
87th General Meeting of the Wireless Innovation Forum & First Annual Wireless Innovation Forum Workshop on AI/ML and Agentic AI in Advanced Wireless Communications and Spectrum Management (WInnAI 2026)
Meetings of the CBRS, 6 GHz, and Wireless Innovation Committees: 12-13 May 2026 WInnAI 2026 Workshop: 14 May 2026
The Royal Sonesta, Dupont Circle (booking link here)
Event is co-located with NSMA, NSC, and IEEE DySPAN; joint sessions are indicated
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Agenda
Tuesday, 12 May
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7:30 am -5:30 pm
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Registration (Foyer)
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8:00-9:15 am
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Plenary Keynotes (Phillips Ballroom):
Arpan Sura (FCC) and Brooke Donilon (NTIA) Fireside Chat
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9:15-9:30 am
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Break (Plenary Networking)
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9:30-11:00 am
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6 GHz Committee (Corcoran A/B)
- Geofenced Variable Power (GVP)
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11:00-11:30 am
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Break (Plenary Networking)
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11:30 am-12:30 pm
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Plenary Panel (Phillips Ballroom): Spectrum Policy in the Age of Satellite Internet
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12:30-2:00 pm
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Lunch (National Ballroom - Plenary Networking)
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2:00-3:30 pm
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6 GHz Committee (Corcoran A/B)
- New Features, Functions, and Capabilities
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3:30-4:00 pm
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Break (Plenary Networking)
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4:00-5:30 pm
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Joint WInnForum and NSMA (Corcoran A/B)
4:00 “SparkGap: A Distributed Data Layer for Agentic Spectrum Coordination,” Andrew Clegg (Valo Analytica) and John Leibovitz (Jupiterra)
4:30 “Importance of TV-UHF spectrum for events and content creation,”Fabiano Chaves (Shure & Wireless Microphone Spectrum Alliance USA [WMSA USA])
5:00 "History of Harmful Interference, "Peter Tenhula, (Sr. Fellow, Silicon Flatirons, Univ. of Colorado)
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Wednesday, 13 May
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7:30 am-5:30 pm
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Registration (Foyer)
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8:00-9:15am
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Plenary Keynote (Phillips Ballroom): "A View of Spectrum from the Department of War Perspective," Dr. Martin Weiss (Office of the Secretary of War for Research and Engineering, DoW)
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9:15-9:30 am
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Break (Plenary Networking)
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9:30-11:00 am
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CBRS Committee (Corcoran A/B)
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11:00-11:30 am
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Break (Plenary Networking)
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11:30 am-12:30 pm
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Plenary Panel (Phillips Ballroom): O-RAN: Opportunities, Challenges, and Trends
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12:30-2:00 pm
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Lunch (National Ballroom - Plenary Networking)
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2:00-3:30 pm
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CBRS Committee (Corcoran A/B)
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3:30-4:00 pm
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Break (Plenary Networking)
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4:00-5:30 pm
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Joint WInnForum and NSMA (Corcoran A/B)
4:00 “Hybrid Statistical Analysis of CBRS Sensor Data in NASCTN’s Sharing Ecosystem Assessment Using AI/ML for Signal Classification,” Dr. Harish Ramchandran and Jose Zapata (MITRE)
4:30 TBA
5:00 "National Radio Quiet Zone Modernization Study," Dennis Roberson (Roberson & Associates)
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5:30-7:30 pm
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Board of Directors Meeting (Kreeger-Closed meeting)
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Thursday, 14 May
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7:30 am-5:30 pm
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Registration (Foyer)
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8:00-9:15am
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Plenary Keynote (Phillips Ballroom): Sofie Pollin (KU Leuven)
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9:15-9:30 am
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Break (Plenary Networking)
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9:30-11:00 am
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WInnAI 2026 Workshop (Corcoran A/B)
AI Agents, Swarms, and Digital Twins
A generative artificial intelligence agent for obfuscated information from the CBRS daily FADs Minh Hoang Le and Pierre-Jean Muller (RED Technologies, France); Benjamin Madar (Polytechnique Montréal, Canada); Thomas Hervier (RED Technologies, France)
Distributed SDR Architectures for Physical AI Swarms: Coordinating Multi-Modal Agents in Dynamic 6G Environments Mo Shakouri (Telewave.io, USA)
Proposed AI Framework for Accelerated EMC Pre-Compliance: Advancing U.S. Competitiveness Aruni Basu (Segula, USA); Satyajit Lingras (USA)
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11:00-11:30 am
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Break (Plenary Networking)
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11:30 am -12:30 am
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Plenary Panel (Phillips Ballroom): AI in Spectrum Management
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12:30-2:00 pm
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Lunch (National Ballroom - Plenary Networking)
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2:00-3:30 pm
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WInnAI 2026 Workshop (Corcoran A/B)
SAFE-T: AI-Driven Adaptive Thresholding for Cooperative Spectrum Sensing Hao Guo, Ruoyu Sun and Rahil Gandotra (CableLabs, USA); Jiayu Mao (The Ohio State University, USA); Mark Poletti (CableLabs, USA)
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Automation for Spectrum Management with Adaptive and Reconfigurable Technology Charles Baylis, Austin Egbert, Andrew Clegg, Adam C. Goad, Kelly Sherbondy and Robert J. Marks (Baylor University, USA)
Multi-Timescale Transformer-Based Spectrum Occupancy Prediction for Real-Time Dynamic Spectrum Sharing Jiayu Mao (The Ohio State University, USA); Ruoyu Sun (CableLabs, USA); Aylin Yener (The Ohio State University, USA); Rahil Gandotra (CableLabs, USA); Sophia Dai (Lakewood High School, USA); Mark Poletti and Hao Guo (CableLabs, USA)
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3:30-4:00 pm
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Break (Plenary Networking)
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4:00-5:30 pm
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WInnAI 2026 Workshop (Corcoran A/B)
Predictive Propagation Modeling Guided by Sensor-Driven Multimodal FoF Scene Assessment Rudhra Mangleshkumar Joshi (Rowan University, USA); Sean B Johnson (Rutgers University, USA); Zubair Hafeez and Silvija Kokalj-Filipović (Rowan University, USA); Predrag Spasojević (Rutgers University, USA)
A Quantitative Comparison of Established and Promising RF Denoising Methods Vaasu Taneja and Blessing Andrew Okoro (University at Albany, USA); Mariya Zheleva (UAlbany SUNY, USA); Clark H Mattoon (University at Albany, USA)
Hydra-RAN: An AI-Native Cognitive Architecture with Semantic Multi-Task Learning From Sparse Sensing to Semantic Cognition Rafid Abd (University of Yonsei, Korea (South)); Kwang Soon Kim (Yonsei University, Korea (South)); Smaya Moher (Technological University Dublin, Ireland)
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