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5G-XCast @ IEEE 5G World Forum’18
July 9, 2018 @ 5:00 pm - July 12, 2018 @ 2:00 am CEST
5G-XCast is organising the Media and Entertainment Workshop “Disrupting Media and Entertainment in the 5G Era” at the IEEE 5G World Forum 2018 (Santa Clara, California, 9-11 July 2018).
Keynotes speakers:
-Mauricio Aracena, Ericsson
-Diego González Zúñiga, PhD (diekus), Samsung
-Jyri Huopaniemi, Nokia Technologies
Co-chairs:
Dr. Athul Prasad, NOKIA Bell Labs
-Dr. David Gomez Barquero, Universitat Politècnica de València
-Dr. Mehdi Bennis, University of Oulu
-Dr. Belkacem Mouhouche, Samsung Research
Steering Committee:
-Edgar Auslander, Facebook
-Dr. Mikko A. Uusitalo, NOKIA Bell Labs
-Prof. Muriel Medard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
-Dr. Andreas Kunz, Lenovo
-Darko Ratkaj, European Broadcasting Union
-Dr. Roland Beutler, SWR
-Dr. Amitav Mukherjee, Verizon Wireless
-Matthew Stagg, EE
About 5G-XCast
The 5G-Xcast project is focused on Broadcast and Multicast Communication Enablers for the 5G of Wireless Systems. The project will develop point-to-multipoint (PTM) communication capabilities for 5G. The technology solutions will primarily target the technical requirements of the Media & Entertainment (M&E) vertical. 5G-Xcast brings the M&E vertical into 5G-PPP, bringing together for the first time major and small and medium size players from mobile/fixed/broadcast industries.
