6G FORGE Videos
Crafting a Better Next Generation
For two days in April 2025 experts from a wide range of backgrounds gathered to explore:
- How (if) the evolution from 5G to 6G responds to needs from telcos and their customers.
- How we connect commercial models and business cases to the technology innovations ahead.
The resulting talks and conversations delivered many surprises and unexpected advice for companies developing their strategies for the medium and long term in telecoms. You can catch each of those here.
Session videos - business and technology issues
Welcome and introduction
David Gesbert, Director of Eurecom, opens 6G FORGE while David Boswarthick briefy summarises activities from the previous day’s ETSI event, 6G Monday.
Is 6G on the Wrong Track?
In a dynamic discussion, finished up by an audience vote, we explore whether the work on 6G today is really what’s needed, and if not how to change. Featuring three very different perspectives from SNS-JU, One6G and Dean Bubley.
One6G & Building What's Needed
Nancy Alonistioti, Chair of One6G, explores the demands from non-telco members. With the popularity and investment in AI, where is 5G or 6G?
Airbus: The NTN Operator View
Amina Boubendir, Head of Standards at Airbus Defence & Space, takes us through the state of the industry, how it compares to terrestrial, and the demands and expectations of the coming few years.
Technology Context: Software
In a discussion that ranges across authentication, private networks, open RAN and much more, Izzo Wane, CEO at Bloxtel and Irfan Ghauri, Director of Operations for the OAI, advise would-be innovators to start with rubbish.
Technology Context: Intent & LLM
EURECOM professor Adlen Ksentini gives us a view of the potential of LLMs to transform and simplify the way the network communicates based on intent – with users, with other machines and other AIs.
Enterprise Context: Can 6G Help?
We explore the world of enterprises and their demands, asking whether 6G can add anything useful to them? Paolo Comi, Innovation Manager at Exprivia and Rui Aguiar, Chair of Networld Europe, give us some blunt lessons about how to provide value to enterprise customers.
Environmental Context: Sustain 6G
Mauro Boldi, Research Manager at TIM, walks us through the state of play on the issue of sustainability, both the progress that has been made and the steps that need to be taken.
Regulatory Context: Europe and 6G
6G Flagship’s Marja Matinmikko-Blue works closely with EU regulators. In this talk she shares her views on where we are with regulation and how to deliver impact in influencing regulators.
What Should we do with the Standards Process?
This candid discussion features leading figures from 3GPP, ETSI and 5G-ACIA discussing ways to improve the standards process and make it more fit for what’s coming. Topics include transparency, inclusion and operational updates.
Robotics and 6G
Huawei’s Xueli An gives us the latest from ONe6G’s programme on 6G for robotics; not just the progress, but the commercial drivers underpinning it.
The data underpinnings for 6G
Lucia Cabanillas from Telefonica I&D gives us information hot off the press from ETSI’s technical programme on data management – very hot, in fact, it was launched that day.
Is there value in 6G for the automotive industry?
Jerome Haerri of Eurecom introduces the work on AI as a service which a consortium of European carmakers is pursuing: what it is, why they’re doing it and how it affects 6G.
Delivering value from resilience and security in 6G
We hear from Antonio Sanchez at Keysight, Linda Senigagliesi at ENSEA and David Lund from Public Safety Communications Europe on some of the moves afoot to secure future comms, where we’re falling down, and how to create value from it.
Can we adapt the radio networks to be an enabler of growth?
Discussions take some unexpected turns and mic drops with Ben Coffin of NI, Gerhard Schoenthal of Virginia Diodes and Navid Nikaein of BubbleRAN
Where does the real value of network AI lie?
Orange’s Jean Schwoerer and Red Hat’s Hanen Garcia give us some very concrete views on the uses and perceived value of AI in the network. Can it be more than just a cost saver?
Semantic networks: Saving money, building capability
Emilio Calvanese Strinati dives into the use of goal-oriented and semantic networks to streamline future telecoms – whether 6G or otherwise.
Bonus Material: AI and ROI in 6G
TelcoForge’s Caio Castro interviews Rene Nuessgen, Senior R&D Director at NI.
6G-IA & SNS-JU: The Right 6G
Colin Willcock, 6G-IA Chair & Javier Albares, Head of Programmes at SNS-JU discuss what a ‘good’ 6G would look like and where they see us on the journey towards it.
Bonus: National Instruments Demo
Ben Coffin, Chief Global Academic Business Manager at National Instruments, guides us through NI’s demo showcased at 6G Forge 2025 in France.
Bonus: Virginia Diodes Demo
Gerhard Schoenthal, COO at Virginia Diodes, guides us through the company’s demo showcased at 6G Forge 2025 in France.