Speakers – one6G Summit 2025

Confirmed Speakers

one6G Summit 2025 will gather experts from industry, policy, and academia who will come together to discuss the key drivers and technological pillars that will shape the 6G standards for tomorrow. Meet the speakers and moderators of the 2025 edition!

Nancy Alonistioti

Chair, one6G; Associate Professor, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Nancy Alonistioti is the chair of one6G Association and an associate professor at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA). She holds a BSc and a PhD in Informatics and Telecommunications. She has over 20 years of experience in numerous national and European projects, including project/technical management experience. She currently leads the SCAN group activities at the National Kapodistrian University of Athens. She is also a member of the ETSI Experts group and the Greek standardization group ELOT (5G, smart city autonomic communications). Nancy is a highly cited author. She authored over 200 publications in mobile networks, IoT, NGI, SDN/NFV, autonomic communications, and reconfigurable mobile systems. She also co-authored 4 WO Patents.

Monique Calisti

CEO, Martel Innovate;
President, Digital for Planet

Monique Calisti is the CEO of Martel Innovate and the president of Digital for Planet. She is a passionate entrepreneur and ICT expert with consolidated experience in research and innovation funding, strategic consulting, training, communication, social media marketing, and business development of sustainable and innovative software solutions across several industry segments. She is a member of the board of directors of the European AI, Data and Robotics Association, a director of the European Next Generation Internet Outreach Office, and the coordinator of the European Next Generation Internet of Things Coordination and Support Action. Monique holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne and a PhD in Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Bologna.

Berk Canberk

Professor, Edinburgh Napier University

Berk Canberk (Senior Member, IEEE) is a Full Professor in the School of Computing, Engineering and The. Built Environment at Edinburgh Napier University, UK. His research focuses on AI-powered Digital Twins, IoT communication, and Smart Wireless Networks, spanning Technology Readiness Levels (TRL) 1 to 6. As a leading expert in Digital Twin technologies, he specializes in real-time synchronization, AI-driven orchestration, and semantic communication frameworks. He leads the Broadband Communication Research Group (www.bcrg.uk), where he currently supervises 1 postdoctoral researcher, 5 PhD students, 2 BSc students, and 2 research associates. He has previously supervised 7 PhD and 20 MSc graduates. His publication record includes more than 90 journal articles, 92 conference papers, and 5 patents, of which 35 journal articles, 40 conference papers, and 3 patents are specifically focused on Digital Twins. Since 2020, he has secured over £1.5M in research funding as Principal Investigator. He serves as Lead Editor of the IEEE ComSoc Best Readings in Digital Twins and as Associate Editor for IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials. He has also served as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Elsevier Computer Networks, and IEEE Communications Letters, and has taken on key roles as General Chair, TPC Chair and Organizing Committee Member at several IEEE conferences. Prof. Canberk is also an External Board Member and Academic Advisor to BTS Group, Turkey’s largest network automation and cloud computing company. Prior to his current position, he was a Full Professor at Istanbul Technical University (ITU), where he served as Associate Professor (2016–2021) and Full Professor (2021–2022) in the Department of Computer Engineering. He was previously a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Georgia Institute of Technology, USA. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from ITU, an MSc in Telecommunications Engineering from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, and a BSc in Electrical Engineering from ITU.

Narcís Cardona

Vice-Chair, one6G; Director, iTEAM, Technical University of Valencia

Narcís Cardona is the Director of the Research Institute of Telecommunications and Multimedia Applications (iTEAM) at the Technical University of Valencia (UPV). In 1990, he received his MSc in Communications Engineering from ETSI Telecommunications, Technical University of Catalonia, and in 1995, a PhD in Telecommunications from the Technical University of Valencia. Narcís authored several research books and more than 200 publications in the most relevant international journals and conferences in the field of communications. He holds ten patents. His research interests include mobile channel characterization, broadcast cellular hybrid networks, and body area networks.

