Rethinking Communication In 2030

Topic: Demystifying 6G over 5G Applications and Services

India has seen a mercurial rise in telecom services and subscribers over the past 20 years. From less than 20 million landline connections (since 1998) to more than 700 million mobile telephone subscribers today, the rise has been mercurial. As India embarks upon its own unique 5G journey, the next big thing on the communication horizon is 6G or sixth-generation communication technology.

6G will build upon 5G technology and provide more reliable, ultra-low latency, and affordable solutions with speeds almost 100 times faster than 5G to enhance and drive new communication applications. It will likely include intelligent network management and control using AI, with an enhanced level of network security while balancing the consequent carbon footprint with reduced energy consumption.

Considering the vision of 6G, our elite panelists will come together on one platform to collectively take stock of where we are with the resources at our disposal and where we ought to be to realize the 6G use cases by 2030.

Speakers

Satish Jamadagni

Senior VP, Reliance Jio; Head of Standards TSDSI

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Satish Jamadagni

Satish Jamadagni is currently the Vice President and head of standards in Reliance Jio. He has 23 years of industry experience in the telecom domain. He is also current the Vice Chair of TSDSI which is the Indian Standards Development Organization (SDO). He is active in 3GPP, GSMA and in O-RAN alliance. Earlier he was a Co-Chair of the Asia Regional Operators Group; Small Cell Forum (SCF) and was on the board of the International Multimedia Teleconferencing Consortium (IMTC). He has around 200 granted patents in the wireless and network domain.

Prof. Ashwin Gumaste

Professor
IIT Bombay

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Prof. Ashwin Gumaste

Ashwin Gumaste is a Professor in the Dept. of CSE at IIT Bombay in Mumbai where he has been employed since 2005 (currently on sabbatical in the US). Ashwin has held positions with Fujitsu Laboratories (USA) (2001-2005) and has also worked with Cisco Systems (2000-2001). He has also held positions with MIT (2008-2009), Lawrence Berkeley National Labs (2015) and Iowa State University (2009). His work on light-trails has been widely referred to, deployed and recognized by both industry and academia. His recent work on Omnipresent Ethernet has been adopted by tier-1 service providers and also resulted in the largest ever acquisition between any IIT and the industry. This has led to a family of transport products under the premise of Carrier Ethernet Switch Routers. Recently Ashwin's team has built a Terabit capable SDN whitebox for the Ministry of Defense. Recently Ashwin's team has built a terabit SDWAN solution. Ashwin has 27 granted US patents and has published 200+ papers in refereed conferences and journals and has authored three books on broadband networks. For research and development contributions he was awarded the S. S. Bhatnagar Award 2018, DST Swaranajayanti Fellowship in 2013, Dept. of Atomic Energy's-SRC Outstanding Research Investigator Award in 2010, the Dept of Space's Vikram Sarabhai research award in 2012. He was also awarded the IBM Faculty award in 2012, the National Academy of Sciences in India, NASI-Reliance Industries Platinum Jubilee award 2016, the Indian National Academy of Engineering's (INAE) Young Engineer Award (2010) and INAE Fellow 2018.

Mr. Deepesh Srivastava

Tejas Networks, Associate Vice President – Presales / Sales

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Mr. Deepesh Srivastava

Deepesh Srivastava is working as Associate Vice President in Tejas Networks Limited with 20+ years’ experience in Presales, Business Development and Solution Architecture. He has been involved in Network designing of telecom Operators (Airtel & BSNL), Utility Carriers (Railways, Power Sector and Oil & Gas Segment) and Enterprise Segment (Safe Cities, Bharatnet, BFSI and others).

He is involved with Solution design, Product Development and roadmap planning across technologies spanning 4G/5G , DWDM, FTTX, IP MPLS Routing and Enterprise Switches. He has been associated with Tejas Networks for more than 17 years having contribution towards Network Modernization of Telecom Networks, Carrier of Carriers and Enterprise Networks. He graduated from NIT Trichy in Electrical & Electronics Engineering and MBA from IMT, Ghaziabad.

Mr. Amit Saha

Principal Engineer
Cisco Meraki

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Mr. Amit Saha

Amit Saha is a Principal Engineer at Cisco Meraki. Amit explores the next generation of technology at the intersection of networks, distributed systems, and data science, with a special emphasis on system wide design. He is part of the Camera Intelligence team in Cisco Meraki working on ML related features for Meraki’s MV Smart Cameras. He passionately seeks out opportunities to give back to the community through talks, research collaborations, organising conferences, and as visiting faculty at several institutes in India.



Dr. Srikanth

Chief Knowledge Officer for Nanocell Networks Pvt. Ltd.

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Dr. Srikanth

Srikanth obtained his B.E., degree from College of Engineering, Anna University, Chennai, and M. A.Sc, and Ph. D. degrees from University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He is currently the Chief Knowledge Officer for Nanocell Networks Pvt. Ltd.. Srikanth began his career as a research associate at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada working in the area of DSL and CDMA Systems. After his Ph. D., he joined Harris Corporation and worked on baseband algorithms for various wireless standards including IS-136 and 1S-95 systems. He then joined the KBC Research Foundation/AU-KBC Research Centre and he has focused on OFDM systems for powerline and wireless applications. From 2004-2007 he was awarded a Young Scientist Fellowship by the Government of India to work on technologies related to upgrades on 802.11 and 802.16 standards. He has been following 802.11 and cellular standards and delivers several courses to corporate clients in this area. He consults on various areas and has also been involved in the setting up of a test lab for 802.11. He is also involved with the organization of WiFi and 5G knowledge summits to help develop a community for exchange of technical information in these areas.



Moderator

Abhijit Mitra

Assistant Professor, IIIT-Delhi

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Abhijit Mitra

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