Saturday August 29
Location: ISU Student Innovation Center (2221SICTR)
8:00 am – 8:30 am: Breakfast
8:30 am – 9:45 am: Welcome remarks and Introductions
8:45 am – 9:15 am: ARA Platform Overview
- Hongwei Zhang, ARA PI; Director (Center for Wireless, Communities and Innovation – WiCI), Richardson Professor (ECE), Iowa State University
9:15 am – 10:15 am: Featured Community Talks I
- “High-Altitude Platform Stations for Smart Agriculture: Communication and Imaging Applications“, Mohamed-Slim Alouini, Professor, KAUST.
- “The Transformation of Telecommunications in Support of Monitoring Wildlife in Remote Areas“, Stefano Giordano, Professor, Università di Pisa.
10:15 am – 10:30 am: Break
10:30 am – 12:00 pm: Featured Community Talks II
- “Beyond Connectivity: Delivering Deterministic Network Performance for AI and Machine-to-Machine Communications Across Wireless, Open RAN, and Satellite Networks“, Jing Song, Managing Director, Genesis Codes.
- “Introduction to Duranta“, Karim Aboutiba, Ph.D., Computer Science Engineer and Researcher, OpenAirInterface.
- “5G/6G Security with Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC)”, Arupjyoti (Arup) Bhuyan, Directorate Fellow, INL National & Homeland Security.
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm: Lunch
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm: New User Training Program (Parallel Session)
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm: Platform-Focused Enrichment with Existing Users (Parallel Session)
3:00 pm – 3:15 pm: Break
3:15 pm – 3:35 pm: Empowering Education with ARA
- Mohamed Selim, ARA Co-PI; Associate Teaching Professor (ECE), Iowa State University
3:35 pm – 4:00 pm: GitLab for Community Collaboration using ARA
- Sarath Babu, Assistant Research Professor (ECE), Iowa State University
4:00 pm – 4:45 pm: Arathon Plan + Team Formation
Sunday August 30
Location: ISU Student Innovation Center (2221 SICTR)
8:00 am – 8:30 am: breakfast
8:30 am – 9:00 am: Arathon Q&A
9:00 am – 12:30 pm: Arathon Sprint 1
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm: lunch break
1:30 pm – 4:30 pm: Arathon Sprint 2
4:30 pm – 5:30 pm: Team Presentations
5:30 pm – 5:45 pm: closing