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: RAGing GenAI: Enhancing LLM outputs with Retrieval Augmented Generation
By Ruchit Agrawal
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
