This panel aims at discussing the key drivers and technology trends being envisaged for future wireless networks (2030). The European Union and United States of America have both started their own research programmes with the objective to lead the evolution towards next generation wireless networks. Although the objective is the same, the European and USA approaches seem to differ significantly in inception and execution.Members of this panel include an industrial thought leader (Alain Mourad) from Interdigital, who is involved in both USA and European wireless research programmes and knows from first-hand the advantages and disadvantages of each approach. Serge Fdida, coordinator of the EMPOWER project has a long experience on the management of shared experimental platforms, especially as coordinator of the federated OneLab facility, the FIT French research infrastructure or the PlanetLab Europe testbed. Finally, Abhimanyu Gosain, as technical programme director of the PAWR office is the key person regarding the North American advanced wireless research platforms. This panel aims at discussing a mix of market and technology questions such as: What are the key drivers; technical and societal, influencing research programmes towards 6G? What are the key technology trends in the wireless system and in the network? How are different countries, noticeably in EU and USA approaching the research towards 6G? Is the role of experimental research becoming more or less important? What makes the case to strengthen cooperation on the research platforms? How the costs of such platforms should be shared between public and private organizations? Do we see the need for a different governance model of these research platforms than what we are used to? How should non-traditional partner requirements (e.g. from Vertical Industries) be incorporated in future experimental wireless research platforms? What needs to be done to ensure large participation and use of these research platforms? How do we ensure reproducibility of the experiments? What models for experimental data sharing and governance need to be considered?