy – The Parliament of Romania – legislative project intended to declare the underground physical infrastructure for electronic communications networks as being of PUBLIC UTILITY
11:30 – Valentin LUCA , CEO, Camusat
11:40 – Ovidiu GURĂU, Chief Commercial Officer (CCO), Teraplast
11:50 – Raul MARINA, Business Unit Manager – Connectivity, Datacor – “Fiber optics in the age of AI”
Panel 3 – Data Center
12:00 – Cezar LOVIN, Country Manager, R&M – “DataCenters: The Backbone of the Digital World”
12:10 – Dinu DRAGOMIR, General Manager, Teledatanet – “Ultra-fast testing and certification of connectors in Datacenters”
12:20 – Cristian GHEORGHE, CEE Region, Prysmian / APPCR
Panel 4 – Quantum Technologies
12:30 – Corneliu MĂNESCU, Director of the Electronic Communications Directorate, Ministry of Economy, Digitalization, Entrepreneurship, and Tourism – “The National Quantum Technologies Strategy for 2025–2030 and its Connections to Optical Fiber”
12:40 – Dr. habil. Radu Ionicioiu – Strategic Advisory Board, EU Quantum Flagship, Founder – RoQnet Romanian Quantum Network – “What is the Quantum Apocalypse and how to prevent it”
12:50 – Mugurel TOLEA, National Institute for Research and Development in Materials Physics Măgurele (INCDFM)
13:30 – 14:30 – Lunch
14:30 – 16:00 : Practical demonstrations by AFOR, EXPO and networking members