In this live event recording, Ted Rappaport, NYU Wireless, and Joe Madden, Mobile Experts Inc, warmly welcome the virtual audience to open the 2022 Brooklyn 6G Summit, leading up to the in-person Summit in October 2022.

Also joining for the welcome address, from the mobile operator's perspective, Nishant Batra, Nokia, sets the stage for the proceeding event.

Keynote speaker Kimberley Parsons Trommler, Bayern Innovativ, introduces Thinknet 6G and discusses the UN sustainable development goals for 6G, digital responsibility goals, and the commitments from the wireless industry to develop a sustainable 6G network. 

Kimberley Trommler studied mathematics and computer science at the University of Waterloo, Canada, and completed her Master of Mathematics in Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence and Computational Linguistics) in 1997.

Starting off the main discussion, ‘Promising Technologies for a Sustainable 6G System from Varying Points of View,’ in a series of brief presentations, Balazs Bertenyi, Nokia, begins by considering the climate impact of mobile technology in an increasingly complex world.   

Balazs has over 20 years of experience in the field. He joined Nokia in 1998 and started to work on circuit-switched mobile switching.

Dr. Ralf Bendlin, AT&T, takes on the Communications Service Provider’s point of view, including environmental stewardship, identifying and maintaining ‘green’ networks, and working towards helping businesses reduce global emissions by 2035. 

Dr. Ralf Bendlin is a Principal Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Labs in Austin, Texas. Before joining AT&T, he was a Senior Wireless Systems Architect with Intel Corporation and a Systems Engineer with Texas Instruments Inc.

Marie-Paule Odini, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and Chair of the Green G energy alliance, speaks about the path to a sustainable next generation of wireless communications technology. Taking into account the rate of climate change versus the ICT industry’s impact, Odini recommends the actions that can be taken to keep us on that path to sustainability. 

Marie-Paule Odini is a Distinguished Technologist in HPE Telecom organization focusing on 5G, AI, OSS, and Sustainability. She is also Chair of North America 6G ‘Next G Alliance’ Green G working group, and active in many other standards & industry forums including ETSI, GSMA, TMForum, NGMN and IEEE. She holds a Master Degree in EE from Utah State University and teaches Telecom at the University Savoie Mont-Blanc.

From the perspective of the end user's device, Dr. John Smee, Qualcomm, discusses the evolution of mobile devices over the past 35 years, which is now redefining computing and transforming industries around the world. By looking at the system architecture and data processing locations, we can define the use of devices in the future. Building the next generation of device capabilities will drive the needs-identification of how to scale sustainably. 

John Smee is Senior VP of Engineering and Global Head of Wireless Research at Qualcomm. He oversees all 5G/6G and Wi-Fi R&D projects, including systems design, standards contributions, and advanced radio, hardware, and software research testbeds and technology trials with industry partners. He joined Qualcomm in 2000, holds over 175 U.S. Patents, and has focused on the innovation and commercial launches of wireless communications across 5G NR, 4G LTE, 3G CDMA, and IEEE 802.11.

Sharing from the lab and research perspective in academia, Ted Rappaport, NYU Wireless, presents his talk entitled ‘Power Consumption and Efficiency in mmWave and Sub-THz Wireless Systems and Networks,” which looks at the components of power consumption, measuring efficiency and impact of carrier frequency, bandwidth and cell size when considering ongoing sustainability efforts of 6G development now and into the future. 

Theodore S. Rappaport is the David Lee/Ernst Weber Professor at New York University (NYU) and holds faculty appointments in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, the Courant Computer Science Department, and the NYU Langone School of Medicine. He founded NYU WIRELESS, a multidisciplinary research center, and the wireless research centers at the University of Texas Austin (WNCG) and Virginia Tech (MPRG).

A distinguished panel of speakers tackles the subject of achieving a sustainable 6G network. 

• Mikael Höök, Ericsson
• Carsten Baumann, Solution Architect
• Colleen Josephson, VMware
• Onur Altintas, InfoTech Labs
• Sundeep Rangan, Flarion Technologies

Mikael Höök joined Ericsson in 1994 and has held various positions targeting the research and standardization of 2G, 3G, 4G and now 5G. He is currently Research Area Director for Radio-research within Ericsson Research and based in Kista, Stockholm. The responsibility covers research on air-interface design, advanced signal processing, multi-antenna systems, radio network performance and propagation.

In his role as a Solution Architect, Carsten Baumann is helping clients with their Industrial IoT and Sustainability initiatives in the Commercial & Industrial and Data Center markets that allow to achieve greater resiliency, achieve sustainability objectives and create economic benefits.

Colleen Josephson is a Senior Research Scientist at VMware, and a vice chair of the GreenG Working Group within the ATIS NextG Alliance, which aims to position North America as the global leader in sustainable next-generation mobile networks. Her research interests include wireless communication and sensing systems, with a focus on technologies to enable and improve sustainable practices.

Dr. Onur Altintas is the InfoTech Labs Fellow at InfoTech Labs, Toyota North America R&D, in Mountain View, California. He has been with the Toyota Group since 1999 in various roles in New Jersey, Tokyo and California. He has been the co-founder and general co-chair of the IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (IEEE VNC) since 2009.

Sundeep Rangan received the B.A.Sc. at the University of Waterloo, Canada and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley, all in Electrical Engineering. He has held postdoctoral appointments at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and Bell Labs. In 2000, he co-founded (with four others) Flarion Technologies, a spin off of Bell Labs, that developed Flash OFDM, one of the first cellular OFDM data systems and pre-cursor to 4G systems including LTE and WiMAX.
 

Ted Rappaport, NYU Wireless, segues into the awards presentation, with Peter Vetter, Bell Labs, presenting the Brooklyn 6G Summit Pioneer Award to communications visionary Tom Wheeler for his impactful work in the telecommunications industry for the past four decades. As a former FCC Chairman, Wheeler paved the way for cellular networks above the 24GHz range, an essential milestone in the era of 5G. 

Tom Wheeler is a businessman and author and was Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from 2013 to 2017. Presently, he is a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution and a Senior Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Recipient of the 2022 Brooklyn 6G Summit Pioneer Award, Tom Wheeler, along with Ted Rappaport, enjoy a chat looking into Wheeler’s history in the FCC and his participation in early industry groups in cable, and his role in the cellular telephone associations. Wheeler shares the motivations behind his career journey and highlights memorable moments along the way.  

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From the analyst’s point of view, Joe Madden delivers his final thoughts on the second Brooklyn 6G Summit and highlights that the industry is seeking sustainability and taking responsibility for its impact on the environment. While the costs are going down as the amount of data transferred increases exponentially, the telecommunications world must remain profitable while achieving multiple goals in its global sustainability and scalability. 

Joe Madden founded Mobile Experts and serves as the lead analyst. Over the past 30 years, Mr. Madden has accurately predicted Virtual RAN, Digital Predistortion, Remote Radio Heads, Small Cells, 5G Fixed Wireless, and the true size of the IoT market. He has worked as an RF engineer and managed product lines in mobile infrastructure and in handset components. He has parachuted in as an interim CEO, and returned a dying company to profits.