Amira Alloum, PhD, MSc
Director of Engineering, Qualcomm France
5G/6G Wireless Research Center Europe Director.

Title: Scaling Intelligence: How AI-Native 6G Transforms Communications, Compute, and Sensing

Abstract: The rapid emergence of agentic and multimodal AI is reshaping how users, devices, and machines interact with wireless networks. Rather than episodic, app-driven sessions, emerging applications increasingly rely on persistent, context-aware agents operating across an ecosystem of devices, including smartphones, wearables, extended reality displays, vehicles, and robots. This shift fundamentally alters traffic characteristics, increases the importance of uplink capacity and latency, and strengthens the coupling between communications and compute.

This keynote discusses why these trends motivate an AI-native design paradigm for 6G and outlines key architectural principles from a system and research perspective. The talk frames 6G not only as a new air interface, but as a fabric that jointly orchestrates communication, computation, and sensing across device, edge, and cloud. Three research pillars are examined. First, agentic AI and XR-driven applications motivate collaborative communications and distributed computing mechanisms that dynamically partition workloads under latency, energy, and form-factor constraints. Second, AI-enabled context-aware communications introduce AI-native protocols and RAN behavior that adapt resources using real-time application and user-experience signals. Third, AI-enhanced network operation and services, including real-time digital twins and integrated sensing and communications, open new directions for automation and novel non-connectivity services.

The keynote highlights open research questions relevant to the ongoing 6G study phase, spanning uplink-centric design, protocol abstraction, spectrum utilization, and the co-design of communications and inference.

Bio: Amira Alloum, PhD, is Director of Engineering at Qualcomm France, where she leads the European  5G/6G Wireless Research Center. In this role, she drives advanced research in wireless communications, in close collaboration with leading academic institutions and major industrial partners across Europe. The center plays a strategic role in national and European innovation ecosystems, with strong involvement in flagship European 6G research programs.

Amira has also led Qualcomm’s 5G/6G Innovation Platform project in Lannion, a program funded under the France 2030 initiative, which aims to position France at the forefront of next‑generation mobile networks and to accelerate the industrial adoption of 5G and future 6G technologies. In parallel, she oversees Qualcomm’s collaboration programs with universities and startups across the EMEA region, while continuing to contribute to academia through postgraduate supervision and lecturing on error‑correcting code applications for wireless systems .

With over two decades of R&D experience spanning network operators, equipment vendors, and semiconductor companies, Amira has made significant contributions to 3GPP 5G standardization, LTE and DVB technologies, as well as to research in post‑quantum security and advanced receiver architectures for wireless and optical communications.

Beyond her research and industrial activities, Amira is a member of the Scientific Council of the ARCEP Future Networks Committee and has contributed extensively to the IEEE through sustained leadership service, including chairing roles in several technical and organizational committees.

She holds a PhD in Information Theory from Institut Mines‑Télécom / Télécom Paris and has an extensive publication and student supervision record in collaboration with leading international universities.