Towards Sustainable 6G - Panel Discussion - 2022 B6GS Virtual

A distinguished panel of speakers tackles the subject of achieving a sustainable 6G network. 

• Mikael Höök, Ericsson
• Carsten Baumann, Solution Architect
• Colleen Josephson, VMware
• Onur Altintas, InfoTech Labs
• Sundeep Rangan, Flarion Technologies

Mikael Höök joined Ericsson in 1994 and has held various positions targeting the research and standardization of 2G, 3G, 4G and now 5G. He is currently Research Area Director for Radio-research within Ericsson Research and based in Kista, Stockholm. The responsibility covers research on air-interface design, advanced signal processing, multi-antenna systems, radio network performance and propagation.

In his role as a Solution Architect, Carsten Baumann is helping clients with their Industrial IoT and Sustainability initiatives in the Commercial & Industrial and Data Center markets that allow to achieve greater resiliency, achieve sustainability objectives and create economic benefits.

Colleen Josephson is a Senior Research Scientist at VMware, and a vice chair of the GreenG Working Group within the ATIS NextG Alliance, which aims to position North America as the global leader in sustainable next-generation mobile networks. Her research interests include wireless communication and sensing systems, with a focus on technologies to enable and improve sustainable practices.

Dr. Onur Altintas is the InfoTech Labs Fellow at InfoTech Labs, Toyota North America R&D, in Mountain View, California. He has been with the Toyota Group since 1999 in various roles in New Jersey, Tokyo and California. He has been the co-founder and general co-chair of the IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (IEEE VNC) since 2009.

Sundeep Rangan received the B.A.Sc. at the University of Waterloo, Canada and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley, all in Electrical Engineering. He has held postdoctoral appointments at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and Bell Labs. In 2000, he co-founded (with four others) Flarion Technologies, a spin off of Bell Labs, that developed Flash OFDM, one of the first cellular OFDM data systems and pre-cursor to 4G systems including LTE and WiMAX.