Fifht Visions for Future Communications Summit

Outline

Vision of Future Communications Summit is a top-quality research workshop, with the support of IEEE, oriented to identify key research areas in information and communication technologies in the mid-future of 7 to 10 years. The VFCS is an exercise we perform as the launching effort for updating the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) for the EU, an effort we have continuously made in the last years. This upcoming SRIA will have a peculiar significance. It will be the SRIA associated with the launching of FP10, the new framework program. As such, this will have a particularly large long-term impact, in helping to define Europe long term priorities for the whole framework program.

It will follow from the previous events held in 2017, 2019, 2021 and 2023 considering that by 2030 6G will be reaching the market. Given the expected innovation cycle times, it is now appropriate that we start discussions on Challenges for 2030 and Beyond.

Structure

We invite interested parties to present their views, both in terms of "technologies to address after 2030" and in terms of "the society we will need to support after 2030". Both aspects, the bottom-up technology (the technology supply side) and the top-down requirements (the societal demand side), will be very useful for our collective build of the upcoming SRIA, and facilitate the building of a community view on where we should orient our strategic development lines.

The Summit will cover multiple research lines, with several keynote speakers and a set of sessions. All sessions will be organized as panels of distinguished speakers from academia, industry and High-level European Commission officials presenting their viewpoints on a subarea within each track. Panels will be oriented to encourage interaction among the panelists and between the panelists and the audience.

Panels will be enriched with contributions from an open call to the community, and with sessions presenting long-term visions from different stakeholders.

The purpose of the Summit is not to show what each presenter knows, but to technically identify what would be promising and challenging to achieve, and will need work from our sector's professionals.

Objective

Based on the public presentations and contributions of the international experts, a white paper on seminal research directions for the communications field will be produced. This white paper will be widely distributed to the community, and will be used as input by the European Commission, ITU-T and other relevant stakeholders as a contribution to mid-term research directions.

In our past experience, the discussions have always been very fruitful, and highlighted several areas which have been placed on the R&D roadmap in Europe and U.S. The past Whitepaper, the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA), has been the basis for the design of the upcoming Smart Networks and Services funding calls. We do hope to have this year the same exciting time we had!

Important Dates

Venue Dates: 25th and 26th November 2025

Program Structure

Committee

Programme Structure

The event will be structured in the following way:

Venue

The Visions for Future Communications Summit will be held at the Holiday Inn Hotel, Lisbon. The hotel is located near the city center.

We have arranged a discounted price for accommodating the event participants. To make a reservation please, complete this accommodation booking form as soon as possible and send it to the hotel.