This event aims to explore the intersections between emerging 6G technologies and artificial intelligence, discussing their implications and the innovations that can transform various industries. We are bringing together experts, thought leaders and innovative companies to share valuable knowledge and perspectives.

The future digital society, under the increasing automation, comprises more and more connected devices (IoT), including sensors, vehicles, aerial drones, data, etc. The increasing number of sensors per vehicle requires higher-speed communications and lower latencies. Society and organizations demand new services to be included in 6G, including the following:

• Augmented reality and extended reality;
• Applications infused with artificial intelligence;
• Wireless brain-computer interactions;
• holographic services;
• The integration of communications with location, mapping and remote control;
• Emerging eHealth applications;
• Enhanced autonomous vehicles;
• More efficient support for IoT, namely smart cities and smart homes, supporting an extremely high number of low energy consumption devices;
• Flying vehicle support and increased mobility speed.

Furthermore, 6G aims to have greater energy efficiency and more efficient energy capture strategies so that the autonomy of users' equipment can be increased despite their demanding applications.

These new services and capabilities to be supported by 6G continue to require more efficient networks, such as increased data rates, lower latency, more efficient spectral efficiency, greater energy efficiency and improved network capacity. Some of the anticipated requirements for 6G include the following:

• Peak data rate in static environment of at least 1 Tbps (100 times higher than 5G);
• 1 Gbps mobile data rate (10 times higher than 5G);
• Energy efficiency 10 to 100 times better than 5G;
• Spectral efficiency 5 to 10 times better than 5G.

While 5G requirements are met based on mm-wave and m-MIMO, 6G must incorporate new concepts such as passive antennas, namely reconfigurable smart surfaces (RIS). To obtain potential gains (coverage, interference cancellation, stealth, spectral efficiency, etc.), there is a need to estimate the channel characteristics, which is difficult to achieve with passive elements. Recently, active antennas, such as large smart antenna systems (LIS), also called ultramassive MIMO (UL-MIMO) or extremely large antenna arrays (ELAA), have been employed to achieve such desired gains; however, complexity also increases with the employment of these processes. In terms of frequency bands, 6G is revolutionary as it includes visible light communications (VLC) and terahertz bands (100 GHz – 10 THz), enabling data rates in the order of hundreds of Gbps. VLC is a mature communication technique, suitable for short-range coverage, although susceptible to interference such as from the sun.