IEEE ANTS has been at the forefront in bringing together industry, academia, and government agencies, to promote an innovation economy in India for development of products, solutions and services with broad applications by bridging the gap between basic research, product development and governmental policies. This is fostered through panel discussions, invited talks, and keynotes where academia is exposed to state-of-practice and results from trials, interoperability experiments and industry demonstrations. The industry is benefited in turn by exposure to leading-edge research in networking as well the opportunity to communicate to academic researchers which practical problems require further research.

Motivated by the tremendous success of the first five IEEE ANTS events in Mumbai in 2007, 2008, 2010, in New Delhi in 2009, and in Bangalore in 2011, the theme of 2012 event is on enabling content enriched personalized communication over "green" networks while delivering exemplary user experience on any connected device.