5G

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

Join senior executives from CSPs and leading industry vendors and learn the best practices driving global adoption of Fixed Wireless Access services.

England’s Connected Heartland (ECH) is the name of our 5G Innovation Region. Co-ordinated by Oxfordshire County Council, ECH is a partnership of nine councils in the heartland region. It encompasses Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Central Bedfordshire, and Cambridgeshire.

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.

Shropshire Council - River Severn Partnership

Cumberland Council - Borderlands Partnership

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.

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 

6G is unfolding fast in most prestigious labs worldwide. Research results are handled to standardization bodies like 3GPP which will deliver a standard ready before end of this decade. 6G will come to real world around 2030 complementing 5G with new groundbreaking features such as embedded AI and sensing capabilities.

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 UKTIN Academic Future Networks Strategy Working Group (which can be referred to as the Academic Strategic Working Group[1]) is one of the UKTIN groups which is tasked with developing a long-term strategy that will ensure world-leading academic research into future networks well into 2040.

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. 

The Horizon Europe Digital technologies brokerage event is a unique opportunity to establish direct contacts between scientists/researchers and entrepreneurs and discuss cooperation possibilities for future Horizon Europe Cluster 4 Digital calls.

Join the UK SPF Cluster 1 for an exclusive event dedicated to examining the evolving landscape of indoor connectivity and its future demand. As the world becomes increasingly interconnected, the need for robust and reliable indoor networks is more crucial than ever before for both consumers and enterprises.

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.

What:

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

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.

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:

O-RANOS looked at the development of x/r Apps, security model, and deployment of Apps to the RiC (Radio Interface controller) that would allow the sharing of network resources between a public and private networks.

5G & Future Connectivity  Programme presented by Janet Ross Digital Infrastructure Delivery Manager North of Tyne Combined Authority.

Sunderland’s 5GIR bid was born out of a New North East combined Authority.

5G Enablement Programme Development of a sustainable Belfast region (and NI wide) programme to foster the local advanced wireless ecosystem, drive adoption of advanced wireless technologies, and aggregate and demonstrate demand for investment in advanced wireless technologies.

Digital Catapult is delighted to invite you to an in person SONIC Labs Investor Seminar on the outlook on future networks, taking place on Tuesday 15 October from 13:00-17:00 at Digital Catapult’s office in central London.