This panel brings together leading researchers to discuss how we can develop AI systems that are more trustworthy, safe, and ethically sound. Panelists will explore practical approaches to embedding safety, reliability, and trustworthiness into AI design and implementation, drawing on their pioneering research and leadership in responsible AI development.

Customer experience (CX) has become “ground zero” for AI’s enterprise breakthrough. As organizations move from research and experimentation to real-world, scaled deployments, the contact center is emerging as a proving ground for agentic AI–where speed, trust, and brand value are redefined. This fireside chat brings together industry leaders and innovators for a candid discussion about how AI is transforming customer experiences, and why NTT Data is uniquely positioned at the forefront of this revolution.

From lifesaving medical breakthroughs to game-changing advances in AI, quantum, and photonics, the world’s most impactful innovations trace their origins to basic research. But these breakthroughs don’t happen in isolation: they depend on dynamic partnerships between university labs and industrial research centers like NTT Research, Harvard, and Cornell.

Intelligent enterprises are not built on AI alone. They emerge from combinatorial innovation across the technology stack—where AI converges with advanced connectivity, edge and cloud compute, and sensing. This panel explores why system-level intelligence requires tight co-design across these domains to meet industrial demands for latency, scalability, and resilience. Using NTT AIVista as an example, the discussion shows how AI platforms can orchestrate deep R&D into deployable enterprise intelligence.

As AI and cloud workloads surge, the energy demands and scaling limitations of electronic data centers have reached a breaking point. Enter photonics: a transformative approach that replaces electronic bottlenecks with light-speed data movement, unlocking new levels of efficiency, performance, and sustainability. This panel brings together industry pioneers and innovators to explore why photonics isn’t just a research frontier—it’s the future reality for data centers worldwide.

6G should be a resilient, AI-native infrastructure platform that secures societal progress and continuity, powers immersive value-added services, and transforms operators from commodity carriers into strategic digital platform providers. The exhibition presents a clear call-to-action for operators and ICT industry at large to invest in global standards, AI-capable platforms, resilient architectures, and sustainable business model to secure competitive advantage and public trust