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Optica’s Purposeful Executive Leadership Summit is a professional development two day in-person only summit that is designed for middle mangers and those who seek to become middle managers.

Welcome to the UKTIN quarterly review. In Issue 2, Nick Johnson talks about the great work that the UKTIN consortium is doing to accelerate the UK telecoms innovation engine, takes stock of the guidance given last time and whether we measured up and speculates about what there is to look forward to as we approach 2024.

The 2023 agenda had been carefully curated to target the needs of telcos top level management.

The Digital Connectivity Forum is delighted to announce the launch event of their Climate Guidance for SME's in the telco industry.

Analysis by connectivity experts FarrPoint provides a new benchmarking framework for public sector bodies, evaluating connectivity preparedness across the four UK nations.

Innovate UK, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research

UKTIN is launching a three-day IP and Standards Seminar series, designed to upskill SMEs in the strategy and practice of navigating the standards bodies and identifying protectable and valuable Intellectual Property.

Day 1: 9th January

Day 2: 10th January

Day 3: 11th January

Apprenticeships are a great option to earn a salary, get hands-on experience and the opportunity to gain qualifications while you work - even a degree.

Careful, responsible, and efficient management of resources has become increasingly important, not just to the agriculture industry, but to the planet.

The first report on the State of the Digital Decade provides a comprehensive look at progress towards achieving the digital transformation to empower a more digitally sovereign, resilient, and competitive EU.

CELTIC is pleased to announce that for the CELTIC-NEXT Autumn Call 2023, a Call Proposers’ Brokerage Day will take place online on Thursday 5th of October 2023 from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. CET.

Horizon Europe is the current EU €95 billion research and innovation Framework Programme for 2021 to 2027.

Agri-Tech Week 2023 provides opportunities to meet potential collaborators, customers and partners within the agri-tech ecosystem and includes the REAP conference.

Featuring a mix of in person and virtual events that are designed to showcase exciting developments in agri-tech, the week is coordinated by Agri-TechE working closely with pa

UKTIN is announcing a new series of Investor Breakfasts with the aim of showcasing exceptional UK telecoms talent from across the sector and highlighting the benefits of investing in the UK’s telecoms infrastructure and the broad range of companies and technologies operating within it. 

This is a special digital event focusing on the role of telecoms in combatting climate change.

techUK is working with NHS England to set up a virtual roundtable, taking place on the 16th of August, for suppliers to provide feedback to help policymakers understand how the Digital Health Technologies policy framework is impacting industry.

Standard smartphones to receive signal from space 

Photo Credit: Nathan Pitt - University of Cambridge

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced Fastnet, a new transatlantic subsea fibre-optic cable system linking Maryland, USA, and County Cork, Ireland.

Fastnet, which is expected to be operational in 2028, has been designed to improve network resilience by adding a new, independent data route across the Atlantic.

Cisco becomes the first partner to offer a NVIDIA Cloud Partner compliant reference architecture with new data center switching solutions. Together, Cisco and NVIDIA provide customers ultimate flexibility as they build critical AI infrastructure. 

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NVIDIA  announced America’s first AI-native wireless stack for 6G, including new applications to advance next-generation wireless technology, in collaboration with industry-leading partners Booz Allen, Cisco, MITRE, ODC and T-Mobile.

Mobile network analytics firm Opensignal says network sharing between the newly merged operators has unlocked significant coverage improvements.

Global spending on telco network cloud infrastructure and software is projected to grow from $17.4 billion in 2025 to $24.8 billion by 2030, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7.3%, according to Omdia’s new Telco Network Cloud Market Tracker – 2025 Annual Forecast Report.