Industry Panel

6G Around the Corner: Hype, Hardware, and the Hard Choices
Monday, September 7, 11:00
The Grand Ballroom

As 6G moves from vision toward standardization, this panel separates durable technical direction from marketing. Leaders from industry and academia debate which candidate technologies are real, who will actually build the radios and front ends, and the cost, energy, and spectrum tradeoffs that will decide what ships.

Moderator: Hamed Rahmani (NYU)
Panelists:
Kaushik Sengupta (Princeton)
Jinfeng Du (Nokia Bell Labs)
Junyi Li (Qualcomm)
Dimitrios Koutsonikolas (Northeastern)

 

The Sky as Spectrum: Cellular Networks For Drones and Against Them
Monday, September 7, 14:00
The Grand Ballroom

Drones are both users of and threats to cellular networks. Framed around integrated sensing and communication, the panel covers connecting and controlling UAS at scale, using the network itself to detect and counter unauthorized drones, and the regulatory and spectrum questions that sit between the two.

Moderator: Yasaman Ghasempour (Princeton)
Panelists:
Olof Liberg (Ericsson)
Tingjun Chen (Duke)
Kuntal Chowdhury (NVIDIA)
Chong Han Shanghai (Jiao Tong University)

 

From LEO to Luna: Communications and Intelligence Beyond Earth
Monday, September 7, 16:00
The Grand Ballroom

Non-terrestrial networks are expanding from LEO broadband toward cislunar and deep-space links. The panel addresses the architecture, spectrum, and link-budget realities of space-based connectivity, direct-to-device from orbit, and the path toward communication and sensing infrastructure beyond Earth.

Panelists:
Moderator: Apurva N Mody (AiRANACULUS)
Muriel Medard (MIT)
Sriram Jayasimha (AST SpaceMobile)
John P Grimes (BAE Systems)

 

Human in the Loop: Expectations in the Agentic AI Era
Tuesday, September 8, 11:00
The Grand Ballroom

As autonomy enters wireless network operations and adjacent systems, the panel examines where humans remain essential, how much control to cede to automation, and what accountability and trust look like when AI drives real-time decisions.

Moderator:Josep M Jornet (Northeastern)
Panelists:
Alexander Wyglinski (WPI)
Jay Aslam (Northeastern)
Drew Glaser (MathWorks)
Dan Mantoni (Analog Devices)

 

The AI-Native RAN: Who Owns the Intelligence?
Wednesday, September 9, 14:00
The Grand Ballroom

AI is moving from a bolt-on to the organizing principle of the radio access network. The panel debates where intelligence lives (edge, cloud, chip), the O-RAN and interoperability implications, and the commercial and architectural stakes of embedding learning across the stack.

Panelists:
Martin Weiss (OUSW)
Chris Dick (NVIDIA)