Citing findings from a recent paper written by InterDigital and Futuresource examining the environmental impact of the video ecosystem, this webinar will outline trends driving energy growth in the video entertainment industry and present an innovative approach that can help mitigate energy consumption in devices while enjoying video. Engineers from InterDigital’s Video Lab will introduce award-winning research on Pixel Value Reduction (PVR), a solution that reduces the energy consumed by device displays in the streaming of video content. InterDigital’s AI-enhanced PVR approach intelligently alters the pixel luminance of a display to achieve energy savings while maintaining the highest picture quality.

Join us for this insightful webinar to examine the environmental impact of today’s video ecosystem. We’ll take an important look at the energy demands associated with the video value chain and new trends in video consumption.

Innovative strategies and solutions that are helping to mitigate the energy consumption of the video ecosystem

Key takeaways from award-winning research on Pixel Value Reduction (PVR), with a dive into how it reduces the energy consumed by television displays in the streaming of video content

Best practices for preserving the creative intent of content, while also achieving energy savings and high picture quality

State of Video Sustainability and a Spotlight on Pixel Value Reduction

Haptics represent a new modality of immersive communication, infusing the sense of touch and tactile sensations to complement the visual and audio information conveyed in immersive content. Drawing insights from a white paper commissioned by InterDigital and written by Futuresource Consulting, this webinar will explore the critical research, standardization, and device innovation that will incorporate haptics within our immersive video experiences.

In research circles, haptics have been established as a first order media type with the same prominence and importance as audio and video, but as we evolve from AV to AVH, what changes are required to develop and deliver haptic-enhanced content at scale? This webinar invites experts from various facets of the haptics and immersive ecosystem, from standards contributors to device manufacturers to content creators, to explore the progress and path ahead to normalize haptics within our immersive video experiences.

Haptics and Empowering New Depths of Immersive Experiences

As the 6G vision becomes clearer, researchers continue the critical work of innovation and exploration of the technologies that will make 6G capabilities real. Among its novel capabilities, 6G will introduce the integration of sensing into communications network, which enables the network to use its radio signals to act as a radar and sense or comprehend the physical world around it. Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) enables the network to better understand the data of its environment which can also be leveraged to enhance the network’s own operations to enhance and empower a variety of services and exciting potential for 6G.

This webinar will feature perspectives from early 6G market influencers and leaders exploring the potential for this early building block for 6G, including several leaders from the ETSI ISAC Industry Specification group, to discuss the benefit and impact of these pioneering capabilities for new services, verticals, and enterprises.

David González G. - Wireless Communications Researcher

Dimitris Mavrakis - Senior Research Director, ABI Research

Alain Mourad - Senior Director and Head of Wireless Lab Europe, InterDigital

Andreas Mueller - Project Director 6G, Robert Bosch GmbH

Richard A. Stirling-Gallacher - Research Expert / Team Manager, Huawei Technologies

Unpacking the Potential for ISAC

Following the publication of the State of 5G Advanced report, written by ABI Research and commissioned by InterDigital, this webinar will introduce some of the exciting news and opportunities 5G Advanced will make for the telecoms ecosystem and on our path towards 6G. 5G Advanced represents the next steps towards 6G and will include new features and capabilities that bring us closer to a 6G future.

This discussion will highlight the priorities for the RAN and SA this year, and dive into the importance of Release 18 and the forthcoming Release 19 features. The featured experts will provide insight into the critical discussions shaping the features and capabilities that will define 5G Advanced and 6G, and perspectives from telecoms operators that shed light onto what features are important and the tangible impact they might have on consumer and enterprise experiences.

