6G IA

5G New Horizons Wireless Symposium: 5th Global 5G Event
2018-05-16 15:30 - 2018-05-18 02:00 (Europe/Berlin)
5G Americas is organising the 5th Global 5G Event also known as 5G New Horizons Wireless Symposium. Registration is open. Thre Symposium will be focusing on worldwide progress of the 5th Generation of wireless technologies. The event is co-located with both 5G North America and BCE at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, Texas from May 16-17, 2018 and have limited capacity.

The symposium will host about 50 expert panelists and speakers including business leaders, inventors, engineers, professors, technical experts and policymakers from around the world representing the leading 5G organizations. The sessions are mindfully curated to stimulate the continued progress on 5G technology worldwide and focus on government policies, promotions, services, trial projects and other industrial convergence opportunities.
The Global 5G Event series was developed in the interest of efficiency and building global consensus on 5G, and was announced in October 2015 by the following parties of a Memorandum of Understanding: 5G Americas, (Americas), the Fifth Generation Mobile Communications Promotion Forum (5GMF) (Japan), 5G Forum (Republic of Korea), IMT-2020 (5G) Promotion Group (China) and the 5G Infrastructure Association (5G IA) (Europe). In May 2017, Brazil (Telebrasil/Projecto ‘5G Brasil’) joined the partners on the Global 5G Event to support multi-lateral collaboration on 5G systems across continents and countries.
Registration offers an early-bird discount or package pricing with the co-located events. Media and operators will have free access with pre-registration. Confirmed speakers and panelists will be announced in February.

About the Gobal 5G Event: the Global 5G Event is an event where the world’s leading 5G organisations discuss the latest research and development achievements and views on 5G technologies, spectrum, standardisation, field trials, applications, the future roadmap and global collaboration. The series of evengts is based on a Multi-lateral MoU to cooperatate on building global consensus on 5G with the worls’s 5G promotion origanisations. The Fifth Generation Mobile Communications Forum (5GMF, Japan), 5G Forum ( Republic of Korea), 5G Americas (Americas), IMT-2020 (5G) Promotion Group (China), 5G Infrastructure Association (5G-IA, Europe) and Telebrasil – Projecto 5G Brasil (Brasil). The event is held twice a year in rotation.

2nd 5GEx Industrial Workshop
2018-05-22 09:00 - 2018-05-24 17:40
5GEx, a H2020 5G-PPP phase 1 project, is pleased to announce its second 5GEx Industrial Workshop. The workshop is part of the 6th Annual Network Virtualization Europe conference (May 22-24, Madrid) organized by KNect365 TMT, an Informa business. Informa is a leading international business intelligence, academic publishing, knowledge and events group. . The conference focuses on bridging between NFV operators, function developers and suppliers of the emerging NFV infrastructures. The workshop is held as a session about MANO on the first conference day, directly following the opening and keynote speakers. Details on the conference and agenda can be found here.
The workshop focuses on the current and future perspectives of MANO, the management and orchestration functional layer for the NFV-enabled telecommunication infrastructure. A prominent focus will be on the interworking of NFV-enabled service providers in the forthcoming 5G networking landscape, both from a business and technical viewpoint. Håkon Lønsethagen (Telenor) will present the latest analysis and results on business aspects like community models, community creation and operation, quality of service definitions and quality-enabled services. Carlos J. Bernardos (University Carlos III of Madrid) will present roaming in an NFV-enabled multi-operator context, focusing on technical aspects and latest MANO reference implementations in various open source frameworks, including the results of the 5GEx project. Finally, Diego Lopez (Telefonica) will lead a 5GEx organized panel, which will conclude the session and discuss the state, missing pieces and next steps for MANO including the multi-domain 5GExchange vision.
Beside the workshop, 5GEx will be present with demonstrations, whitepapers and personal presence to foster the exchange of vision and results with all the interested conference participants. The 5GEx team will be there to discuss the 5GEx vision as well as share ideas to transform the 5GEx concept into concrete innovation and growth.
