Mark Nowell – IEEE P802.3dj Vice-Chair (Cisco)

Bio: Mark Nowell is a Cisco Fellow in Cisco’s Optics and Optical Systems Group. His focus is on next generation interconnect technology innovation to meet Cisco’s needs. Mark is also active within the industry standards and forums and has chaired multiple IEEE 802.3 Ethernet projects and many industry alliances and Consortium (MSAs). He is currently vice-chair of IEEE 802.3dj (800 GbE & 1.6 TbE) and chairs/co-chairs groups focusing on next generation optical module form factors (QSFP-DD, OSFP) or optical interfaces (100G Lambda MSA, LPO MSA). He is also representing Cisco in the Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC) and Ultra Accelerator Link Consortium (UALink) focusing on Ethernet adoption for AI/ML/HPC use cases.