Government

Over the course of May and June 2024, Innovate UK, in collaboration with UKRI India and the Indian Department of Telecommunications (DoT), delivered a Global Expert Mission, bringing together key government and R&D experts from the UK and India.

Join us for the UK SPF Cluster 3 event, on Friday 29 November between 14:00-17:00, which will showcase interim findings from the three DSIT Spectrum Sandbox projects.

Birmingham Tech Week is the UK’s largest regional tech festival and conference with over 7,500 people attending. Events will be taking place across the entire West Midlands covering a variety of important and innovative topics.

techUK is delighted to see the return of the Cyber Security Dinner in Central London. The event brings together senior stakeholders from across government and industry for an informal discussion on some of the key issues facing the sector.

Join DSIT and UKTIN to discuss the role of local government in transforming public services and driving local growth through the adoption of advanced wireless.

The Accelerating RAN Intelligence in 5G (ARI-5G) Consortium, led by Telecom Infra Project (TIP) and in collaboration with Accelleran, Amdocs, Attocore, British Telecom (BT) and VIAVI Solutions, has successfully deployed, evaluated, and showcased four spectrum and energy management x/rApps use cases on a standards-based RIC platform. 

Building the foundations for telecoms supply chain diversification 

The SONIC Labs Annual Report 2023/24 highlights the significant progress made since the programme’s inception in October 2020.

This event will provide delegates with the opportunity to hear from senior government officials on the strategic importance of international innovation programmes, from industry and association bodies on the opportunities, plans and next steps to engaging, and from academic leaders on what the UK has to offer.

Connected World KSA focuses on enhancing digital and telecommunication infrastructure to improve global and regional connectivity and to meet the growing technological demands of a modern digital economy.

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Flex 5G is a Project delivered under the DSIT FRANC (Future RAN: Diversifying the 5G Supply Chain) Portfolio, which allocated up to £30 million of R&D funding to projects that support the goals of the government's 5G Supply Chain

This dissemination document highlights the closure of the CoMP-O-RAN Project outlining what was achieved and why. It summarises the experiences and findings gained during the project life cycle from development and prototyping phases through to testing in real environments.

The BEACON-5G team organised a workshop and end of project showcase event aimed at exhibiting some of the key technological innovations for Open RAN. BEACON-5G is among the winners of the £30 million UK government funding, allocated as part of the Future Open RAN Competition (FRANC), to support 5G diversification strategy.

Proteus is a project executed under the UK’s department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS, now DSIT) Future of RAN Competition (FRANC). In this report we provide an overview of the project’s stated objectives and of its achievements.

Let's keep talking!

When the Wireless Infrastructure Strategy was published in April 2023, it centralised guidance to local government and businesses to help them advance their wireless connectivity across the UK.

Join us at this landmark event to shape the future of wireless communication, drive economic growth, and forge international partnerships that will define the next era of global connectivity.

Join FarrPoint's upcoming webinar on 15th May 2024 at 11 am as we discuss the resilience of the UK's fixed and mobile networks. 

The Regulatory Horizons Council (RHC) – an independent council of experts created to advise the UK Government on future technologies – was invited to conduct a review of key current and future technologies and how enabling regulation can support their responsible adoption in the space sector.

Quantum technologies offer profound and transformative economic, social, and security opportunities for the UK. These could impact on many areas of our lives, from improving healthcare and speeding up drug discovery, to supporting efforts to tackle climate change and helping to keep the UK safe. 

The UK Telecoms Innovation Network (UKTIN) NTN working group, comprising of industrial and academic experts have worked during 2023 to analyse gaps and strengths in the UK NTN ecosystem and to make initial recommendations to Government, academia and industry aimed at ensuring that the UK has a strong role in this key area. 

This East of England Tech Collaboration event, hosted and sponsored by the University of East Anglia and supported by Cambridge Tech Week, aims to foster collaboration between regions and showcase what the East of England has to offer.