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)

Event is co-located with NSMA, NSC, and IEEE DySPAN; joint sessions are indicated

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 Agenda

Tuesday, 12 May

7:30 am -5:30 pmRegistration (Foyer)
8:00-9:15 amPlenary Keynotes (Phillips Ballroom): Spectrum Policy Fireside Chat
Arpan Sura (FCC) and Charles Cooper (NTIA)
9:15-9:30 amBreak (Plenary Networking)
9:30-11:00 am6 GHz Committee (Corcoran A/B)Geofenced Variable Power (GVP)
11:00-11:30 amBreak (Plenary Networking)
11:30 am-12:30 pmPlenary Panel (Phillips Ballroom): Spectrum Policy in the Age of Satellite Internet 
12:30-2:00 pm Lunch (National Ballroom – Plenary Networking)
2:00-3:30 pm 6 GHz Committee (Corcoran A/B)New Features, Functions, and Capabilities
3:30-4:00 pmBreak (Plenary Networking)
 4:00-5:30 pmJoint 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)

Wednesday, 13 May

7:30 am-5:30 pmRegistration (Foyer)
8:00-9:15amPlenary 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)
9:15-9:30 amBreak (Plenary Networking)
9:30-11:00 amCBRS Committee (Corcoran A/B)CBRS By the Numbers
11:00-11:30 amBreak (Plenary Networking)
11:30 am-12:30 pmPlenary Panel (Phillips Ballroom): O-RAN: Opportunities, Challenges, and Trends
12:30-2:00 pm Lunch (National Ballroom – Plenary Networking)
2:00-3:30 pmCBRS Committee (Corcoran A/B)CBRS 3.0
3:30-4:00 pmBreak (Plenary Networking)
4:00-5:30 pmJoint 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 Title TBA, Nick LaSorte (NTIA)5:00 “National Radio Quiet Zone Modernization Study,” Dennis Roberson (Roberson & Associates)
5:30-7:30 pmBoard of Directors Meeting (Kreeger-Closed meeting)

Thursday, 14 May

7:30 am-5:30 pmRegistration (Foyer)
8:00-9:15amPlenary Keynote (Phillips Ballroom): Sofie Pollin (KU Leuven)
9:15-9:30 am Break (Plenary Networking)
9:30-11:00 amWInnAI 2026 Workshop (Corcoran A/B)
AI Agents, Swarms, and Digital TwinsA 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)
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) 
11:00-11:30 amBreak (Plenary Networking)
11:30 am -12:30 pmPlenary Panel (Phillips Ballroom): AI in Spectrum Management 
12:30-2:00 pmLunch (National Ballroom – Plenary Networking)
2:00-3:30 pmWInnAI 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)
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)
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)
3:30-4:00 pmBreak (Plenary Networking)
4:00-5:30 pm 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 High-Performance 3D Simulation Environment for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Cellular RF Coverage in Urban Geometries
John Glossner (Wireless Innovation Forum)
 

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