Agenda

Format - 5 minute introduction (no slides)

Format - 4 speakers, 50 minutes, ‘fireside chat’, 3 minute opening remarks each (no slides), followed by group discussion
- What are the existing use cases with a clear business case i.e. coverage?
- Driving economic value
- How does each operator see 5G evolving? Business/industrial clusters or urban/consumer led
- Ensuring the right economic balance of risk and reward
- Supporting 5G rollout
- Harnessing government procurement to accelerate 5G applications and service evolution
- 5G partner ecosystem - the role of operators
- Taking an operationalisation & scale ecosystem driven approach
- Investing in the future of infrastructure
- Investing in street infrastructure for 5G

Format - 3 speakers, 40 minutes, panel discussion, 2 minute introductory remarks each (no slides), followed by group discussion
- Alternative funding structures for private networks, enterprise and other 5G deployments (edge DCs, 5G urban and rural RAN)
- Current structures - where they work, benefits and limitations, financial implications and considerations (balance sheet for both supplier and customer), commercial & legal considerations
- Alternative structures - On-balance sheet funding models vs. off-balance sheet funding models and which scenarios suit them for deployment
- The legal implications of 5G business models

Format - 15 minute presentation followed by Q&A (slides)
- Scenarios in which development capital may work to scale and expedite 5G - benefits and considerations of each scenario
- What do funders look for when making equity investment decisions
- Commercial considerations for organisations planning to seek development capital - hints and tips on preparation, approach and tactics

Format - 3 speakers, 30 minutes, panel discussion, 2 minute introductory remarks each (no slides), followed by group discussion

Format - 5 minute introduction (no slides)
- Different stages and versions

Format - 4 speakers, 45 minutes, ‘fireside chat’, 3 minute opening remarks each (no slides), followed by group discussion
- Deployment specifics
- Challenges
- Commercialisation
- Problem solving ideas around the challenges faced
- Lessons learned from deployments
- What are the current barriers?
- Barrier busting

Format - 15 minute presentation followed by Q&A (slides)
- Technology supporting cities to be as attractive as possible to live and work in
- New York, Toronto, Hong Kong case studies
- Enriching communities and driving forward business

Format - 15 minute presentation followed by Q&A (slides)

Format - 15 minute presentation followed by Q&A (slides)
- Test network in test factory before full factory
- Where deploying kit?
- Are industrial parks a realistic target now? Do we need to wait for later versions i.e. slicing, low latency

Format - 15 minute presentation followed by Q&A (slides)
- Supporting Greater Manchester’s industrial strategy
- 5G enabled immersive technology lab at MediaCityUK
- Technology supporting the city-region to be as attractive as possible to live and work in
- Use cases and business cases making a difference to citizens

Format - 5 minute introduction (no slides)

Format - 15 minute presentation followed by Q&A (slides)
- Pioneering advanced technology
- Cloud native
- Automation
- Use cases

Format - 4 speakers, 40 minutes, panel discussion, 2 minute introductory remarks each (no slides), followed by group discussion
- Health examples - rural, urban, care homes, peoples homes
- How can you encourage engagement in digital transformation initiatives?
- Transforming the back end systems of the NHS
- The rise and adoption of digital health services
- How will digital technologies make for better outcomes, a better path to health, or a better way to care?
- Scenarios where 5G technology could provide solutions for the healthcare sector
- Why is 5G different from its predecessors?
- The importance of personalised healthcare, digital inequality and a patient centric approach

Format - 3 speakers, 30 minutes, 5 minutes to explain the essence of the project (1 or 2 slides/video), followed by group discussion
- What are each project looking for from the audience?
- How will they be sustainable post the testbeds and trials programme?
Featuring:
- Enhancing the Eden Project with AR, VR and Mixed Realities
- 5G Powered Sporting Events
- 5G Festival

Format - 30 minutes, panel discussion, 2 minute introductory remarks each (no slides), followed by group discussion
- Insights from EU Horizon’s 5G VINNI program and TM Forum’s Digital Business Marketplace catalyst
- Are 5G new business models different from traditional partnering business models?
- Is it really possible technically to deliver a fully plug and play frictionless trading secure ecosystem, where each organization can really be their own marketplace and play at any partner role: supplier, orchestrator or customer facing business?
- Are there business and technical lessons to be taken from the Digital Native Platform players like AWS?
- What can be done to ensure that ecosystem governance is maintained to protect smaller innovative companies from being crushed by telcos or larger IT companies?
- Are there additional technical and business issues to be addressed in delivering new partnering business models for cross-industry scenarios simultaneously?
- With the acceleration of cyber issues, how safely can these new business ecosystems be made to scale?

Format - 3 speakers, 30 minutes, ‘fireside chat’, group discussion
- What will the research community be delivering over the next few years?
- Deployment today vs. evolution
- Emerging technologies
- Operationalising the whole stack
- AI, IoT, Edge, Quantum computing, green networks
- 5G capabilities vs. what 6G could bring
- 6GIC - Vodafone, BT, Telefonica, BBC