Third 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. It will follow from the previous event held in 2017, and 2019, considering that now 5G is in the market and we need to Strengthen the Path Towards 6G .

Structure

The Summit will cover multiple research lines, roughly structured along Physical Layer, Network and Control Plane, and Applications and Services. Each research line will have a keynote speaker, 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.

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.

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

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 stake holders 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!

Participation

The Summit will have three different types of potential contributors: a couple of keynote speakers; a set of invited distinguished contributors directly invited; contributions to the discussions in the sessions, that have a significantly time reserved; and an open call for new ideas, which will be presented at the same level of the invited speakers.

The open call for new ideas will be used to select several speakers, presenting interesting ideas for future research. If interested, please send one page A4, with an abstract of the topic you would like to present, and a small rationale why this should be included in the EU research roadmap. The document should be sent to fatma.marzouk@av.it.pt, until 25th October 2021. Since the number of open call slots is not large, we urge you to send your proposal as soon as possible.

Important Dates

Venue Dates: 24th and 25th November 2021

Committee

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 accomodating the event participants. To make a reservation please, complete this accommodation booking form as soon as possible and send it to the hotel.

Programme Structure

The event will be structured in the following way:

The Special Session above have been organized as remote, being mostly an external outreach that may influence the brainstorming of the VFCS. The following sessions are being organized as physical, with extensive discussions:

Patronage

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Questions

Please send any questions to: questions_vts@av.it.pt