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Industry-driven digital transformation
ITU Kaleidoscope academic conference
Online, 7-11 December 2020

Contact: kaleidoscope@itu.int
(Last updated on 8 Dec. 2020)

Day 1 - Monday, 7 December 2020 (Time zone - UTC+1)

10:40-11:00	Join session to test connection
11:00-11:15	Opening plenary Master of Ceremony: Alessia Magliarditi, Kaleidoscope Coordinator, Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, ITU Welcome remarks: Chaesub Lee, Director, Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, ITU Welcome remarks: Mario Maniewicz, Director, Radiocommunication Bureau, ITU Opening address: Andy Chen, Catronic Enterprise & REDDS Capital, Canada and IEEE TEMS (K-2020 Supporting Organization)
11:15-11:45	Keynote speech An accelerated digital transformation, courtesy of the recent pandemic [Presentation] Roberto Saracco, IEEE Future Directions Committee (FDC), Digital Reality Initiative co-Chair and Chair of the Industry Advisory Board of FDC Session chair: Roberto Minerva, Télécom SudParis, France
11:45-12:45	Session 1 – The path towards digital transformation Session chair: Kai Jakobs, RWTH Aachen University, Germany S1.1 Toward a typology of "going digital" [Presentation] Cheng Gong and Vincent Ribiere, Bangkok University, Thailand S1.2 Analysis on the social and economic impacts of Internet platforms [Presentation] Anqi Zheng, China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT), China S1.3 5G Healthcare applications in Covid-19 prevention and control [Presentation] Haiying Ren, China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT), China; Jianfeng Shen, National Health Commission of the PRC, China; Xiaoyong Tang, China Mobile (Chengdu) Industrial Research Institute, China; Tianyi Feng, China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT), China
12:45-13:15	Coffee break - Virtual networking coffee
13:15-13:55	Session 2 – Design principles, architecture and protocols for the digital transformation Session chair: Eva Ibarrola, University of the Basque Country, Spain S2.1 Lightweight and instant access technologies and protocols to boost digital transformations [Presentation] Yihua Ma, Zhifeng Yuan, Weimin Li and Zhigang Li, ZTE Corporation and State Key Laboratory of Mobile Network and Mobile Multimedia, China S2.2 Automation of computational resource control of cyber-physical systems with machine learning* [Presentation] Ved P. Kafle and Abu Hena Al Muktadir, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan
13:55-14:25	Keynote speech Service-based architectures in production systems: Challenges, solutions and experiences [Presentation] Thomas Kuhn, Frank Schnicke and Pablo Oliveira Antonino, Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering IESE, Germany Session chair: Mostafa Hashem Sherif, Kaleidoscope Technical Programme Committee Chair

Day 2 - Tuesday, 8 December 2020 (Time zone - UTC+1)

