Keynote Speakers

Prof. Abdallah Shami (Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of CAE, Fellow of EIC)
Western University, Canada

Biography: Abdallah Shami is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Western University, London, Ontario, Canada, where he serves as Department Chair and holds a Western Research Chair. He is also the Director of the Optimized Computing and Communications Laboratory. His research interests include smart systems, network and service management, and applied machine learning. He currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management and has held editorial roles with several international journals. He is also the Chair of the IEEE Region 7 Publications and Communications Committee.
Dr. Shami is a Fellow of the IEEE, the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE), and the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC).

 

Prof. Gyu Myoung Lee
Liverpool John Moores University, UK

Speech Title: New Internet Design: Building the Trusted 6G & Agentic AI Infrastructure for Future Digital Ecosystems

Abstract: As future 6G networks evolve to fully integrate with societal, physical, and cyber infrastructures, the paradigm of network design is undergoing a fundamental shift transitioning from merely adding AI capabilities to embedding AI directly into the architectural core. Building upon the visionary framework of 3C (Co-design, Collaboration, and Composability) networks, this keynote presents a New Internet Design, focusing on the rapidly emerging Agentic AI Ecosystem.

As intelligence becomes increasingly distributed, managing autonomous AI agents introduces critical challenges in scale, interoperability, and trust, especially within strict data sovereignty and regulatory landscapes like Europe. To bridge the gap between 6G network infrastructure and distributed AI, this talk presents a comprehensive architectural blueprint featuring AI Agent Orchestration, AI Agent Spaces, and an AI Agent Mesh powered by an Agent Name Service (ANS).

By unifying 3C-based 6G networks with a federated agent infrastructure, this presentation outlines how to construct a trusted, human-centric, and fully interoperable Internet foundation designed for the next generation of intelligent digital services.

Biography: Gyu Myoung Lee is a professor at the Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU), UK. He was affiliated with KAIST, Daejeon, Rep. of Korea, as an Adjunct Professor from 2012 to 2024. Before joining the LJMU in 2014, he worked at the Institut Mines-Telecom from 2008. Until 2012, he was invited to work at ETRI, Rep. of Korea. He worked as a research professor at KAIST, Rep. of Korea and as a guest researcher at NIST, USA, in 2007. His research interests include Internet of Things, digital twin, computational trust, blockchain with privacy preservation, data and AI governance, knowledge centric networking and services considering all vertical services, Smart Grid, energy saving networks, cloud-based big data analytics platform and multimedia networking and services. Prof. Lee has been actively participating in standardization meetings including ITU-T SG 13 and SG20, IETF and oneM2M, etc., and currently serves as a Working Party chair and the Rapporteur of Q16/13 on trustworthy networking and services and Q4/20 on data analytics, sharing, processing and management in ITU-T. He is the Vice-Chair of ITU-T FG-AINN as well as the Convenor of Web3-adhoc. He was also the chair of ITU-T Focus Group on Data Processing and Management (FG-DPM). He has contributed more than 500 proposals for standards and published more than 200 papers in academic journals and conferences. He received several Best Paper Awards in international and domestic conferences and served as a reviewer of IEEE journals/conference papers and an organizer/member of committee of international conferences. He is a Senior Member of IEEE.
Prof. Lee received his BS degree in electronic and electrical engineering from Hong Ik University, Seoul, Rep. of Korea, in 1999 and MS, and PhD. degree from KAIST, Daejeon, Rep. of Korea, in 2000 and 2007, respectively.

 

Prof. Shuai Han
Harbin Institute of Technology, China