(Alphabetical order) Japan Emmanuel deGabory (NEC) Hiroshi Ischikawa (AIST) Tetsuya Miyazaki (NICT) Shinji Matsuo (NTT) Masataka Nakazawa (Tohoku Univ.) Hidenori Takahashi (KDDI) Takashi Sugihara (Mitsubishi) Shigeki Watanabe (Fujitsu)   U.S. S. J. Ben Yoo (Univ. of California at Davis) Amir H. Nejadmalayeri (MIT, USA) Stojan Radic (Univ. of California at San Diego) Sebastian Randel (Alcatel-Lucent/Bell Labs) Alan Willner (Univ. of Southern California)   Europe Peter A. Andrekson (Chalmers Univ.) Harm Dorren (Univ. of Eindhoven) Michael Galili (DTU Fotonik) Juerg Leuthold (Univ. of Karlsruhe) Selina Pekarek (ETHZ) David J. Richardson (Univ. of Southampton) Carsten Schmidt-Langhorst (FhG HHI) Andreas Umbach (u2t Photonics)