BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Rome BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250330T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251026T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=10 TZNAME:CET END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250521T155337Z UID:8D6B2CDA-331A-4B9C-BB74-BB0BE725321F DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20250515T103000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20250515T123000 DESCRIPTION:Optical Fibers for a Sustainable Future\n\nThe University of Pa rma celebrates the International Day of Light (IDL) together with the Euro pean partners of the EU GREEN alliance. The initiative\, established by UN ESCO for 16 May\, aims to enhance the crucial role of light and light-base d technologies in science\, culture and art\, education and sustainable de velopment\, in fields as diverse as medicine\, communications and energy. This year's theme\, Light Innovation Society\, highlights the central role of technologies that exploit light in the progress of science\, innovatio n and social well-being\, and their crucial contribution to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the UN 2030 Agenda.\n\nIn this fra mework\, on Thursday 15 May 2025 the Campus Scienze e Tecnologie will host “Optical Fibers for a Sustainable Future”\, a themed morning featurin g two seminars in English aimed at students\, researchers and anyone inter ested in discovering how communications based on optical fibers and sustai nability are closely connected.\n\nThe two seminars\, which will be held f rom 10:30 to 12:30 in person in Classroom B of the Plesso delle Aule delle Scienze and online for all interested people\, will be held by Piero Cast oldi of the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna di Pisa and Sara Mazzarella of Op en Fiber S.p.A. The initiative is held under the patronage of the IEEE Pho tonics Society Italy Chapter and the RESTART Foundation.\n\nThe details of the two seminars follow:\n\nTowards greener networks and processors: expl oiting light as the energy saving enabler\n\nPiero Castoldi\, Full Profess or in Telecommunications\, Director of the TeCIP Institute at Scuola Super iore Sant’Anna\, Pisa\, Italy\nThe seminar presents the role of photonic s and optical networks in reducing energy consumption\, with special focus on the reduction of power consumption in different network segments and i n artificial intelligence processing. It will further outline perspectives for the telecommunication engineers.\nPiero Castoldi (IEEE Senior Member) is Full Professor in Telecommunications and Director of the Telecommunica tions\, Computer Engineering\, and Photonics Institute (TeCIP) at Scuola S uperiore Sant’Anna (Pisa\, Italy)\, and Responsible for the "Networks an d Services" area. He has been involved with various responsibilities in se veral national and EU FP7\, H2020 and HE projects\, and he has managed sev eral corporate-sponsored projects with the Italian Railway Infrastructure Company\, Ericsson\, Telecom Italia and other companies. He is currently p rincipal investigator of a large project on optical communication infrastr uctures of the future within the PNRR RESTART program. His most recent res earch interests lie in the areas of optical network architectures\, networ k management and control\, interconnection networks for Data Centers\, 5G/ 6G networking. He is author of more than 500 technical papers published in international journals and international conference proceedings and he ha s filed more than 20 patents.\n\nThe switching decade. The fiber promise f or the resilience and the digital transformation\n\nSara Mazzarella\, Exec utive MBA at the Politecnico di Milano\, Senior Advisor for technical regu lation and radio spectrum\, Open Fiber S.p.A.\nThe seminar is focused on t he role of optical fiber for the digital transformation of the economy\, t hrough the switch-off of the outdated technologies and the adoption of inn ovative solutions based on the principles of resilience\, ethics and susta inability of infrastructures. It will offer insights on the role of fiber as an enabler for vertical services\, focusing on some empirical applicati ons (fiber sensing\, smart cities\, telemedicine). Concluding reflections on the future challenges for the industry and the role of the telecommunic ations engineers to drive the digital revolution will be provided.\nSara M azzarella is Executive MBA at the Politecnico di Milano and Senior Advisor with specific commitment in technical regulation and radio spectrum in Op en Fiber\, the company responsible for deploying a nationwide ultra-broadb and network in Italy. As ambassador for Open Fiber\, in the RESTART progra m she is project manager for the issues related to the market analysis\, t he regulatory challenges and the deployment of future proof architectures and services. At the same time\, she holds a role of Adjunct Professor in LUISS University and LUISS Business School of Rome.\n\nTo participate onli ne\, you must register at this link:\n\nhttps://events.teams.microsoft.com /event/090ca141-389e-493a-85ad-7c44397a3ad3@bb064bc5-b7a8-41ec-babe-d7beb3 faeb1c\n\nParticipation in person is free.\n\nFor further information: pro f. Federica Poli\, federica.poli@unipr.it.