Intelligent Telecommunication Technologies
Day 1 - Friday 9 October, 2026
All times are in China Standard Time (CST, UTC+8)
Session I: Advanced Communications
| 8:45 a.m. | WELCOME REMARKS |
| Chair: Rachel Won, Nature Reviews Electrical Engineering |
| 9:00 a.m. | Keynote Talk Moving Beyond Guided Light to Future-Proof Wireless Communications Harald Haas, University of Cambridge, UK |
| 9:45 a.m. | Keynote Talk Unlocking Frontiers of 6G Radio Access Gerhard P. Fettweis, TU Dresden, Germany |
| 10:30 a.m. | COFFEE BREAK |
| Chair: TBA |
| 11:00 a.m. | The Orbital Fabric Yonggang Wen, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore |
| 11:30 a.m. | Short Talk Toward Sustainable AI Service Delivery: A Carnot–Amdahl–Shannon Framework for the Integration of Communication, Computing, and Renewable Energy Networks Xiaohu Ge, Huazhong University of Science and Technology |
| 11:40 a.m. | Short Talk Direct OFDM Waveform Synthesis Enabled by Independent Amplitude and Phase Programmable Metasurfaces Jiachen Wang, Southeast University |
| 11:50 a.m. | Short Talk Laser-Based Visible Light Communication Chao Shen, Fudan University |
| 12:00 p.m. | Short Talk Electromagnetic Diffractive Neural Networks for Intelligent Wireless Communications Yuming Ning, Southeast University |
| 12:10 p.m. | LUNCH |
| Chair: Rakesh Rana, Nature Communications |
| 1:30 p.m. | Keynote Talk Making Intelligent Networks Work in the Real World Dimitra Simeonidou, University of Bristol, UK |
| 2:15 p.m. | Heterogeneous/Hybrid Silicon Photonics for Next-Generation Communications Lin Chang, Peking University, China |
| 2:45 p.m. | A Symphony of Physics and Intelligence for Future Information Systems Lu Fang, Tsinghua University, China |
| 3:15 p.m. | COFFEE BREAK |
| Chair:TBA |
| 3:45 p.m. | 3D Intelligent Metasurfaces and Their Applications Chau Yuen, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore |
| 4:15 p.m. | AI for 6G Communications Shuping Dang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore |
| 4:45 p.m. | Information Metasurfaces for Communications, Imaging, Sensing, Computing and Agent Tiejun Cui, Southeast University, China |
| 5:15 p.m. | POSTER SESSION |
Day 2 - Saturday 10 October, 2026
All times are in China Standard Time (CST, UTC+8)
Session II: Innovative Technologies for 6G
| Chair: Katharina Zeissler, Nature Electronics |
| 9:00 a.m. | Keynote Talk Holistic Network Management Virtualization - AI-Native 6G Sherman Shen, University of Waterloo, Canada |
| 9:45 a.m. | Keynote Talk AI in 6G Era and 6G in AI Era Chih-Lin I, China Mobile Research Institiute, China |
| 10:30 a.m. | COFFEE BREAK |
| Chair:TBA |
| 11:00 a.m. | Meta-Engineered Intelligent Apertures for Next-Generation Wireless Communications Yang Hao, Queen Mary University of London, UK |
| 11:30 a.m. | Degrees-of-Freedom-Based Figures of Merit for MIMO Antenna Arrays Stefano Maci, University of Siena, Italy |
| 12:00 p.m. | Short Talk Ultra compact high speed electro-optic modulation for next generation 6G oriented advanced communications Guanyu Chen, Chongqing University |
| 12:10 p.m. | Short Talk Intelligent Reconfiguration of Air-Ground Cooperative Networks towards 6G Qin Wang, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications |
| 12:20 p.m. | Short Talk Kill Two Birds with One Stone: THz ISAC — Millimeter-Level Environment Reconstruction and Material Identification Chong Han, Shanghai Jiao Tong University |
| 12:30 p.m. | LUNCH |
| Chair: Frank Sun |
| 1:30 p.m. | Keynote Talk Role of millimeter-wave and sub-TeraHz for the wireless backhaul of 6G mobile networks. Technology research trends, an industry view. Renato Lombardi, Huawei Italy Research Center, Italy |
| 2:15 p.m. | Recent progress in electromagnetic metamaterial agent Lianlin Li, Peking University, China |
| 2:45 p.m. | Connecting Intelligence: The Rise of AI-Native Semantic Communications from Theory to Standards Emilio Calvanese Strinati, CEA-Leti, France |
| 3:15 p.m. | COFFEE BREAK |
| Chair: TBA |
| 3:45 p.m. | Wave-domain computing for wireless communications Marco Di Renzo, CNRS-CentraleSupelec, France / King’s College London, UK |
| 4:15 p.m. | Communicate with THz waves Guillaume Ducournau, Lille University, France |
| 4:45 p.m. | From LEO Mega-Constellations to Multi-Connectivity: Designing Reliable 6G Across Space, Air, and Ground Cicek Cavdar, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden |
| 5:15 p.m. | Poster Award and CLOSING REMARKS |
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