Has the wireless industry reached an inflection point & do we need 5G?

Speakers at FWIC 2015 include David Wood, Principal, Delta Wisdom; Tim Whitely, Managing Director, Research & Technology, BT; Jeffrey Ju, Senior Vice President, MediaTek; Alex Sinclair, CTO, GSMA; Shorful Islam, Managing Partner, Wunderman Data and Insights; Lorraine Stone, UK Country Manager, Telefonica Dynamic Insights; Howard Benn, Head of Standards and Industrial Affairs, Samsung Electronics Research Institute; Tony Milbourn, Director, u-blox; Tim Rundle, Design Director, Product Design, Conran and Partners; Nicolas Graube, Fellow, CSR; Ben Salama, Managing Director, Accenture Digital UK and Ireland and Stephen Lowe, Knowledge Transfer Manager, the KTN Built Environment.

Attracting over four hundred senior delegates from around the world, the Future of Wireless International Conference is organised by Cambridge Wireless (CW) in partnership with UK Trade and Investment. This year the event is being held at the Emirates Stadium in London, the home of Arsenal Football Club.

In addition to presentations from world-renowned speakers, the conference will include track and plenary sessions along with the Innovation Hothouse and Start-Up Zone to showcase next-gen technologies. The event will be concluded with the ‘Cambridge Debate’, posing the question: ‘do we need 5G?’

FWIC 2015 is partnered by UKTI with sponsorship from MediaTek, Accenture, Knowledge Transfer Network and CSR, along with Rohde & Schwarz, TTP, Microlease and Keysight Technologies, Cambridge Consultants, S-Tech Insurance, IC Resources, InterDigital Europe and Anite.

“Growth in the smartphone market is slowing, average revenue per user is declining, data usage is expanding, spectrum is scarce and 5G will be a challenge to the way the mobile industry delivers services,” said David Cleevely CBE, Chairman, CW and opening keynote speaker. “Yet we are moving to an exciting, albeit more uncertain phase in the wireless industry where billions of ‘things’ will be connected using networks quite unlike the ones we use today. This year’s conference will step back from the hype and look at how technologies and businesses might fare in a new era of wireless.”

“Wireless is finding new application in our homes, cars and cities as well as within government and businesses,” added Peter Whale, Chair of the FWIC Committee. “But as with all industrial revolutions, there will be unexpected changes and new beneficiaries; existing players and structures may become obsolete or need to adapt radically. The 7th FWIC will look at some of these uncertainties, explore pertinent questions and help delegates to play a part in reshaping the industry over the next five years.”