12:10-12:30	Join session to test connection
12:30-13:00	Keynote speech Beyond 5G/6G telecommunications ensuring continuity in business, research and education [Presentation] Akihiro Nakao, Special Advisor to the President and Vice Dean of the Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, University of Tokyo, Japan Session chair: Martin Adolph, Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, ITU
13:00-14:00	Session 3 – Wireless infrastructure and digital transformation Session chair: Christoph Dosch, ITU-R Study Group 6 Vice-Chairman; IRT GmbH, Germany S3.1 Digital transformation via 5G: Deployment plans* [Presentation] Abolfazl Zakeri, Narges Gholipoor, Mohsen Tajallifar and Sina Ebrahimi, Tarbiat Modares University, Iran; Mohammad Reza Javan, Shahrood University of Technology, Iran; Nader Mokari and Ahmad R. Sharafat, Tarbiat Modares University, Iran S3.2 Flexible multiplexing mechanism for coexistence of URLLC and eMBB services in 5G networks* [Presentation] Kai Xiao and Xing Liu, ZTE Corporation and State Key Laboratory of Mobile Network and Mobile Multimedia, China; Xianghui Han, Peng Hao, Junfeng Zhang, Dong Zhou and Xingguang Wei, ZTE Corporation, China S3.3 Wireless technology and protocol for IIoT and digital twins [Presentation] Jie Tan, Xiubin Sha, Bo Dai and Ting Lu, ZTE Corporation and State Key Laboratory of Mobile Network and Mobile Multimedia Technology, China
14:00-14:30	Coffee break - Virtual networking coffee
14:30-15:10	Session 4 – Digital transformation in daily life Session chair: Andy Chen, Catatronic Enterprise & REDDS Capital, Canada and IEEE TEMS S4.1 A technique for extracting the intention of messengers in social media [Presentation] Mohamed Fazil Mohamed Firdhous and Balakrishnan Nalin Prashanth, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka S4.2 Towards a digital process platform for future construction sites [Presentation] Hans Aoyang Zhou, Aymen Gannouni, Thomas Otte, Jonas Odenthal, Anas Abdelrazeq and Frank Hees, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
15:10-15:40	Video Demonstration Track Cybersecurity automation - Video Duncan Sparrell, CISSP, CSSLP, CCSK, Senior Member IEEE; sFractal Consulting, USA Moderator: Erica Campilongo, Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, ITU

Day 3 - Wednesday, 9 December 2020 (Time zone - UTC+1)

12:10-12:30	Join session to test connection
12:30-13:10	Session 5 – Augmented reality and tourism Session chair: Roberto Minerva, Télécom SudParis, France S5.1 An immersive mobile application for improved learning and virtual tour experience: A nature reserve perspective [Presentation] Carmenita Oersen, Ruchen Wyngaard and Lebogang Nkabinde, University of the Western Cape, South Africa S5.2 Self-guided virtual tour using augmented reality [Presentation] Aphile Kondlo, Andre Henney, Antoine Bagula, Olasupo Ajayi and Laurenda Van Breda, University of the Western Cape, South Africa
13:10-13:50	Session 6 – Immersive technologies in farming Session chair: Simão Ferraz de Campos Neto, Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, ITU S6.1 Immersive technologies for development: An analysis of agriculture [Presentation] Omowunmi Isafiade and Ofentse Mabiletsa, University of the Western Cape, South Africa S6.2 Immersive interactive technology: A case study of a wine farm [Presentation] Ofentse Mabiletsa, Omowunmi Isafiade, Sarel Viljoen, Jason Farrell and Lwando Ngqwemla, University of the Western Cape, South Africa
13:50-14:20	Coffee break - Virtual networking coffee
14:20-15:50	Special panel on "The role of ICT for future pandemics" Panelists: Digital transformation in public health: A new paradigm for health systems strengthening and people-centered care in the post-covid19 era [Presentation] Sebastian Garcia Saiso, Director Evidence and Intelligence for Action in Health, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)/World Health Organization (WHO) Interoperability between European digital contact tracing applications [Presentation] Jorge García Vidal, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain How can 6G respond to pandemics? [Presentation] Mohamed-Slim Alouini, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia Moderator: Reinhard Scholl, Deputy Director, Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, ITU

Day 4 - Thursday, 10 December 2020 (Time zone - UTC+1)

