CW TEC 2021: Engineering 5G Private Networks

The CW Technology & Engineering Conference (CW TEC) is a day designed specifically for engineers. It offers a more technical and focused agenda than the CW International Conference, exploring an emerging problem space that our engineering community has highlighted as being particularly worthy of debate.

CW TEC 2021 will explore private 5G networks. They are forecast to be a significant component of the future 5G landscape; but what is a 5G Private Network? What will they be used for? And, most importantly, how will we build them?

Through detailed technical presentations, CW TEC 2021 will explore the engineering which will enable a successful 5G Private Network ecosystem, covering topics such as:

• Spectrum
• 5G NR coverage and capacity planning
• Network architecture
• O-RAN and vRAN
• The supply chain
• Other network components, such as 5G SA core and edge computing, which will complement 5G private networks and deliver use cases such as URLLC

Details on speaking / sponsoring / exhibiting at CW TEC 2021

Speakers announced to date:

Session 1: Radio network planning 

• Chair: Iris Barcia, COO, Keima
• Steve Evans, Nokia Enterprise CTO for the UK and Ireland, Nokia

Session 2: Open RAN and network architecture in private networks 

• Chair: Andy Sutton, Principal Network Architect, BT
• Roberto Kompany, Senior Analyst, Analysis Mason
• Lou Walker, Senior Portfolio Architect - Networks, BT

Session 3: Securing private 5G networks

• CJ Boguszewski, Head of Ecosystem and Partners, Pelion
• Andrew Kelly, Principal Consultant (Security), QinetiQ 

Session 4: Lessons from early deployment 

• Chair: Peter Love, 5G Densification Architect, Nokia
• Derek Long, Associate Director and
  Head of Telecoms and Mobile, Cambridge Consultants
• Professor Dimitra Simeonidou, Head of Bristol Digital Futures Institute, Bristol Digital Futures Institute and Professor of High Performance Networks, Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering