CTOs share insights in new ITU Journal webinar series
ITU News
A new webinar series from the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) beginning on 6 June will share insights from chief technology officers (CTOs) on industry ambitions for 5G, 6G, and associated innovations to boost network intelligence.
Academia and industry continually stimulate one another’s work as partners in research and development, as well as in sandbox initiatives to prove the market viability of new solutions. The upcoming series aims to highlight new opportunities to expand this collaboration.
The webinars – presented as part of the ITU Journal on Future and Evolving Technologies – highlight the growing synergy between academic researchers and industry players in developing and applying new technologies.
Upcoming webinars
6 June
Naoki Tani, CTO at NTT DOCOMO, presents the mobile operator’s research and development to advance 5G and the prospects for 6G to drive new improvements to our quality of life.
27 June
Alex Jinsung Choi, Senior Vice President at Deutsche Telekom, details machine learning’s contribution to the intelligent control of 5G radio access networks (RANs) and how RAN automation and optimization could evolve for 6G.
4 July
Alex Sinclair, CTO at GSMA, guides a global tour of innovative 5G applications and benefits they can bring to business and society. The talk will also explore research challenges for 5G evolution and innovation towards 6G.
Look out for further dates and topics, including webinars with Erik Ekudden, CTO at Ericsson, and Nishant Batra, Chief Strategy and Technology Officer at Nokia.
Contribute to the journal
The latest issue of the ITU Journal on Future and Evolving Technologies features research on innovative network solutions for future services, intelligent surfaces, and gigahertz-to-terahertz (GHz-to-THz) broadband communications for 6G non-terrestrial networks.
The ITU Journal – free of charge to both readers and contributors – offers comprehensive coverage of communications and networking. The online journal welcomes research submissions on all relevant topics, all year long.
Further issues of the ITU Journal in 2023 will address:
- AI-driven security in 5G and beyond
- Network virtualization, slicing, orchestration, fog and edge platforms for 5G and 6G wireless systems
- AI for accessibility
- Metaverse: Communications, networking and computing
- AI and machine learning solutions in 5G and future networks
- Intelligent technologies for future networking and distributed systems
See upcoming issues currently inviting submissions.
