Cyriel Minkenberg is responsible for Product Line Management at Lumiphase AG, bringing barium titanate enhanced PICs for data- and telecom to the market. Previously, he was Director of Product Management and System Architect at Rockley Photonics, contributing to the first Ethernet switch ASIC with co-packaged optical interfaces. As a Research Staff Member with IBM Research Zurich, he researched and published extensively in the field of datacenter networking, HPC interconnects, and packet switch architectures. He received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands.