Paving the Way for North America Beyond 5G
September 21 – 22, 2021
Washington DC In-Person & Virtual Event
In partnership with:
Thought Leaders Across Industry, Government and Academia Include
Gregory D. Abowd is Dean of the College of Engineering and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engi ... ... Since 2007, Congressman Bob Latta has served the people of Ohio’s Fifth Congressional District in th... Tommaso Melodia is the William Lincoln Smith Chair Professor with the Department of Electrical and C... As Vice President of Technology and Solutions, Mike Nawrocki focuses on strategic initiatives to adv...
Gregory Abowd
Dean of the College of Engineering, Northeastern University
Liren Chen
President and Chief Executive Officer, InterDigital
Robert Latta
Congressman, Ohio’s 5th Congressional District
Tommaso Melodia
William Lincoln Smith Chair Professor, Northeastern University
Mike Nawrocki
VP Technology & Solutions, ATIS & Managing Director, Next G Alliance
Why 6GSymposium Fall?
Agenda
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 | |
Speakers
Gregory D. Abowd is Dean of the College of Engineering and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engi ... Joydeep Acharya is a Senior Manager in Silicon Valley Research Center for Hitachi America R&D Di... Jonathan S. Adelstein is the President & CEO of the Wireless Infrastructure Association (WIA). W... John Baker is the Senior Vice President of Business Development at Mavenir. A veteran of the mobile ... Jaya Baloo is Avast’s Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and joined Avast in October 2019. Pr... CHARLES C. BYERS is Associate Chief Technology Officer of the Industrial Internet Consortium, now in... Dr. Campbell is a senior cryptologist, former naval officer cryptologist, electronics, spacecraft, s... Doug is a Senior Director of Research and Innovation responsible for Technology Evolution and Protot... Paul Challoner, Vice President, Network Product Solutions for Ericsson North America, based in Plano... ... Andrew Clegg is the Spectrum Engineering Lead for Google. He is presently focused primarily on ident... Kaushik R. Chowdhury graduated with B.E. in Electronics Engineering with distinction from VJTI, Mumb... Aleksandar D. Damnjanovic received Doctor of Science degree in electrical engineering from the Georg... Ian Deakin, Principal Technologist at Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS), i... Raymond (Ray) Dolan joined the Cohere Technologies Board of Directors in July, 2018 and later took t... In his role as Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, at Bell Canada, Javan Erfanian primes wirele... Bob Everson is the Senior Director - 5G Architecture for Cisco, leading strategy, architecture, tech... Professor Evans has BSC and PhD degrees from the University of Leeds, is a Fellow of the UK Royal Ac... Congressman Bill Foster is a scientist and businessman representing the 11th Congressional District ... Andre Fuetsch oversees the global technology direction for AT&T. This includes network planning,... Dr. Tommaso Gagliardoni is a mathematician, cryptographer, and quantum security expert. He published... Robert (Bob) Gazda is a Senior Director, Future Wireless at InterDigital Labs. Bob is an accomplishe... Abhimanyu (Manu) Gosain is a Technical Program Director for PAWR and Director of Industry Engagement... Monisha Ghosh is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame and a member ... NADA GOLMIE received her Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Maryland at College Park. ... As the Co-Founder and CEO of KH Aerospace, Fatema Hamdani is unlocking the potential of unmanned aer ... Nageen Himayat is a Principal Engineer with Intel, where she conducts research on next generation (5... Jakob Hoydis is a Principal Research Scientist at NVIDIA working on the intersection of machine lear... Erwin Hudson is Vice President, Telesat Lightspeed System Development. He is responsible for directi... From humble beginnings being a content provider for T-Mobile starting with ringtones, wallpapers and... Josep M. Jornet is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, ... Mark Kahn has over 30 years of experience in commercial and military wireless systems engineering an... Vinay Kanitkar leads the Product and Platform Architecture team at Akamai. He’s an Akamai Fellow and... Since 2007, Congressman Bob Latta has served the people of Ohio’s Fifth Congressional District in th... Thomas Marzetta is Distinguished Industry Professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering's Electrical... Congresswoman Lisa McClain is serving her first term representing Michigan’s 10th Congressional Dist... Tommaso Melodia is the William Lincoln Smith Chair Professor with the Department of Electrical and C... Camille Mendler has more than 25 years' multi-disciplinary experience in the digital economy and a g... Dr. Anton Monk is CTO of Wireless Initiatives at Viasat, Inc, a global provider of high-speed satell... Jeremy Nacer is the Senior Manager of Device Feature Planning in Verizon’s Technology and Product De... Dr. Thyaga Nandagopal serves in the Directorate of Computer & Information Science and Engineerin... As Vice President of Technology and Solutions, Mike Nawrocki focuses on strategic initiatives to adv... Michael O'Rielly was nominated for a seat on the Federal Communications Commission by President Bara... Benoit Pelletier is currently Director, Next Gen Ecosystems & Alliances in the Advanced Technolo... Ben is a Global Technology Leader with over 30 years of experience in driving success in complex ent... Balaji Raghothaman