1. IEEE 2018 Emerging Technologies Reliability Roundtable
May 14, 2018
The Univ. of Texas
Austin, Texas
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2. 2018 ETR-RT Speakers ETR-RT Chi-Ming Chen – AT&T Labs
(In Alphabetical Order)
James Dollar, Founder and VP – Products for Uplogix USA
Pasi Hurri, Chief Executive Officer, BaseN Corporation, Finland
Chih-Lin I, Chief Scientist, Wireless Technologies, China Mobile Research Institute, China
James Kimery, Director of Marketing for  SDR and Wireless Research Initiatives, National Instruments, USA
Dehan Li, Technical Expert of RAS Design, Huawei Technologies, China
Jose de Francisco Lopez, Design Director, Nokia Software, USA
David Lu, Vice President, D2 Platform and Systems Development, Technology Development, AT&T Services, Inc. USA
Kathy Meier-Hellstern, Assistant Vice President, AT&T, USA
Josh Miner, Vice President & GM, Land Mobile Business Unit, Iridium Communications , USA
Imtiaz Shaikh, Verizon Wireless, USA
Timothy Talty, GM Global Research & Development, USA
ETR-RT Chair: Spilios Makris, Director, Palindrome Technologies, USA
ETR-RT Advisor: Chi-Ming Chen, AT&T Labs, USA
ETR-RT Moderator: Ray Bonelli, USA
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Chi-Ming Chen – AT&T Labs

3. 2018 ETR-RT Agenda
8:30 am – 8:45 am Welcome and Introduction by Chair
8:45 am – 10:45 am Talks and Q&A
David Lu, Chih-Lin I, Imtiaz Shaikh, James Kimery
10:45 am – 11:00 am Coffee Break
11:00 am – 1:00 pm Talks and Q&A
Dehan Li, Bin Xie , Timothy Talty, James Dollar
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Lunch
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm Talks & Discussion
Kathy Meier-Hellstern, Pasi Hurri, Jose de Francisco Lopez
3:30 pm – 3:45 pm Coffee Break
3:45 pm – 4:55 pm Roundtable Discussion: Identify potential directions for resolving identified issues and propose possible solutions (All)
4:55 pm – 5:00 pm Wrap–up (Chair)
EVENING EVENT (All are invited)
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm “ETR Thank You & CQR Welcome” Reception at the Hotel
7:00 pm – 8:30 pm “ETR Thank You & CQR Welcome” Dinner at the Hotel
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4. Topics – Session 1 (Morning)
(In Presentation Order )
David Lu – Perfect storm for software reliability
Chih-Lin I – The ultra reliability of 5G
Imtiaz Shaikh – 5G Network: Very flexible but complex
James Kimery – Evolving 5G and the challenges ahead
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5. Topics – Session 2 (Morning)
(In Presentation Order )
Dehan Li – New challenges of ultra-reliability in 5G
Bin Xie – L2 Wireless: Enabling low-latency high-reliability wireless for industry communication systems
Timothy Talty– Automotive challenges for 5G, V2X and future telecom technologies
James Dollar – Going beyond out-of-band
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6. Topics – Session 3 (Afternoon)
(In Presentation Order )
Kathy Meier-Hellstern – The carrier challenge – Achieving 5-9s on s cloud infrastructure
Pasi Hurri – The Network is content
Jose de Francisco Lopez –  A programmatic approach for an artificial code of conduct
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