Sudhir Dixit

The talk begins with what has driven the successive generations of mobile technologies and what the reality of 5G is today with respect to the goals and vision that were originally envisioned. Then we discuss what are the gaps and challenges that would drive improvements to 5G, which would be called 5G+ or 5G++, etc, and perhaps one day there would be sufficient differentiation to be called 6G. We present two approaches to 6G: one approach being evolutionary and the other being paradigm shifting. We discuss the key requirements and technologies driven by software, AI/ML and blockchain that would play transformational roles in the development of 6G. We will discuss the notion of "innovations on the fly" rather than "wait for the next generation". Finally, we will present some innovative business models that could potentially disrupt the market.

Biography:

Sudhir Dixit is a Co-Founder, Senior Fellow and Evangelist at the Basic Internet Foundation in Oslo, Norway, and heads its US operations.  He is also associated with the Academy of Finland Flagship Programme, 6Genesis, led by the Centre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Finland.  Recently, he also took up the role of Chief Strategist and Investment Advisor to a start-up Trustyfi Pvt Ltd. From 2015 to 2017 he was the CEO and Co-Founder of a start-up, Skydoot, Inc. From 2009 to 2015, he was a Distinguished Chief Technologist and CTO of the Communications and Media Services for the Americas Region of Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Services in Palo Alto, CA, and the Director of Hewlett-Packard Labs India in Palo Alto and Bangalore. Before joining HP, he held various leadership positions at BlackBerry, Nokia, NSN and Verizon Communications.

He has been a technical editor of IEEE Communications Magazine, and is presently a Board Member & Working Group Chair at the Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF). He is also the Vice Chair for Americas at the WWRF. He was on the editorial board of IEEE Spectrum Magazine until 2019 and is presently on the editorial board of Springer’s Wireless Personal Communications Journal. He is a Co-Chair of the Industry Engagement Committee of the IEEE Future Network Initiative and is on its Industry Outreach Board (IOB).  In 2018, he was appointed a Distinguished Lecturer by the IEEE Communications Society. From 2010 to 2012, he was an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Davis, and, since 2010, he has been a Docent at the University of Oulu, Finland. He has published 8 books by Wiley, Artech House and Springer. A Life Fellow of the IEEE, Fellow of IET and IETE, Dixit holds a Ph.D. from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, U.K. and an M.B.A. from the Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida.