When: 09 July 2025, 09:00 - 17:30
Where: The Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge
Cost: Free
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. Instead, the conference will explore how a federated, interoperable ‘network of networks' which integrating NTN, Wi-Fi, IoT, optical, and fixed-line innovations, is essential to meeting the real-world needs of UK industry, society, and national strategy.
The event programme will cover:
- What does the UK need from comms in the next decade / 6G era? What are the UK’s requirements advanced connectivity in the next decade, as both a society and economy dependent on connectivity networks and as an aspirational supply-side player?
- What will 6G give us? How are the emerging 3GPP standards measuring up to the early aspirations and UK requirements?
- What other standards/technologies might help? Beyond the 3GPP world what other developments might meet the UK’s needs and provide market entry opportunities, whether NTN , Wi-Fi, or other technologies?
- How do we stitch it all together to meet our needs? Given the diverse technology landscape, how can the UK adopt a network-of-networks approach to ensure the best of all worlds without building in excessive complexity? And how do we get there from today’s networks?
Speakers include thought leaders from Cisco, DSIT, University of Cambridge, Ofcom, European Space Agency, Real Wireless, VIAVI and more. For more information visit the agenda and full speaker line up.
As part of our partnership with UKTIN, we’re offering 10 free delegate places for members of the UK Telecoms Innovation Network.
Use the code CWTEC25UKT100 to Claim your place here
