Welcome to the S2C – Workshop: Optical Wireless Communications: What is Stopping Us? We will begin our workshop in just a moment. The audio for today’s conference should be coming through your computer speakers. Please ensure your speakers are turned on and the volume up. Should you need technical assistance, please use this chat feature or raise your virtual hand to let us know. As a reminder, please share your questions in the Q & A box and make sure to address the speaker you have the question for. Q & A will take place at the end of each speaker and session during the Panel Discussion.

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Hi Steve, nice to see you in the audience!

This is Morio Toyoshima, NICT, Japan with Outlook for Satellite Communication Using Free Space Optics. This is the first talk of our FSO session today. Morio Toyoshima is available for questions after his talk and will participate in the FSO panel. Please address any questions to him in the Q&A box.

This is Hamid Hemmati, ViaSat, USA with High-Rate Optical Feederlink to GEO Satellites. Hamid Hemmati is available for questions after his talk and will participate in the FSO panel. Please address any questions to him or our previous speaker in the Q&A box.

Hi Speakers! I did not have time to mention this in the pre-call. We, as "Panelists" do not have the ability to actively use the Q&A box to participate in conversation. If you have questions and discussion points for your fellow co-speakers, please feel free to unmute your video and Volker and Norm can call on you to ask your question via voice.

Questions for Mario or Hamid? Please add them to the Q&A box! We'll address them in between talks or during the FSO panel discussion.

This is Joachim Horwath, Mynaric, Germany with Cost Efficient LEO-optical Inter-satellite Links: Overcoming the Challenges. Please address any questions to Joachim or our previous speakers in the Q&A box - we'll address them between talks or during our panel discussion.

This is Baris I. Erkmen, X, USA with Free Space Optical Communications for Terrestrial Applications. Baris Erkmen is available for questions after his talk and will participate in the FSO panel. Please address any questions to him or our previous speakers in the Q&A box.

This is our final speaker of the FSO session, Katie Newell, Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University, USA with FSO System Considerations at Sea. Katie Newell and all our previous speakers will be available and participate in the FSO panel. Please add your questions for the group in the Q&A box to be discussed shortly.

Can I type in the Q&A box?

Hi Jean-Paul! We, as "Panelists" do not have the ability to actively use the Q&A box to participate in conversation. If you have questions and discussion points for speakers, please feel free to unmute your video and Volker and Norm can call on you to ask your question via voice.

Hi Speakers - You do have the ability to use the "type answer" function in the Q&A box if you'd like to address anything pending.

Otherwise, Norm, please let me know if I can clear out the Q&A box.

This is You-Wei Chen, NeoPhotonics, USA with Key Enabling Technologies for Post 5G. This is the first talk of our LiFi session today. You-Wei Chen is available for questions after his talk and will participate in the LiFi panel. Please address any questions to him with an @ in the Q&A box.

FSO panelists... please see the questions in the Q&A box. There are questions that you can answer (particularly Katie and Baris).

Additionally, FSO panelists - you can see questions in the "Answered" tab and you can add on another answer to an already answered question, if you have a different perspective.

Yes, some of the questions I was referring to have already been answered. Please look there.

This is Harald Haas, Univ. Strathclyde, U.K. with Tbit/s Optical Wireless for Beyond 5G. Harald Haas is available for questions after his talk and will participate in the LiFi panel. Please address any questions to him or our other LiFi speakers with an @ in the Q&A box.

This is Ton Koonen, TU Eindhoven, Netherlands with From Wide Beams to Personalized Narrow Ones: Components, Systems and Potential. Please address any questions to him or our previous speakers with an @ in the Q&A box and we'll address them at the group panel!

This is From Wide Beams to Personalized Narrow Ones: Components, Systems and Potential with Kai Lennert Bober, Fraunhofer HHI, Germany. Kai Lennert Bober is available for questions after his talk and will participate in the LiFi panel. Please address any questions to him or our previous speakers with an @ in the Q&A box.

This is our final speaker of the LiFi session, Jean-Paul Linnartz, Signify/Philips Research, Netherlands with Rolling out LiFi: Translating User Experiences into Research Challenges. Jean-Paul Lennartz and all our previous speakers will be available and participate in the panel following this talk. Please add your questions for the group in the Q&A box to be discussed shortly. If your question is for a particular person, make sure to use an @.

Thank you for attending this panel. The LiFi panel is coming up! Don't wait - to best ensure your question will be addressed, add them now for our panelists' discussion in the Q&A box!

Please, feel free to ask your questions via Q&A!

Hamid, there was a question for you that is now in the Dismissed category in case you would still like to address it.

Yes, you got my question exactly! Thank you.

I need to sign off - thank you all for the opportunity to participate in this workshop. I enjoyed learning from each of you.

Thank you, Katie!

I second that suggestion!!