Day 1
Opening Session
9.00 am – 9.15 am
Workshop Inauguration
Prof. Rangan Banerjee (Director, IIT Delhi)
9.15 am – 9:45 am
Keynote Welcome Address
Shri. Rajesh Kumar Pathak (Mission head, Bharat 6G alliance, Govt. of India) and Mr. Ray Dolan (CEO, Cohere Technologies, USA)
Session - I
9:45 am – 10:30 am
Service Providers Perspective on 5G and the Road to 6G (AI + Cloud) -- Panel Discussion
Dr. Sidharth Shukla (Bharti Airtel), Hardik Bavishi (Reliance Jio), Milap Majumdar (AT&T)
Moderated by Shri. Rajesh Kumar Pathak (Bharat 6G Alliance)
10:30 am – 11:30 am
Vendor Perspective on 6G (Cloud, AI, Open RAN and New Use Cases) -- Panel Discussion
Sandeep Sharma (Tech Mahindra), Chris Dick (Nvidia), Udayan Mukherjee (Intel), Anton Monk (Cohere Technologies)
Moderated by Prof. Robert Calderbank, Duke University, USA
Session - II
11:30 am – 12:10 pm
India's 6G Opportunity
Shri. Prakash R (Scientist G, C-DoT, Govt. of India)
12:10 pm – 12:30 pm
India and USA 6G Collaboration
Aaron Schubert (Director, India-Pacific Office, USAID India)
Lunch Break (1:00 pm – 2:00 pm)
Session - III
2:00 pm – 2:45 pm
Waveforms for 6G Communication
Prof. Robert Calderbank, Duke University, USA
2:45 pm – 4:30 pm
Industry R&D & Manufacturing in 6G (India)
Dr. Aloknath De (CEO and Founder of Techcrafter.cps, Ex-CTO Samsung)
Jishnu A. (Tejas Networks)
Prakash R. (C-DoT)
Abhijeet Masaal (CeWit, IIT Madras)
Mahesh Basavaraji (Rohde-Schwarz)
Tea Break: 4:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Session - IV
5:00 pm – 5:45 pm
Closing Keynote Address
Prof. Abhay Karandikar (Secretary DST, Govt. of India)
Group Photo (6 pm)
Dinner (7 pm onwards)
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Day 2
Session - I
9.00 am – 9.15 am
Opening Remarks
Dr. Rajiv Laroia (Co-founder and CTO, More AI Inc., Co-founder, Flarion Technologies, USA)
9.15 am – 9:45 am
Requirements for 6G Integrated Sensing & Communications for Commercial and Defense Networks
Mr. Larry Henschel (Director of International FutureG for the US Department of Defense, Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Research, USA)
Session - II
9:45 am – 10:45 am
How Can USA and India Collaborate on 6G Technologies and Win Together (Panel Discussion)
A. K. Mittal (TSDSI), Hardik Bavishi (Reliance Jio), Sidharth Shukla (Bharti Airtel), Devaki Chandramouli (Next G Alliance, USA), Sandeep Sharma (Tech Mahindra, India)
Moderated by Ray Dolan, CEO Cohere Technologies, USA
10:45 am – 11:45 am
The Role of AI in 6G (Panel Discussion)
Chris Dick (Nvidia), Udayan Mukherjee (Intel), Sandeep Sharma (Tech Mahindra), Vinosh James (Qualcomm), Anshuman Nigam (Samsung)
Moderated by Dr. Anton Monk, Cohere Technologies, USA
Session - III
11:45 am – 1:00 pm
6G Research Innovation – I
Prof. Radha Krishna Ganti (IIT Madras)
Prof. Rohit Buddhiraja (IIT Kanpur)
Prof. Abhishek K. Gupta (IIT Kanpur)
Prof. Ray-Guang Cheng (National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan)
Lunch Break (1:00 pm – 2:00 pm)
Session - IV
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
6G Research Innovations - II
Prof. Aditya K. Jagannatham (IIT Kanpur)
Prof. Krishna Narayanan (Texas A&M University, USA)
Prof. Chandra R. Murthy (IISc Bangalore)
Prof. Saif Khan Mohammed (IIT Delhi)
Prof. Laxmi N. Theagarajan (IIT Madras)
Prof. Bhaskar Kanseri (IIT Delhi)
Tea Break: 4:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Session - V
4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Practical Next Step Goals for India + US 6G Innovations & Standardization (Panel Discussion)
A. K. Mittal (TSDSI), S. K. Marwaha (Scientist-G, MeitY, Govt. of India), Vinosh James (Qualcomm) Anton Monk (Cohere Technologies, USA)
Moderated by Sandeep Sharma (Tech Mahindra)
Closing Ceremony
5:30 pm – 5:45 pm
Concluding remarks
Prof. Saif Khan Mohammed (IIT Delhi)
Group Photo (6 pm)
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