Monday 18
- LECTURE 1 – Maurizio Murroni, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (DIEE), University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy – Title of the talk: “5G/6G for XR communications”.
- LECTURE 2 – Giuseppe Fioccola, Senior Standardization Manager, Huawei Technologies, Milan, Italy – Title of the talk: “Metaverse and networking: performance and enabling technologies”.
- LECTURE 3 – Leonardo Chiariglione, Chairman of the not-for-profit organisation MPAI (Moving Picture, Audio, and Data Coding by Artificial Intelligence) – Title of the remote talk: “The MPAI Metaverse Architecture”.
- LECTURE 4 – Gordon Wetzstein, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Senior Member IEEE, Signal Processing Society’s distinguished lecturer – Title of the remote talk: “Beyond the Metaverse – Towards Human-centric XR”.
Tuesday 19
- LECTURE 5 – Cornelius Hellge, Video Communication and Applications Department, Fraunhofer HHI, Berlin, Germany – Title of the remote talk: “Streaming of Immersive Media”.
- LECTURE 6 – Riccardo Scateni, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics and Computer science, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy – Title of the talk: “What do you see when you look around in the metaverse? Behind the scene of virtual reality”.
- LECTURE 7 – Pablo Pérez, Nokia Bell Labs department for Distributed Reality Solutions, Madrid, Spain – Title of the talk: “The Realverse – challenges in XR communications”.
- LECTURE 8 – Davide Maiorca, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (DIEE) of the University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy – Title of the talk: “Towards a (in)secure Metaverse: Challenges and Open Problems”.
Wednesday 20
- LECTURE 9 – Elisabetta Gola, Full Professor, Department of Pedagogy, Psychological Sciences and Philosophy, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy – Title of the talk: “Extended Minds and Immersive Reality: Truths and Metaphors of the Metaverse”.
- LECTURE 10 – Thomas Stockhammer, Director technical standard, Qualcomm, Germany – Title of the remote talk: “XR and the Metaverse: Technologies and Standards”.
- LECTURE 11 – Luigi Atzori, Full professor, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (DIEE) of the University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy – Title of the talk: “Quality of Experience for the Metaverse”.
- LECTURE 12 – Massimo Farina, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (DIEE) of the University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy – Title of the talk: “Privacy and legal aspects for the Metaverse”.