14th - 15th November 2024 / Venue : Saadiyat Rotana Resorts, Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Programs Welcome to the 6G Summit, Abu Dhabi, UAE
14th - 15th November 2024
Venue : Saadiyat Rotana Resorts, Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Program

Day: 1
14 November 2024
08:00 – 09:00
Registration
09:00 – 09:15
Summit Opening
By MEROUANE DEBBAH, KHALIFA UNIVERSITY
09:15 – 09:30
Opening Speech
By EBRAHIM AL HAJRI, KHALIFA UNIVERSITY
09:30 – 10:10
Keynote: Artificially Sage Spectrum-Information Assignment
By JOHN M. CIOFFI, STANFORD UNIVERSITY
10:10 – 10:40
Fireside Chat: Insights and Innovations from UAE's Journey to 6G
By KHALID MURSHED (ETISALAT BY E&) & MEROUANE DEBBAH (KHALIFA UNIVERSITY)
10:40 – 11:20
Keynote: Learned Task-Aware Compression for Wireless Networks
By ELZA ERKIP, NYU
11:20 – 11:50
Coffee Break
Session 1.1 Integrated AI & Communication
Room: TBA
Session 1.2 Integrated Sensing & Communication
Room: TBA
11:50 – 12:15
Talk: Efficient and Trustworthy AI and its Applications to 5G networks
By TOM Z.Q. LUO, CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG
Talk: Dual Function Radar Communication Systems using OTFS waveforms
By ATHINA PETROPULU, RUTGERS UNIVERSITY
12:15 – 12:40
Talk: Network Modelling and Optimization for the 6G Era: Human Expertise Meets AI
By NICOLA PIOVESAN, HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES
Talk: ISAC for Radar Imaging: A Signal Processing Perspective
By JUNIL CHOI, KAIST
12:40 – 13:05
Talk: Hardware acceleration for 6G network augmented data centers
By MANU PERUMKUNNIL, IMEC
Talk: OFDM Achieves the Lowest Ranging Sidelobe Under Random ISAC Signaling
By FAN LIU, SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
13:05 – 13:30
Talk: TBA
By TBA
Talk: Radio Localization and Sensing towards 6G: the Carrier Pendulum Swing
By HENK WYMEERSCH, CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
13:30 – 15:00
Lunch
15:00 – 15:40
Keynote: Agentic-AI and Core Network Architecture
By WEN TONG, HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES
15:40 – 16:20
Keynote: URLLC3: Ultra-Reliable and Low-Latency Communication, Computing, and Control for Connected Intelligence in 6G
By ZHISHENG NIU, TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY
16:20 – 16:45
Coffee Break
16:45 – 17:45
17:45 – 18:45
Panel: From 5G to 6G: Regulatory Milestones and Future Pathways towards 6G Standardization
By Saleh Al Masabi, TDRA (Moderator)
Panelists: ALI CHEEMA (ERICSSON), HARETH ALSHEHHI (ETISALAT BY E&), ABDULHADI ABOUALMAL (MEA-COM), SUDHIR DIXIT (WWRF)
Panel: Future Networks: Leveraging AI, LLMs, and Semantic Communications for Tomorrow’s Connectivity
By ABBES AMIRA, UNIVERSITY OF SHARJAH (Moderator)
Panelists: ALEXEY MYAKOV (INTEL), KENAN JARAH (MYCOM-OSI), DEEPAK RAGHUNATHAN (VERYX TECHNOLOGIES), BAGHDAD GHERRAS (MEDAD HOLDING)
Exhibition/
Demos/
Sponsors/
Posters
18:45
Closing Day 1
20:00
Gala Dinner & Awards Ceremony
Day: 2
15 November 2024
08:00 – 09:00
Registration
09:00 – 09:45
Keynote: New Results on the Performance of Free Space Optical Communication Systems
By MOHAMED-SLIM ALOUINI, KAUST
09:45 – 10:30
Industry Dialogue: 6G, AI, and Sustainability
By SAMSON LASAULCE, KHALIFA UNIVERSITY (Moderator)

Featured Guests:
DANIEL VALLE, WORLD WIDE TECHNOLOGY (WWT)
BRAHIM GHRIBI, NOKIA
10:30 – 11:15
Keynote: Reconfigurable Holographic Surfaces: A New Paradigm to Holographic Communications for 6G
By LINGYANG SONG, PEKING UNIVERSITY
11:15 – 11:45
Coffee Break
Session 2.1 Immersive Communications
Room: TBA
Session 2.2 Ubiquitous Connectivity
Room: TBA
11:45 – 12:10
Talk: Haptic Communication: Enabling Remote Sense Of Touch
By YU XIAO, AALTO UNIVERSITY
Talk: Stacked Intelligent Metasurfaces: Communication, Computing and Sensing in the Wave Domain
By MARCO DI RENZO, CENTRALESUPÉLEC
12:10 – 12:35
Talk: Intelligent Digital Twin Systems and Networks at 6G Era
By BERK CANBERK, EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY
Talk: The Promise of Near-Space towards Ubiquitous Connectivity
By HALIM YANIKOMEROGLU, CARLETON UNIVERSITY
12:35 – 13:00
Talk: 6G-Enabled Digital Twins: Revolutionizing Wireless Network Emulation, Testing, & Experimentation
By GEORGES KADDOUM, ÉCOLE DE TECHNOLOGIE SUPÉRIEURE
Talk: LiFi Transceiver Design for 6G Wireless Networks
By ALI GHRAYEB, HAMAD BIN KHALIFA UNIVERSITY
13:00 – 13:25
Talk: Towards the Internet of Senses: Integrating Human Mind, Body and 6G
By SUDHIR DIXIT, WWRF
Talk: From Near Field Communications to Near-Field Sensing (NISE)
By YUANWEI LIU, UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG
13:25 – 14:45
Lunch
14:45 – 15:30
Keynote: The Dawn of Surreality: Navigating the Metaverse Revolution and the Future of Immersive Experiences
By PAN HUI, HKUST (GZ)
15:30 – 16:15
Keynote: 3D Intelligent Metasurfaces and Their Applications
By CHAU YUEN, NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
16:15 – 16:45
Coffee Break
16:45 – 17:45
17:45 – 18:45
Panel: Multi-Functional 6G Networks: Key Technological Trends and Challenges
By QURRAT-UL-AIN NADEEM, NYU-AD (Moderator)
Panelists: NAWAF ALMOOSA (KHALIFA UNIVERSITY), MARCO DI RENZO (CENTRALESUPÉLEC), NAJLA ALKAABI (DU), HENK WYMEERSCH (CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY)
Panel: Securing the Future: From 5G and IoT Cybersecurity to Designing Robust Security for 6G Sponsors Networks
By LUIGI MARTINO, KHALIFA UNIVERSITY (Moderator)
Panelists: ERNESTO DAMIANI (KHALIFA UNIVERSITY), MOHAMMED M. ALANI (RIT DUBAI), MICHAEL BADDELEY (TII)
Exhibition/
Demos/
Sponsors/
Posters
18:45
Closing the Summit