5G&Beyond

5G&Beyond is a parallel and co-located program with 5G&Co that looks to the future through the eyes of the young researchers and PhD students of the RESTART program that co-organizes the event together with CNIT. RESTART is a research program funded by the Ministry of University and Research (MUR) within the PNRR call for proposals on extended partnerships.

5G&Beyond aims to launch a look at the future of telecommunications with a new format in which some keynote speakers will have the task of stimulating participants to generate ideas and new research directions that are really able to create impact on the industrial world and the scientific community in order to collaboratively generate visions of the future.

The starting point will be given by the RESTART Grand Challenges, a list of the main current research challenges in the telecommunications sector that cross technologies, application areas and methodological approaches, grasping their unifying aspects and the transformative potential of reality.

Agenda

16 April 2024

8:30 Session 1: Foresighting the Future Telecommunications Technologies

• Giovanni Corazza, University of Bologna
• Moderator: Ilenia Tinnirello

10:00 Session 2 (part 1): Designing an Internet of Emotions

• Carlo Ventura, University of Bologna
• Wen Tong, Huawei
• Moderator: Roberto Verdone

11:00 Coffee Break

11:30 Session 2 (part 2): Designing an Internet of Emotions

• Carlo Ventura, University of Bologna
• Wen Tong, Huawei
• Moderator: Roberto Verdone

12:00 Session 3: Making the network programmable and able to orchestrate services and applications

• Marco Chiesa, KTH
• Moderators: Gianni Antichi, Gianluca Davoli, Marco Savi, Giacomo Verticale

13:30 Lunch Break

14:30 Session 4: Digital Twins in Wireless Networks: Bridging Innovation and Convergence

• Michele Ludovico, TIM
• Moderator: Riccardo Marini

16:00 Supervisory Board seminar on Digital Networks Act

17 April 2024

9:30 Session 5: Bending Propagation to the Needs of the Network with Smart Radio Environments

• George Alexandropoulos, NKUA
• Moderator: Davide Dardari, Daniele Riccio

11:00 Coffee Break

11:30 Session 6: Adding connectivity to digital transformation for a sustainable industry

• Daniele Munaretto
• Moderator: Daniele Riccio

13:00 Lunch Break

14:30 Session 7: Designing Optics Technologies for Future 6G Radio Systems

• David Plant, McGill University (TBC)
• Antonio D’Errico, Ericsson
• Moderator: Piero Castoldi

The prices (in presence) will be increased of approximately 10% after March 22, 2024. For those who participate via live streaming, the event is free.