has more than 2 decades of accomplishments in the wireless communications field. ... Mark Reudink is currently Vice President Technology Strategy at Crown Castle and is responsible for ... Diane Rinaldo is one of the country’s leading authorities on 5G, telecommunications supply chain sec... David is a mobile phone and IoT security specialist who runs Copper Horse Ltd, a software and securi... Dr. Sumit Roy is Innovation Lead at the U.S. Department of Defense. He received the B. Tech. degree ... Dale Seed is a Principal Engineer at InterDigital, Inc. In this role, Dale focuses on IoT research ... Dr. Emilio Calvanese Strinati obtained his Engineering Master degree in 2001 from the University of ... Sunay is the Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of Engineering and Product at Mob... Andrew Thiessen is the Head of 5G/xG at the MITRE Corporation, which is a non-profit that works in t... Satya's multi-decade research career has focused on the challenges of performance, scalability, avai... Dr. Harish Viswanathan is Head of Radio Systems Research Group in Nokia Bell Labs. He received the B... Ernest Worthman is a Senior Member of the IEEE, the Executive Editor of AGL's Applied Wireless Techn... Dr. Ian C. Wong has been in the wireless field for over 20 years and is presently the Director of RF... Bill Wright, head of AI/ML business development and technical strategy, Vertical Industries and Glob... Greg Young has over 30 years experience in cybersecurity. He is the Vice President of Cybersecurity ... Charlie Zhang is an SVP and head of the Standards and Mobility Innovation Team at Samsung Research A... Gregory Abowd
Dean of the College of Engineering, Northeastern University
Joydeep Acharya
Senior Manager in Silicon Valley Research Center, Hitachi America R&D Division
Jonathan Adelstein
CEO & President, WIA
John Baker
SVP, Business Development, Mavenir
Jaya Baloo
Chief Information Security Officer, Avast
Charles C. Byers
Associate CTO, Industrial Internet Consortium
Robert Campbell
Chair, Quantum Computing (Ph.D.) Research Program, Capitol Technology University
Doug Castor
Head of Wireless Research, InterDigital Research And Innovation
Paul Challoner
VP, Network Product Solutions, Ericsson North America
Liren Chen
President and Chief Executive Officer, InterDigital
Andrew Clegg
Spectrum Lead, Google
Kaushik Chowdhury
Professor, Northeastern University
Aleksandar Damnjanovic
Radio Working Group Chair, MFA & Principal Engineer and Manager, Qualcomm
Ian Deakin
Principal Technologist, Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS)
Raymond Dolan
Chairman & CEO, Cohere
Javan Erfanian
Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Bell Canada & Board Alternate, NGMN
Bob Everson
Senior Director - 5G Architecture, Cisco
Barry Evans
Head of Satellite Communications Research, ICR & 5GIC, University of Surrey
Bill Foster
Congressman, 11th Congressional District of Illinois
Andre Fuetsch
CTO, AT&T
Tommaso Gagliardoni
SR Expert in Quantum Security, Kudelski Security
Bob Gazda
Sr Director Engineering, InterDigital
Abhimanyu Gosain
Director Of Industry Engagement For The Institute Of Wireless Internet Of Things
Monisha Ghosh
Professor, University of Notre Dame
Nada Golmie
Fellow, IEEE & NIST
Fatema Hamdani
Co-Founder and CEO of KH Aerospace
Nageen Himayat
Principal Engineer, Intel
Jakob Hoydis
Principal Research Scientist, NVIDIA
Erwin Hudson
Vice President, Telesat Lightspeed System Development
Mike Johns
Futurist & Founder, Digital Mind State
Josep Jornet
Professor, Northeastern University
Mark Kahn
Senior Fellow & Principal Investigator, 5G.MIL Programs, Lockheed Martin
Vinay Kanitkar
CTO, Global Carrier Strategy & Akamai Fellow, Akamai
Robert Latta
Congressman, Ohio’s 5th Congressional District
Richard Lloyd
Communications Director, IP Licensing & Policy, InterDigital
Tom Marzetta
Distinguished Industry Professor, NYU
Lisa McClain
Congresswoman, Michigan’s 10th Congressional District
Tommaso Melodia
William Lincoln Smith Chair Professor, Northeastern University
Camille Mendler
Chief Analyst, Enterprise Services, Omdia
Anton Monk
CTO of Wireless Initiatives, Viasat, Inc
Jeremy Nacer
Vice Chair, Societal & Economic Needs Working Group, Next G Alliance
Thyaga Nandagopal
Directorate of Computer & Information Science and Engineering, National Science Foundation
Mike Nawrocki
VP Technology & Solutions, ATIS & Managing Director, Next G Alliance
Michael O'Rielly
President, MPO'Rielly
Benoit Pelletier
Director, Next Gen Ecosystems & Alliances, VMware
Benedetto Pietrabella
VP Americas Network Equipment Providers, CapGemini Engineering
Balaji Raghothaman
Chief Technologist, Network Solutions, Keysight
Mark Reudink
Vice President Technology Strategy, Crown Castle
Diane Rinaldo
Executive Director, ORPC
David Rogers
Founder and CEO, Copper Horse Ltd
Sumit Roy
Innovate Beyond 5G Lead, OUSD (R&E)
Dale Seed
Principal Engineer, InterDigital
Emilio Calvanese Strinati
New-6G Program Director, CEA-LETI
Sunay Tripathi
Head of Telco & Enterprise Edge, Google
Andrew Thiessen
Head of 5G/xG Engagement, MITRE & Chair, Next G Alliance Spectrum WG
Mahadev Satyanarayanan
Carnegie Group University Professor of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Dr. Harish Viswanathan
Head of Radio Systems Research Group, Nokia Bell Labs
Ernest Worthman
Executive Editor, AGL's Applied Wireless Technology
Ian Wong
Director of RF and Wireless Architecture, VIAVI Solutions
Bill Wright
Head of AI/ML and Intelligent Edge, Global Verticals, Red Hat
Greg Young
Vice President, Cybersecurity, Trend Micro
Charlie (Jianzhong) Zhang
SVP, Samsung
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