KyungHi Chang

Chairman, 6G Forum Executive Committee; Professor, Inha University

KyungHi Chang received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electronics engineering from Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, in 1985 and 1987, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA, in 1992. From 1989 to 1990, he was with the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT) as a member of the research staff. From 1992 to 2003, he was with the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) as a Principal Member of the Technical Staff. He is currently with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Inha University. He was the recipient of the Haedong Academic Award in 2010, the MSIT Minister’s Commendation and KICS Fellowship in 2020, and the Presidential Commendation in 2021. He is currently the Chairman of the 6G Forum Executive Committee and the Chairman of the Technology Committee for the National Integrated Public Network. He served as a Vice President of KICS from 2017 to 2023. Presentation title: Recent Progress of 6G R&D in Korea: 6G Vision Fest & Network Intelligence Perspective

Periklis Chatzimisios

Vice-Chair, one6G WG1; Professor, International Hellenic University

Dr. Periklis Chatzimisios serves as a Professor in the Department of Information and Electronic Engineering at the International Hellenic University (Greece). Moreover, he has been awarded the title of Researcher Professor by the University of New Mexico (USA). He is also a Visiting Fellow in the Faculty of Science & Technology, Bournemouth University (UK). He is currently serving as Vice-Chair for Working Group 1 (Use cases, KPIs and future market and business scenarios), Chair of Working Item 213 (Multimodal sensing, computing, communication and control for 6G remote operation), and a Board Member for the one6G Association. He is also the Vice Chair of IEEE P1955 Standard for 6G Empowering Robotics. Dr. Chatzimisios has been actively involved in several standardization and IEEE activities, primarily under the IEEE Communication Society (ComSoc). He has served as the co-Chair of the Communications/Networking Committee for the IEEE Public Safety Technology Initiative, Chair of the ComSoc Young Professionals (YP) Standing Committee, and as a Member of the ComSoc Education Services Board, the ComSoc Standards Program Development Board, the ComSoc Industry Outreach Board, and the ComSoc Online Content Board. He is the Chair of the Communications Chapter and of Professional Activities for the IEEE Greece Section. In the past, he served as Chair/Vice Chair/Secretary of the Technical Committee on Information Infrastructure and Networking (TCIIN), Vice Chair of the Technical Committee on Big Data (TCBD), and Secretary of the Technical Committee on Cognitive Networks (TCCN). He is an active member of the IEEE Future Networks Initiative. Professor Chatzimisios has participated as a researcher and scientific officer in many European and national research and development projects funded by the European Commission, the Institute of International Education (IIE), and national agencies. He holds various management positions as Coordinator/WP Chair and Training/Standardization Chair in several research projects. He was in the Top 2% Most Influential Scientists in the Stanford University list for the years 2020-2024 in the area of Networking & Telecommunications.

Andrea Conti

Founding Director, Wireless Communication and Localization Networks Laboratory, University of Ferrara

Andrea Conti (Fellow, IEEE) is currently a Professor and founding Director of the Wireless Communication and Localization Networks Laboratory, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy. Prior to joining the University of Ferrara, he was with CNIT, and with IEIIT-CNR. In Summer 2001, he was with the Wireless Systems Research Department, AT&T Research Laboratories. Since 2003, he has been a frequent visitor with the Wireless Information and Network Sciences Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, where he is currently holds the Research Affiliate appointment. His research interests involve theory and experimentation of wireless communication and localization systems. His current research topics include network localization and navigation, distributed sensing, adaptive diversity communications, and quantum information science. Dr. Conti was an Editor for IEEE journals and chaired international conferences. He was an elected Chair of the IEEE Communications Society’s Radio Communications Technical Committee and is Co-Founder of the IEEE Quantum Communications and Information Technology Emerging Technical Subcommittee. He was the recipient of the HTE Puskás Tivadar Medal, the IEEE Communications Society’s Fred W. Ellersick Prize, and the IEEE Communications Society’s Stephen O. Rice Prize in the field of Communications Theory. He is an elected Fellow of the IEEE and of the IET, and a member of Sigma Xi. He has been selected as an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer.

Merouane Debbah

Professor at Khalifa University of Science and Technology in Abu Dhabi

Mérouane Debbah is Professor at Khalifa University of Science and Technology in Abu Dhabi and founding Director of the KU 6G Research Center. He is a frequent keynote speaker at international events in the field of telecommunication and AI. His research has been lying at the interface of fundamental mathematics, algorithms, statistics, information and communication sciences with a special focus on random matrix theory and learning algorithms. In the Communication field, he has been at the heart of the development of small cells (4G), Massive MIMO (5G) and Large Intelligent Surfaces (6G) technologies. In the AI field, he is known for his work on Large Language Models, distributed AI systems for networks and semantic communications. He received multiple prestigious distinctions, prizes and best paper awards (more than 50 IEEE best paper awards) for his contributions to both fields He is an IEEE Fellow, a WWRF Fellow, a Eurasip Fellow, an AAIA Fellow, an Institut Louis Bachelier Fellow, an AIIA Fellow and a Membre émérite SEE. He is actually chair of the IEEE Large Generative AI Models in Telecom (GenAINet) Emerging Technology Initiative and a member of the Marconi Prize Selection Advisory Committee.

