Tuesday, August 11, 2026

09:00–09:10

Welcome / Introduction

Jeremy Glenn, NTIA-ITS (Emcee)
David Goldstein, NTIA-ITS

09:10–09:35

Keynote: Meeting the Moment — Achieving the Administration's Spectrum Goals 

Tricia Paoletta, NTIA

09:35–10:00

Opening Remarks: Conference Overview

David Goldstein, NTIA-ITS

10:00–10:30

Break

10:30–12:00

Panel: Defining the Data Problem for AI/ML in Spectrum

Robert Ballard, NTIA-ITS (Moderator)
Andrew Clegg, Valo Analytica
Ryan Dreifuerst, MITRE Corp.
Troy Orwan, NTIA-OSM
Adam Wunderlich, NIST

12:00–13:30

Lunch

13:30–14:00

Technical Talk: Lessons from NASCTN SEA Data Collection

Aric Sanders, NIST-CTL
Todd Schumann, NTIA-ITS

14:00–14:30

Technical Talk: Data Collection, Standardization, and Public Access

Curtis Watson, MITRE Corp.

14:30–15:00

Break

15:00–16:15

Panel: Evaluation Frameworks for ML versus Classical Solutions

Kumar Balachandran, Ericsson (Moderator)
Danijela Cabric, University of California, Los
  Angeles
Kaushik Chowdhury, University of Texas at
  Austin
Aleksandar Damnjanovic, Qualcomm
Nada Golmie, NIST

Wednesday, August 12, 2026

09:00–09:05

Opening Remarks

Jeremy Glenn, NTIA-ITS (Emcee)

09:05–10:00

Fireside Chat: Autonomous Spectrum Management: Vision and Reality

David Goldstein, NTIA-ITS (Moderator)
Michael Ha, FCC
Lynna McGrath, NTIA-OSM

10:00–10:30

Break

10:30–11:00

Technical Talk: Cognitive Radio: Lessons Learnt from the Past

Monisha Ghosh, University of Notre Dame

11:00–11:30

Technical Talk: From Sensing to Sharing: AI-Optimized Sensing Networks for Dynamic Spectrum Occupancy Prediction

Roy Sun, CableLabs

11:30–12:00

Technical Talk: Training Aggregate Receiver-Transmitter Interference Classifiers

Robert Ballard, NTIA-ITS
Bradley Eales, NTIA-ITS

12:00–13:30

Lunch

13:30–14:45

Data Sharing Workshop Part 1: Identifying Challenges and Brainstorming

Technical Co-Chairs, NTIA-ITS

14:45–15:15

Break

15:15–16:30

Data Sharing Workshop Part 2: Building Consensus

Technical Co-Chairs, NTIA-ITS

Thursday, August 13, 2026

09:00–09:05

Opening Remarks

Jeremy Glenn, NTIA-ITS (Emcee)

09:05–10:30

Panel: Research and Requirements for Hardware Solutions

Austin Egbert, Baylor University (Moderator)
Patrick McCormick, University of Kansas
Sean O’Rourke, Army Research Laboratory
Dimitrios Peroulis, Purdue University

10:30–11:00

Break

11:00–11:30

Technical Talk: Physics-Informed Machine Learning: Methods, Frameworks, and Applications in Computational Electromagnetics

Raj Shukla, Brown University

11:30–12:00

Technical Talk: Emerging Hardware Architectures for AI-enabled Spectrum Systems

Ryan Montoya, University of Colorado Boulder

12:00–13:30

Lunch

13:30–14:00

Technical Talk: One Aperture, One Solution: Wideband Active Antenna Performance Across 600 MHz to 7 GHz

Mark Reudink, Battelle

14:00–15:15

Panel: AI-RAN in Practice: Testbeds, Hardware Enablement, and the Path to 6G

Shariq Ashfaq, NTIA-ITS (Moderator)
Prasanth Ananth, Nokia Bell Labs
Aloizio Da Silva, Virginia Tech, Commonwealth
  Cyber Initiative
Michele Polese, Northeastern University, X5G
  Testbed
Hongwei Zhang, Iowa State University, Center for
  Wireless, Communities, and Innovation (WiCI)

15:15–15:30

Break

15:30–16:00

Keynote: Reflections on Three Eras of Wireless Technology: Efficiency, Structural Margins, and Network Resilience

Dale Hatfield, University of Colorado Boulder,
  Silicon Flatirons Center  

16:00–16:15

Wrap-Up Discussion / Next Steps

David Goldstein, NTIA-ITS