ECOC 2020 goes 100% virtual
"from bricks to clicks”
ECOC 2020 is still hosted in Belgium... but 100% virtual. Unfortunately you will miss our local flavours, but we are still working to offer you all the best of ECOC, including high-level plenary talks, tutorials, invited speakers and most of all... papers describing your own top-level research work and results. We will also make our best efforts to offer you a nice platform to interact with each other as it were in a physical way in Brussels.
So join us between 06 and 10 December for ECOC 2020 in "virtual"Brussels. Keep an eye on our website and social media to for details on registration and programme which will follow in the next few days.
Peter Van Daele & Ton Koonen
ECOC 2020 General co-Chairs
The “46th European Conference on Optical Communication” (ECOC 2020) returns to Brussels, Belgium on 20-24 September 2020 06-10 December 2020.
ECOC is the leading European conference in the field of optical communication, and one of the most prestigious and long-standing events in this field. Here, the latest progress in optical communication technologies will be reported in selected papers, demo session, keynotes, workshops and special symposia.
Parallel to the scientific conference, the ECOC exhibition covers a wide range of optical communication products and services.
Therefore, ECOC is open to a variety of interested participants like researchers and students, product developers, sales managers and telecommunication market developers. Every year this international forum attracts more than 1,400 scientists and researchers from research institutions and companies from across the world.
ECOC 2020 is organised by IMEC, the Inter-university Microelectronics Center, a world-leading independent research center in nanoelectronics and digital technology in Belgium and IPI, the Institute for Photonic Integration at Technical University of Eindhoven in the Netherlands. EUREL is owner of the registered trademark ECOC. EUREL is the Convention of National Associations of Electrical Engineers of Europe representing ten member associations in ten countries in greater Europe.
Technical sponsorship has been granted by the IEEE Photonics Society and OSA, the Optical Society.
Future editions of ECOC:
ECOC 2021 | ![]() |
Bordeaux, France |
ECOC 2022 | Basel, Switzerland | |
ECOC 2023 | United Kingdom (venue TBC) | |
ECOC 2024 | Germany (venue TBC) | |
ECOC 2025 | Denmark (venue TBC) | |
ECOC 2026 | Spain (venue TBC) | |
ECOC 2027 | Italy (venue TBC) | |
ECOC 2028 | Benelux (venue TBC) | |
ECOC 2029 | United Kingdom (venue TBC) | |
ECOC 2030: | France (venue TBC) |
Previous editions of ECOC:
ECOC 2019 | ![]() |
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Dublin, Ireland |
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ECOC 2018 | ![]() |
Rome, Italy | ||
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ECOC 2017 | ![]() |
Goteborg, Sweden | ||
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ECOC 2016 | ![]() |
Dusseldorf, Germany | ||
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ECOC 2015 | ![]() |
Valencia, Spain | ||
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ECOC 2014 | ![]() |
Cannes, France | ||
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ECOC 2013 | ![]() |
London, UK | ||
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ECOC 2012 | ![]() |
Amsterdam, Netherlands | ||
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ECOC 2011 | Geneva, Switzerland | |||
ECOC 2010 | Turin, Italy | |||
ECOC 2009 | Vienna, Austria | |||
ECOC 2008 | Brussels, Belgium | |||
ECOC 2007 | Berlin, Germany | |||
ECOC 2006 | Cannes, France | |||
ECOC 2005 | Glasgow, UK | |||
ECOC 2004 | Stockholm, Sweden | |||
ECOC 2003 | Rimini, Italy | |||
ECOC 2002 | Copenhagen, Denmark | |||
ECOC 2001 | Amsterdam, Netherlands | |||
ECOC 2000 | Munich, Germany | |||
ECOC 1999 | Nice, France | |||
ECOC 1998 | Madrid, Spain | |||
ECOC 1997 | Edinburgh, UK | |||
ECOC 1996 | Oslo, Norway | |||
ECOC 1995 | Brussels, Belgium | |||
ECOC 1994 | Firenze, Italy | |||
ECOC 1993 | Montreux, Switzerland | |||
ECOC 1992 | Berlin, Germany | |||
ECOC 1991 | Paris, France | |||
ECOC 1990 | Amsterdam, Netherlands | |||
ECOC 1989 | Goteborg, Sweden | |||
ECOC 1988 | Brighton, UK | |||
ECOC 1987 | Helsinki, Finland | |||
ECOC 1986 | Barcelona, Spain | |||
ECOC 1985 | Venice, Italy | |||
ECOC 1984 | Amsterdam, Netherlands | |||
ECOC 1983 | Geneva, Switzerland | |||
ECOC 1982 | Cannes, France | |||
ECOC 1981 | Copenhagen, Denmark | |||
ECOC 1980 | York, UK | |||
ECOC 1979 | Amsterdam, Netherlands | |||
ECOC 1978 | Genoa, Italy | |||
ECOC 1977 | Munich, Germany | |||
ECOC 1976 | Paris, France | |||
ECOC 1975 | London, UK |