Abstract

This keynote addresses how photonics, the flow of light, is emerging as an enabler of consumer expectations to mold our lives. The audience would collaboratively explore:

• The classical challenge of how the boundaries of existing systems are in the danger of hitting a brick wall,

• The fundamentals of a photonics system,

• A framework of applications of photonics,

• A vision and roadmap into the future, and

• The socio-economic impact of this technological advancement.

The concepts presented are born out of the learning gained from:

• A study of the chronological advancements in technologies over the past century, and

• The experience gained while building enduring, significant, category-defining organizations that applied these advancements.

Presentation of the keynote address

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Biography

Mr. Hemant Sabat serves as the Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Coscend Communications Solutions. As an active industry leader and ambassador, he serves as an Industry Advisor to the telecommunications boards in the U.S., the U.K. and Canada, and has been invited as a Keynote Speaker in the U.S. and Europe to evangelize the communications industry’s vision, and how to build enduring, significant, category-defining businesses.

Most recently, he served as the General Manager of Communications and High-Technology Software business unit at Perot Systems Corporation. At Perot Systems, Nortel Networks, Sabre and Fannie Mae, he has built high-ROI businesses into global operations, helped gain strategic footprints, expanded customer base, and helped strengthen corporate brand. He has served as a member of eight Intellectual Property Rights review boards, and as a Visiting Professor in the University of Dallas MBA program. The essence of this leadership has been published in over 35 academic books and journals in the fields of communications, information technology and management, business strategy, marketing, engineering, and society and economy. These publications are used in several University curricula.

In 2004, the U.S. Government recognized him as an ‘Extraordinary Ability’ business leader for being in the top 1 percent in the telecom and IT industry. He received a national award from the eleventh President of India in 1992.

A former tennis and field hockey player, Hemant has hiked six 20,000-foot peaks in the Himalayas in 15 days, won a 20-mile mountain marathon and is proficient in seven languages. He jogs five miles daily.

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