Albena Dimitrova Mihovska

Vice-Chair, one6G WG3; Chief Technology Officer, SmartAvatar

Albena Mihovska has a PhD degree in EEng (2008) from Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark. She has a strong academic research track record as an associate professor at Aalborg University (2008-2017) and Aarhus University (2017-2023), Denmark. She is a Senior Research Expert at the Research, Innovation & Development Consortium (RDIC), Sofia, Bulgaria. Furthermore, she holds positions of the CTO, SmartAvatar BV, The Netherlands; and Research Director at CTIF Global Capsule (CGC) Foundation, Skagen, Denmark. She is the one6G WG3 Vice-Chair and a Board Member of EUROMERSIVE. Her research interests lie in 6G connectivity for applications across vertical market segments. She is an ITU-T Focus Group on Metaverse (FGMV) Expert, and has been active within the ITU-T standardization since 2011. She serves on the committees of several prominent IEEE events and has more than 200 peer-reviewed research publications, including several books on 6G.

Joseph Eichinger

Chair, one6G WG4; Head of 6G Research and Prototyping, Huawei Munich Research Center

Josef Eichinger joined Huawei Technologies in 2013 to strengthen the 5G Research team in Munich. He started his professional carrier as technical expert in the field of industry energy and electronic systems. After the study he joined Siemens AG 1994 and was working in development of high frequency radar systems, optical networks and as researcher on radio technologies as HSPA and LTE. He changed to Nokia Siemens Networks 2007 as LTE Product Manager and was head of LTE-Advanced FastTrack Programs until 2012. Currently he is leading research on 5G and 6G enabled industrial communication in Huawei Munich Research Center. The focus are 5G/6G for industry 4.0, vehicle-to-vehicle communication and hospitals. Complementary to the research and standardization he is also responsible for the prove of the new concept by trials and live experiments e.g. Industrial Control in the Cloud, Robot as a Service, Tele-operated Driving, etc. Since April 2018 he is also member of the 5G-ACIA steering board and leading the Huawei delegation. Josef is also founding member of one6g.org and chairing the one6G WG4 Evaluation, Testbeds and Pilots because of his the long expierences with prototypes and test systems.

Gerhard Fettweis

Vodafone Chair Professor, TU-Dresden

Gerhard P. Fettweis is the Vodafone Chair Professor at TU Dresden and the founding Scientific Director of the Barkhausen Institute. In 1990, he earned his Ph.D. under H. Meyr at RWTH Aachen. He then worked as a postdoctoral researcher at IBM Research in San Jose and later joined TCSI in Berkeley, California. His research focuses on wireless communications and chip design. He coordinates 5G++Lab Germany and the German Cluster of Excellence SEMECO. His team has spun out 20 startups. Gerhard is a member of the German Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina), the German Academy of Engineering (Acatech), and the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. He is also a Fellow of IEEE, VDE/ITG, NAI, EURASIP, WWRF, and DATE. His most recent honor is the Bavarian Pioneer Award 2025. Presentation title: 6G: Make it or break it

Maxime Flament

Chief Technology Officer, 5GAA

Maxime Flament represents 5GAA, the global cross-industry association for the development of connected and automated cars, where he has worked as Chief Technology Officer since 2018. Maxime has more than 20 years of experience in Research and Innovation for mobile networks, connected & automated vehicles, Advanced Driver Assistance Systems, and Intelligent Transport Systems. Maxime holds a PhD and MSc in Mobile Communication Systems from Chalmers Technical University, Sweden. He was a visiting researcher at Stanford University, CA, USA.

