I+ART: Industry-Academia Research Track

Event Date: 8^th January, 2026

Event Timings: 10:00 am to 5:30 am

We live in exciting times, witnessing an extremely rapid pace of growth of demanding applications such as networked robotics, industrial wireless networking, connected and intelligent devices, AR/VR/XR-based games and applications. Increasingly, it is the industry that is first confronted with the need to deliver the advances required in current technology, and the requirements for next generation technology. On the other hand, academia, with their years of study, teaching, and research are superbly positioned to explore and enable fundamental and generalized solutions to these problems, and thereby also drive their own research agendas. Successful R&D ecosystems around world have understood the importance of the academia-industry interface. It is with this in mind that I+ART will bring together top industry experts and researchers from academia to share their understanding of upcoming open problems and research driven solutions.

I+ART will be a full day track, comprising an academia-industry keynote, and 4 invited talks, two from academia and two from the industry, each with plenty of time for discussion. The talks will provide cutting edge technical material, and intense discussion. There will be two panel discussions, on carefully selected contemporary topics. The aim will be for each panel to create a complete “story”, rather than random thoughts; the moderators will engage with the panelists, well before the discussions, to make the above happen.

The focus of I+ART, in COMSNETS, is on emerging research problems in wireless communication systems (6G and Wi-Fi wireless access networks, joint communication and sensing, next generation transceivers, etc.), and applications and systems based on wireless technologies (robotics and digital twins over wireless networks, QoS provision for such applications, etc.).

Speakers

Keynote : To be determined

Talks : To be determined

Panels : To be determined