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THURSDAY
January 22, 2026
- Breakfast: 8:30 – 9:15 am
- Welcome Address: 9:15 – 9:30
- Keynote Speaker: 9:30 – 10:00
- Morning Session:
- 10:00 – 10:30
- Physical & Personal AI - Technology and Use Cases
- 10:30 - 11:00
- Personal AI and human-centric design
- Hemanth Sampath, VP Engineering, Qualcomm
- 11:00 - 11:30
- Future of telecom for physical and personal AI
- Mischa Dohler, VP Emerging Technologies, Ericsson
- 11:30 - 12:00
- Panel - Physical & Personal AI - Technology and Use Cases
- Mischa Dohler (Ericsson)
- Fatih Porikli (Qualcomm)
- Moderator: Hemanth Sampath (Qualcomm)
- Lunch: 12:00 – 1:00
- Afternoon Session: 1:00 – 3:30
- 1:00 - 1:30 Keynote Speaker
- 1:30 - 2:00
- Network Infrastructure and related technology for Physical & Personal AI
- Tommaso Ballercia, Principal on AI RAN and Network Digital Twin, Nvidia
- 2:00 - 2:30
- Network Infrastructure and related technology for Physical & Personal AI
- Speaker: Dinesh Bharadia, Professor at UCSD
- 2:30 - 3:00
- Network Infrastructure and related technology for Physical & Personal AI
- Speaker: Pieter Abbeel, Professor at UCB/Covariant
- 3:00 - 3:30
- Panel - Network Infrastructure and related technology for Physical & Personal AI
- Fatih Porkili (Qualcomm)
- Vishal Gupta (Intel)
- Devaki Chandramouli (Nokia Bell Labs)
- Moderator: Rajat
- Break: 3:30 – 4:00
- Evening Session: 4:00 – 6:00
- 4:00 - 4:30
- From Antenna to Application: Designing the Next Air Interface
- Speaker 1: Tom Rondeau (TBC)
- 4:30 - 5:00
- From Antenna to Application: Designing the Next Air Interface
- Speaker 2: Binoy Kurien, MIT Lincoln Labs
- 5:00 - 5:30
- From Antenna to Application: Designing the Next Air Interface
- Speaker 3: Charlie Zhang (Samsung)
- 5:30 Panel - Radio
- From Antenna to Application: Designing the Next Air Interface
- Charlie Zhang (Samsung)
- Harish Vishwanathan (Nokia Bell Labs)
- Tom Rondeau (DoW)
- Binoy Kurien (MIT LL)
- Social Hour: 6:00 – 7:30
- Drinks and hors d'oeuvres
- End of Day One: 7:30
FRIDAY
January 23, 2026
- Breakfast: 8:30 – 9:30 am
- Keynote Speaker: 9:30 – 10:00
- Morning Session: 10:00 – 12:00
- Circuits
- 10:00 - 10:30
- Luke Urban, Cofounder and Chief Scientific Officer, Magnolia
- 10:30 - 11:00
- Kausik Ray Chaudhuri, VP Technology, Qualcomm
- 11:00 - 11:30
- Chris Mangelsdorf, Retired Analog Devices Fellow and Independent Consultant
- 11:30 - 12:00
- Panel discussion – AI For Circuit Design: Helpful or Hypeful?
- Luke Urban (Magnolia)
- Kausik Ray Chaudhuri (Qualcomm)
- Chris Mangelsdorf (consultant)
- Professor Behzad Razavi (UCLA)
- Panelist 4 backup: Gabriel Rebeiz (UCSD)
- Moderator: Ian Galton, UCSD
- Lunch: 12:00 – 1:00
- Poster Sessions and Demos: 1:00 –3:00
- Posters and Demos will be held on the second floor of Franklin Antonio Hall 2301, in the Center for Wireless Communications Collaboratory
