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i14y Lab Summit – Sept. 11, 2025

Come to the i14y Lab Summit 2025 on Sept. 11, 2025 at Lanolinfabrik in Berlin for a day of insightful talks and panels, deep dive interactive sessions, inspiring conversations all about giving Open RAN a boost through testing and certification - and a boothcrawl as the perfect way to round out the day.

 

Don't miss out and register now for the i14y Lab Summit, through the registration page where you can also register for the BOWW 2025 (Sept. 9-10, 2025)!

i14y Lab Summit – Sept. 11, 2025

Your Day At The i14y Lab Summit

08:30 - Doors Open and Welcome to the i14y Lab Summit 2025

The day starts. Welcome to the #summit25    

Registration, grab a coffee, settle in and meet. 

 

9:30 - Welcome to the #summit25    

  • Andreas Gladisch and Marina Grigorian will welcome you to the main stage and introduce you to the day's agenda. 
  • A few words from the Ministry for Digital Affairs and State Modernization
10:00 - Innovating through business and policy

Mobile networks move information, but questions of economics, business opportunities, and policy move mobile networks and Open RAN. Expect a thorough look at this angel, with keynotes that ask questions and share insights designed to make you think again.

Marina Grigorian | Telefonica (moderator)

The techno-economic state of the industry

Kim Larsen | Industry Analyst

 

A look at policy questions from an operator perspective

Philippe Gröschl | Telefonica

 

Technological priorities of Open RAN going forward

tba | O-RAN Alliance

11:20 - Consistent and Repeatable Testing

Questions of consistent and repeatable testing that is both efficient and effective will be addressed by speakers that know about the challenges and the way forward. Expect to hear from our partner labs all over the world on lessons learned and progress made.

Operator Real Talk: What is needed, what is missing, what is working?

tba

 

Energy Efficiency: How and what?

Marcin Hoffman | RIMEDO Labs

Neeraj Sharma | Dell

Alberto Van Burgh | Analog Devices

Michael Düser | Deutsche Telekom (moderator)

 

Consistent and repeatable testing: what is it and how to get there

Ian Wong | VIAVI VALOR

Ajesh Pk | i14y Lab

Alisha Huang | ITRI

Carsten Rossenhövel | EANTC (moderator)

 

13:00 - Lunch Break

By now, you should be hungry and eager to talk about what you have learned. We have you covered. Plus there is our marketplace to look around and discover.

14:00 - Interactive Deep Dive Sessions

Two tracks of parallel sessions on various topics will give you a chance to discuss your favorite topics in more detail – or even pitch in with your views. The topics will cover the entire spectrum of the summit.

Track 1

14:00-14:40

Applications in Verticals: Overview of areas, current status, insights, challenges | open discussion

Stéphane Teral | Teral Research

Sanna Brandt | Rohde & Schwarz

Andy Jones | jonesthefone consulting

 

Time to change rooms

 

14:55-15:35

Accelerating Open RU Innovation: From Specification to Real-World Interop

This session brings together leaders from the Open Compute Project (OCP), Bell Canada, and Massive Beams to explore collaborative efforts in the design and validation of open Radio Units (RUs), drawing on experiences from the OCP Evenstar project and ongoing work at the i14y lab.

Raúl Álvarez | OCP

Andreas Benzin, Dennis Osterland | Massive Beams 

tba | Bell Canada


Track 2

14:00-14:40

Evaluating Energy Efficiency with Open-Source Tooling

Utilizing open-source software, this technical deep dive will examine the current tools that are employed to quantify, regulate, and link energy consumption and workload efficiency. In addition, we will examine the manner in which the i14y Lab implements these instruments to gain information about the energy consumption in the infrastructure and service layers.

Jan Klare | BISDN

Time to change rooms

 

14:55-15:35

SMO/RIC ecosystem development and validation

Abdel Bagegni | TIP

tba | Aspire

16:05 - The Future

As we gather in the main hall again, we will look at the future of Open RAN and mobile communications. Topics such as AI and sustainability, energy efficiency and automation will be addressed in keynotes and panels.

Future of Open Source in Open RAN (O-Cloud / Network Virtualization)

Andre Puschmann | SRS  
Tim Irnich | suse  
Jan Klare | BISDN (moderator)

AI in Open RAN

Krystian Garbaciak | Nvidia
Francisco Garcia | Keysight
Michael S. Pedersen | Tietoevry

 

tba

Andreas Gladisch | i14y Lab

Slawomir Stanczak | HHI

Katja Henke | Deutsche Telekom (moderator)

 

Goodbye

Marina Grigorian | Telefonica (moderator)

 

17:30 - Booth Crawl & Guided Tours

We will end the day with an informal apéro in the marketplace for all those who want to stick around just a little longer to talk and socialize.

The summit will take place at the Science Tech Space @ HHI in

Lanolinfabrik

Salzufer 15/16

10587 Berlin.

 

It's centrally located in Berlin and can easily be reached by car and public transport. Here are links to Google Maps and the Berlin public transport authority BVG's Connection Search.

Expecting Great Things

We expect that 2025 will bring a big step forward for Open RAN and for consistent and repeatable testing as an essential step towards integration and certification.

 

We hope to have you at the i14y Lab Summit 2025 on September 11 to hear the latest and share your views, to keep building the community for the future of Open RAN.

 

So stay tuned: follow us on LinkedIn or subscribe to our newsletter to get the latest details as they come out.

Expecting Great Things
Berlin Open RAN Working Week (BOWW) is also returning in 2025

BOWW 2025

The combined power of the Berlin Open RAN Working Week (BOWW) and the i14y Lab Summit is returning this year.

 

This year’s BOWW (Berlin Open RAN Working Week) will happen on Sept. 9-10 in the same location as the #summit25. It will remain dedicated to studying the fundamental questions of disaggregated networks, using the tried-and-true interplay of academia and practitioners. The focus will be on questions such as reducing complexity, making efficient use of network resources, and orchestrating the AI agents that will be distributed over the entire network. And they will discuss the many aspects of Network Digital Twins, their challenges, and benefits. Expect inspiring speakers, engaging discussions and new insights on these issues.

 

The Summit will be held right after the BOWW. Come to Berlin Sept 9 – 11 2025 for three full days of Open RAN discussions, talks, panels, and networking in one place at Fraunhofer HHI's Lanolinfabrik venue.

A look back at the i14y Lab Summit 2024

Our Summit was packed with unmissable talks, demos, guided tours - and we brought back breakout sessions! Thank you to all partners involved it was a very memorable event.

 

Have a look at everything the #summit24 had to offer.

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