Diana Pani: VP and Head of Wireless Standards, InterDigital

Dimitris Mavrakis: Senior Research Director, ABI Research

José Luis Almodóvar Chico: R&D Consultant, TNO

Dario Serafino Tonesi: Senior Staff Engineer 3GPP Standards, Qualcomm Technologies

What’s Ahead for 5G Advanced

HEVC has become established as one of the codecs of choice for the tech industry with its implementation gathering pace across a growing universe of devices and services. Following the recent pub In this webinar panelists will discuss HEVC’s recent development, where it fits in the broader video codec landscape, and why it is proving to be a popular and powerful technology in the streaming industry in particular. Panelists will analyze:

The development of HEVC and the benefits it brings to devices and services.

Where are we in terms of HEVC’s implementation compared with other codecs.

How HEVC is increasingly being used to deliver content by video service providers.

How the use of HEVC and other codecs in the streaming industry might develop.

HEVC: Codec of Choice for the Streaming Industry

The system behind global standards, such as 5G, is one of the great commercial success stories of the modern industrial age. The process of collaboration, which brings together innovators from around the world, advances technologies and helps deliver ever-more sophisticated devices to consumers. Standardized technologies should be supported by balanced IP rights, but they unfortunately face an increasingly uncertain policy landscape.

Please join Gene Quinn, Founder, President & CEO of IPWatchdog, Inc., Laurie Self, Senior Vice President and Counsel, Government Affairs at Qualcomm Incorporated, John Dubiansky, Director, Intellectual Property and Standards Policy at Dolby Laboratories, and Stéphane Tronchon, Director, Standards and Competition Policy at InterDigital, for this webinar that will look at the role that all stakeholders in tech standards can play to ensure that the system remains a key driver of global economic growth.

Among other things, the panel will discuss:

Why global standards matter – advancing better technologies and fueling economic growth with a growing focus on sustainability.

The role of fair and balanced IP rights in supporting long-term standards research.

The state of play with global SEP policy.

Advice to policymakers and other stakeholders on the best path forward.

Recognizing The Importance of Global Standards

Seamless immersive XR experiences depend on a variety of factors, including headsets equipped to process high resolution, high framerate, multi-view content, and spatial audio, and a network capable of meeting XR’s low latency and high reliability demands.

As state-of-the-art devices enter the XR market and capture consumer interest, it is more important than ever to stay on top of the technologies and metrics being developed to define XR experiences. This includes the emerging standards dedicated to empowering XR and solutions for the challenges that hinder seamless immersive experiences.

In this webinar, you’ll hear from industry and standards experts as they explore:

The critical standards and technology improvements that support the growth of the immersivity ecosystem

MPEG video standards around visual volumetric video-based coding, immersive video, dynamic mesh coding, haptics, and scene description

Efforts within 3GPP to increase XR awareness, power savings, capacity enhancements, and other areas of the wireless network

Eric Abbruzzese, Research Director, ABI Research

Devaki Chandramouli, Head of North American Standardization, Nokia

Gaëlle Martin-Cocher, Senior Director, Research and Innovation Video Lab, InterDigital

Serafin Diaz, Vice President of Engineering, Qualcomm

Defining the XR Experience

Video compression and codecs are critical components that ensure the data-rich video experiences we all desire can be delivered crisply, efficiently, and resourcefully. A new report from InterDigital and written by Futuresource Consulting details the landscape and history of video compression technology and coding standards to better understand the advantages of today’s codecs and explore what is necessary to enable more video-powered and immersive experiences in the future.

Simon Forrest, Analyst, Futuresource Consulting

Edouard Francois, Principal Scientist, InterDigital

Jan Outters, Director, Technology & Standards, Ateme

Defining the Evolution of Video Codecs: New Trends in Media and Compression

A study jointly released by InterDigital and Omdia revealed the need for new quality of "personal” experience (QoPE) metrics to measure the success of 6G-enabled services. Based on research from Carnegie Mellon University’s Human Computer Interaction Institute and a variety of industry interviews, the study reveals that future 6G services will be capable of engaging our spectrum of human senses and unlock more fully immersive cyber-physical experiences. 6G will shift the focus of wireless value creation from traditional connectivity to enabling personalized experiences that can be delivered anywhere, requiring new metrics to appreciate this new potential. The future may pose unique challenges for telecom operators and industry at large unless the 6G opportunity is fully understood.

