South West

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. 

From commercializing 5G and the roadmap to 2030 to aligning 6G evolution to real world requirements, from digital transformation to emerging business models, SCWS offers a dynamic platform to explore the intersection of policy, technology, and partnerships.

Following on from our highly successful investor breakfast in October 2023, our next event – taking place on March 21st in Bristol - will again bring investors together with companies looking to raise funds.

We’re socially engineered to believe that mobile infrastructure is necessarily inelegant. As a result, we see brand new Housing Developments – ideal for hybrid working – built without adequate Mobile Coverage.

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

Join BDFI academic Xenofon Vasilakos at this seminar exploring the convergence and integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Sixth Generation (6G) network architectures. This emerging combination signifies a transformative shift in the landscape of future telecommunications.

Dorset's vision is to be the UK’s leading rural location for digital innovation, showing how more remote locations can support innovation, tackle society’s grand challenges and turbocharge the UK economy.

Download to learn more about the advanced connectivity opportunities in Dorset.

Standards are an essential part of the telecoms ecosystem, but finding the time and budget to understand and engage with the myriad standards bodies and their processes is tough. 

The UKTIN Standards Working Group is designed to support SMEs in more effectively interacting with the standards process and having their IP adopted.

Wireless networking is experiencing a period of exciting change with the development of new generations - from 5G to 6G, WiFi 6 and 7 - offering new use cases and business cases.

Discussions will be centred around the threats of bad actors weaponizing AI, development of robust encryption methods, the implementation of stringent access controls, and the incorporation of ethical considerations into AI deployment.

Against the backdrop of massive industry change, including ambitions to meet net zero, worldwide food production pressures and increasing UK food security concerns due to Ukraine’s ongoing invasion, our farming communities are in a challenging period.

Hello, my name is Ian Smith and I am the Chief Technology Officer at Quickline Communications. I am responsible for our technological-related decisions across our customer-facing network and internal IT systems.

Dorset Local Enterprise is committed to supporting the local rural and natural economy, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, and has invested £194,000 towards improving rural further education.

Local Growth Fund investment has been provided to enable two new infrastructure upgrades at Kingston Maurward College, a l

Enhanced connectivity for rural areas

5G RuralDorset today announced a new project expansion to monitor land stability and cliff movement at key points along the Jurassic Coast. The extension to this DCMS-backed project takes its funding to £8 million and sees the British Geological Survey (BGS) join the project to work on this research area.

Small Robot Company, Wessex Internet, Telint and Dorset Council partner to deliver step-change in rural connectivity and agricultural productivity AND £7 million DCMS government grant-funded project will be launch pad for cost-effective farm robotic systems into the future.

Announcing the 5G RuralFirst Orkney Test Locations – Part 1 | 5GRuralFirst