Agenda
12:00 – 14:00 Registration and networking
14:00 – 14:10 Welcome and opening remarks
Nancy Alonistioti, Chair, one6G; Associate Professor, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
14:10 – 16:00 Session 1: Global 6G development – Part I
Moderator: Ana García Armada, Professor, Carlos III University of Madrid
- 6G state of play and future directions in Finland
Matti Latva-aho, Director, 6G Flagship, University of Oulu - 6G in China: Research progress and standardization considerations
Ku Wen, Chairman of the Board, China Communications Standards Association - “Open” architectures for 6G
Hans Schotten, Professor, University of Kaiserslautern; Scientific Director, DFKI - Japanese 6G: Requirements, architecture, and technological elements
Itsuma Tanaka, President and CEO, DOCOMO Communications Laboratories Europe - An Italian view on 6G
Andrea Conti, Founding Director, Wireless Communication and Localization Networks Laboratory, University of Ferrara - The 6G R&D Spanish Program: i2CAT’s perspective
Jesús Alonso Zárate, R&D Director, i2CAT Foundation
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 – 18:00 Session 2: Global 6G development – Part II (panel discussion)
Moderator: Periklis Chatzimisios, Vice-Chair, one6G WG1; Professor, International Hellenic University
- 6G: 3GPP & ETSI standardization updates
Issam Toufik, CTO, ETSI; Head, 3GPP Mobile Competence Center - 6G for society and environment – how to get there?
Monique Calisti, CEO, Martel Innovate; President, Digital for Planet - BroadEU.Net: Realizing the European Critical Communication System (EUCCS)
David Lund, President, PSCE; Coordinator, BroadEU.Net - Telecom operator’s view on the next generation mobile communication technologies – opportunities (and challenges)
Elena Díez Lorenzana, Senior Manager Corporate Strategy, Telefónica - Together, we shape 6G
Nancy Alonistioti, Chair, one6G; Associate Professor, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- 6G: Universal communications and more
Nigel Jefferies, Chairman, Wireless World Research Forum
18:00 – 18:10 Closing Remarks
8:15 – 9:00 Registration and networking
9:00 – 9:15 Welcome and opening remarks
- 6G challenges beyond the odd and even
Narcís Cardona, Vice-Chair, one6G; Director, iTEAM, Technical University of Valencia (UPV)
9:15 – 10:40 Session 3: The ICT’s view: From vision to standardization – are we ready?
Moderator: Walter Weigel, Honorary Professor, Technical University of Munich
- The new paradigm for AI-agent communications
Wen Tong, CTO, Huawei Wireless - Major 6G research and pre-development projects from a T&M perspective
Meik Kottkamp, Principal Technology Manager, Rohde & Schwarz - Scalable, sustainable, and intelligent 6G
Hao Bi, Senior Director of Communication System Design, MediaTek - 6G forward – from research to reality
Paul Harris, Principal Wireless Architect, VIAVI Solutions - NXP and IPCEI Microelectronics and Communication Technology (ME/CT)
João Lopes, Technical Project Manager, NXP Semiconductors
10:40 – 10:55 one6G exhibitors’ demo pitches – Part I
10:55 – 11:25 Coffee break
11:25 – 12:45 Session 4: The vertical’s recommendations for 6G use cases and requirements
Moderator: José Almodóvar Chico, R&D Consultant, TNO; Chair, 3GPP SA1
- European robotics – quo vadis?
Javier Luque, Project Manager, euRobotics on behalf of Bernd Liepert, President, euRobotics - 6G from space: Lift-off global secure connectivity with full mobile and satellite convergence
Amina Boubendir, Head of Research and Standardization, Airbus Defence and Space - Will everything get better with 6G?
Andreas Mueller, Chief Expert and Project Director, Bosch; General Chair, 5G-ACIA - European Health Data Slice: Connecting the European health data spaces
Christoph Thuemmler, Chief Medical Officer, 6G Health Institute - Potential of 6G integrated communication and sensing in automotive
Robert Mueller, Technical Manager, DENSO
12:45 – 13:00 one6G exhibitors’ demo pitches – Part II
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 16:00 Session 5: Cutting edge technologies
Moderator: Rahim Tafazolli, Professor and Founder, 5G/6G Innovation Center, University of Surrey
- 6G: Challenges, opportunities and technologies
Rahim Tafazolli, Professor and Founder, 5G/6G Innovation Center, University of Surrey - Network as a sensor: Insights into beamforming design for ICAS in 6G and some other research highlights from the 6G-RIC
Sławomir Stańczak, Professor, TU Berlin; Head of Wireless Communications and Networks, Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications - MI is all you need: Understanding complex multivariate systems through the lenses of GenAI
Pietro Michiardi, Head, Data Science Department, EURECOM - AI in space
Ana Perez-Neira, Professor, Technical University of Catalonia; Director, CTTC - About the possibility of having deterministic 6G
Hans-Peter Bernhard, Principal Scientist, Silicon Austria Labs; Senior Scientist, Johannes Kepler University Linz - Integrating virtual human models with infrastructure twins: A sustainable and private 6G ecosystem for personalized healthcare
Hugo Herrero Antón, Director of Innovation and Strategy, Alma IT Systems
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 – 18:00 Session 6: one6G Association
Moderator Albena Dimitrova Mihovska, Vice-Chair, one6G WG3; Chief Technology Officer, SmartAvatar
A word from the one6G members:
- Realizing 6G: Orchestrating the convergence of computing and networking
Massimo Neri, CTO, Martel Innovate - Bridging the gap to 6G beyond only communications: Evolution from triangular to hexagon framework
Aryan Kaushik, Assistant Professor, University of Sussex
Updates from the one6G Working Group Chairs:
- The role of 6G in eHealth (r)evolution
Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei, Chair, one6G WG1; Professor, King’s College London - 6G enabling technologies
Luca De Nardis, Vice-Chair, one6G WG2; Associate Professor, Sapienza University of Rome - 6G evaluation, testbeds, and pilots
Joseph Eichinger, Chair, one6G WG4; Senior Principal Researcher, Huawei