This webinar will feature expert perspectives from academia, research, and industry; each representing a critical pillar with expertise to help define and quantify the quality of new sensory-enhanced experiences enabled by 6G. The discussion will include Omdia analyst and report author Camille Mendler, InterDigital’s Director of Technology Strategy Donald Butts, and Carnegie Mellon University’s Master of Human-Computer Interaction (MCHI) Product Designer Gabriel Alvarez.

How do We Capture the 6G Experience?

A recent whitepaper from InterDigital and ABI Research whitepaper argues that AI and 5G are cornerstone technologies that will together enable new levels of automation, optimization, and potential for wireless networks and communications. AI/ML algorithms have become increasingly prominent in business and operational applications for current 5G deployments.

Today, standards bodies are seeking solutions for broader AI integration into the wireless stack in 5G Advanced, while researchers are exploring how to leverage AI/ML in 6G and beyond. This webinar features a diverse set of experts who can detail the potential for AI/ML in wireless today, and what we might expect for the future.

John Kaewell, Senior Principal Scientist and Advisor to CTO, InterDigital

Juan Montojo, VP, Qualcomm and Rapporteur for AI/ML NR Interface, 3GPP RAN

Unpacking the Layers of AI Impact in 5G

Patent holdout is increasingly recognized by judges, policymakers, and industry stakeholders, as a growing obstacle to efficient licensing and a nuisance to the broader innovation ecosystem.

But, despite increased recognition of the problem, there’s still much to be done to stop implementers from delaying payment for the innovation they use in their devices.

This webinar will look at the recent evolution of holdout, its impact on innovation and licensing, and will also consider potential penalties for long-term infringers and possible solutions to the problem.

The asymmetry at the heart of SEP FRAND licensing.

When should a licensee be deemed to be “unwilling.”

The case for enhanced damages or supra-FRAND royalties.

How can we move to global adjudication of global licensing disputes?

Getting tough on patent holdout – Time for solutions

Significant changes in social behavior and consumer demand has triggered exponential growth in video consumption, with video now accounting for more than 82% of online traffic. Citing findings from InterDigital’s latest video sustainability report in with Futuresource Consulting, this webinar will explore the “new normal” of energy awareness in television production to include more remote-production and IP-based workflows alongside critical changes in energy and electricity usage in the consumer electronics and entertainment industries following the introduction of new energy certification standards.

Mitigating the New Normal of Television Consumption with Energy Aware Media

Featuring engineers, developers, and analysts at various junctions of the 5G innovation ecosystem, InterDigital’s webinar, “The State of 5G: Opportunities at the Edge,” hosted with Fierce Wireless, will lean into the ways edge innovation is enabling 5G capabilities closer to users while exploring emerging use cases in AR, XR, and the metaverse that will benefit from the pairing of 5G and edge computing. 

The State of 5G: Opportunities at the Edge

5G networks will become commonplace within the next five years, expected to deliver on multiple promises of gigabit speeds, ultra-low latency, higher reliability and improved density in device connectivity.

Going far beyond traditional communications and internet connectivity on smartphones, 5G offers the potential for entirely new applications, many of which would be considered impossible using previous generations of mobile networking technology.

The higher bandwidth available over 5G will undoubtedly unlock higher resolution video services and new forms of media, such as volumetric content and enable new audiovisual experiences for audiences at live events and for virtual participants.

 in association with InterDigital, participants will address the key findings of a report compiled by Futuresource Consulting and commissioned by InterDigital, to examine the roll out of 5G networks worldwide and investigate how both existing and new forms of audiovisual products might harness the advances in 5G networking technology, and consider the potential intersect between 5G and new video coding standards.

