The First Workshop on Shaping the Future of Telecoms – Networks for Joint Intelligence, Sustainability, Security, and Resilience (2025) – 19 May

The telecommunications landscape is undergoing a profound transformation as we move toward 6G and beyond. With increasingly blurred boundaries between physical, network, and application layers, the need for integrated, intelligent, and adaptive communication systems is greater than ever.

Hosted as part of IEEE INFOCOM 2025, this inaugural international workshop brings together leading researchers and practitioners to tackle the pressing challenges and opportunities in building next-generation telecom networks that are:

• Intelligent – harnessing the power of AI to optimise systems
• Sustainable – minimising environmental impact
• Secure – protecting data and infrastructure
• Resilient – ensuring robust performance in dynamic conditions

The event will spotlight interoperability as a keystone for enabling joint intelligence and collaboration across layers, technologies, and sectors. From federated architectures and AI-driven RAN solutions to novel approaches in secure, programmable network infrastructures, the workshop presents a forward-looking agenda including:

Keynote Speaker – Prof. Luiz DaSilva

Session 2: Panel Discussion

• Chair: Prof. Kin Leung (Imperial College London)
  Panellists:
• Harald Haas (University of Cambridge)
• Julie McCann (Imperial College London)
• Dominic O’Brien (University of Oxford)
• Dimitra Simeonidou (University of Bristol)

Paper Presentations

• DRL for Network Slicing: Resource Efficiency Optimisation under Reconfiguration Avoidance
  Zhaozhou Wu et al., University of Bristol
• TelcoGPT: A Hybrid Embedding Approach for Telecom-Specific Q&A and Code Retrieval
  Muhammad Zakir Khan et al., University of Glasgow
• Resilient Network Architecture with eBPF-based Programmability and Centralized Orchestration
  Filip Holik et al., University of Glasgow & NTNU
• AI-Driven Equalization for Compressive Optical Fronthaul in Next-generation RAN
  Rui Chen et al., University of Cambridge
• Can Federated Network Traffic Classification Protect Private Dataset?
  Huiwen Zhang and Feng Ye, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• The Interplay of AI-and-RAN: Dynamic Resource Allocation for Converged 6G Platform
  Syed Danial Ali Shah et al., University of Leeds

…and much more.

For more information and full programme, list of speakers, and to register visit IEEE INFOCOM