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"Mobile Symposium - Advanced Wireless Networks: Towards 2030"

Thursday, September 25, 2025, 11:00 AM EDT

In 2025 5G networks span the globe and serve over a billion customers. At the same time, demand for new services, better performance, and greater capacity, continues to drive the industry to innovate through the 5G Advanced and 6G cycles. Light Reading’s Advanced Wireless Networks Symposium will explore the outlook for mobile networks as we move towards 2030.

This session will be moderated by Gabriel Brown, Senior Principal Analyst, Mobile Networks & 5G, Heavy Reading

Advanced Wireless Networks: Towards 2030: Session 1 - 5G to 6G Evolution

With 5G Advanced underway, this session will explore emerging 6G technology and how the industry can create an attractive 5G to 6G transition plan. 

Among the topics this session will address: 

• How 5G standalone (SA) and 5G Advanced set the path to 6G
• Architecture choices for 6G SA
• RAN strategy and spectrum management
• Designing networks for the AI-era
• Innovation in use cases and applications

Agenda:

11:00 am ET – Welcome & Opening Remarks: Gabriel Brown, Senior Principal Analyst, Heavy Reading – now part of Omdia (10 mins)

11.10 am ET – Service Provider Keynote: Brian Daly, AVP Wireless Technology Strategy & Standards, AT&T (15 mins)

11:25 am ET – Sponsor Keynote: Hemanth Sampath, Vice President, Engineering, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. (15 mins)

11:40 am ET – Service Provider Fireside Chat: Eric Hardouin, VP, Networks and Infrastructures Research, Orange (Video – 10 mins)

11:50 am ET – Panel Session and Q&A (40 minutes)

• Gabriel Brown, Senior Principal Analyst, Heavy Reading – now part of Omdia
• Hemanth Sampath, Vice President, Engineering, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
• Brian Daly, AVP Wireless Technology Strategy & Standards, AT&T

12:30 pm ET – End

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