InterDigital: 5G Networking and the New Coding Standards

The story of hold-up has seduced many who believe patents stand in the way of innovation, but what product or service has ever been held up by patent owners, or patent wars? Even in the area of smartphones or telecommunications, we can reliably predict that next year’s technology will be superior to this year’s technology, as devices and the services that power them advance unabated. Not exactly a narrative that supports the existence of hold-up, but still the myth persists in some corners of the industry.

What is a problem, however, is patent holdout, which has emerged over the last decade to pose the single greatest risk to the efficient licensing of standard essential patents. Holdout creates a very real cash flow problem for innovative companies that need funds to be able to survive and to reinvest in innovation that will lead to the technologies of tomorrow.

More courts are recognizing the problems posed by holdout and the asymmetry that exists between innovators and implementers, but it is not clear that we have yet seen any wholesale change in the behavior of many implementers, who continue to infringe first, and demand innovators engage in lengthy and protracted legal battles only to obtain what was fair and reasonable in the first place many years earlier.

Eeva Hakoranta, Executive Vice President and Chief Licensing Officer, InterDigital

The Rt Hon. Sir Robin Jacob, Hugh Laddie Professor of Intellectual Property Law and Director of the Institute of Brand and Innovation Law, University College London

David Kappos, former USPTO Director, and current partner at Cravath Swaine & Moore

David Teece, Executive Chairman at Berkeley Research Group, and Professor of Global Business, Institute for Business Innovation, Haas School, UC Berkeley

Patent Holdout and the Quest for Balance in SEP Licensing

Based on the foundation of current video coding and distribution standards, the France-based 3EMS project funded by the Brittany Region aims to deploy the first end-to-end 5G Versatile Video Coding (VVC) chain to achieve the goals of reducing video traffic and energy consumption while also limiting network congestion.

An innovative research collaboration between partners InterDigital, INSA Rennes (IETR), Enensys, and ATEME, the project targets video delivery services based on the latest generation 5G mobile networks within the broader global context of reducing the environmental impact of video consumption.

Specifically, the 3EMS project explores four key areas: the state-of the-art VVC video compression standard, the use of broadcast and multicast techniques on 5G networks, the use of AI techniques to optimize video signal quality, coding, and reproduction, and the reduction of energy consumption to prepare, distribute, and restore video content.

During this webinar, representatives from 3EMS partners InterDigital, INSA Rennes, ATEME, and Enensys will each outline their contributions to the research collaboration, and present findings on the project’s efforts to reduce video data traffic, reduce energy consumption in the VVC video chain, and limit congestion on networks broadcasting video.

Understanding 3EMS: Energy Efficient Enhanced Media Streaming

Sustainability will define businesses of the 21st century and the future of the video ecosystem will require collaboration across the video value chain to offer sustainable choices to energy-conscious consumers.

A recent report by InterDigital and Futuresource Consulting, “The Sustainable Future of Video Entertainment,” analyzed the energy demands of the video value chain, from the production to the delivery, and consumption of feature films, video games, and other video experiences, and identified solutions to reduce the environmental impact of the video entertainment industry. The report concludes that sustainability must be integrated throughout the video ecosystem, from research to manufacturing to content delivery, to be most effective.

Limited awareness of video’s environmental impact and lack of access to more sustainable entertainment choices are leading factors fueling the video industry’s carbon footprint. This webinar will feature expert perspectives from across the video value chain to address the energy-guzzling technologies, and mitigating solutions, emerging across the video landscape, and the vital importance of consumer awareness and choice in achieving a more sustainable future.

The Challenge of Choosing Sustainability in the Video Entertainment Industry

A report by InterDigital and Mobile World Live surveyed members of the global mobile industry to help quantify the impact of our increasingly expanded and interconnected mobile networks and growing energy demands.

