2024 HIGHLIGHTS

2025 Highlights

Catch a glimpse of the energy and insights that defined this year’s Brooklyn 6G Summit.

Recap

The 12th Brooklyn Summit marks a tipping point toward the 6G era

For the 12th time, Nokia and the NYU Wireless research center brought together some of the most creative minds in the business for one of the most distinguished gatherings of the communications industry.

This year’s Brooklyn 6G Summit included a series of keynotes, panels and demonstrations showcasing this year’s theme of “Building what’s next.”

Together with academia, industry analysts, service providers, regulators, equipment vendors and startups from various corners of the telecom industry, they highlighted the key technologies that will define the next era of advanced wireless communications.

The focus was primarily on elements surrounding artificial intelligence and value creation, such as energy efficiency, security, network digital twins, the integration of Non-Terrestrial Networks and more.

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Panel discussion: US Academic View on 6G (left to right): Nick Laneman (University of Notre Dame), Jeff Andrews (University of Texas at Austin), Danijela Cabric (UCLA), Dr. Ted Rappaport (NYU WIRELESS), Tommaso Melodia (Professor of Electrical Engineering) and Sundeep Rangan (NYU WIRELESS)

2025 EDITION

6G's Role in the AI Supercycle, a Fireside Chat with Justin Hotard and Pallavi Mahajan

At the 2025 Brooklyn 6G Summit, Nokia CEO Justin Hotard and Chief Technology & AI Officer Pallavi Mahajan shared their vision for the transformative potential of 6G and AI. They explored how AI-native traffic and seamless, software-defined networks will reshape not just mobile connectivity, but how we bridge the physical and digital worlds.

Event Interviews

Nishant Batra

CSTO, Nokia

Ted Rappaport

Founder, Professor at NYU WIRELESS

Takaaki Sato

Senior Executive Vice President, NTT DOCOMO

Monisha Ghosh

Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of Notre Dame

Manish Singh

CTO, Telecom Systems Business, Dell Technologies

Chris Dick

R&D Engineering at the Intersection of 5G and AI, NVIDIA

Sarah Morris

Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary and Deputy Administrator, NTIA

Florian Gast

PhD student

Ruth Gebremehdin

PhD student

Peter Vetter

Nokia Bell Labs President for Core Research

Peter Merz

Head of Nokia standards

Brooklyn 6G Summit 2025 - demo walkthrough

For the 12th time, Nokia and NYU WIRELESS convened the distinguished Brooklyn 6G Summit, bringing together leading minds from across the communications industry. The Summit, themed “Building what’s next,” marked the ongoing shift from 6G research to standardization, with participants discussing key technologies like artificial intelligence, energy efficiency, security, network digital twins, and Non-Terrestrial Networks, while sharing their visions for 6G's transformative impact and necessity.

B6GS IN NUMBERS

B6GS 2025 big numbers

65
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Speakers

100
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Excellence and satisfactory rate

38

Demos

1600
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Livestream views from 50+ countries

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