Conference Schedule

8:30 - 9:00

Check-in

9:00 - 9:15

Welcome

Representative from Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST, Vietnam)
Representative from the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST, Vietnam)

9:15 - 9:30

5G Deployment and 6G Roadmap in Vietnam (MOST, Vietnam)

9:30 - 10:00

Talk 1 - Local Industry Spotlight: 5G Core and RAN Development at Viettel

Tran Van Tung, Chief Engineer, Viettel High Technologies, Vietnam
10:05 - 10:35

Talk 2 - Values and Technologies for 5G Advanced and 6G

Takehiro Nakamura, NTT Docomo, Japan
10:35 - 10:50

Coffee Break

10:50 - 11:20

Panel 1 - Industry panel

Chair: Thomas Magedanz, Fraunhofer FOKUS/TU Berlin, Germany

11:25 - 11:55

Talk 3 - Industry Talk: From Vision to Reality: AI-Native Testing and Digital Twins Powering the 6G Era

Sameh Yamany, VIAVI Solutions, USA
11:55 - 12:25

Talk 4 - Token Communications in AI-RAN: A Pathway towards Robust and Scalable AI Services

Tony Quek, Singapore University of Technology and Design
12:25 - 12:55

Talk 5 - Industry Talk - The Convergence of 6G and AI opening new opportunities.

Hoang Ngoc Thuc, Director of Solutions, Quallcom Vietnam
13:00 - 14:00

Lunch Break

14:00 - 14:45

Talk 6 - SLICES-RI beyond 5G Blueprint, your Scientific Instrument to support Future Networked System Research

Serge Fdida, Professor, Sorbonne University, France
14:45 - 15:30

Talk 7 - 6G and AI-RAN: Opportunities, Challenges, and the Future of Spectrum Sharing Innovation

Manu Gosain, Northeastern University, USA
15:30 - 16:00

Talk 8 - Beyond LLMs: Why World Models are the Key to AI-Native RAN

NGUYEN VAN NAM, Center of Engineering & Technologies, VHT
16:00 - 16:15

Local Research Spotlight: 5G Researches at HUST/VNU

Nguyen Tai Hung, HUST
Lam Sinh Cong, UET/VNU

16:15 - 16:30

Coffee Break

Poster session and Networking (Stands)

16:30 - 17:15

Panel 2 - Research/academia panel

Chair: Serge Fdida, Professor, Sorbonne University, France

17:15 - 17:45

Closing Session - Key takeaways & actionable steps for open innovation in 6G research and deployment

18:15 - 21:00

Gala dinner

8:30 - 9:30

Module 1: Foundations - 5G principles and architecture

Focus: 5G architecture, understanding the interactions of the different functions composing the core and the RAN

9:30 - 10:45

Module 2: Reproducible experimental research with the SLICES-RI infrastructure.

Focus: Understand and prepare a SLICES-RI environment to run experiments.*

15 min: Introduction to SLICES-RI infrastructure.

30 min: Hands-on: Setup a research environment.

30 min: Hands-on: running a first (hello-world) experiment with data collection and publication.

10:45 - 11:00

Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:30

Module 3: Deploying a 5G network and run an experiment on it.

Focus: Deploy your own 5G network with SLICES-RI.

30 min: Hands-on: Configure and deploy a 5G core.

30 min: Hands-on: Configure and deploy a 5G RAN.

30 min: Hands-on: Analyse signaling traffic and compare it to theory.

12:30 - 13:45

Lunch Break

13:45 - 15:00

Module 4: Traffic workload on 5G and analysis.

Focus: Connect UEs to the 5G network and run experiments on it.

15 min: Hands-on: Configure and deploy UEs.

1h: Hands-on: Run workload on the network, participants will decide their own scenario and analysis.