This webinar gathers international experts from around the mobile value chain in a discussion aimed to better understand the main culprits behind our burgeoning energy consumption, the key motivators driving the move towards more sustainable networks, the solutions that bring us closer to that goal, as well as the surprising global disparities on the path to sustainability. Throughout the discussion, panelists will explore the vital question – must countries take an orthodox, unified approach to achieve sustainability in global mobile networks?

Michelle Donegan, Telecom Journalist, MWL

Patrick Van de Wille, EVP, CCO, InterDigital

Xiaodong Xu, Principal Researcher, China Mobile

Cristian Busoi, European Parliament and Chair of the Industry

How Sustainable Are Our Mobile Networks? A Global Look

Telecoms represents one of the wealthiest industries today, boasting more than 5.3 billion users and earning $1.38 trillion in service revenues. The pursuit of new generations of wireless has for decades driven demand for new technologies and services, set the stage for our current race to 5G, and placed increasing pressure on global energy reserves.

A recent report by InterDigital and ABI Research reveals the energy consumption of the wireless industry is poised to grow a staggering 160% by 2030. Unlike previous wireless generations, the expected ubiquity and flexibility, and subsequent energy demands, of 5G make it a blessing and a curse for an industry bracing for a burgeoning environmental impact. Tackling one of our industry’s greatest environmental challenges to enable 5G’s looming potential will require contributions and solutions from across the supply chain and network infrastructure to make our wireless future as sustainable as possible.

This webinar will feature diverse expert perspectives from around the wireless ecosystem to identify the emerging challenges, and some unexpected new solutions, on the path to enjoy a more sustainable 5G and wireless future.

The Pursuit of a Sustainable 5G - The Experts Take

The rising popularity of cloud gaming has not only endured the global pandemic, but also enticed new industry players to join the evolving market. The advent of 5G promises to disrupt and elevate gaming to new heights and push the experiences to new edges.

Edge computing has enabled a revolution in gaming, bringing data processing and storage much closer to mobile users and unlocking immersive gaming experiences. The emerging technical opportunities offered at the edge have inspired new market participants and platforms in the gaming ecosystem.

Citing research from the InterDigital and ABI Research white paper “Cloud Gaming: Enabling A Next Generation Gaming and Streaming Paradigm,” this webinar will unpack the ways edge computing will change the way games are made, enhance the gaming experience through new technologies, and explore new market participants eager to shape a new frontier for cloud gaming.

Ivan Bykov, 5G Solution Product Manager, Ribbon

At the Edge of Opportunity - How Edge Computing Will Unlock New Frontiers of Gaming

The 6G Symposium Sync-Up webinar hosted with Fierce Wireless, recapped the key take-aways and most thought-provoking presentations from the 6G Symposium.

Symposium organizers Doug Castor from InterDigital and Tommaso Melodia from Northeastern University joined industry experts to digest and make sense of the event’s varying perspectives on the 6G roadmap, the role of AI and Machine Learning in 6G networks, spectrum sharing approaches, public-private research partnerships, and much more.

Doug Castor, Senior Director, InterDigital R&I

Tommaso Melodia, Director Of The WIOT Institute, Northeastern University

Roger Nichols, 6G Program Manager, Keysight

6G Symposium Sync-Up Webinar

In the wake of an escalation of litigation and a move by the Chinese courts to seize the initiative on rate setting, a panel of licensing experts will look at the challenges posed by this increase in tension, the limitations of court-ordered solutions generally and the emergence of alternative dispute resolution and new models and platforms in shaping best practices for tackling licensing disputes.

Eeva Hakoranta, Chief Licensing Officer, InterDigital

Matthias Schneider, Chief Licensing Officer, Audi

Best Practices for Resolving FRAND Disputes

TVBEurope is delighted to be joining forces with Interdigital to host a free webinar on 24th September looking at what impact the Cloud will have on gaming.

Cloud gaming remains one of the mobile industry’s most exciting and highly anticipated use cases. The success of this next generation gaming method depends on low latency and high-speed data rates over a smooth, fast internet connection – but are we truly ready to support the rise in Cloud gaming platforms and services?

