Among many emerging vertical industries, connected autonomous vehicles (CAVs) with the aid of vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication and networking are deemed to transform our travel experience with numerous far-reaching societal and economic benefits. With 5G communication networks rapidly rolling out globally, it is time to ask how 6G will help revolutionize our future V2X communications.
In this talk, I will share our vision to 6G V2X communications by emphasizing enabling technologies, major challenges and significant opportunities. In particular, I will introduce our new results on codedomain non-orthogonal multiple access and joint sensing and communication, two promising wireless techniques for ubiquitous and highly efficient V2X data exchanges.
Building dense urban mobile networks and the journey beyond 100GHz Explore the rest of the Thought Leadership series
In this talk we explore the challenges with densifying mobile networks and the role wireless backhaul has to play in building future mobile network architectures. Radio frequencies above 100GHz have traditionally been confined to non-terrestrial applications such radio astronomy and satellite. Here we present some of our research looking at the deployment feasibility of high frequency radio systems and their potential as an alternative to fibre backhaul in a world of dense new street level cell sites.
Professor Stuart Walker, University of Essex, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Dave Townend, Postgraduate Research Student, University of Essex, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE) and currently working within BT's Wireless Research Group based at Adastral Park in Ipswich
Recording: Building dense urban mobile networks and the journey beyond 100GHz
Another great virtual conference for industry and academia in collaboration withDIGIT Lab a UKRI Next Stage Digital Economy Research Centre !
"The UK must build on its innovative foundations and focus on leading the way to a future underpinned by the next generation of responsible technologies."
Esra Kasapoglu
Director of AI and Data Economy, Innovate UK
TEDx style virtual pre-conference Thought Leadership event
Prof Alan Brown, Digital Economy, University of Exeter
We explored why research in the digital world is fundamentally different and what that means for the future of research. This session offered insights especially for early career researchers into their future challenges and opportunities and showed ways in which they can join the Digital Transformation community.
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10:00 - 10:05Prof Tim Whitley, MD Applied Research and Adastral Park will be opening the conference.
10:05 - 10:15 Esra Kasapoglu, UKRI Director, AI & Data Economy, "Why is research in the digital world so different – the UKRI view".
10:15 - 10:30 Prof Gerard Parr MBE, UEA, "Setting the Scene and Vision for the EPSRC DIGIT Lab Project".
10:30 - 10:45Dr Sally Howes OBE, of the University of East Anglia (UEA) Council, Advisory Board of DIGIT Lab, and many more speaking on "The importance of digital transformation in government".
10:45 - 11:00Stephen Cassidy MA MInstP CEng FIET, BT, Behaviours, Organisations & Systems Research on "Digitisation Dynamics – maintaining the human and business connection through time: some critical research questions".
11:00 - 11:15Dr Will Venters, LSE, on "How do we research digital transformation? Thoughts on qualitative research approaches".
11:15 - 11:30Rahim Tafazolli, of the Institute for Communications Systems (ICS), University of Surrey on "The role of 5G+ on future digital transformation strategies of large organisations".
11:30 - 12:15 Panel Discussion: Research Challenges and Opportunities in Digital Transformation.
Esra Kasapoglu
Dr Sally Howes OBE
Prof Gerard Parr MBE
Dr Will Venters
Rahim Tafazolli
12:15 - 12:30Prof Saeema Ahmed-Kristensen: Call for Action! Including opportunities of engagement for Early Career Researchers.
With incredible activities around digital transformation happening all over the world, we asked the questions: What are the big impact opportunities where we can really make a difference? What are the barriers for big companies to make progress? Where does Digit Lab come in? And again this session offered opportunities especially for practitioners who deal with large amounts of data to join the Digital Transformation community.
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10:00 - 10:15Kevin Lee, BT Chief Digital Officer, opening Day2.
10:15 - 10:30Theo Kanellos, Director Business Development and Commercial Alliances, Zoetis on "The Opportunities for Digital Transformation in Animal Health".
10:30 - 10:45Yvonne Gallagher, Director, Digital, National Audit Office on "Lessons from Digital Transformation in Large Government Organizations".
10:45 - 11:00 Dr Paul Gosling, CTO Thales UK on "A Thales perspective on Future
Digital Transformation Research Opportunities".
11:00 - 11:15Marc Geall, COO HANA Data & Analytics, T&I at SAP on "Helping Businesses become Intelligent Enterprise the sustained Digital Transformation".
Joining us at the Hybrid Studio live:
11:15 - 11:30Prof Ben Azvine , Global head of security research and innovation at BT. Ben was our host for the "Security and Trust - How to empower and protect all users" conference in 2017. 5 years on he is catching us up on how Digital Transformation has impacted Cyber Security and Cyber Security Research.
11:30 - 12:15 Panel Discussion: How to deliver impact in Digital transformation Recording coming soon
Yvonne Gallagher
Dr Paul Gosling
Marc Geall
Prof Ben Azvine
12:15 - 12:30 Prof Alan Brown, University of Exeter, Call for Action! Including opportunities of engagement for people dealing with large amounts of data.
