Connected Intelligence: when 6G and AI meet
Date, hour and room to be defined
Organizer
- Daniel Kilper (Trinity College Dublin, IE)
Motivation and Background
As AI is redefining the way we live, work and play, it has emerged as the defining application for 6G. Smart devices, appliances, and wearables are all being redesigned to make use of multimodal AI accessed over networks and interfaced to agents and digital twins. 6G will play a central role in delivering both AI and the advanced performance and functionality demanded by emerging AI applications. Large language models and associated agentic AI is consuming not just text, but video and audio information to provide detailed information and multimedia virtually on demand anywhere that a network connection is available. This panel will explore how these accelerating trends in AI will impact 6G and what new capabilities and performance levels expected for 6G will be able to do for AI.
Questions
- What are you expecting people will be able to do with AI once we have 6G networks?
- Which performance metrics or functionality expected for 6G will be essential for this emerging AI (multimodal LLMs, Agentic, etc) and how will it be different from what we experience today?
- Can you give an example of a capability or performance level envisioned for 6G that would be game changing for future AI?—are there any key targets to hit that will have a dramatic difference?
- What new challenges will this emerging AI bring to 6G?
- In what ways is AI changing networks and what do you see as the biggest changes we might expect for networks in 6G in relation to AI?
Participants
- Daniel Kilper (Trinity College Dublin, IE)
- Andreas Gladisch (Deutsche Telekom, T Labs, DE)
- Magnus Frodigh (Ericsson, SE)
- Anna Tzanakaki (Univ. Athens, GR)
- Seshu Tirupathi (IBM, IE)
Daniel Kilper
Prof. Kilper is the Chaired Professor of Future Communication Networks, Head of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, and Director of the Research Ireland CONNECT Centre for future networks and communications at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. He is an adjunct faculty member at the Data Science Institute, Columbia University, New York and an adjunct professor in Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona. From 2000 to 2013 he worked in industry as a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Labs and served on the President’s Advisory Council for Research. During 2020-2021 he served as a faculty appointee in the NIST Information Technology Lab. Within both academia and industry, he has made pioneering contributions in communication devices and systems research, primarily spanning three areas: energy efficient communication networks, optical performance monitoring, and AI/ML for network control and management. He has served in leadership positions in multi-university/industry centers and consortia that include the Center for Integrated Access Networks (CIAN), Center for Quantum Networks (CQN), Center for Telecommunications Value Chain Research (CTVR), Center for Energy Efficient Telecommunications (CEET), and the GreenTouch Consortium. He co-founded two startups, Palo Verde Networks and LightSensAI. He has organized workshops and served on technical program committees at numerous international conferences including CLEO/IQEC, OFC, EuCNC, INFOCOM, ICC, Globecom, ONDM, ICTON, IFIP, CLEO Europe, and COIN/ACOFT. He previously served as a topical area editor for the IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking (TGCN), associate editor for JON/JOCN, and as co-chair of the Optics Working Group for the IEEE International Network Generations Roadmap (INGR). His work has been recognized with the Bell Labs President’s Gold Medal and Teamwork Awards. He was recognized as a NIST Communication Technology Lab Innovator for 2019. He holds eleven issued patents and authored six book chapters and more than two hundred peer-reviewed publications.
Andreas Gladisch
Dr. Andreas Gladisch has held the position of Vice President for the topic Convergent Networks & Infrastructure since 2016 at Technology Innovation. In this role, he and his team are working on novel technical approaches to promoting efficiency, quality, flexibility and speed in the networks of the future. In the context of mmWAVE networks, Andreas Gladisch is Deutsche Telekom co-chair for the project group within TIP (Telecom Infrastructure Project). He has authored or co-authored more than 120 national and international technical conference or journal papers.
Magnus Frodigh
Magnus Frodigh was research area director for network architecture and protocols at Ericsson Research from 2007 to 2018 with responsibility for driving long-term technology leadership research in the areas of network architecture and protocols comprising radio, transport and core networks, including network management. Dr Frodigh joined Ericsson in 1994 and has since held various key senior positions within research and development and product management, focusing on 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G technologies, and expanding collaborations between with both academia and industries. He holds 29 patents. Dr Frodigh was born in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1964. He holds a master of science degree from Linköping University of Technology, Sweden and earned his PhD in radio communication systems from Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. Dr Frodigh is adjunct professor at Royal Institute of Technology in Wireless Infrastructures since 2013.
Anna Tzanakaki
Anna Tzanakaki is a Professor at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece where she is leading the “Systems and Networks” Research Group. Previously she was an Associate Professor at the Athens Information Technology (AIT) Center, Greece and an adjunct faculty member of the Information Networking Institute of Carnegie Mellon University, USA. Her research interests include network architectures and design and over the past 15 years has focused on 5G and 6G infrastructures. She has been and is actively participating in a number of EU research projects, has served as the technical coordinator of the 5G PPP projects 5G-PICTURE and 5G-VICTORI, and is currently the Project and Technical coordinator of the EU DEP projects 5G-TACTIC focusing on 5G Security. She is a co-author of over 250 publications and co-inventor of several granted and published patents. She is the recipient of the OPTICA Jane Simmons speakership award 2024 for her contribution to optical and converged network research.
Seshu Tirupathi
Dr. Seshu Tirupathi is a Research Scientist at IBM Research Ireland, leading advanced AI and machine learning initiatives on EU projects such as 6G XCEL, Sunrise 6G, and MORE while collaborating with both industry and academia. With a Ph.D. from Brown University and an Master’s degree from Cornell, he focuses on foundation models, AI governance, and incremental learning, and actively mentors early career researchers through academic partnerships. His work seamlessly integrates fundamental research with real world deployment, driving transformative solutions across energy, security, healthcare, water, and communication networks.
