Agenda
Below, you will find the agenda for the one6G Summit 2023.
Don’t miss the demo exhibition! Explore state-of-the-art demonstrations available on both Day 1 and Day 2. Connect with our exhibitors during coffee and lunch breaks, and immerse yourself in the innovative demos carefully selected for the one6G Summit 2023.
8:30 – 9:00 Registration and Networking
9:00 – 9:10 Welcome and opening remarks
By Nancy Alonistioti, Chair, one6G Association; Associate Professor, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
9:10 – 11:10 Session 1: Global development of 6G
Chaired by Roberto Verdone, Professor, University of Bologna
This session will address global development of 6G from the point of view of relevant (pre)standardization and industry bodies. It will feature speakers from national, regional, and global organizations who will share the progress of 6G innovation in their countries/regions.
- The ETSI Approach to Research, Innovation, and Standardization
David Boswarthick, Director of New Technologies, ETSI - The path to 6G
Anita Doehler, CEO, NGMN Alliance - 6G research progress in China
Zhiqin Wang, Vice President of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) - 5G and Beyond from Japan’s Perspective – What’s on the 6G Bandwagon
Itsuma Tanaka, President and CEO, DOCOMO Communications Laboratories Europe - Evolution from 5G to 6G: Korea’s perspective
KyungHi Chang, Chairman, 6G Forum Executive Committee; Professor, Inha University - The Road to 6G – Highlights from the 6G Research and Innovation Cluster (6G-RIC)
Sławomir Stańczak, Professor, Technical University of Berlin; Head of the Wireless Communications and Networks Department, Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute - National 6G research activities in Spain and i2CAT’s impact
Sergi Figuerola, Chief Technology and Innovation Officer, i2CAT Foundation; Chief Technology Officer, 5GBarcelona - Regulation and economic considerations about 6G networks
Dimitris Varoutas, Vice President for Electronic Communications, EETT; Associate Professor, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
11:10 – 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 – 12:30 Session 2: Panel on Global development of 6G
Chaired by Roberto Verdone, Professor, University of Bologna
This panel discussion will expand on the preceding session covering the development of 6G across the globe. It will feature the same speakers who will delve a bit deeper into the subject by sharing and discussing the experiences from their countries/regions.
Panelists:
- David Boswarthick, Director of New Technologies, ETSI
- Anita Doehler, CEO, NGMN Alliance
- Itsuma Tanaka, President and CEO, DOCOMO Communications Laboratories Europe
- KyungHi Chang, Chairman, 6G Forum Executive Committee; Professor, Inha University
- Sławomir Stańczak, Professor, Technical University of Berlin; Head of the Wireless Communications and Networks Department, Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute
- Sergi Figuerola, Chief Technology and Innovation Officer, i2CAT Foundation; Chief Technology Officer, 5GBarcelona
- Dimitris Varoutas, Vice President for Electronic Communications, EETT; Associate Professor, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
12:30 -14:00 Lunch break
14:00 – 14:10 Afternoon welcome speech
- The Innovative Power of Munich
Clemens Baumgärtner, Department head of Labor and Economic Development of City of Munich
14:10 – 15:15 Session 3: Industry view on 6G (Part 1)
Chaired by Monique Calisti, CEO, Martel Innovate; President, Digital for Planet
This session will feature industrial stakeholders who will discuss how the digital transformation of vertical sectors can be fully empowered through global 6G.
- 5G for automotive update
Maxime Flament, Chief Technology Officer, 5G Automotive Association (5GAA) - Healthcare as a driver for next generation networks
Christoph Thümmler, Chief Medical Officer, 6G Health Institute - IoT and Edge Computing Research and Innovation: Synergies with 6G research
Juergen Sturm, BoardChair of the Management Board, AIOTI - Communicating in a vacuum transport pipeline at 900 km/h
Doré de Morsier, Founder and Chairman of the Board of Trustees, EuroTube
15:15 – 16:20 Session 4: Industry view on 6G (Part 2)
Chaired by Monique Calisti, CEO, Martel Innovate; President, Digital for Planet
This session will feature key ICT players who will continue the discussion about the role of the global 6G for transformation.
- Learnings from 5G and their importance on 6G design and value creation towards vertical industries
Patrick Waldemar, Vice President, Telenor Research & Innovation - Native artificial intelligence and native computing as key features of 6G
Markus Mueck, Principal Engineer and Engineering Manager, Intel - On the Way to 6G – Deutsche Telekom´s view
Konstantinos Chalkiotis, Vice President 6G & NTN, Deutsche Telekom
16:20 – 16:40 Coffee break
16:40 – 17:50 Session 5: one6G Association
Led by Nancy Alonistioti, Chair, one6G Association; Associate Professor, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
This session will present the work, progress, and plans of the one6G Association.
