Exploring the 6G Vision & Key Technology Enablers

Evening Reception & Registration

Santa Clara Convention Center

Welcome and Introductions

Host Introduction and Keynote

VP, 6G Program Manager, Keysight Technologies

5G Evolution and 6G powered by "IOWN" Innovative Optical and Wireless Network

Chief Technology Architect, DoCoMo R&D

• The development and deployment of 6G is viewed as a "trillion dollar opportunity" for the mobile industry, while technical leadership is increasingly a political priority for many governments around the world.
• Research efforts are well underway in Europe, China, Japan and in North America in a bid to become a leader not just in the development of 5G applications and services, but also the technologies that will comprise global standards.
• A working group designed to promote North American leadership in the nascent field of 6G networks has published a roadmap for the industry, outlining six "audacious" goals that can make its ambition a reality.
  

6G Societal Needs - Identifying the Requirements of 6G from our Society, Including Efficiency and Sustainability

Principal, Emerging Technologies, Orange Silicon Valley

Challenges and Opportunities for
Sustainable "Next G"

Senior Research Scientist, Distributed Edge, Office of the CTO, VMware
Co-chair Next G Alliance Green G Working Group

Networking Lunch

• 5G is happening and 6G research is ramping up.  Increasing expectations from society, industries and consumers, combined with new advanced technologies being developed, will eventually give rise to challenges beyond what even 5G can meet.  Future networks will be a fundamental component for virtually all parts of life, society, and industries, fulfilling the communication needs of humans as well as intelligent machines.  The increasing expectations set a clear target for us in the industry and research community - 6G should contribute to an efficient, human-friendly, sustainable society through ever-present intelligent communications.   In this talk we will share our vision and highlight some of the technology components that will make it possible.
  

The (Exciting) Journey towards 6G

Chief Architect, Ericsson

Energy Efficiency in 6G Radio:  Opportunities and Challenges

Head of Radio Systems Research, Nokia

Networking Break

Technologies for 6G Terminals

Senior Director Future Wireless, interdigital

Adjourn

Networking Dinner

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Breakfast

• Today, 5G is being widely deployed across all regions of the world, and its technology evolution continues with 5G Advanced in 3GPP Release 18 and beyond. 5G Advanced marks the second phase of 5G technology evolution and it is bringing a new wave of wireless innovations that will fully deliver on the 5G promise. At the same time, the vision for 6G is already starting to formulate, and it is envisioned to become the wireless innovation platform for the next decade (2030+). To prepare for the future, advanced wireless research will bring disruptive innovations, pushing technology boundaries to enable new and enhanced user experiences. What new technologies are coming with 5G Advanced, the early vision for 6G, and the key innovations that will enable the 6G world of our future.

Leading 5G Advanced Technology Innovations into the 6G Era

Senior Director of Technology, Qualcomm

Networking Break

• Considering challenges, research directions and recent results for millimeter-wave and sub-THz wireless communication including: Radio transceiver architecture trade-offs, The quest for low cost and mature III-V technologies, CMOS and III/V heterogeneous integration and Low-power sub-THz circuit design.
  
• As wireless communication requirements continue to explode beyond 5G, the use of bandwidth-limited sub-6-GHz frequencies, suffers from crowded spectrum occupancy. Exploiting wide bands available at higher mm-wave frequencies becomes mandatory to provide the throughput needed to support ultra-low-latency AR/VR applications, instant download on mobile, data-intensive machine learning and wireless infrastructure links.
• The use of frequencies above 100 GHz is already on the horizon—but also breaks the current CMOS-centric approach. Understanding the latest development in CMOS and III/V semiconductors will be key, as this combination alleviates frequency limitations of CMOS. The design of heterogenous platforms offers significant benefits in output power and efficiency, while providing a small form factor even with flexible beamforming architectures, enabling extreme speed point-to-(multi)point links.
• Considering technology roadmaps and recent research results towards 100 Gb/s links above 100 GHz, combining integrated CMOS and III/V devices with advanced RF system, architecture and circuit concepts to reach an end-to-end energy consumption significantly below 1 nJ/bit. Maturing these technologies, we enable the next generation of high-data rate, low-cost, low-power and scalable radio solutions.

RF Technologies for Next-Generation Extreme Throughput Wireless Applications

Program Manager, IMEC

Silicon Technology Roadmap to Address Challenges of sub-THz 6G

Senior Director, Strategic Applications, GF

Networking Lunch

• Assessing the status of 5G deployments – gaps in goals versus realized networks; why AI Native 6G; AI ML use cases; network optimization versus data path implementation; model based Or data driven; compute and connectivity implications; potential technologies for 6G POC development.
• Material innovations to address 5G new bands and make transition to the most promising opportunities addressing 6G new bands challenges.
• Considering simulation tools and modeling techniques allow exploring the possibilities and performance of key 6G enablers. The complexity of propagation phenomena for higher bands or new types of topologies require different approaches for the environment modeling or the simulation. The presentation will provide a focus on techniques and tools used by research and Innovation teams across the globe to simulate the impact of 6G enablers: Simulation of Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces, Propagation evaluation in sub-THz bands, Intelligent joint planning of the Access and Backhaul layers in high frequency bands.

On the Verge of 6G?  A First Test and Measurement Perspective

Technology Manager, NA, Rohde & Schwarz

New Test & Measurement challenges expected in 6G, understanding the importance of Latency and AI/ML metrics for new industry verticals

Manager, Business Development, Anritsu

Advanced Physical Simulation Tools and Network Planning Techniques for Performance Evaluation of Key 6G Enablers

SVP, Sales and Marketing NORAM, SIRADEL

Closing Discussion

Key Take-Aways

Adjourn