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Cambridge Tech Week 2025 is set to return from 15 – 19 September, with a focus on global collaboration and a bold ambition: to showcase Cambridge as the deep tech capital of Europe and a driving force behind some of the world’s most transformative technologies. 

Apply now to join our UK Tech Showcase @ London Tech Week 2025!

The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) is looking for the UK’s best and brightest tech companies to be a part of our UK Technology Showcase at London Tech Week 2025 (9th-13th June).

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

Read the latest UKTIN news, Industry news, Success stories and Governement updates in this winter edition.

Shaping tomorrow: where business fuels innovation

Where UK connectivity leaders from across the public and private sector come to meet

UK INNOVATION IS AT AN EXCITING JUNCTURE
Ian Smith, Head of UKTIN

Connectivity has, and always will, underpin societal and economic growth. Fortunately, the UK telecoms sector is 
rife with innovation and potential.

Innovation is the lifeblood of any sector: it’s what keeps us moving forward.
But to deliver on the demands of citizens and industry today, and ensure a rich and robust pipeline 
of future R&D and innovation, organisations in the telecoms sector need to be able to navigate 

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.

The telecom industry’s end-of-year wrap-up returns to London on Thursday 5 December, for a day of boisterous discussion and debate on the big issues and topics that are shaping the future of telecoms. 

Debates proposed so far include:

Presentation outlining Glasgow City Region strategic context and properties

Presentation outlining digital innovation undertaken by Coventry City Council

Network X brings together global leaders across Fixed Networks, Mobile Networks and Telco software to offer the world’s most comprehensive B2B telecommunications industry event.

Our 34,000km private telecoms network spans the UK providing a range of high capacity connectivity and collaboration solutions.

National network maps

• Unprecedented £11bn investment is one of the largest privately funded infrastructure programmes in the UK, connecting all four nations and every community  
• VodafoneThree is the only mobile network operator with a fully funded, regulated and guaranteed

Netomnia leverages Adtran’s next-generation SDX 6400 Series to deliver ultra-high-speed service. 

The  project marks UK’s first commercial deployment of 50G PON over existing infrastructure.

DySPAN 2025, the premier international conference on spectrum innovation, was held in London from May 12th to 16th at King’s College London.

• Toshiba Europe has announced a breakthrough in quantum communications over standard fibre-optic cable and at normal room temperature
• Simple chip technology replaces complex cryogenics to allow quantum communications over regular telecom infrastructure 
• It has also enabled the fi

German incumbent Deutsche Telekom is going to great lengths to demonstrate its quantum networking prowess.

• The UK universities of Bristol and Cambridge have been collaborating on quantum-safe networking developments
• They have achieved live, quantum-secure transfer of encrypted medical data, secure remote access to a distributed datacentre and the world’s first long-distance quantum secured video call.

According to a recently published report from Dell’Oro Group, the trusted source for market information about the telecommunications, security, networks, and data center industries, telecom operators scaled back wireless and wireline investments in 2024.