Thursday, 19 June 2025
15:30 - 17:00
"Next Generation Networking in the Data Center"
David F. Welch, PhD., Founder and CEO, AttoTude Inc.
Abstract: Recent technology advancements have enabled dramatically lower power interconnections for data center networking. This approach can be seamlessly integrated in either pluggable or co-packaged forms resulting in scalable networking architectures for the future generations of AI centric data center architectures.
About David F. Welch, Ph.D.: David F. Welch, Ph.D., founder and CEO of AttoTude, has over forty years of experience in the fiber optics and optical communications industries both as a leader in technology development and strategy, and as a business leader, including corporate management from initial start-up through public company with multi-billion dollar revenues. From 1985 to 2001, he was at SDL (formerly Spectra Diode Laboratories) as CTO and VP Corporate Development, he successfully established a differentiated technology and product strategy, resulting in a merger of the Company with JDS Uniphase. In 2001, he co-founded Infinera. As founder/CTO/President, he was responsible for establishing the key differentiating technology, photonic integrated circuits, and the implementation into a series of network managed product lines. The success of the technology has positioned INFN as the leader in optical communications. Most recently he has founded AttoTude which is aligned with highly differentiated technology that addresses power, cost and scale issues in the data center networking applications.
He holds over 200 patents, and has authored over 300 technical publications. In recognition of his technical contributionsd, he has been awarded the OSA’s Adolph Lomb Medal, Joseph Fraunhofer Award and John Tyndall Award, the IET’s JJ Thompson Medal for Achievement in Electronics, and the IEEE Ernst Weber Managerial Leadership Award. He is a Fellow of the OSA and the IEEE and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. Dr. Welch holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Delaware and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University.