In recent years, we have been observing fast social and economic development, rapidly changing industry, and continuously growing demand for bandwidth. This development raises new challenging optimization problems for the optical communication networks. These problems are often very complex not only due to the optical network configurations, but also due to their enormous traffic and operation al complexity. The whole networking industry is being disrupted and bandwidth availability is worsening by the rapid deployment and continuing adoption of 5G and IoT, the use of which involves tens of billions of end-users (humans-to-machines, and machine-to-machines), interconnecting with each other and driving increased consumer and business interactions. Speaker(s): Wahab, Agenda: 10:15am: Guest Arrives @ SW1-2019 BCIT Burnaby Campus 10:15-10:30 – Networking and Coffee 10:30 Lecture Begins 12:00 Lecture and Event Ends Room: 2019, Bldg: SW1, British Columbia Institute of Technology, 3700 Willingdon Avenue , BURNABY, British Columbia, Canada, V5G 3H2, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/363412