Podcast EP376: Samtec’s Recent Pariticpaion in High-Profile Shows with Matt Burns

Podcast EP376: Samtec’s Recent Pariticpaion in High-Profile Shows with Matt Burns
by Daniel Nenni on 10-30-2026 at 12:00 pm

Daniel is joined by Matthew Burns. Matt develops go-to-market strategies for Samtec’s Silicon-to-Silicon solutions. Over the course of 25 years, he has been a leader in design, applications engineering, industry standards, technical sales and marketing in the telecommunications, medical and electronic components industries. He currently serves as Secretary at PICMG.

Daniel focuses on the recent shows Samtec participated in with Matt. These were the AI Infra Summit and ECOC (European Conference on Optical Communications). In this in-depth and highly informative discussion, Matt describes the dynamics of a changing industry and ecosystem as AI continues to grow and dominate the conversation. He describes some of Samtec’s unique capabilities to support both copper and optical interconnect to enable next generation solutions.

Matt describes the complexity of implementing 400G and the requirements for collaboration across the ecosystem. He also discusses in detail the importance of and Samtec’s work on the Open CPX MSA initiative to standardize co-packaged optical engines. Initiatives like this will open a new wave of innovation.

You can learn more about Samtec on the company website here. You can also visit the Samtec blog site here for a rich collection of information. And you can learn more about the Open CPX MSA initaitive here.

The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed in these podcasts belong solely to the speaker, and not to the speaker’s employer, organization, committee or any other group or individual.

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Podcast EP376: Samtec's Recent Pariticpaion in High-Profile Shows with Matt Burns
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