Ted Rappaport (David Lee/Ernst Weber Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering, NYU WIRELESS), Nishant Batra (Chief Strategy & Technology Officer, Nokia) & Amitava Ghosh (Nokia Fellow, Nokia Standards and Strategy)

Keynote by Nishant Batra, CTO of Nokia, including opening remarks from Pekka Lundmark, CEO of Nokia. 

Welcome to the B6GS from IEEE, Fawzi Behmann (NA Director, BoG member and Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE ComSoc).

Takaaki Sato, Senior Executive Vice President at NTT DOCOMO, presents the second keynote speech on “6G Promotion and Prospects for AI Utilization.” 

Edward Knapp, CTO at American Tower Corporation, presents his keynote speech on “Digital Infrastructure Evolution to 6G: A Tower View.”

Jaydee Griffith (Managing Director, ATIS Next G Alliance)

Colin Willcock (Chairman of The Board, 6G-IA)

Takehiro Nakamura (Chief Standardization Officer, NTT DOCOMO)

Rajesh Pathak (Director General, Bharat 6G Alliance)

Kyung Hi Chang (Professor at Inha University, 6G Forum)

Thomas Rondeau, Principal Director for FutureG & 5G at the United States Department of Defense, presents his keynote talk entitled. “The Role of 6G in U.S. Government and the Department of Defense.”  

Talk#1: Taesang Yoo (Senior Director of Technology, Qualcomm)

Talk#2: Tim O´Shea (CTO, DeepSig)

Moderator:

Jeff Andrews (Truchard Family Endowed Chair in Engineering and Director of 6G, UT Austin)

Panel:

Salam Akoum (Expert Member of Technical Staff, AT&T)

Tim O´Shea (CTO, DeepSig)

Harish Viswanathan (Head of Radio Systems Research, Nokia Bell Labs)

Yoji Kishi (Executive Director, KDDI Research)

Taesang Yoo (Senior Director of Technology, Qualcomm)

Takki Yu, Vice President and Head of Infra Tech Office of SK Telecom, delivers his keynote speech about “The Path to AI Telecommunications Infrastructure Evolution as Future Architecture.”

Joe Madden, Owner and Lead Analyst at Mobile Experts, gave his keynote talk on the economics of NTN. 

Master of Ceremonies of the 2024 Brooklyn 6G Summit, Camille Mendler, Omdia, encapsulates the day’s talks and overall messaging for a brief closing remarks of Day 1.

Camille Mendler, Omdia, gives a brief welcome to set the stage for Day 2 of the 2024 B6GS

Manish Singh, CTO of Telecom Systems Business at Dell Technologies, presents the first keynote speech titled, “AI and Cloud-native Networks: Essential for Future 6G Success.”

Panel on An Academic View of 6G

Moderator: Al Pisano (Professor and Dean, UCSD)

Universities with 6G Wireless Affiliate program:

Jeff Andrews (Truchard Family Endowed Chair in Engineering and Director of 6G, UT Austin)

Monisha Ghosh (Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of Notre Dame)

Ari Pouttu (6G ESS program Vice-Director & Professor, University of Oulu)

Gerhard Fettweis (Scientific Director & CEO at Barkhausen Institute & Vodafone Chair Professor, TU-Dresden)

Robert Heath (Charles Lee Powell Chair in Wireless Communications, UC San Diego)

Tommaso Melodia (Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things, Northeastern University)

Ted Rappaport (David Lee/Ernst Weber Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering, NYU WIRELESS)

Peter Merz, Head of Nokia Standards at Nokia, presents his keynote speech, “Harnessing the transformational nature of AI for 6G.”

Fireside chat with the National Telecommunication and Information Association (NTIA)

Sarah Morris (Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary and Deputy Administrator, NTIA)

Glenn Reynolds (VP, Government Affairs, Nokia)

6G Graduate Students Panel

Moderators:

Peter Vetter (President of Bell Labs Core Research, Nokia)

Panelists:

Yushan Siriwardhana (Doctoral researcher, Centre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu)

Nick Olson (PhD student in Electrical Engineering, UT Austin)

Davide Villa (Ph.D. Candidate, Northeastern University)

Florian Gast (Research Associate at Vodafone Chair Mobile Communications Systems & Ph.D. student, TU-Dresden)

Ruth Gebremehdin (Ph.D. candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering, NYU WIRELESS)

Mingjun Ying (EE PhD Student, NYU WIRELESS)

Talk#1: Kuntal Chowdhury (AI-RAN and 6G Developer Relations, NVIDIA)

Talk#2: Slawomir Stanczak (Head of the Wireless Communications and Networks Department, Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI))

Moderator:

Francesca Sartori (Head of Sustainability Research and Standardization, Nokia)

Panel:

Kuntal Chowdhury (AI-RAN and 6G Developer Relations, NVIDIA)

Slawomir Stanczak (Head of the Wireless Communications and Networks Department, Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI))

Andreas Roessler (Technology Manager, Rohde & Schwarz)

Doru Calin (AVP, Head of U.S. 6G Wireless Research Center and the Lead Research Scientist 6G, MediaTek USA)

Phil Pietraski (Sr. Principal Engineer, InterDigital Communications)

Talk#1: Todd Humphreys (Professor, UT Austin)

Talk#2: Roger Piqueras Jover (Connectivity Security lead, Google)

Moderator:

Suresh Nair (Chair, 3GPP Security Working Group SA3, Nokia)

Panel:

Todd Humphreys (Professor, UT Austin)

Roger Piqueras Jover (Connectivity Security lead, Google)

Azimeh Sefidcon (VP, Head of Network Systems and Security Research, Nokia Bell Labs)

Sennur Ulukus (Anthony Ephremides Professor in Information Sciences and Systems, University of Maryland)

Camille Mendler (Chief Analyst, Omdia) summarizes the survey results on Day 2 of the Brooklyn 6G Summit.

Keynote speaker Mingxi Fan, Senior General Manager of Wireless Communication Technology and System Design at Mediatek, delivers his speech titled "Enable a Healthy & User-centric 6G Device Ecosystem."

Talk#1: Sundeep Rangan (Professor Electrical & Computer Engineering, NYU WIRELESS)

Talk#2: Yoji Kishi (Executive Director, KDDI Research)

Moderator:

Michael Thelander (President and Founder, Signals Research Group (SRG))

Panel:

Ari Kynäslahti (Vice President Strategy & Technology, CTO, Nokia)

Sundeep Rangan (Professor Electrical & Computer Engineering, NYU WIRELESS)

Mikael Hook (Research Area Director, Ericsson Research)

Mike Millhaem (5G Technical Architect, Keysight Technologies)

Yoji Kishi (Executive Director, KDDI Research)

Emad Farag (Principle Engineer, Samsung Research of America (SRA))