Adlen Ksentini

Professor, Eurecom

Adlen Ksentini is a professor in the Communication Systems Department at EURECOM. He leads the NetSoft group, actively contributing to the network softwarization of 5G and 6G. His research interests include network softwarization and cloudification, with a focus on applying machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) to 5G and 6G networks. He has participated in several H2020 and Horizon Europe projects on 5G and beyond, such as 5G!Pagoda, 5G-Transformer, 5G!Drones, MonB5G, Imagine-B5G, 6GBricks, 6G-Intense, Sunrise-6G, AC3, Flecon-6G, and 6G-DALI. He serves as the technical manager of Flecon-6G, 6G-Intense, and AC3, focusing on zero-touch management of 6G resources and applications, and the Cloud-Edge Continuum. His work addresses system and architectural challenges, as well as algorithmic problems, using Markov chains, optimization algorithms, and machine learning techniques. Adlen Ksentini has delivered several tutorials at IEEE international conferences, including IEEE Globecom 2015, IEEE CCNC 2017/2018/2023, IEEE ICC 2017, IEEE/IFIP IM 2017, and IEEE School 2019. He received Best Paper Awards at IEEE IWCMC 2016, IEEE ICC 2012, and ACM MSWiM 2005. In 2017, he was awarded the IEEE ComSoc Fred W. Ellersick Award for the best paper in IEEE Communications Magazine.

Stefan Leutenegger

Professor, ETH Zurich

Stefan Leutenegger has been Associate Professor of Mobile Robotics at ETH Zurich since April 2025. His research focuses on Spatial AI and its use for various kinds of mobile robots – from drones to mobile manipulators that operate in potentially unknown, dynamic, and obstructed environments, carrying out a multitude of tasks that require robust navigation, intelligent planning, and physical interaction including fine-grained manipulation. Previously, Stefan Leutenegger held a position as Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) at TUM since 2021. Before, he was Lecturer (since 2014) and later Reader at Imperial College London. Prof. Leutenegger received his PhD in 2014 from ETH Zurich working on Unmanned Solar Airplanes including their navigation and control in Prof. Roland Siegwart's Autonomous Systems Lab. Previously, he received BSc (2006) and MSc (2009) in Mechanical Eng. from ETH Zurich. Presentation title: Multi-Sensor Fusion for State Estimation and Mapping in Mobile Robotics

Riccardo Marini

Head of Research at CNIT/WiLab

Riccardo Marini is the Head of Research at WiLab, the National Laboratory of Wireless Communications of CNIT, and has served as the Area Leader for the Large-Scale Wireless Networks Research Area since 2023. He earned both his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Bologna. He coordinates multiple research projects in collaboration with industrial partners and leads the Grand Challenge on Network Digital Twins within Italy’s national RESTART program. His research focuses on autonomous networks, non-terrestrial networks (NTNs), and AI-native paradigms, through the design and validation of next-generation protocols, architectures, and proof-of-concepts. His work bridges academic and industrial domains and contributes to standardization initiatives. Presentation title: Building the Network Digital Twin: From Research Vision to Industrial Impact in the RESTART Program

Barbara M. Masini

Director of Research, National Research Council (CNR) of Italy

Barbara M. Masini is the Director of Research at the Institute of Electronics, Computer and Telecommunication Engineering of the Italian National Research Council (CNR). She is a co-founder of CNIT’s National Laboratory for Wireless Communications (WiLab) and an adjunct professor at the University of Bologna. An expert in wireless systems, she leads research activities in the field of vehicular communications, with a focus on connected and autonomous vehicles and intelligent transportation systems. She coordinates several research projects on connected vehicles and sustainable mobility and is the author of over 100 publications on heterogeneous wireless systems for safer and more efficient mobility. (tentative) Presentation title: 6G-V2X for Safe and Cooperative Autonomy

Andreas Mueller

Chief Expert and Project Director, Bosch; General Chair, 5G-ACIA

Andreas Mueller is a renowned expert at the forefront of connectivity research and 5G/6G innovation. As the leader of Bosch's strategic 6G activities across diverse business units and sites, he spearheads holistic transformative endeavors aligned with business imperatives. With his profound expertise in communication technologies for the IoT, he also serves as the chief expert in this field. Andreas has held the position of General Chair of 5G-ACIA, a leading organization driving and shaping industrial 5G, since its establishment in 2018. Andreas’ pivotal contributions also include coordinating and advancing Bosch's Industrial 5G undertakings over the last couple of years, focusing on key areas, such as private networks, Open RAN, AI/ML, and edge computing. Equipped with a robust background in telecommunications and vertical industry applications, Andreas is uniquely positioned to drive the transformative 5G/6G-enabled revolution across various sectors.