The advent of Cloud gaming will shape new possibilities of how games are played, expose the opportunities and obstacles presented by 5G, and give runway to a host of innovative network technologies to improve the Cloud gaming experience and encourage mainstream adoption.

During the webinar, a panel of experts will discuss the current state of Cloud gaming, explore how AI, edge computing, 5G, and new video streaming trends will fuel future gaming and multimedia experiences, and offer predictions for whether Cloud gaming will live up to the hype, or dash gamers’ hopes.

The panel includes Laurent Depersin, research and innovation home lab director at Interdigital, Olivier Avaro, CEO of gaming company Blacknut, Microsoft’s industry lead for media and technology, Stuart Almond, and Amir Ghodrati, director of market insights at AppAnnie.

Don’t miss out on this webinar with leading experts sharing their knowledge of Cloud gaming and the parallels it can draw from the media technology industry.

The Hope and Hype of Cloud Gaming

The future of connected cities, smart cars, and autonomous factories is well within our purview, but there is a risk of delay to this ecosystem of opportunity as industry and innovators determine the value of integral technologies that unlock a world of capabilities.

This webinar will explore the evolution and nuances of licensing wireless technologies in new internet of things (IoT) verticals, and discuss the role of licensing frameworks such as patent pools in our increasingly connected future.

Join experts from across the technology and IP industries as they share perspectives on fostering IoT innovation and value.

Mathias Hellman, VP of IPR Strategy & Portfolio Management at Ericsson

Luke McLeroy, Senior VP of Business Development, Avanci

Timothy Berghuis, Chief Licensing Officer, InterDigital

The Essential Value: IoT Standards Essential Patents and the Case for Patent Pools

Coronavirus has left millions of people confined to their homes and home offices, resulting in a massive shift to virtual work and online engagement, driving demand for streaming and OTT content to record highs, and exposing new hurdles for video streaming and delivery. This webinar discussion will assess the innovations defining the video ecosystem and explore how this global pandemic might shape demand for and access to interactive video experiences.

Join expert panelists from across the video ecosystem to discuss what this experience can teach about interactive video consumption and network capacity, and how this crisis might influence the appetite for digital services like video conferencing, 8K video, VR, and volumetric video.

Alan Stein, VP of Technology, InterDigital

Benjamin Schwarz, Communications Chair, Ultra HD Forum

Mark A. Aitken, SVP of Advanced Technology, Sinclair Broadcase Group (SBG) President, ONE Media

Glass to Glass: Assessing the Video Ecosystem through the Lens of Crisis

5G promises new service enablement, lower costs, higher productivity and lower latency. But how and when will the promise become reality?

Technically, virtualization is the biggest revolution in 5G and there is little that will not be touched by it in the core network and RAN. Beyond technical considerations, virtualization and open source solutions could usher in new technology players and bring variety to a concentrated vendor landscape.

Join this webinar to learn more about the impact of virtualization on the 5G business case and how it might reshape the partnership landscape in areas like private networking.

Speakers will also share findings from a recent survey report on the opportunity and challenges for 5G in industrial applications, discuss the maturity of 5G technologies and standards in this area, and debate whether this factor might be creating a barrier for the near-term success of 5G.

Virtualization: The Key Driver for Delivering 5G’s Promise?

Cloud gaming remains one of the mobile industry’s most exciting and highly anticipated use cases. The success of this next generation gaming method depends on low latency and high-speed data rates over a smooth, fast internet connection – but are we truly ready to support the rise in cloud gaming platforms and services?

This panel will discuss the current state of cloud gaming, explore how AI, edge computing, 5G, and new video streaming trends will fuel future gaming and multimedia experiences, and offer predictions for whether cloud gaming will live up to the hype, or dash gamers’ hopes.

