Events

EuCNC & 6G Summit 2021

8 June 2021 // 11 June 2021

The 2021 Joint EuCNC & 6G Summit, initiated this year, builds on putting together two successful conferences in the area of telecommunications: EuCNC (European Conference on Networks and Communications), in its 30th edition of a series, supported by the European Commission; the 6G Summit, in its 3rd edition, originated from the 6G Flagship programme in Finland, one of the very first in its area.

i2CAT will be participating in the following sessions:

6GV2: 6G Platform, Intelligence and Trust
Thursday, 10 June 2021, 9:30-11:00, Zoom Room

AI@EDGE: A Secure and Reusable Artificial Intelligence Platform for Edge Computing
Roberto Riggio (RISE Research Institute of Sweden, Sweden); Estefania Coronado (Fundació i2CAT, Internet i Innovació Digital a Catalunya, Spain); Neiva Linder (Ericsson Research, Sweden); Adzic Jovanka (Telecom Italia S.p.A., Italy); Gianpiero Mastinu (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Leonardo Goratti (Zodiac Aerospace, Germany); Miguel Rosa (Aerotools, Spain); Hans Dieter Schotten (Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz GmbH, Germany); Marco Pistore (FBK, Italy)

NET3: Network Softwarisation III
Friday, 11 June 2021, 09:30-11:00, Zoom Room

vL2-WIM: Flexible Virtual Layer 2 Connectivity Services in Distributed 5G MANO Domains
Timo Kellermann (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya & i2CAT Foundation, Spain); Ferran Canellas (i2CAT, Spain); Ricardo González and Daniel Camps-Mur (i2CAT Foundation, Spain)

Blockchain-Based Zero Touch Service Assurance in Cross-Domain Network Slicing
Vasileios Theodorou (Intracom S.A. Telecom Solutions, Greece); Alexios Lekidis (Intracom Telecom, Greece); Theodoros Bozios (Intracom S.A. Telecom Solutions, Greece); Kalman Meth (IBM, Israel); Adriana Fernández-Fernández (Fundació i2CAT, Internet i Innovació Digital a Catalunya, Spain); James Taylor (Bartr Group, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Pedro Diogo and Pedro Martins (Ubiwhere, Portugal); Rasoul Behravesh (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy)

6ET2: 6G Enabling Technologies II
Thursday, 10 June 2 021, 16:00-17:30, Zoom Room

Multi-Party Collaboration in 5G Networks via DLT-Enabled Marketplaces: A Pragmatic Approach
Adriana Fernández-Fernández (Fundació i2CAT, Internet i Innovació Digital a Catalunya, Spain); Michael De Angelis and Pietro Giardina (Nextworks, Italy); James Taylor (Bartr Group, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Paulo Chainho (Altice Labs, Portugal); José M. Jorquera Valero (University of Murcia, Spain); Leonardo Ochoa-Aday (Fundació i2CAT, Internet i Innovació Digital a Catalunya, Spain); Diego Lopez (Telefonica I+D, Spain); Gino Carrozzo (Nextworks, Italy); Muhammad Shuaib Siddiqui (Fundació i2CAT, Internet i Innovació Digital a Catalunya, Spain)

The conference is sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society and by the European Association for Signal Processing, and focuses on all aspects of telecommunications ranging from 5G deployment and mobile IoT to 6G exploration and future communications systems and networks, including experimentation and testbeds, and applications and services. It brings together cutting-edge research and world-renown industries and businesses, globally attracting in the last years more than 1300 delegates from more than 40 countries all over the world, to present and discuss the latest results, and an exhibition with more than 70 exhibitors, for demonstrating the technology developed in the area, namely within research projects from EU R&I programmes.

Check the full programme here.