Slawomir Stańczak

Professor, TU Berlin; Head of Wireless Communications and Networks, Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications

Sławomir Stańczak is a Professor of Network Information Theory at the Technical University of Berlin and a Head of the Wireless Communications and Networks Department at the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI). He has co-authored two books and more than 200 peer-reviewed journal articles and conference papers in the field of information theory, wireless communications, signal processing, and machine learning. Prof. Stańczak received research grants from the German Research Foundation and the Best Paper Award from the German Society for Telecommunications in 2014. He was an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing from 2012 to 2015 and chair of the ITU-T Focus Group on Machine Learning for Future Networks including 5G from 2017 to 2020. Since 2020 Prof. Stańczak is chairman of the 5G Berlin Association and since 2021 he has been the coordinator of the 6G-RIC (Research & Innovation Cluster) and CampusOS projects. He has also been the project coordinator of xG-Incubator since November 2023, which is part of StartUpConnect.

Itsuma Tanaka

President and CEO, DOCOMO Communications Laboratories Europe

Itsuma has 20 years of experience in the telecom industry, particularly in R&D, international telecommunication business, and HR domains. At DOCOMO R&D, he led 4G and 5G core network standardisation in 3GPP and GSMA. In GSMA, he was the chairman of IREG Packet WG and served as editor of various technical guidelines and specifications that are the basis of today’s telecom services. He holds an MBA from ESADE Business School in Barcelona and an MEng in Information Systems Engineering from Imperial College London.

Wen Tong

CTO, Huawei Wireless

Wen is an industry-recognized leader in the invention of advanced wireless technologies. He is a Huawei Fellow and an IEEE Fellow. He was the recipient of the IEEE Communications Society Industry Innovation Award in 2014, and the IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Industry Leader Award for “pioneering technical contributions and leadership in the mobile communications industry and innovation in 5G mobile communications technology,” in 2018. He is also the recipient of the R.A. Fessenden Medal. In the past three decades, Wen has pioneered fundamental technologies from 1G to 6G wireless and WiFi with more than 550 awarded US patents. Before joining Huawei in 2009, Wen was a Nortel Fellow and the head of the Network Technology Labs at Nortel. He joined the Wireless Technology Labs at Bell Northern Research in 1995 in Canada. Wen is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Roberto Verdone

Professor of Telecommunications, University of Bologna & CNIT/WiLab

Roberto Verdone has been a Full Professor of Telecommunications at the University of Bologna since 2001. In 2020, he was among the co-founders of the Wireless Communications Laboratory (WiLab) of CNIT, where he now serves as Director. Since 2021, he has also co-led the WiLab-Huawei Joint Innovation Centre on 6G for the IoT. His research interests include Radio Resource Management and network architectures for 5G and 6G, as well as the Internet of Things, with a particular focus on industrial applications. He coordinates the activities of a national initiative called Orizzonte 6G, which aims to foster innovation in Italian companies in preparation for 6G.

Walter Weigel

Honorary Professor, Technical University of Munich

Walter Weigel is an honorary professor at the School of Computation, Information and Technology at the Technical University of Munich and a member of the IEEE-SA Board of Governors. He graduated from the Technical University of Munich, Germany with a Master's degree in electrical engineering in 1984 and a PhD degree (thesis about speech recognition) in 1990. From 1984 to 1991 he was an assistant at the Institute for Data Processing at the Technical University of Munich. Between 1991 and 2015, he held several positions within Siemens AG, including VP of external cooperations and head of standardization in corporate technology, VP of the research & concepts department of the mobile networks business unit as well as head of the business segment video processing for the semiconductor business unit (today, Infineon). From 2006 to 2011, Walter was the general director of the European Telecommunication Standards Institute ETSI. From 2015 to 2022 he was a VP and CSO of the European Research Institute of Huawei with headquarters in Leuven, Belgium. He has been a consultant for Huawei Technologies since 1. September 2023. He was a member of Innovationsdialog of the German Government, the Big Data Value Association Board of Directors, the Senate of Acatech (German Academy of Technical Sciences), the Board of the 5G Automotive Association, the Digital Manufacturing Executive Council of Digital Europe, and the Advisory Committee of CTIF Global Capsule (CGC) of Aarhus University.

Geoffrey Ye Li

Chair Professor at Imperial College London

Geoffrey Ye Li, FREng and Chair Professor at ICL, made fundamental contributions to OFDM for wireless communications, established a framework on resource cooperation in wireless networks, and initialized deep learning for communications. He won 2024 IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award and 2019 IEEE ComSoc Edwin Howard Armstrong Achievement Award. Presentation title: Large AI Model for Wireless Communications