The Hope and Hype of Cloud Gaming in the Mobile World

Open source software, solutions, and technologies lay the foundation for growth and collaboration across our global, mobile world. The Collaboration in the Open Source Ecosystem panel invites leaders from across industry open source groups, tech companies, and other players in the wireless ecosystem to address challenges and opportunities with collaborations. The discussion will also explore the role of open source communities and its potential transformational impact on development practices, and business models for ICT companies.

, Technical Program Director, Platforms for Advanced Wireless Communication, Northeastern University College of Engineering

, Senior Director of Engineering, InterDigital

,Engineering Lead, Facebook Connectivity, Facebook

, Chief Technologist Cloud & Virtualization, Red Hat

Collaboration in the Open Source Ecosystem 

Visual technologies – video, yes, but also cloud gaming, AR/VR, and immersive content – are a game of multiples: increasing numbers of users and providers, engaging with content that is ever-increasing in quality and quantity, further compounded by latency requirements that relentlessly trend towards zero. A demanding problem, that can only become still more challenging as these technologies become ever more pervasive and find new and diverse use cases.

Is the current network approach equipped to deliver on the promise of the technology? Current players would argue yes, and as new streaming and cloud gaming services launch confident guarantees are made about user experience – even going so far as AI-driven “negative latency”. But are these solutions, or are they simply the use of new ideas to paper over the inefficiencies and fundamental challenges of a network that needs revolution more than evolution?

Laurent Depersin- R&I Senior Lab Director, Home Lab, InterDigital

Dimitris Mavrakis - Research Director, ABI Research

Visual Technologies: Can the Current Approach Deliver on the User Experience of the Future?

A research report by ABI Research predicts the transformation of a world where interaction with a single screen is the norm to a world of the “pervasive screen”, where multiple and various display types come together to provide a ubiquitous video-driven world, enabled by advanced mobile connectivity like 5G and with content coordinated across the entire spectrum.

What business and use case opportunities will this unlock? What are the requirements, both in terms of video technology and network capability, to drive this technology forward? What limitations – power needs, processing capabilities, physical design – need to be overcome to usher in this world?

Gaël Seydoux, Director, Research & Innovation, InterDigital

Michael Inouye, Principal Analyst, ABI Research

From Single Screens to Pervasive Screens – What Technologies and Use Cases Will Drive Video Everywhere?

In a newly-released white paper, ABI Research estimates the total value unlocked by 5G will reach $6.5 trillion within ten years of the standard being adopted, growing to an astounding $17 trillion by 2035 fueled by enterprise vertical services – a new use case within 5G.

What will those vertical services entail? Which industries will benefit the most? What new types of equipment, infrastructure and capabilities will be needed to drive them?

 - Senior Director, Future Wireless, InterDigital

 - Director of Product Development, Corporate Development & Strategy Group, Crown Castle

What Use Cases Will Unlock 5G Value?

The first set of complete technical specifications and solutions towards well-publicized 5G vision, aka IMT-2020 proposal, is due to be presented to ITU in WRC, October 2019. The recent shift of focus from research and development to deployment and commercialization of 5G systems concurrently unveils the “what comes next?” question embodied in an overarching beyond-5G vision (e.g. 6G). This panel will address fundamental questions pertinent to beyond-5G era such as shortcomings 5G and whether a unified industry consensus on a beyond-5G vision has started to shape or not. Bringing together experts from core elements of technology generations, the panel will further explore the emerging pillars of beyond-5G including networks, terminal architectures, and radio, along with necessary evolution and disruption anticipated in each of these pillars. The panelists will shed light on beyond-5G inter-networking candidates, e.g. the ultra-flat network vision that radically alters conventional (including 5G) OSI stack; potential link-level connectivity disruptors in terms of new frequency bands, PHY, and beyond-Shannon ideas, and; new device/terminal definitions that go well-beyond conventional, monolithic hardware/software device architectures, and role of AI/ML as a cross-cutting tool in beyond-5G. 

