Agenda

09:00 – 09:30

Registration | Virtual Exhibition & Networking

Opening Talks

09:30 – 09:40

Welcome to the conference
Raj Gawera, Samsung Cambridge and Samsung Aalborg

Opening Plenary 

Gold Keynote Sponsor: ghd

Chair: Simon Fletcher, Real Wireless & Chair of CWIC Organising Committee

Introductory industry speaker: Jennifer Didoni, Vodafone

Keynote: Tim Moore, ghd

10:30 – 10:40

10:40 – 11:00

Transport Solutions & Logistics

Gold Track Sponsor: Zizo

Chair: Julie Bradford, Real Wireless

Viable connectivity to vehicles for road and rail is coming, with innovators claiming Edge for low latency applications – typically infotainment. Air and Sea Ports are increasingly vocal markets for new approaches to wireless service delivery and automation. Can logistics provide the application that shapes the market or are other forces like autonomous electric vehicles the shaping force?

Speakers Include:

• Matthew Napleton, Zizo
• Dan Warren, Samsung
• Chris Holmes, WM5G

Health & Social Care

Gold Track Sponsor: 8west

Chair: Simon Fletcher, CTO, Real Wireless

The health sector is a notoriously conservative technology adopter but Edge and IoT may pave the way to its transformation towards truly autonomous care. Companies are shifting health systems out of the hospital and into the era of telesurgery, remote monitoring and connected ambulances. However, do practitioners and patients trust the way in which the market is going?

Speakers Include:

• John Murphy, 8 West
• Edwin Bijerk, Intel
• Dr Afzal Chaudhry, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
• Lucy Baker & Anastasia Karatrantou BT Enterprise
  

11:55 – 12:00

Digital Infrastructure & Smart Cities

Chair: Carole Ciliberti, Capita

According to IDC, by 2023 >50% of new enterprise infrastructure deployments will not be in corporate data centres but at the Edge where data exchange and interconnections between businesses and cloud services are booming. This plenary explores the tech that allows businesses to leverage faster connectivity, lower latency, personalised services, user insights and compelling business models.

Speakers Include:

• Kieran Arnold, Satellite Applications Catapult
• Koen Mioulet, Cellnex Telecom
  

A Word from our Lunch Sponsor
Alistair Elliott, CTO, Pod Group

13:00 – 13:05

13:05 – 14:00

Track 4

Creative Industries

Gold Track Sponsor: Ryff

Silver Track Sponsor: Imagination Technologies

Chair: Caroline Gabriel, Rethink Technology Research

The Creative Industries is the UK’s fastest growing sector whose boom is driven by the adoption of technology that improves audience experience and production times. Edge’s lower latency can enable a content revolution via the democratisation of console gaming via cloud-based computing, the delivery of immersive mixed reality experiences to mobile and the streamlining of production workflows.

Speakers Include:

• Susan Hewitt, Ryff
• Gerry Collins, Intelsat
• Tilly Gilbert, STL Partners

FinTech

Chair: Ben Brabyn

Increasing demand for personalised financial services, the move to cashless payments and the rise of mobile banking makes the financial sector ripe for Edge. Newer technologies can foster financial inclusivity with accessible payment mechanisms and the ability to bank the unbanked. What benefits and concerns are there around fraud and security? Where can AI and Edge solutions help?

Speakers Include:

• Neeta Mundra, Salesforce

• Yosuke Kurihara, Uhuru

• Matthew Yeager, Google

14:55 – 15:00

15:00 – 15:30

Product as a Service in a Connected World

Chair: Chris Porthouse, Imagination Technologies

As more consumers purchase online and there is an increase in connected devices, brands are looking to engage with their consumers at a deeper level through digital innovation and services. We will explore “Product as a Service” models and whether cloud connectivity and having the right data at the right time in a more sustainable and secure way can lead to more compelling consumer experiences and deeper insights. We will also look at some of the challenges and opportunities of adopting and scaling up digital innovation within enterprises to avoid ‘silo thinking’ and allow collaboration more openly through a shared digital platform approach.

Speakers Include:

• Tim Moore, ghd
• Colin Smithers, Redtail Telematics

16:25 – 16:30

16:30 – 17:00

Opening the RAN / Does Government intervention in Standards ever end well?

 
Chair: Steven Unger, Senior Advisor

A thriving multi-vendor supply chain requires inter-operable equipment framed by open standards – but isn’t that what the telecoms sector is good at? So why are we reaching a crunch point at the advent of 5G? Can Governments through funds, policy, regulation really shape the market in equipment and solutions providers or are any such initiatives doomed to fail?

• Dean Bubley, Analyst & Futurist, Disruptive Analysis
• Paul Ceely, Technology and Strategic Leader

17:40 – 18:00

Closing Remarks

18:00 – 18:30