DAY 1 AGENDA
Tuesday 29 March 2022
DAY 2 AGENDA
Wednesday 30 March 2022
09:00

Opening remarks from the chair

Annie Turner, Editor, Mobile Europe & European Communications
09:05

KEYNOTE: Are we nearly there yet? The long road to standalone 5G

  • Supporting advanced network slicing functionality
  • Expanding the range of use cases for new devices
  • Cloud-native 5G core and network architecture considerations
09:30

Delivering multi-cloud and multi-edge environment for enterprise customers

09:55

PANEL: Hyperscalers in the evolving ecosystem

  • Do we need hyperscalers for applications in private 5G networks?
  • How are operators using hyperscalers to serve their enterprise customers?
  • How are operators using hyperscalers to optimise their own operations?
  • What kind of new architectures will hyperscalers bring to the Open RAN ecosystem?
10:35

Exploring the relationship between vRAN and OpenRAN

  • Why are RANs a bottleneck and how can vRANs and Open RAN help?
  • Can NFV speed new services, reduce operating costs and increase network capacity?
  • How vRAN enables operators make changes through software alone
  • Open RAN disaggregates hardware and software – will the integration burden be too heavy?
11:00

Comfort break

11:15

Why are many operators turning to insourcing - bringing previously outsourced functions and services back in-house?

  • What sort of savings can insourcing deliver?
  • What about the IP ownership?
  • Expanding in-house software capabilities in a times of severe skills shortages
11:40

Does the move to cloud mean the end of OSS?

  • Operators have been struggling to improve the OSS typically for years
  • Can cloud-enabled automation and orchestration finally create a flexible OSS, or something to replace it?
  • Is OSS the last piece of the transformation puzzle?
12:05

PANEL: Techcos at the EDGE

  • The importance of distributed cloud to enterprise CIOs
  • Distributed intelligence at the edge
  • Embedding interoperability
12:45

CLOSING KEYNOTE: Leveraging new revenue streams beyond connectivity

  • Supporting advanced network slicing functionality
  • Expanding the range of use cases for new devices
  • Cloud-native 5G core and network architecture considerations
13:10

Wrap up of day 2