Patrick Waldemar, Vice President Research, Telenor

Colin Willcock, Head of Radio Network Standardization, Nokia and Chairman, 5G-PPP 5G-IA

Richard Li, Chief Scientist and VP for Future Networks, Huawei and Chairman of ITU-T NET2030 Focus Group

Abhimanyu Gosain, Technical Program Director Northeastern University and Technical Program Director of US PAWR

Ravikumar Pragada, Sr. Principal Engineer, InterDigital

Beyond 5G: What is coming next?

Many 5G trials are currently undertaken in preparation for the rollout and start of 5G throughout 2019 with a focus on showcasing the higher speeds that 5G originally promised. But the wider industry is also looking beyond those promises towards verticals such as media broadcast, transportation, rural rollouts and others but also preparing towards future beyond 5G efforts with experimentally driven research platforms. In this panel, we will bring together deployment insights from broadcasters, neutral host providers such as smart cities as well as European efforts on large-scale 5G trials and international efforts on large-scale wireless research platforms. We will discuss the approaches taken for trial deployments, e.g., based on white box approaches, as well as the use cases considered in those trials to shed light on what is there beyond an enhanced Mobile Broadband 5G Trial. 

Dan Warren, Head of 5G Research at Samsung R&D Institute (5GVINNI)

Darko Ratkaj, Senior Project Manager, European Broadcasting Union

Gael Seydoux, Director, Research and Innovation, Technicolor

Monique Calisti, CEO, Martel Innovate and Director, Next Generation Internet Outreach Office (FLAME)

Jim Burgess, Bristol City Council 5G Programme Lead

 Dirk Trossen, Sr. Principal Engineer, InterDigital Europe

5G Network Trials: What are all the verticals doing?

Open source is reshaping technology adoption and is a critical driver for the transformation taking place in many industries. The emergence of SDN and NFV has fueled the growth of cloud-based services, and now with the convergence of information technology (IT) and communication technology (CT) the telecommunication industry is changing as well. Widespread adoption of open source projects such as the OpenAirInterface Software Alliance (OSA) and O-RAN Alliance are now transforming the RAN. We’ll explore the role of open source in U.S. and European testbeds and its potential transformational impact on SDO, telecom business models and 5G innovation.



Raymond Knopp, President, OpenAirInterface Software Alliance

Chih-Lin I, Chief Scientist, Wireless Technologies, CMRI, China Mobile

Abhimanyu Gosain, Technical Program Director, Northeastern University College of Engineering and Strategic Member, OSA

Arpit Joshipura, General Manager, Networking & Orchestration + Edge/IOT, Linux Foundation

Fred Shreider, Sr. Director, Engineering, InterDigital

How will Open Source play a role in the evolving 5G ecosystem?

The edge computing and virtualization fever does not seem to be showing any signs of abatement. There seems to be quite some promise to take it further deep into the network architecture by leveraging the computing capability emerging in several new customer premise equipment (CPE) and user equipment (UE) such as vehicles, robots, and drones. Yet the challenges both technical and economical in taking this step deeper into UEs and CPEs are numerous, from technical considerations of mobility, volatility and heterogeneity to business and regulatory considerations of multiple providers (including the user), security and privacy. This panel will discuss how edge computing is becoming more pervasively distributed into the network including UEs and CPEs, what technologies are involved, what is wrong with today’s approach to edge computing, what value is there in driving this down to devices and what are the barriers to making this happen. 

Dr. Rolf Schuster, Director, Open Edge Computing Initiative

Laurent Depersin, Director Research and Innovation HOME Lab, Technicolor

Arturo Azcorra , Director of IMDEA and VP and Co-Founder, 5TONIC

Todd Spraggins , Strategy Director, Communications Global Business Unit, Oracle

Dirk Trossen, Sr. Principal Engineer, InterDigital (FLAME)

 Robert Gazda, Sr. Director, Engineering, InterDigital


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