12:10-12:30	Join session to test connection
12:30-13:30	Session 7 – AI, machine learning and digital transformation Session chair: Gyu Myoung Lee, Liverpool John Moores University, UK S7.1 AI-based W-band suspicious object detection system for moving persons using GAN: Solutions, performance evaluation and standardization activities* [Presentation] Yutaka Katsuyama, Keping Yu, San Hlaing Myint, Toshio Sato, Zheng Wen and Xin Qi, Waseda University, Japan S7.2 An AI-based optimization of handover strategy in non-terrestrial networks* [Presentation] Chenchen Zhang, Nan Zhang, Wei Cao, Kaibo Tian and Zhen Yang, ZTE Corporation and State Key Laboratory of Mobile Network and Mobile Multimedia Technology, China S7.3 BSR: A balanced framework for single image super resolution [Presentation] Dehui Kong, State Key Laboratory of Mobile Network and Mobile Multimedia Technology and ZTE Microelectronics Research Institute, China; Fang Zhu, ZTE Corporation, China; Yang Wei, Song Jianjun, Zhu Tongtong and Bengang Lou, Sanechips, China; Ke Xu, State Key Laboratory of Mobile Network and Mobile Multimedia Technology and ZTE Microelectronics Research Institute, China
13:30-14:15	Coffee break - Virtual networking coffee
14:15-14:45	Invited paper A case study for modeling machine tool systems using standard representations [Presentation] Maja Barring, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden; Guodong Shao, Moneer Helu, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), USA; and Bjorn Johansson, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Session chair: Kai Jakobs, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
14:45-15:45	Session 8 – Security in industrial applications Session chair: Duncan Sparrell, CISSP, CSSLP, CCSK, Senior Member IEEE; sFractal Consulting, USA S8.1 PERT: Payload encoding representation from transformer for encrypted traffic classification [Presentation] Hong Ye He, Zhi Guo Yang and Xiang Ning Chen, ZTE Corporation, China S8.2 Visual action recognition using deep learning in video surveillance systems [Presentation] Dhananjay Kumar, Priyanka T and Aishwarya Murugesh, Anna University, India; Ved P. Kafle, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan S8.3 STCCS: Segmented time controlled count-min sketch [Presentation] Ismail Khram and Maha Shamseddine, Beirut Arab University, Lebanon; Wassim Itani, University of Houston-Victoria, Texas, USA
15:45-16:15	Keynote speech Industrial transformation and the digital revolution [Presentation] Adam T. Drobot, Chairman, OpenTechWorks, Inc. and Past Chairman of the IEEE IoT Initiative, USA Session chair: Roberto Minerva, Télécom SudParis, France

Day 5 - Friday, 11 December 2020 (Time zone - UTC+1)

12:10-12:30	Join session to test connection
12:30-13:00	IEEE Technology and Engineering Management Society (TEMS) session Managing industry 4.0 [Presentation] Gustavo Giannattasio, IEEE TEMS Member of the Board 2020-2021, Uruguay Moderator: Andy Chen, Catronic Enterprise & REDDS Capital, Canada and IEEE TEMS [Presentation]
13:00-13:50	Wrap-up session Summary of the twelfth ITU Kaleidoscope academic conference (panel with Session Chairs) [Presentation] Session chair: Mostafa Hashem Sherif, Kaleidoscope Technical Programme Committee Chair
13:50-14:20	Coffee break - Virtual networking coffee
14:20-14:30	ITU Journal on Future and Evolving Technologies (ITU J-FET) Ian F. Akyildiz, Editor-in-Chief [Presentation] Moderator: Alessia Magliarditi, ITU Journal Coordinator, Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, ITU
14:30-15:30	Special panel - “Meet the ITU” Panelists: Chaesub Lee, Director, Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, ITU Sergio Buonomo, Chief, Study Groups Department, Radiocommunication Bureau, ITU Keynote speakers, authors of K-2020 papers and conference participants will be offered the opportunity to interact with ITU-T Director, K-2020 session chairs, Chiefs of ITU-T and ITU-R Study Groups, and ITU experts, to exchange information on areas of common interest and explore opportunities for collaboration, including submitting proposals and/or formal contributions to ITU groups. Moderator: Bilel Jamoussi, Chief, Study Groups Department, Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, ITU
15:30-16:00	Closing plenary Best paper awards and young author recognition ceremony [Presentation] Chaesub Lee, Director, Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, ITU Alessia Magliarditi, Kaleidoscope Coordinator, Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, ITU [Presentation]
An * denotes papers nominated for best paper award.