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8:30 - 9:00am	BREAKFAST
9:00 - 9:15am	WELCOME ADDRESS	Sujit Dey, Director, Center for Wireless Communications Albert Pisano, Dean, Jacobs School of Engineering, UC San Diego Truong Nguyen, Chair, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UC San Diego
9:15 - 10:30am	KEYNOTES Moderator: Alon Orlitsky, CWC	Durga Malladi, Senior Vice President, Engineering, Qualcomm 5G New Radio: An Overview Charlie Zhang, Vice President of Standard and Mobility Innovation Lab, Samsung Research America 5G: From Vision to Reality Mark Pierpoint, Vice President and General Manager, Internet Infrastructure Solutions, Keysight Technologies Millimeter-Wave Communications in Practice
10:30 - 10:45am	BREAK
10:45 - Noon	SESSION 1: 5G Progress and Challenges Moderator: Bhaskar Rao, CWC	Kameshwar Eranki, Founder and CEO, VajraSoft Inc., Unlocking Next Big Opportunities in 5G Technology Applications Landscape Aleksandar Tasić, Principal Design Manager, Qualcomm 5G – A Path Towards 100s of Radios and 10s of Gb/s Andjela Ilic-Savoia, Applications Engineer - Wireless Expert, Keysight Technologies The Dynamics of Channels Prakash Suthar, Principal Architect, Cisco Systems Inc. Deploying 5G Use Cases with Network Slicing
Noon - 1:15pm	LUNCH & POSTER PRESENTATION
1:15 - 2:15pm	SESSION 2: Wireless AR/VR Moderator: Naresh Soni, Tsunami AR/VR	Eugene Chi, General Manager, Western Region, Microsoft Corporation Using Augmented and Mixed Reality for Business Applications in a 5G world James Adams, Business Development Manager, Wikitude AR in the cloud: scaling from pilots to production Sujit Dey, Director, Center for Wireless Communications Challenges and Potential Solutions for Wireless VR Truong Nguyen, Chair, Electrical and Compter Engineering, UC San Diego Immersive Visual Experience with Freedom of Viewpoint Selection
2:15 - 3:05pm	SESSION 3: Impact of Networks and Devices on Future Healthcare Delivery Models Moderator: Mike Wisz, Burwood Group	Alex Gao, Head of Digital Health Lab, Samsung Research America Gene Dantsker, Director of Business Development and Licensing, Qualcomm LIFE Inc. Simon Nazarian, Executive Director - Care Delivery Technology Services, Chief Architect and National Pharmacy Technology Leader, Kaiser Permanente Enrique Estrada, Director of Strategic Solutions Sales, Care Innovations
3:05-3:20pm	BREAK
3:20 - 4:10pm	SESSION 4: Capturing Novel Patient Insights at the Edge with ML and AI Moderator: Dimitri Arges, CWC	Benjamin Kanter, Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO), Vocera Communications, Inc. Ayan Acharya, Research Engineer, Cognitive Scale Sujit Dey, Director, Center for Wireless Communications
4:10 - 5:10pm	SESSION 5: Connected and Autonomous Vehicles Moderator: Naresh Soni, Tsunami AR/VR	Timothy Talty, Technical Fellow, General Motors Corporation Automotive Wireless Communications: Past, Current and Future Needs Maged Zaki, Director, Technical Marketing, Qualcomm Accelerating the Path Towards 5G for Autonomous Driving Onur Altintas, Fellow, Network Division, Toyota Information Technology Center Automated Driving from a Communications Perspective
5:10 - 6:30pm	EVENING SOCIAL and TECHNOLOGY SHOWCASE Location: Calit2 Lobby
6:30 - 9:00pm	DINNER and ENTERTAINMENT Location: Calit2 Theater

Day 2 Agenda


8:30 - 9:00am	BREAKFAST
9:00 - 10:15am	KEYNOTES Moderator: Ramesh Rao, QI, UC San Diego	Theodore (Tod) Sizer, Vice President and Leader of Mobile Radio Research, Nokia Bell Labs FutureX Network: Impact, Implications ... and... Opportunities Waguih S. Ishak, Vice President and Chief Technologist, Corning Research & Development Corporation A Vision for the Connected World - How Fiber Optics and Wireless Communications Will Enrich Human Experiences Kristi Jaska, Vice President Engineering, ViaSat Inc. and Jim Petranovich, Senior Director of Technology, ViaSat Inc., Satellite Role in 5G
10:15 - 10:30am	BREAK
10:30 - 12:30pm	SESSION 6: 5G Circuits Moderator: Ian Galton, UC San Diego	Ian Galton, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, UC San Diego Digital PLL Frequency Synthesis Peter Asbeck, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, UC San Diego High Efficiency Power Amplifiers and Transmitters for 5G Applications Drew Hall, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, UC San Diego Ultra-Low Power Wireless IoT Sensors Low-Power Radios for Next-Generation IoT Gabriel Rebeiz, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, UC San Diego Phased-Array Links for 5G Communications
12:30 - 1:45pm	LUNCH & TECHNOLOGY SHOWCASE Location: Calit2 Theater
1:45 - 2:10pm	KEYNOTE	John Brassil, Program Director, National Science Foundation NSF/CISE Investments in Mid-Scale Research Infrastructure - PAWR & Beyond
2:10- 3:00pm	SESSION 7: MASSIVE MIMO Moderator: Bhaskar Rao, UC San Diego	Bhaskar Rao, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, UC San Diego Massive MIMO Channel Estimation Challenges and Techniques Young-Han Kim, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, UC San Diego Coding Techniques for Distributed MIMO Systems Sujit Dey, Director, Center for Wireless Communications Reducing Power Consumption in Massive MIMO Systems Using Adaptive RF Chain Switchingand Machine Learning
3:00 - 4:00pm	PLANNING SESSION Invitation only	CWC faculty and board members
4:00 - 5:30pm	CWC BOARD MEETING	CWC faculty and board members