- 6G use cases and requirements
Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei, Professor, King’s College London - 6G enabling technologies
Luca De Nardis, Associate Professor at Sapienza University of Rome - one6G community building and ecosystem
Albena Dimitrova Mihovska, Associate Professor, Aarhus University - 6G evaluation, testbeds and pilots
Youssef Nasser, 5G/6G Business Line Tech. Leader, Greenerwave
8:30 – 9:00 Registration and Networking
9:00 – 9:10 Opening remarks
by Narcís Cardona, Vice-Chair, one6G Association; Director of the Institute of Telecommunications and Multimedia Applications (iTEAM), Technical University of Valencia (UPV)
9:10 – 10:50 Session 6: Keynotes presentations
- LLM will Revolutionize 6G
Wen Tong, CTO, Huawei Wireless, President, Huawei Canada R&D - Taking mobile networks to the next level with integrated sensing and communication
Andreas Mueller, Chief Expert for Communication Technologies for the IoT and Project Director of the 6G program, Bosch; General Chair, the 5G Alliance for Connected Industries and Automation (5G-ACIA) - On the Verge of 6G
Frank Groeger, Director of Technology Management, Rohde & Schwarz
10:50 – 11:10 Coffee break
11:10 – 12:30 Session 7: Progress of 6G enabling technologies
This session will shed light on the progress of selected 6G enabling technologies (e.g., network architecture, radio access, etc.).
chaired by Narcís Cardona, Vice-Chair, one6G Association; Director of the Institute of Telecommunications and Multimedia Applications (iTEAM), Technical University of Valencia (UPV)
- THz communication systems with energy harvesting
Robert Schober, Alexander von Humboldt Professor and Chair for Digital Communications, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) - Does 6G really need a new radio?
Gerhard Fettweis, Vodafone Chair Professor, Technical University of Dresden RIS as Reflectarrays for Xlarge MIMO
Giuseppe Caire, Alexander von Humboldt Professor at the Technical University of Berlin- Semantic Communications and Sensing
Geoffrey Ye Li, Chair Professor in Wireless Systems, Imperial College London
12:30 – 12:40 Closing remarks
by Nancy Alonistioti, one6G Association; Associate Professor, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
12:40 – 14:00 Lunch break
AFTERNOON PARALLEL ACTIVITIES
These sessions will bring together visionary experts from academia, industry, and policy who will discuss how robotics can be empowered through global 6G.
14:00 – 15:30 Special session A: 6G-empowered robotics (Part 1)
This special session is in cooperation with euRobotics.
Chaired by Reinhard Lafrenz, Secretary General, euRobotics.
Keynote:
- Why we need 6G mobile communications in the clinic
Dirk Wilhelm, Chair of Research at Technical University of Munich
Speakers:
- Robotics and 6G in key application areas – a vision for a new generation of robots
Reinhard Lafrenz, Secretary General, euRobotics - Future of Human Robot Interaction
Azmat Hossain, Business Development Director, Extend Robotic - Embodied communications between humans and robots
Marco Controzzi, Assistant Professor at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna - Cognitive Robots: A New Era of Collaboration between Humans and Machines
Alexander Blass, Head of Operations, Neura Robotics
15:30 – 15:45 Coffee break
15:45 – 17:15 Special session A: 6G-empowered robotics (Part 2)
This special session is in cooperation with IEEE ETI Committee on BNC.
Chaired by Muhammad Zeeshan Shakir, Professor of Wireless Communications at University of the West of Scotland
Keynote:
- Coordination and Resilience of Multi-Robot Systems in a Smart Factory
Kwang-Cheng Chen, IEEE Fellow, Professor at University of South Florida
Speakers:
- Computation coding: an enabler for both 6G and robotics
Ralf Mueller, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) - Key Enabling Technologies and Use Cases for 6G and Robotics
Aryan Kaushik, Assistant Professor at the University of Sussex - Advances in the Assessment and Certification of AI Ethics
Ali Hessami, Director of Research, Development and Innovation, Vega Systems - Turkcell 6GEN LAB: 6G-Enabled Robotics Use Cases
Mehmet Basaran, 6G Senior Researcher at Turkcell
14:00 – 16:30 Special Session B: Tour of the Rohde & Schwarz laboratory
An exclusive opportunity to get a first hand look at the demonstration of a live operating RIS FR2 extender in an anechoic test chamber at the Rohde & Schwarz Laboratory in Munich. Transportation will be arranged by the conference.
Sign-up is mandatory. Only 20 places available for the registered participants. Register here
RIS technology has drawn increasing attention in academia and industry due to the potential technical advantages it may provide to future wireless communications systems like the upcoming 6th generation of mobile communications. This technology shows promise as a way to control electromagnetic waves passing through the radio propagation channel using metamaterials with properties not found in nature. R&S and Greenerwave are prepared to demonstrate a live operating RIS FR2 extender in an anechoic test chamber at the R&S headquarters in Munich.
You can find the overview videos of each demo here: https://one6g.org/resources/recordings/
DEMO 1: Brasil 6G Transceiver
Exhibitor: Inatel Brazil
Technical contribution for remote and rural areas. Performance evaluation of real time SDR system.
Website: https://inatel.br/home
DEMO 2: ProteCT – Protection against the Coronavirus through Telemedicine
Exhibitor: Research Group MITI / TU Munich, University Hospital rechts der Isar,
The COVID‐19 pandemic highlighted two fundamental and threatening bottlenecks: The increasing shortage of medical staff and a backlog in the development of telemedicine for basic examinations. To address these challenges, our teleoperated diagnostics framework allows medical staff to examine patients from a safe distance and explores the possibilities of standard medical check‐ups performed with the help of a sensitive robotic arm.
The design of the examination cabin enables a complete routine medical check‐up – from temperature measurements, blood pressure, oxygen saturation and otoscopy, to robotic ventral and dorsal auscultation, tapping and abdominal palpation. It further includes the capability for oropharyngeal inspection and throat swab.
The presented demonstrator shows the robotic examination module of the telerobotic diagnostics framework, enabling a physician to remotely perform physical examinations on patients.
Website: www.mitigroup.de
DEMO 3: VR Robots
Exhibitor: ExtendRobotics
Showcase a robotic arm (weight ~approximately 7.5 Kg) to be controlled through VR headset and gesture joystick control.
Website: https://www.extendrobotics.com/
DEMO 4: Intelligent Robot (MELISAC) Empowered by 6G Native AI and ISAC
Exhibitor: Huawei Technologies
MELISAC is a research testbed of the intelligent dual-arm-robot empowered by 6G technologies. It can leverage both Terahertz signal and optical signal for sensing objects with high resolution. The Terahertz signal can be used for data transmission in the sense of ISAC (Integrated Sensing And Communication). This allows MELISAC to perceive the world around it in a highly detailed and accurate way, and to communicate with other devices and humans in real time. It is also powered by a large language model (LLM), which gives it the ability to understand and respond to natural language.
This demo will show you how MELISAC can use these unique capabilities to perform a variety of tasks, such as: (1) Hidden object detection: MELISAC can use its 6G ISAC capability to detect objects in its environment with high precision. This can be used for a variety of applications, such as autonomous navigation and obstacle avoidance. (2) Natural language interaction: MELISAC can understand and respond to natural language. This allows users to interact with MELISAC in a natural and intuitive way, without having to learn any special commands or programming languages for the control of the robot. (3) Fusion of different types of on-board sensors and radio sensing to build a immersive digital twins.
MELISAC is an extendable research platform, which means that it can be easily modified and upgraded to support new features and applications. We believe that MELISAC has the potential to revolutionize the way we interact with robots, and we are excited to see what new and innovative applications the research community can develop for it.
Website: https://www.huawei.com/en/
DEMO 5: Ultrafast Sub-Terahertz Point-to-Point Wireless Link for 6G Fronthaul Communications
Exhibitor: Keysight and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Sub-THz signal transmission including signal processing to generate and de-modulate IQ-signals. The signal quality is evaluated, bit error rate and constellation diagrams of the actual link are shown.
DEMO 6: Beyond 5G localization in 3GPP-compliant scenarios
Exhibitor: WiLab at CNIT and WCLN Lab at University of Ferrara
Real-time simulations of beyond 5G localization fully compliant with 3GPP specifications and environments in both FR1 and FR2 with data fusion of different types of measurements. A menu-driven GUI enables to select 3GPP environments, frequency range, bandwidth and type of measurements.
Videos available here.
DEMO 7: Multi-target tracking and classification via MIMO radar at mmWaves
Exhibitor: WiLab at CNIT and WCLN Lab at University of Ferrara
Real-time tracking and classification (i.e., identification and activity recognition) of multiple targets moving in an area situated in complex wireless environments using a single multi-antenna radar operating at mmWaves. This demo will be performed in real- time.
Videos available here.
DEMO 8: 6G Integrated communication and sensing in sub-THz band with 270GHz based on Huawei baseband / IF boards and R&S frequency up/down converters for H-Band (220 to 330 GHz)
Exhibitor: Huawei and Rohde & Schwarz
Rohde & Schwarz and Huawei have demonstrated subTHz ISAC with multi-static ranging based on Huawei ISAC prototype and the new R&S high quality up-/Down-converter devices during the one6G summit 2023 in Munich. A VW bus toy car could be moved while the 64QAM ISAC signal was transmitted at 270 GHz RF frequency and stable received.
The FC330ST and FC330SR frequency converters are designed to up and down-convert IF signals to the range from 220 and 330 GHz.
With the integrated IF amplifiers and the additional external accessories (bandpass filters and Tx amplifier) exceptional sensitivity and signal performance can be achieved even in sub-THz frequency range.
DEMO 9: Communication Challenges in Tele-Operated Robotics
Exhibitor: University of Twente / i-Botics
In Tele-Operated Robotics, i.e. robots controlled from a distance away, numerous difficulties arise with regards to the communication of data. Especially when multiple modalities (e.g. vision, arm control, audio, hand control) are used, there is more data each with their own deadlines which needs to be met. This leads us to present the following communication challenge:
QoS optimalisation of multiple channels which need lots of bandwidth, at high update frequency, low latency, and synchronicity between the channels.