We invite you to join the most progressive minds in telecommunication engineering at the virtual full-day inaugural 6G Summit on “Connecting the Unconnected” on Tuesday, October 27, 2020 at 10:00 a.m. KSA time (GMT+3)
Humanity finds itself on the cusp of yet another evolution in mobile telecommunications: sixth-generation wireless (6G). This progression in connectivity offers us a platform for smarter, faster, and more efficient communications. It also provides us with the implementation of a set of disparate technologies once considered pure science fiction. A collection of technology with the potential to transform the transmission of information and all spheres of human life such as economy, education, and health to name a few
Contrary to widespread belief, many believe the next G-jump will not be a preordained set-in-stone logical “driven by the best tech” process. In fact, although the variety of technology present is continually evolving, how 6G and beyond will look like may lie in the hands of our politicians, driven by societal wants and needs, or a set of technologies combining to obtain the desired result.
For example, if there was an increased interest in the world’s oceans, or part of our life took place underwater, humanity may have focused on underwater wireless communication as part of the 5G umbrella. With help from the most vigorous minds in the global science community, we can determine the future of wireless communications technologies. Put differently, humans can envision the future that 6G will follow.
Professor Mohamed Slim-Alouini and his electrical and computer engineering colleagues at KAUST are busy working on redefining the latest wave in cellular network technology. They are developing systems to connect the unconnected of the world; those individuals living in rural and remote parts of the world outside of the bustling super-connected cities who suffer the most from “digital inequality.”
Join the 5G and 6G academic and industrial world-renowned experts as they explore and discuss the development of wireless communication networks to provide new superior communication services to meet the global connectivity objective of the future. This summit aims to go over the recently proposed solutions to provide high-speed connectivity in under-covered areas to serve and contribute to the development of remote and/or sparsely populated regions and the provision of terrestrial Internet access, everywhere.