Paths To 2030, Relevance For 2022
23-25, May 2022 • Virtual Event
Thought Leaders Across Industry, Government and Academia Include
The Royal Decree appointing Mr. Arturo Azcorra Saloña as General Director of Telecommunications and Management of Audiovisual Communication Services was approved in the Council of Ministers, on Tuesday, April 27, 2021. Graduated from Loy-Norrix High-School, Michigan. Telecommunications Engineer with the degree of doctor. Master in Business Administration ("Executive MBA") from the Instituto de Empresa where he graduated with the number one of his class. He is a professor in the Department of Telematics Engineering at the Carlos III University of Madrid. In 2006 he was appointed director of the Imdea Networks International Research Institute, a position he continues to hold today. He served as general director of Technology Transfer and Business Development of the Ministry of Science and Innovation until he was appointed general director of the Center for Industrial Technological Development (CDTI). In 2012 he rejoined his Chair at Carlos III and the direction of the IMDEA Networks institute. In October 2018 he was appointed a member of the European Academy of Sciences "Academia Europaea". Since 2016 he is the vice president of the 5TONIC laboratory. He holds six patents in telecommunications technologies, some of them in operation. He has participated in thirty competitive research projects funded by the European Union within the framework of the ESPRIT, RACE, COMETT, Telematics, ACTS, IST, and ICT programs directing multiple of them. He is the author of more than one hundred publications in journals, books and international conferences of the highest scientific level. He has made guest stays as a researcher at ICSI of the University of Berkeley in 2000, and at MIT in 2002. In November 2020 he was awarded the ACM MSWIM Reginald Fessenden International Research Prize, for his contributions to the midhaul and core of 5G networks. Dr. Bi is Chief Expert of China Telecom and CTO of China Telecom Research Institute, leading R&D activities with responsibilities in corporate strategy, R&D projects planning, and forward-looking directions. His specialty is in wireless including 5G and 6G innovations related to technologies, standards, and trials in China Telecom. Dr. Bi is well-known for his visionary insights in industrial trends and directions throughout his career. Previously, Dr. Bi worked at Bell Labs for 20+ years and was awarded the prestigious Bell Labs Fellow in 2002. Other awards included Bell Labs President’s Gold Awards in 2000 & 2002, the Bell Labs Innovation Team Award in 2003, and Asian American Engineer of the Year in 2005. He is an IEEE Fellow, and served as a member of the IEEE Fellow Evaluation Committee of the communication society between 2017 and 2019. Dr. Bi received his M.S. from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University. He holds 47 US patents, 63 European patents and 65 Chinese patents. While in China Telecom, his 4G innovation project led to a large-scale commercial deployment and won the GTB Innovation Award at London in 2014. For his impressive contributions, he was given “outstanding contribution award for Innovation and entrepreneurship from the overseas” by Beijing City in 2019. Eric Hardouin leads the “Ambient Connectivity” research in Orange, which investigates future access and transport networks and technologies, as well as related business models. Eric received a Ph.D. degree in signal processing and telecommunications from Telecom Bretagne and the University of Rennes 1, France, in 2004. Since 2004, he has been with Orange, where he has conducted research on interference mitigation for mobile networks. Between 2008 and 2013 he represented Orange in the physical layer standardization group of 3GPP (RAN WG1) for HSPA, LTE and LTE-Advanced. From 2012 to 2015, Eric led the research on wireless networks in Orange. Eric had a leading role in the NGMN 5G White Paper, as co-lead of the work on 5G requirements. Eric is the author of the book “LTE et les réseaux 4G” (in French). Marie-Paule Odini is Distinguished Technologist in HPE Telecom organization focusing on 5G, AI, OSS and Sustainability. She is also Chair of North America 6G ‘Next G Alliance’ Green G working group, and active in many other standards & industry forums including ETSI, GSMA, TMForum, NGMN and IEEE. She holds a Master Degree in EE from Utah State University and teaches Telecom at the University Savoie Mont-Blanc.Arturo Azcorra
Director General for Telecommunications and Audiovisual Services, Ministry for Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation, Spain
Qi Bi
CTO, China Telecom Research Institute
Eric Hardouin
VP Ambient Connectivity Research, Orange
Marie-Paule Odini
Chair, Green G, Next G Alliance & Distinguished Technologist, HPE
About 6GSymposium Spring 2022
6GSymposium Themes & Audiences
2022 will see clearer definitions for what comes after 5G from international organisations such as the ITU and 3GPP, while countries across the world are developing their initiatives and research programmes. Visions are giving way to practical solutions and challenges.
It is evident that 6G will contain elements that are a natural extension of 5G and 5G-Advanced, and will in some ways build on the business disruptions already being felt today. At the same time, the unique social and environmental demands being placed on future telecoms will accelerate and redirect innovation, technical and business growth across the telecoms supply chain to create some radical results.
None of this happens in a vacuum. Changes in the telecoms sphere overlap with developments in computing, media, semiconductors, infrastructure and more.
Following the success of last year’s 6GSymposium, we bring you fresh ideas and inspiration from the leading thinkers in industry, government and academia. The event will help anyone aiming to understand their way forward in 2022 and position their organisations for success.
Agenda
All times are in CET
9 April
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9.00 – 10.15 | Opening Keynotes: Can we Reconcile Conflicts in Basic 6G Concepts? | |
10.30 – 11.30 | How Should Future Telecoms Support Industrial Transformation? | |
11.45 – 13.00 | What’s the Business Case for Future Networks? | |
14.00 – 15.30 | Back to Basics with Spectrum | |
16.00 – 17.00 | Key Value Indicators: Who Cares Enough? | |
17.00 – 18.00 | 6G Surgery: Answering Your Questions | |
18.00 Onwards | Social Activities: Networking Banquet |
10 April |
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09.00 - 10.30 | How Can Standards Processes Deliver the Best Outcomes for 6G? | |
11.00 – 12.00 | Is Chasing “Sustainable 6G Technology” Realistic? | |
13.00 – 14.00 |
Hurdles to the Commercial Integration of Terrestrial and Non-Terrestrial Networks |
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14.00 – 15.00 |
6G Will Work Best for Indoor & Private Networks – Prove Me Wrong |
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15.30 – 16.30 | European Microelectronics & Chips: More Than a Me-Too Continent? | |
16.30 – 17.30 | Is AI for Telecoms Just an Optimisation Tool? | |
17.30 Onwards | Evening Social Activities |
Wednesday, May 25th |
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10:00 AM – 11:15 AM CET | 6G’s Coming – Is a New Network Architecture | |
11:30 AM – 1:00 PM CET | How Far Can Hardware Technologies Stretch and Scale on the Way to 6G? | |
1:30 PM – 2:40 PM CET | See What I Mean? Integrating Sensing, Communications and Semantics | |
2:45 PM – 3:55 PM CET | Waveform Candidates For 6G | |
4:00 PM – 5:15 PM CET | Advanced Non-Terrestrial Networks for beyond 5G |
Speakers