Time (GMT+3)	Talk	Speaker
14:00 - 14:15	Welcome and Opening of NextGCom 2024	Periklis Chatzimisios, International Hellenic University (Greece) & University of New Mexico (USA), Xueli An (Huawei, Germany) and Athanasios Iossifides, International Hellenic University (Greece)
14:15 - 15:15	Opening Speech: On the way towards Immersive Communications - From the KPIs to a new Physical Layer	Ana Garcia Armada, Vice President of Member and Global Activities, IEEE Communications Society & Professor, University Carlos III of Madrid (Spain)
15:15 - 15:25	Family photo with all speakers and attendees
15:25 - 16:00	Networking Break
16:00 - 17:15	Towards AI/ML Integration in 5G and Beyond	Dejan Vukobratovic, Professor, University of Novi Sad (Serbia)
17:15 - 18:00	Leveraging Cloud Native and Generative AI Technologies for 6G Networks	Syed Zaidi, Associate Professor, University of Leeds (United Kingdom)
18:00 - 18:45	Envisioning the Future: 6G, AI, and the Evolution of Next-Generation Networks (cancelled due to health emergency)	Josef Vidstrom, CEO, Swedish Telecom's, Sweden & Transformation Specialist and Next Generation Communication Pioneer (Sweden)
Afternoon	Free time (going to the beach)

Time (GMT+3)	Talk	Speaker
09:00 - 10:30	Leadership Strategies for Innovation and Technology in the Age of Ubiquitous and Permanent Connectedness	Konstantinos Karachalios, Strategic Advisor for IEEE Executive Director (USA), Former Managing Director, IEEE Standards Association
10:30 - 11:00	Networking Break
11:00 - 12:00	Communications and Networking in LEO Mega-Constellations	Gunes Karabulut-Kurt, Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) and Associate Professor, Polytechnique Montreal (Canada)
12:00 - 13:15	Integrated Sensing and Communications for 6G and Beyond	Aryan Kaushik, Assistant Professor, University of Sussex (United Kingdom)
13:15 - 14:15	Lunch Break
14:15 - 15:45	Industry View on Next Generation Network Architecture Design	Xueli An, Principal Researcher and Industry Development Specialist, Munich Research Center, Huawei Technologies (Germany)
15:45 - 16:15	Networking Break
16:15 - 17:15	Intuitive Management of Robots by Humans in Future	Azmat Hossain, Business Development Director, Extend Robotics (United Kingdom)
18:30-20:00	Free time (guided tour in the Enippeas gorge)
20:00 - 22:00	Social Dinner

Time (GMT+3)	Talk	Speaker
09:00 - 10:30	Best practices for reproducible 6G research exploring AI	Rui Luis Aguiar, Professor, University of Aveiro (Portugal) and Steering Board Chair of Networld Europe
10:30 - 11:00	Networking Break
11:00 - 12:00	3GPP standardization procedures – Releases 18-19. SON Coverage and Capacity Optimization example	Spyridon Louvros, R&D Director, MCNS (Cyprus) and Senior Researcher, Jio (Estonia)
12:00 - 13:15	On the Capacity of 5G mMIMO Networks for RAN design procedures	Spyridon Louvros, R&D Director, MCNS (Cyprus) and Senior Researcher, Jio (Estonia)
13:15 - 14:15	Lunch Break
14:15 - 15:30	6G: Enabling Global Connectivity for Sustainable Futures	Muhammad Zeeshan Shakir, Professor, University of the West of Scotland, (Scotland)
15:30 - 16:00	Networking Break
16:00 - 17:50	Research Presentation/Poster Session Panel on "Research proposal building & Dissemination of project results"	Syed Zaidi, Associate Professor, University of Leeds (United Kingdom) Constantinos Papadias, Professor, The American College of Greece (Greece) - NextGCom speakers, Early Stage Researchers and PhD students
17:50 - 18:00	Closing Ceremony	Periklis Chatzimisios, IHU (Greece) & University of New Mexico (USA), Xueli An (Huawei, Germany) and Athanasios Iossifides, IHU (Greece)
Afternoon	Free time (going to the beach)