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one6G SUMMIT 2026
Day 0 | Welcome Reception
18:00 – 20:00 Kick off your one6G Summit experience early!
Join us on the evening of September 9th from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM for our Welcome Reception.
This gathering is the perfect prelude to the conference, giving you the chance to network over drinks and light refreshments while getting an exclusive sneak peek at one6G Summit demos.
- Location: Room LG105 at King’s College London, Strand Campus | Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UK
- Badge Pick-up: Doors open early for badge collection just before the reception begins. Please bring a valid ID for identity verification when collecting your badge.
one6G SUMMIT 2026
Day 1 | Morning
08:15 – 09:00 Registration and networking with coffee
Note: Registration, morning coffee, and all conference sessions are taking place at Bush House (30 Aldwych, London WC2B 4BG).
09:00 – 09:20 Opening remarks
Monique Calisti
Master of Ceremonies
Nancy Alonistioti
Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei
Global industry organizations are working together to formulate a shared vision for 6G, in which, AI-native by design plays an essential role. Research alliances and standards bodies are aligning on architectures that enable networks to perceive, reason, and act autonomously while ensuring safety, trust, and interoperability. This session brings these global perspectives together to highlight how collaborative innovation is shaping the AI‑native foundation of 6G.
Morteza Kheirkhah
Anita Döhler
Dmytro Gassanov
Ben Gamble
10:40 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 12:00 Session 2: Industry Perspectives – Part 1
The rapid rise of AI presents telecom operators with a unique opportunity to redefine their role in the digital ecosystem. As networks evolve toward AI‑native 6G, operators can leverage foundation models and agentic intelligence not only to enhance automation, adaptability, and resilience, but also to enable new business models built around intelligent services, real‑time insights, and autonomous network capabilities. At the same time, operators highlight the need for strong security, governance, and global interoperability to ensure these AI‑driven innovations remain trustworthy at scale. This session brings together leading operators and industry partners to discuss how AI‑native 6G can unlock new value creation pathways and reshape the future of telecom business and network architecture.
Monique Calisti
Session Chair
Itsuma Tanaka
Guenter Klas
Yue Wang
12:00 – 12:45 Exhibitors’ demo pitches
Giampaolo Cuozzo
Session Chair
12:45 – 14:15 Demos showcase & networking lunch
Day 1 | Afternoon
14:15 – 14:45 Keynote 1
The Rollout of Net4AI in the 6G
With the rapid advancement two main stream AI applications, namely, the Agentic-AI and Physical-AI, we expect they will become the dominant service for 6G wireless, in this talk, we present the optimization of the 6G radio access and core networks for delivery of Agentic-AI and Physical-AI. For the always-working-agentic service, with the traffic properties of 10 time more sessions and 2 times longer session time and 50 times more agentic traffic than the chatbot, optimization of the muti-round latency is the KPI for Token communications. For the robotic physical AI service, the ISAC at RAN and Wireless-Twin at core networks are the key enablers. At initial launching of 6G, token communications over the sub 3GHz spectrum and physical AI service over the U6GHz are suggested.
Wen Tong
14:45 – 15:45 Session 3: From Perception to Action: The Rise of Embodied AI Systems
Embodied AI is rapidly advancing the frontier of intelligent systems, enabling agents that not only perceive multimodal inputs but also act purposefully within physical environments. This session examines the transition from perception to action, highlighting recent progress in multimodal understanding, agentic reasoning, and closed‑loop control. Speakers will discuss emerging technologies from robotic field along with the technical challenges of grounding AI behaviour in dynamic real‑world settings and potential requirements for 6G.
Narcís Cardona
Session Chair
Lorenzo Masia
Francesco Ferro
Kaspar Althoefer
15:45 – 16:15 Coffee break
16:15 – 17:35 Session 4: Industry Perspectives – Part 2
AI’s rapid emergence gives telecom vendors and industry players a pivotal opportunity to deliver more innovative, AI‑driven products that help operators strengthen their market position in the AI era. As networks evolve toward AI‑native 6G, vendors can accelerate the shift by introducing foundation‑model‑based platforms, agentic automation, and intelligent service capabilities that unlock new business models and value creation. Ensuring strong security, governance, and interoperability remains essential for safe and scalable adoption. This session highlights vendor and industry perspectives on how AI‑native 6G will reshape network design and catalyse innovation across the telecom ecosystem
Monique Calisti
Session Chair
Jakob Hoydis
Amira Alloum
Paul Harris
Adnan Aijaz
17:35 – 17:45 Closing remarks
one6G SUMMIT 2026
Day 2 | Morning
08:15 – 09:00 Registration and networking with coffee
Note: Registration, morning coffee, and all conference sessions are taking place at Bush House (30 Aldwych, London WC2B 4BG).
09:00 – 09:10 Opening remarks
Monique Calisti
Master of Ceremonies
Nancy Alonistioti
09:10 – 10:30 Session 5: 6G Ecosystem – Panel discussion
The emergence of 6G is driving the formation of a broad, AI‑native ecosystem that now spans operators, vendors, cloud providers, device makers, vertical industries, regulators and , research communities. This expanding landscape integrates connectivity, compute, and intelligence to support new services, applications, and business models while ensuring alignment with policy, safety, and compliance requirements. This session highlights how ecosystem players are shaping 6G’s architecture, enabling cross‑industry innovation, and accelerating the transition toward intelligent, service‑centric networks.The emergence of 6G is driving the formation of a broad, AI‑native ecosystem that now spans operators, vendors, cloud providers, device makers, vertical industries, regulators and , research communities. This expanding landscape integrates connectivity, compute, and intelligence to support new services, applications, and business models while ensuring alignment with policy, safety, and compliance requirements. This session highlights how ecosystem players are shaping 6G’s architecture, enabling cross‑industry innovation, and accelerating the transition toward intelligent, service‑centric networks.
Sylvia Lu
Moderator
Mike Short
David Willis
Rahim Tafazolli
Mir Ghoraishi
10:30 – 11:15 Keynote 2
Ahmad Bahai
11:15 – 11:45 Coffee break
11:45 – 12:45 Session 6 – AI‑Native 6G: Building the Intelligent Network of the Future
AI‑native 6G is envisioned as a new network paradigm in which intelligence becomes a built‑in architectural capability. Academic research is advancing front‑tier innovations such as AI‑native wireless, foundation‑model‑driven architecture design, token‑based communications, distributed AI compute, and agentic systems that enable autonomous decision‑making across multi‑layer, multi‑domain environments. Together, these advances are shaping networks that can learn, adapt, and coordinate in real time. This session presents academic perspectives on how these breakthroughs define the intelligent 6G networks of the future.
Toktam Mahmoodi
Session Chair
Geoffrey Li
Jun Zhang
Haris Gačanin
12:45 – 14:15 Networking lunch
Day 2 | Afternoon
14:15 – 15:00 Keynote 3
Wireless Networks in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: A Revisionist Perspective
Claude Shannon’s 1948 work separated data transmission from meaning. Now, AI and 6G challenge this boundary by integrating semantics. This talk explores uniting information theory and machine learning to create wireless networks that not only transmit data, but understand and adapt to it.Claude Shannon’s 1948 work separated data transmission from meaning. Now, AI and 6G challenge this boundary by integrating semantics. This talk explores uniting information theory and machine learning to create wireless networks that not only transmit data, but understand and adapt to it.
Vahid Tarokh
15:00 – 16:20 Session 7: 6G-Enabled Intelligent eHealth – Panel discussion
6G is expected to reshape a wide range of vertical industries, with eHealth emerging as one of the earliest and most significantly impacted domains. Academic research is driving front‑tier innovations that redefine how healthcare systems can operate in an AI‑native environment. With 6G capabilities—such as intelligent sensing, distributed AI compute, and agentic native cross‑layer coordination—future eHealth systems will be able to connect, learn, adapt, and respond seamlessly across hospitals, wearables, and remote‑care platforms. This session presents academic and industry perspectives on how 6G will transform vertical industries, with a particular focus on enabling safe, intelligent, and responsive next‑generation eHealth.6G is expected to reshape a wide range of vertical industries, with eHealth emerging as one of the earliest and most significantly impacted domains. Academic research is driving front‑tier innovations that redefine how healthcare systems can operate in an AI‑native environment. With 6G capabilities—such as intelligent sensing, distributed AI compute, and agentic native cross‑layer coordination—future eHealth systems will be able to connect, learn, adapt, and respond seamlessly across hospitals, wearables, and remote‑care platforms. This session presents academic and industry perspectives on how 6G will transform vertical industries, with a particular focus on enabling safe, intelligent, and responsive next‑generation eHealth.
Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei
Moderator
Thomas Booth
Ahmad Bahai
Altaf Sadique
Vahid Tarokh
16:20 – 16:40 Coffee break
16:40 – 17:25 Session 8: one6G and Partner Perspectives on AI-Native 6G
one6G plays a central role in shaping how AI becomes a native architectural element of 6G networks rather than remaining an external add‑on. Through its global ecosystem of industry, academic, and research partners, the association is advancing work on AI‑native network architectures, embodied AI for real‑world interaction, and testbed‑driven validation of intelligent 6G capabilities. This session presents one6G’s perspective alongside insights from its key partners, highlighting how collaborative research is accelerating the path toward fully intelligent 6G systems.
Narcís Cardona
Session Chair
Javan Erfanian
Zhiqin Wang
Periklis Chatzimisios
Josef Eichinger
17:25 – 17:35 Best Demo and Poster Awards announcement
Announcement of the Best Demo Awards recognizing the most outstanding demonstrations presented during the event.
17:35 – 17:45 Closing remarks
