Verticals Workshop
Tuesday, February 25
9:00 AM – 7:00 PM ET
Wednesday, February 26
9:00 AM – 3:45 PM ET
Featured Speakers
Agenda
Tuesday, February 25
Opening
Opening remarks, Workshop purpose and participant introductions.
Jaydee Griffith (Managing Director, Next G Alliance)
Presentations: Overview of Verticals
Each speaker will provide an overview of their industry vertical including a summary of key use cases, requirements and solutions. During this overview each speaker will explain the role and level of importance cellular capabilities have in their respective vertical.
Brent Kemp (President and CEO, AgGateway)
Brett Kilbourne (Senior Vice President of Policy & General Counsel, Utilities Technology Council (UTC))
Next G Alliance Overview and Verticals Work
Summary of Next G Alliance's work on understanding needs and requirements for verticals industries, and next steps in its roadmap for building 6G Leadership for North America.
Lunch and Networking
Presentations: Challenges and Opportunities
This session will describe challenges and opportunities within each industry vertical. Examples include those associated with different vertical stakeholders (e.g., users, developers, operators, or solution providers) as well as those associated with the cost, coverage, access, complexity, reliability, performance, or security of the cellular networks used by the industry vertical. Â
Emil Olbrich (Director, Standards, Anterix)
Stephen Devine (Chief Technology Officer, APCO International)
Panel on Commercial and Operational Situation and Value Proposition
This panel will discuss how to improve the value proposition of cellular technology for vertical industries. It will uncover the barriers to market growth and suggest ways that cellular and vertical industry experts can work together to create additional value.
Anthony Soong (Chief Scientist for Wireless Research and Standards, Futurewei Technologies)
Chris Duke (Director, Product & Services, TELUS)
Dale Seed (Senior Director, Wireless Research, InterDigital)
Durga Satapathy (Director of Advanced Technologies and Innovation, T-Mobile)
Paulo Leite (COO, CelPlan Technologies)
Stephen Devine (Chief Technology Officer, APCO International)
Breakout Sessions
3 parallel breakout sessions (Agriculture, Public Safety, Utilities)
Doug White (5G Principal Engineer, MITRE Corporation)
Jaydee Griffith (Managing Director, Next G Alliance)
Summary
Readout from each Break-out Group and Summary of Day 1
Happy Hour
There will be a no-host happy hour after today's event at Astro Beer Hall (1306 G Street NW)
Wednesday, February 26
Presentations: Technologies
This session will describe specific cellular technology features being relied upon as well as next generation features and advancements which are viewed as important for enabling growth and advancement.
Jan Forslow (Senior Solutions Architect, Itron)
Break
Panel on Technologies and Roadmaps
This panel discuss the how mobile technology is being used today in vertical industries, and the limitations. The needs for the future will be explored with insight into how new technologies could address these needs.
Eric Wang (Principal Researcher, Ericsson)
Ishaq Mian (Principal Technical Leader, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI))
Jim Krogmeier (Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University)
Marc Grant (Lead Solution Architect, AT&T, Vice-Chair, National 6G Roadmap Working Group, Next G Alliance)
Nada Golmie (NIST Fellow, NIST)
Stephen Devine (Chief Technology Officer, APCO International)
Yishen Sun (Researcher, NIST)
Lunch and Networking
Presentations: Future Directions
This session will provide thoughts on future plans to leverage additional cellular capabilities, forward-looking use cases and requirements, and discuss which next generation cellular technologies will be required to enable these forward-looking use cases.
Koustuv Ghoshal (Vice President, Global Head of Ericsson’s Mission Critical Network for Utilities, Ericsson)
Michael Fox (Executive Director, Internet2 Technology Evaluation Center (ITEC), Texas A&M University)
Breakout Sessions
3 parallel breakout sessions (Agriculture, Public Safety, Utilities)
Hongwei Zhang (Director, Center for Wireless, Communities and Innovation, Iowa State University (ISU))
Marc Grant (Lead Solution Architect, AT&T, Vice-Chair, National 6G Roadmap Working Group, Next G Alliance)
Summary
Readout from each Break-out Group and Summary of Day 2
