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London Tech Week 2025 (9th – 12th June) is the UK’s largest and most influential tech event. As a global celebration of tech, it unites the most innovative thinkers and talent of tomorrow in a week-long festival with over 45,000 attendees at last year’s main event at Kensington Olympia.

The telecoms industry forms a vital part of the UK’s society and economy. It connects the country and provides the basic infrastructure on which we build all elements of our digital lives, both social and economic.

Semiconductors, also known as ‘chips,’ are present in almost every device we use: from day to-day consumer electronics, vehicles, defence, healthcare, to the data centres powering AI. Virtually every piece of digital technology is built upon a bedrock of semiconductors.

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Join TelecomTV for the final panel discussion of our in-depth case study examining TELUS’s groundbreaking Open RAN deployment journey. Experts from TELUS, Wind River and Intel discuss the challenges, breakthroughs and lessons learned during this transformative deployment.

CW TEC will take a bold, technology-agnostic look at the UK’s future communications infrastructure and challenge the assumption that 3GPP-led cellular networks alone can deliver on our ambitions for secure, resilient, and universal connectivity.

Join the HealthTech SIG for a half-day event exploring the transformative shift from traditional hospital-centred care to decentralised healthcare models.

Wi-Fi 7 is here, and it promises to significantly boost the speed and stability of your wireless connections, with reliable low-latency performance and the ability to manage more connections. So if you design, apply or use Wi-Fi join the Radio Technology SIG for a distinguished lecture on the impact of Wi-Fi 7.

Building UK capability in telecoms network supply chains: insights, recommendations, and next steps

Telecoms R&D Future Capability Strategic Leadership Forum

DTW Ignite will occur from 17-19 June 2025 at the Bella Center in Copenhagen.

Following on from the resounding success of the inaugural Strategies in Satellite Ground Segment conference, held in London on the 4th & 5th September, 2024 - The Satellite Evolution Group, in collaboration with TalkSatellite, will host the ‘Strategies in Satellite Ground Segment 2025’ conference, in London, on October 8&9th at the Park

The Institute of Telecommunications Professionals (ITP) is delighted to announce their forthcoming conference on “The Integration of terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks”.

The event will bring together leading global experts from academia, industry, and government to explore the future of 6G technologies and their transformative potential.

At Connected Places Catapult we connect people, places and businesses for a future of sustainable growth and prosperity.

ONE Western O-RAN Deployment (WORD) Overview 

Peter Gradwell, Telet Research; Rafal Sanecki, IS-Wireless 

Witek Wojas Connected Places

UKTIN Connected Places update

Rhys Enfield Director of Infrastructure Acceleration

Historic Windsor will again play host to more than one hundred of the industry's most innovative thinkers as they assemble at the Fairmont Windsor Park on 3-4 June, to discuss the 2025 DSP Leaders World Forum theme, ‘Unleashing the digital services opportunity’.

Open RAN continues to be one of the most pivotal and debated topics in the telecoms industry, with its influence felt across the globe. But will it deliver on its promises? And can innovations like the RAN intelligent controller (RIC) drive meaningful transformation?

The Telco as a Platform Summit is back for its second year, bringing fresh perspectives on building a Telco as a Platform model that drives innovation and unlocks new opportunities for enterprises and consumer-facing service providers.

Find out more about the exciting apprenticeship career opportunities with BT Group, Vodafone, Virgin Media O2 and talk to their apprentices on this exclusive live event. Level 2 to level 7, engineering, tech and commercial roles. Great perks and benefits with these leading telecoms companies. Limitless opportunities. 

The Smart Networks and Services Joint Undertaking (SNS JU) is at the forefront of driving innovation in next-generation communication technologies and services across Europe. At the same time, various national initiatives in Europe are actively advancing 6G technologies and smart services.