Ted Rappaport is the David Lee/Ernst Weber Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Tandon School of Engineering at New York University (NYU), who introduces the 12th wireless summit alongside Peter Vetter, President of Bell Labs Core Research and Bell Labs Fellow at Nokia. 

Camille Mendler, OMDIA, moderates a conversation between Nokia CEO Justin Hotard and Pallavi Mahajan, Chief Technology and AI Officer at Nokia, on the future of AI and 6G. 

Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of Strategy and Technology Enablement at Verizon, Santiago “Yago” Tenorio, discusses AI and bringing an efficient and standardized 6G to market. 

Moderator Ted Rappaport (NYU Wireless) leads the discussion between panelists and the in-person audience to address 6G challenges, concerns, and its direction into the near future.

Speakers included Nick Laneman (University of Notre Dame), Jeff Andrews (University of Texas at Austin), Danijela Cabric (UCLA), Tommaso Melodia (Northeastern University), and Sundeep Rangan (NYU Wireless). 

NVIDIA Senior Vice President, Ronnie Vasishta, presents his keynote speech on the Role of AI in Telecom Industry, followed by a brief Q&A with the Brooklyn 6G Summit audience. 

Watch 3-minute pitches, selected out of several B6G Summit demonstrations, from six different groups showcasing their 6G innovation in the digital market. 

Presenters included VTT Research Institute, Pi Radio with NYU, Northeastern University with VIAVI, Keysight, and Nokia.  

Seizo Onoe, International Telecom Union (ITU), presents his view of the Mobile Generation Evolution in his keynote speech. 

President and CEO of KDDI Research, Satoshi Konishi, sits down with Peter Merz, VP and Head of Standards at Nokia, to discuss the current challenges facing the research industry, followed by a brief Q&A session with the audience.

Founding Chair of the Bharat 6G Alliance and Chairman of Tata Communications Board, N.G. Subramaniam delivers his keynote speech to address Shaping Digital Leadership as we move towards a 6G future.

SVP, Head of Global Government Relations & Regulatory Affairs at AMD, Robert Hoffman, sits down with Sean Kennedy, AI Research Lab Leader at Nokia Bell Labs, to discuss Building Trustworthy AI.

Tungjun Chen, Nortel Networks and Assistant Professor at Duke University, moderates the deep dive panel session with five speakers from industry and academia to discuss what type of value 6G can hold. Panelists include Kaushikk Chowdhury (University of Texas at Austin), Harish Viswanathan (Nokia Bell Labs), Mikael Hook (Ericsson Research), Udayayn Mukherjee (Intel), and Doru Calin (MediaTek). 

Electrical engineer and wireless researcher Ahmad Alkhateeb, Associate Professor at Arizona State University, presents his keynote speech on Key Dataset Considerations for Wireless AI Research.

Sean Kennedy, AI Research Lab Leader at Nokia Bell Labs, moderates the deep dive session to discuss data for AI. Panelists include Ahmad Alkhateeb (Arizona State University), Chris Dick (NVIDIA), Howard Thomas (Viavi Solutions), Taesang Yoo (Qualcomm Research), and Rajeev Koodli (SoftBank R&D). 

The United States Federal Communications Commissioner, Olivia Trusty, speaks with Glenn Reynolds,  Nokia VP of Government Affairs for North America, to answer questions regarding Building the U.S. Path to 6G. 

Talking about what’s new in 6G, Senior Advisor Brian Modoff at Summit Partners presents his keynote speech on Day 2 of the Brooklyn 6G Summit.

Jane Rygaard (Nokia) moderates the panel session with five speakers from across the private sector to discuss what type of services will be created for future 6G offerings. Panelists include Joe Madden (Mobile Experts Inc), Ed Tiedemann (Qualcomm Technologies), Ed Knapp (Liberty Technology Partners), Manish Singh (Dell Technologies), and Mischa Dohler (Ericsson). 

SVP and CTO of Strategy & Technology, Ari Kynäslahti (Nokia Mobile Networks), sits down with the Head of Americas Wireless Ecosystem Engineering (Meta Platforms Inc) to discuss the next frontier: AI Glasses and Future of Immersive Experiences. 

Peter Vetter, President of Bell Labs Core Research, delivers his presentation, "Standing on the shoulders of giants for 6G," highlighting the historic milestones of the past century at Nokia Bell Labs and how those leaders and innovations have shaped our communications today.

Game master Peter Vetter hosts the summit’s Game Show, featuring four university students and four professors in a Jeopardy-style question board who compete for the highest score to answer various engineering questions. Student participants include:

• Dimuthu Lesthuruge (University of Oulu)
• Maria Tsampazi (Northeastern University)
• Mingjun Ying (NYU Wireless)
• Hariharan Venkat (Rutgers University)

Professors:

• Tommas Melodia (Northeastern University)
• Nuutti Tervo (University of Oulu)
• Ted Rappaport (NYU Wireless)
• Narayan Mandayam (Rutgers University). 

MC of the B6GS 2025 and Research Director at OMDIA, Camille Mendler reviews and remarks upon the survey reporting on questions relating to the overall sentiment, thoughts and beliefs about 6G from the audience’s perspective. 

Chief Standardization Officer at NTT DOCOMO, Mr. Takehiro Nakamura, shares his keynote talk on the Verticals Toward the Era of 6G.  

Doug Castor, Head of Wireless Research at InterDigital, moderated the panel session on the varying 6G verticals. Panelists include Takehiro Nakamura (NTT DOCOMO, Inc.), Ishaq Mian (Electric Power Research Institute), Samita Chakrabarti (Verizon), Simone Redana (Nokia), Mark Lipford (FirstNet Authority), and Jaydee Griffith (ATIS Next G Alliance). 

Balazs Bertenyi, Head of 6G pre-standards at Nokia, moderated the Deep Dive session on the current priorities of 6G standardization and what to expect in the coming years. Panelists include Kuntal Chowdhury (NVIDIA), Edil Gronstad (T-Mobile US), Diana Pani (InterDigital), Mirko Cano Soveri (ETSI), and Doug Knisely (Qualcomm). 

Joe Madden, Founder & Chief Analyst at Mobile Experts Inc., sits down with Jason Aspiotis, Global Director of In-Space Data & Security at Axiom Space Inc. to discuss the changing economics of satellite communications. 

Todd E. Humphreys, Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, moderated the session on non-terrestrial networks, with both leaders in academia and industry. Panelists include Marko Keskinen (Skylo Technologies), Dongning Guo (Northwestern University), Brian Olsen (T-Mobile), and Jason Aspiotis (Axiom Space Inc.). 

Vice President and Head of Standards at Nokia, Peter Merz offers his final thoughts to recap the Brooklyn 6G Summit, alongside Camille Mendler. 

Amitabha (Amitava) Ghosh is a Nokia Fellow and key researcher working in Standards and Strategy at Nokia, as well as co-organizer of the Brooklyn 5G, now 6G, summit, offers his gratitude for all staff that made the event possible and welcomes them onstage.