\n\nCo-sponsored by: Federica Po li\n\nRoom: classroom B\, Bldg: Plesso delle Aule delle Scienze\, Universi tà di Parma\, Parco Area delle Scienze\, Parma\, Emilia-Romagna\, Italy\, 43124\, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/483163 LOCATION:Room: classroom B\, Bldg: Plesso delle Aule delle Scienze\, Univer sità di Parma\, Parco Area delle Scienze\, Parma\, Emilia-Romagna\, Italy \, 43124\, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/483163 ORGANIZER:antigone.marino@cnr.it SEQUENCE:37 SUMMARY:Optical Fibers for a Sustainable Future URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/483163 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><h2 style="text-align: center\;">Optical Fibe rs for a Sustainable Future</h2>\n<p>The University of Parma celebrates th e International Day of Light (IDL) together with the European partners of the EU GREEN alliance. The initiative\, established by UNESCO for 16 May\, aims to enhance the crucial role of light and light-based technologies in science\, culture and art\, education and sustainable development\, in fi elds as diverse as medicine\, communications and energy.&nbsp\;This year's theme\, Light Innovation Society\, highlights the central role of technol ogies that exploit light in the progress of science\, innovation and socia l well-being\, and their crucial contribution to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the UN 2030 Agenda.</p>\n<p>In this framework \, on Thursday 15 May 2025 the Campus Scienze e Tecnologie will host &ldqu o\;Optical Fibers for a Sustainable Future&rdquo\;\, a themed morning feat uring two seminars in English aimed at students\, researchers and anyone i nterested in discovering how communications based on optical fibers and su stainability are closely connected.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>The two seminars\, whic h will be held from 10:30 to 12:30 in person in Classroom B of the Plesso delle Aule delle Scienze and online for all interested people\, will be he ld by Piero Castoldi of the Scuola Superiore Sant&rsquo\;Anna di Pisa and Sara Mazzarella of Open Fiber S.p.A. The initiative is held under the patr onage of the IEEE Photonics Society Italy Chapter and the RESTART Foundati on.</p>\n<p>The details of the two seminars follow:</p>\n<h4>Towards green er networks and processors: exploiting light as the energy saving enabler< /h4>\n<p>Piero Castoldi\, Full Professor in Telecommunications\, Director of the TeCIP Institute at Scuola Superiore Sant&rsquo\;Anna\, Pisa\, Italy <br>The seminar presents the role of photonics and optical networks in red ucing energy consumption\, with special focus on the reduction of power co nsumption in different network segments and in artificial intelligence pro cessing. It will further outline perspectives for the telecommunication en gineers.<br>Piero Castoldi (IEEE Senior Member) is Full Professor in Telec ommunications and Director of the Telecommunications\, Computer Engineerin g\, and Photonics Institute (TeCIP) at Scuola Superiore Sant&rsquo\;Anna ( Pisa\, Italy)\, and Responsible for the "Networks and Services" area. He h as been involved with various responsibilities in several national and EU FP7\, H2020 and HE projects\, and he has managed several corporate-sponsor ed projects with the Italian Railway Infrastructure Company\, Ericsson\, T elecom Italia and other companies. He is currently principal investigator of a large project on optical communication infrastructures of the future within the PNRR RESTART program. His most recent research interests lie in the areas of optical network architectures\, network management and contr ol\, interconnection networks for Data Centers\, 5G/6G networking. He is a uthor of more than 500 technical papers published in international journal s and international conference proceedings and he has filed more than 20 p atents.</p>\n<h4><br>The switching decade. The fiber promise for the resil ience and the digital transformation</h4>\n<p>Sara Mazzarella\, Executive MBA at the Politecnico di Milano\, Senior Advisor for technical regulation and radio spectrum\, Open Fiber S.p.A.<br>The seminar is focused on the r ole of optical fiber for the digital transformation of the economy\, throu gh the switch-off of the outdated technologies and the adoption of innovat ive solutions based on the principles of resilience\, ethics and sustainab ility of infrastructures. It will offer insights on the role of fiber as a n enabler for vertical services\, focusing on some empirical applications (fiber sensing\, smart cities\, telemedicine). Concluding reflections on t he future challenges for the industry and the role of the telecommunicatio ns engineers to drive the digital revolution will be provided.<br>Sara Maz zarella is Executive MBA at the Politecnico di Milano and Senior Advisor w ith specific commitment in technical regulation and radio spectrum in Open Fiber\, the company responsible for deploying a nationwide ultra-broadban d network in Italy. As ambassador for Open Fiber\, in the RESTART program she is project manager for the issues related to the market analysis\, the regulatory challenges and the deployment of future proof architectures an d services. At the same time\, she holds a role of Adjunct Professor in LU ISS University and LUISS Business School of Rome.</p>\n<p>To participate o nline\, you must register at this link:</p>\n<p><a href="https://events.te ams.microsoft.com/event/090ca141-389e-493a-85ad-7c44397a3ad3@bb064bc5-b7a8 -41ec-babe-d7beb3faeb1c">https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/090ca141 -389e-493a-85ad-7c44397a3ad3@bb064bc5-b7a8-41ec-babe-d7beb3faeb1c</a></p>\ n<p>Participation in person is free.</p>\n<p>For further information:&nbsp \;prof. Federica Poli\, <a href="mailto:federica.poli@unipr.it">federica.p oli@unipr.it</a>.</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR