6G: From Vision to Value
Wednesday, 5 June 2024, 14:00-15:30, Elisabeth Hall
Organizer
- Volker Ziegler (Nokia Bell Labs, DE)
Motivation and Background
For the next generation of mobile networks standard and technology we have framed the ambition of 6G Key Value Indicators (KVIs) to complement the established concept of performance indicators and capabilities. The journey to explore KVIs and link these into key criteria of design had started on the occasion of the European 6G flagship project Hexa-X Kick-Off meeting in Paris in early 2020. In the meantime, we have seen broad acceptance of the KVI concept across stakeholders and worldwide. The value taxonomy can be defined by categories of economic, environmental and societal impact and sustainability. The current debate on options of monetization of 5G capabilities already includes the question of what the key drivers of 6G financial and economic value capture will be? It appears hard to overstate the growing influence that AI will have with networks being fully AI-native in the 6G era. Breakthroughs in generative AI alone have the potential to significantly increase value capture and generate productivity growth. Fortunately, objectives of environmental sustainability in dimensions of energy efficiency, overall energy consumption and circular economics are positively correlated with goals of cost optimization. With 6G we associate “green by design” and the ambition of a tenfold increase in capacity with 50% power reduction, compared to 5G. When it comes to societal impact, “digital inclusion” aims to address the three key factors accessibility, affordability and consumability. “Security and privacy” in a 6G world of digital twins and pervasive AI enablement means that increasing security and privacy risks require higher levels of control in zero-trust ecosystems. Now is the time to discuss and revisit how to move beyond the visionary and check 6G technology and architectural approach for consistency with our joint ambition to build the best possible next generation of mobile networks to expand value possibilities and serve humanity.
Questions
- What are the 6G key value indicators of relevance?
- Do value indicators have meaning compared to previous Gs and why is 6G different?
- Now is the time to shift from vision to reality – are we moving beyond lip service for value? What are the key factors of success to make it happen?
- Is 6G technology choice and architecture consistent with KVI ambition?
Participants
The panel is composed of (see CVs below):
- Chair: Volker Ziegler (Senior Advisor and Chief Architect, Nokia DE) (moderator)
- Hanne-Stinne Hallingby (Telenor, NO)
- Marja Matinmikko-Blue (University of Oulu, FI)
- Andreas Müller (Bosch, DE)
- Toon Norp (TNO, NL)
- Egon Schulz (Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH, DE)
Volker Ziegler
Volker is a purpose-driven, energetic and strategic leader with 25+ years of broad and international experience in the telecommunications industry. He currently serves as Senior Advisor and Chief Architect in Nokia Strategy and Technology unit. Previously, Volker has exercised a leadership role with Nokia Bell Labs in 6G research and ecosystem. Prior to this, he has served as Head of 5G Leadership and Chief Architect of Nokia Mobile Networks.
Hanne-Stine Hallingby
Dr Hanne-Stine Hallingby is an experienced telecommunication market expert who currently works making 5G and 6G a success. The community wants 5G and 6G to be a driving force digitizing society, spurring new economic growth while addressing sustainability; Hanne-Stine thinks this innovation is not only about technology but partnerships, ecosystems, and societal preparedness. She is now a Senior Research Scientist engaged in EU and Telenor R&I projects on 5G and 6G use cases, requirements, pilots, and business models. She applies her field of expertise to explore the 5G and 6G ecosystem hurdles and enablers for growth. In Telenor R&I, she also fills the role as Director for Use Cases and Solutions. This has led to a role as a chair for the 6G-IA sub-working group on “Business Validation, Models, and Ecosystems”. Prior to her current position as researcher, she worked for 15 years in Telenor as a project leader and consultant with business development and change processes. She has an Industrial PhD in Innovation studies. She has published articles in journals such as Telematics and Informatics, MIS Quarterly Executive, Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, Communications Magazine. Her research cases were – and are – implementations of systemic technologies in telecommunication. Her passion is with the applications of technology to the best of firms, humans, and society. She finds it frustrating, however extremely fascinating, that there are so many non-technological success factors deciding the paths of technologies in question. Currently she contributes to the SNS-JU projects IMAGINE-B5G, Hexa-X-II, SNS-OPS and 6GStart.
Marja Matinmikko-Bluey
Marja Matinmikko-Blue is Director of Sustainability and Regulation at 6G Flagship and Research Director of Infotech Oulu at the University of Oulu, Finland. She has a Doctor of Science degree in communications engineering on cognitive radio systems and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in industrial engineering and management on stakeholder analysis for spectrum sharing from the University of Oulu. She is adjunct professor in spectrum management. She has been conducting multi-disciplinary research into the technical, business, and regulatory aspects of future mobile communication systems in close collaboration with industry, academia, and regulators for over two decades. She has published 200+ scientific papers and prepared 160+ contributions to regulatory bodies at national, European and international levels.
Andreas Mueller
Dr. 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, Andreas also serves as the Chief Expert in this field. Moreover, he has held the position of General Chair of 5G-ACIA, the globally 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.
Toon Norp
Toon Norp is a Senior Business Consultant at TNO. Toon Norp joined TNO (former KPN Research) in 1991, where he has since been working on network aspects of mobile communications. Toon advises operators, government organisation and others on strategy, and architecture related to M2M/IoT, Satcom, 5G and 6G. He has been involved in standardisation of mobile networks for more than 25 years. As chairman of the 3GPP SA1 service aspects working group Toon was responsible for the requirements specification phase of 5G and he was instrumental in getting several new sectors (e.g. public safety, satellite, media, railway, industry) involved in the 3GPP standardisation process. In 2021, Toon was elected as governing board member of the 6G SNS Industry Association (6G-IA), and represented the 6G-IA in the SNS Joint Undertaking Governing Board. Within the Dutch 6G National Initiative FNS, Toon is responsible for European collaboration and standardisation; also in the SNS ICE project he is responsible for European collaboration, including with and between national initiatives. Toon holds a Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from the Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands.
Egon Schulz
Dr. Schulz has more than 40 years’ experience in Mobile Communication Services, Research & Innovation, Product and Solution Creation Processes: Terminal & Infrastructure, Spectrum, Prototyping, Standardization, National/International Collaboration and Product oriented Research (PoR). He is an earnest practitioner of European leadership and supporting the global standardization unification. In 1988 he joined the Mobile Network Division at Siemens AG, Munich. In April 2007 he became a member of Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN), Munich. In 2009 Dr. Schulz joined the Huawei’s Munich Research Center and led the advanced technologies research. He was strongly engaged in 5G/B5G research in particular in 5GPPP projects for designing, validation and verification. He has a clear view of European wireless research & development and published numerous papers. Dr. Schulz’s current research work focuses on 6G. His main activities are designing and structuring Huawei’s internal and external 6G research activities. Moreover, he is Board Member of the European Technology Platform (ETP) NetworldEurope and actively contribute to the NetworldEurope SRIAs and is committed to the 6G-IA/SNS Board.
