On May 28, Next G Alliance Member Balaji Raghothaman (Chief Technologist-6G, Keysight Technologies) will be speaking on a panel titled “International Trends in 6G and Japan’s Strategy” at the XG Mobile Forum. The panel will occur in person in Tokyo, and Raghothaman will join several other industry and government experts to discuss the 6G future on an international scale. Raghothaman will also deliver an overview of the Next G Alliance at this event.

The panel will take place on May 28, 2025, from 2:10 pm – 5:30 pm local time (GMT+9).

The O-RAN Alliance next Generation Research Group (nGRG) is hosting a face-to-face workshop in Fukuoka, Japan from June 2-6, 2025. ATIS Next G Alliance (NGA) Steering Group Co-Chair Havish Koorapaty (Standardization Manager, Ericsson) will be joining the lineup of speakers to deliver an update on recent and upcoming NGA work.

At this year’s IEEE ICC, NGA Sustainable Development Working Group Chair Bhushan Joshi (Head of Sustainability and Corporate Responsibility, Ericsson) will join an in-person panel titled “Harnessing AI for Sustainable 6G Networks: Insights from the Next G Alliance Green G Working Group”. The Sustainable Development WG (formerly Green G WG) recently released a white paper, “Sustainable AI in Telecom: Promises and Challenges in 6G,” which helps set the stage for this panel discussion. Panelists will discuss core concepts of sustainable AI in telecom networks and will explore the correlation between “Sustainable AI” (minimizing the environmental footprint of AI itself) and “AI for Sustainability” (using AI to improve the energy efficiency of networks”.

Gagandeep S. Bhatti (Senior Standardization Specialist 5G Advanced & 6G, Nokia), NGA Sustainable Development WG Vice Chair, will also be presenting on the panel.

Join the International Wireless Industry Consortium (IWPC) for its face-to-face workshop, “The Road to 6G and 3GPP 6G Kick-Off Review,” from October 7-9, 2025, in Morgan Hill, CA. ATIS Next G Alliance (NGA) Steering Group Co-Chair Doug Castor (Head of Wireless Research, InterDigital), will deliver a talk titled “NGA Update and Vertical Industries”, which will cover the recent and upcoming work of the NGA and, in particular, its focus on industry verticals for 6G applications.

The workshop itself will cover feedback on 6G from the 3GPP June Plenary, as well as decisions on the 6G Study scope in R20. It will consider some of the envisioned use cases for integrated sensing from basestations, evolutionary and revolutionary movements, including cloudification, sustainability, combined communication and sensing, sub-THz IoT sensing, and more.