About The Symposium
The need for accelerating the digitalisation of economies and societies, as per the United Nations
Sustainability Development Goals, is, among others, pushing for the sixth generation (6G) of mobile
communications system. Hereby, 6G will continue the trajectory set out by its precedent 5G to establish an
intelligent “society” with ubiquitous connections for all entities, both physical and virtual, under the
trend of cyber-physical fusion.
Along with 6G, new applications and services, with extremely demanding requirements, will emerge. These
new applications include, but are not limited to, Holographic Type Communications; Haptic Communications;
High Precision Communications and Extremely Low-Latency Communications. Moreover, networking capabilities
will continue their convergence across terrestrial, spatial and maritime connectivity, while being deeply
intertwined with the ubiquitous computing power that increasingly surrounds us and will, in the near
future, be deeply embedded into the networking infrastructure itself.
The original design of IP networking, adopted in the Internet as well as in cellular systems, focuses on
one key pillar, namely ensuring global reachability through suitable packet forwarding mechanisms that
would principally support best-effort services, along with the support of some differentiated services to
a certain extent. However, the efficiency of current IP networking principles becomes highly questionable
in the light of new required capabilities that include aspects such as precision delivery, collective
communications, qualitative communications, support for high dynamicity, constraint-based addressing &
routing, intrinsic security, and programmability of forwarding actions, just to name a few. The growing
amount and diversified nature of both data and services, particularly the “highly interactive, highly
bandwidth-intensive, and highly latency-sensitive” ones, call for fundamentally new and innovative
networking principles. In this vein, the design of the control plane as well as the data forwarding
mechanisms of the data plane need to be entirely rethought to cope with the dynamics of future networks
and services.
The objective of this symposium is to offer a platform for experts in the areas of communications,
networking, cloud computing, and the related disciplines to meet and exchange ideas and information on how
to re-think Networking Fundamentals in an attempt to provide the required capabilities through innovations
that may extend the original fundamentals of what makes out the Internet and also cellular systems today
in order to be ready for proliferating highly-demanding 6G services. For this purpose, the symposium’s
organizing committee will invite top experts in the general field of networking to share their views with
the intention to inspire the community with potential directions of research and innovations.
Committee
Honorary General Chair

Matti Latva-aho
The University of Oulu, Finland
General Chair

Dirk Trossen
Huawei, Germany
Rui Luis Aguiar
Universidade de Aveiro, Instituto de Telecomunicacoes, Portugal

Tarik Taleb
Aalto University and The University of Oulu, Finland
Distinguished Talks Chairs

Akihiro Nakao
The University of Tokyo, Japan

Xavier Costa
NEC Labs Europe, Germany
Panel Chairs

Imen Grida Ben Yahia
Orange, France

Kiran Makhijani
Futurewei, USA

Ari Pouttu
The University of Oulu, Finland
Sponsor Chairs

Konstantinos Samdanis
Nokia Bell Labs, Germany

Rajarajan Sivaraj
Mavenir, USA
Publicity & Social Media Chairs
Jaafar Elmirghani
University of Leeds, UK

Marja Matinmikko-Blue
University of Oulu, Finland
Local Organizing Chairs

Fatma Marzouk
Telecommunications Institute and U. Aveiro
WEBMASTER

Oussama El Marai
Aalto University, Finland

Abderrahmane Abada
Aalto University, Finland
Event Schedule
Monday, November 22nd
Registration
Opening of the event
S1- Network as a service
Diego Garcia Lopez
Telefonica
Kashiff Mahmood
Telenor
Sebastien Robitzsch
Interdigital
Volker Ziegler
Nokia
Xavier Perez-Costa
NEC
Coffee break
S2 - What is wrong with networking?
Cedric Westphal
FutureWei
Artur Hecker
Huawei
Slawomir Kuklinski
Orange
Luis Cordeiro
OneSource
Social Dinner
Tuesday, November 23rd
W1-Nework issues
Coffee break
S3 - What is wrong with networks?
Matthew Finkel
TOR foundation (US)
Arianna Schuler Scott
SafeNetics
Stuart Clayman
UCL
David Lund
PSCE
Lunch
S4 - What is the Internet now?
Mika Skarp
Cumucore
Xavier Priem
Celtic
Jose Legatheau Martins
Un. Nova de Lisboa
Dirk Trossen
Huawei Technologies Germany
Coffee break
W2-Final Panel discussion
Closing of the event
Event Speakers
We are working on an exciting list of distinguished speakers and panelists, experts in the emerging area of 6G networking. Stay tuned!

Mika Skarp
Senior Product Manager, Cumucore Oy Finland

Volker Ziegler
6G Leadership, Chief Architect, Nokia Bell Labs, Germany.

Cedric Westphal
Futurewei, USA

José Legatheaux
Professor, NOVA FCT, Lisbon, Portugal

Dr. Sebastian Robitzsch
InterDigital Europe Ltd, United Kingdom

Xavier Costa-Pérez
ICREA Research Professor, Scientific Director at the i2cat Research Center and Head of 6G R&D at NEC Laboratories, Spain and Germany

Dr. Stuart Clayman
Dept of Electronic Engineering, University College London, UK

Sławomir Kukliński
Orange Polska and Warsaw University of Technology

Arianna Schuler Scott
SafeNetics, United Kingdom

Luis Cordeiro
OneSource, Portugal

Artur Hecker
Director of Future Network Technologies, Huawei Munich Research Centre, Germany

Matthew Finkel
Applications Team Lead, The Tor Project, USA.
Event Venue
The International Symposium on 6G Networking will be held at at the Holiday Inn Hotel, Lisbon. The hotel is located near the city center.
We have arranged a discounted price for accomodating the event participants. To make a reservation please, complete this accommodation booking form as soon as possible and send it to the hotel.
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