About the Organisers
Event Organisers

Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole Council www.bournemouth.gov.uk
The Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole area is defined by economic growth, innovation, regeneration and preservation. Our enviable geography, natural environment, education and skills offer attract key industry leaders for financial services, hospitality and the digital and creative sectors, as well as advanced engineering in aviation, marine and defence.
BCP as a place is served by a bold, ambitious new council that puts the future of the area and its residents at the heart of its purpose.
That council actively contributes to and continues to shape the collective attributes that make up our world class place.
The councils previously serving Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole have been replaced by one new council, responsible for all local government services for the area - BCP Council.

Forum Europe www.forum-europe.com
Forum Europe events are where people and policy meet. We have been organising policy conferences in Brussels and around Europe since 1989. Our events provide unique insights from the people behind the policy and those seeking to influence it. Our expert team develop conference programmes with impact and provide first-class event logistics.
Forum Europe is more than an event management and conference production specialist. With offices in Brussels and the UK, we operate across Europe and globally. Through our international arm, Forum Global, our events cover five continents, and engage policymakers and industry at national and regional levels around the world. Our mission is to drill down to the issues that matter, creating policy events that are ahead of the curve, facilitating frank and open debate on some of the most pressing issues facing Europe and the world today.
Platinum Sponsors

GSMA www.gsma.com
The GSMA represents the interests of mobile operators worldwide, uniting nearly 800 operators with more than 250 companies in the broader mobile ecosystem, including handset and device makers, software companies, equipment providers and Internet companies, as well as organisations in adjacent industry sectors. The GSMA also produces industry-leading events such as Mobile World Congress, Mobile World Congress Shanghai and the Mobile 360 Series conferences.

Huawei www.huawei.com/uk/
Huawei is a leading global information and communications technology solutions provider. Driven by responsible operations, ongoing innovation and open collaboration, it has established a competitive ICT portfolio of end-to-end solutions in telecom and enterprise networks, devices and cloud computing. For three years in a row, Gartner has named Huawei a leader in their Magic Quadrant for General-Purpose Disk Arrays. The report recognizes Huawei's enhanced "Completeness of Vision" and "Ability to Execute" in the past.

Qualcomm www.qualcomm.com/
Qualcomm’s technologies powered the smartphone revolution and connected billions of people. While many of our inventions and breakthroughs reside “under the hood” of consumer electronics, they have transformed the world in a big way. They have helped propel mobile to the forefront of the technology world and to the top of consumers’ wish lists. They have created new opportunities for mobile ecosystem players — the wireless device makers, the operators, the developers and the content creators of the world. And more recently, our inventions and breakthroughs have inspired fresh, new ideas from those companies — large and small — new to the wireless space.
We are engineers, scientists and business strategists. Together, we focus on a single goal — invent mobile technology breakthroughs. We pioneered 3G and 4G — and now, we are leading the way to 5G and a new era of intelligent, connected devices. Our products are revolutionizing industries including automotive, computing, IoT and healthcare, and are allowing millions of devices to connect with each other in ways never before imagined.
Supporting Partner

Connected Places Catapult cp.catapult.org.uk/
The new Connected Places Catapult accelerates smarter living and travelling in and between the places of tomorrow. We focus on growing businesses with innovations in mobility services and the built environment that enable new levels of physical, digital and social connectedness. The Connected Places Catapult operates at the intersection between public and private sectors and between local government and transport authorities. We convene the disparate parts of the market to help innovators navigate the complexity of doing business, creating new commercial opportunities and improving productivity, socio-economic and environmental benefits for places.

Digital Catapult www.digicatapult.org.uk
Digital Catapult is the UK’s leading advanced digital technology innovation Centre, driving early adoption of technologies to make UK businesses more competitive and productive and grow the country’s economy.
We connect large established companies, startup and scaleup businesses and researchers to discover new ways to solve big challenges in the manufacturing and creative industries. Through this collaboration businesses are supported to develop the right technologies to solve problems, increase productivity and open up new markets faster.
Digital Catapult provides physical and digital facilities for experimentation and testing that would otherwise not be accessible for smaller companies.
As well as breaking down barriers to technology adoption for startups and scaleups, our work de-risks innovation for large enterprises and uncovers new commercial applications in immersive, future networks, and artificial intelligence technologies.

Local Government Association www.local.gov.uk
The LGA is a politically-led, cross-party organisation that works on behalf of councils to ensure local government has a strong, credible voice with national government. The LGA aims to influence and set the political agenda on the issues that matter to councils so they are able to deliver local solutions to national problems.

techUK www.techuk.org
techUK represents the companies and technologies that are defining today the world that we will live in tomorrow.
More than 900 companies are members of techUK. Collectively they employ approximately 700,000 people, about half of all tech sector jobs in the UK. These companies range from leading FTSE 100 companies to new innovative start-ups. The majority of our members are small and medium-sized businesses.

UK 5G Innovation Network www.uk5g.org
UK5G is a ‘network of networks’ dedicated to the promotion of research, collaboration and the commercial application of 5G in the UK. Independent and impartial, UK5G brings together organisations working on 5G activities, including the UK Government’s 5G Testbeds and Trials Programme. They are supported by a senior national advisory board who provide expert feedback to Government from industry, identifying their priorities and advising on future areas of focus. Learn more about UK5G.

Wireless World Research Forum www.wwrf.ch
WWRF’s goal is to encourage research that will achieve unbounded communications to address key societal challenges for the future.
We are using the term “Wireless World” in this broad sense to address
- the support of innovation and business,
- social inclusion and
- infrastructural challenges
This will be achieved by creating a range of new technological capabilities from wide-area networks to short-range communications, machine-to-machine communications, sensor networks, wireless broadband access technologies and optical networking, along with increasing intelligence and virtualization in networks
This will support a dependable future Internet of people, knowledge and things and the development of a service universe
Logistics
When
Friday 5 July, 2019
09.00 to 16.00
GMT
Where
Terrace Rd, Bournemouth BH2 5EL
Downloads
5G in Action Bournemouth - Sponsorship brochure