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Ryuji Wakikawa
softbank, Vice President
Speaker Bio
Ryuji Wakikawa serves as the Vice President and Head of the Research Institute of Advanced Technology at SoftBank Corp.
He is also a Project Professor at the Global Research Institute at Keio University, Japan, where he received his Ph.D. in 2004.
He also serves on the Board of Directors of the O-RAN ALLIANCE and on the Governing Board of LF Networking.
Currently, he leads SoftBank’s research institute, where he focuses on the development of advanced technologies, architecture design, and shaping future visions. His work spans areas such as AI-RAN, 5G Advanced, 6G, HAPS, Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN), LLM/Transformer, and quantum technologies.