Keynote Talks of Dr. Melike Erol Kantarci

·       Industry Keynote on “Programmable networks leveraging AI in the 5G Era” IEEE ICC, June 2025.

 

·       Industry Keynote on “AI in programmable networks” AI Summit Symposium by Light Reading, June 2025.

 

·       Keynote on “The role of Generative AI and Multimodal Data in the Next Generation Wireless Networks,” Symposium of 6G Communications (in conj. with 15th International Conference on ICT Convergence), Jeju Island, Korea, October 2024.

 

·       Keynote on “Towards an AI-native 6G – Is G for Generative?,” IEEE ICC, Denver, June 2024.

 

·       Keynote on “Paving the AI-Native Way in 6G,” Ericsson Autumn Hackathon, talk displayed in Sweden, Spain, China and Italy Ericsson sites in October- November 2023.

 

·       Keynote on “Paving the AI-Native Way in B5G and 6G,” IEEE International Black Sea Conference on Communications and Networking (BlackSeaCom), Istanbul, Turkey, July 7th 2023.

 

·       Keynote on “Paving the Road To 6G – The Role of Automation & AI,” Fierce Wireless, November 1^st, 2022.

 

·       Keynote on “AI-Enabled Smart Grid Communications and Transactive Energy Systems,” IEEE SmartGridComm, October 2022.

 

·       Plenary Keynote on “Deep and Reinforcement Learning in 5G and 6G: New Horizons with Transfer Learning,” IEEE Future Networks World Forum, Montreal, October  2022.

 

·       Keynote on “The Nexus of AI and Communications: A Frontier for 6G”, IEEE International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technologies (CSIT), November 2021.

 

·       Keynote on “AI-Enabled Wireless Networks: A Vision for 6G”, IEEE Local Computer Networks (LCN), October 2021.

 

·       Keynote on “AI-enabled Energy Trading for Microgrids and Transactive Energy Systems,” at IEEE  3rd Global Power, Energy and Communication Conference, October 2021.

 

·       Keynote on “The Nexus of AI and Communications: The Frontier for 6G,” at Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) Tech Expo Catalyst, September 2021.

 

·       Keynote on “AI-Enabled Wireless Networks: A Bridge from 5G to 6G”, IEEE International Conference on INnovations in Intelligent SysTems and Applications (INISTA), August 2021.

 

·       Keynote on “AI-Enabled Future Wireless Networks and Security,” at IEEE ICC Workshops - 4th Workshop on 5G and Beyond Wireless Security (IEEE WIRELESS-SEC), June 2021.

 

·       Distinguished speaker on “Security in the Era of Hyperconnected World,” in Underrepresented Groups in Cybersecurity, Silicon Valley Cybersecurity Conference, December 2020.

 

·       Keynote on “AI-Enabled Future Wireless Networks,” 16th IFIP International Conference on Network and Service Management (CSNM), November 2020.

 

·       Keynote on “AI-Enabled Wireless Networks: A Bridge from 5G to 6G,” Global Information Infrastructure Networking Symposium (GIIS), October 2020.

 

·       Plenary Talk on “AI-enabled Transactive Energy Systems and the Role of Communications”, IEEE International Conference on Advanced Communication Technologies and Networking (CommNet'20), September 2020.

 

·       Plenary Talk on “AI-enabled Energy Trading for Microgrids and Transactive Energy Systems,” IEEE Smart Energy Grid Engineering, August 2020.

 

IEEE Comsoc Distinguished Lectures

·       “Deep and Reinforcement Learning in 5G and 6G,” IEEE Distinguished Lecturer Series – IEEE Egypt Chapter, 2 June 2021.

 

 

·       “AI-Enabled Wireless Networks,” IEEE Distinguished Lecturer Series – IEEE Seattle Section Joint Chapter, IEEE Vancouver Joint Chapter and IEEE Victoria Section Joint Chapter, 20 May 2021.

 

·       “AI-Enabled Wireless Networks: A Bridge from 5G to 6G,” IEEE Distinguished Lecturer Series - IEEE Sri Lanka Section, 8 April 2021.