10.00-11.00 am

We will ask what lies ahead for all things open RAN from a market and a technical perspective, especially in terms of validation and implementation, and discuss what must follow from that. You can look forward to:  

• What the markets tell us - opportunities and pitfalls of the developing open RAN market 
  Keynote - Robert Curran | Appledore Research  

• We’re working on it - where open RAN technology stands and where it needs to got 
  Keynote - speaker tba soon 

• Let’s talk this out - our keynote speakers discuss the contentious and not so contentious points of their analysis 
  Moderator - Stéphane Téral | TERAL RESEARCH

Followed by a short break.

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11.30-1.00pm

A look at the real-life certification at the i14y Lab from the perspectives of all players: vendor, operator, lab – asking how it went, what it was good for, what we have learned. We will combine multiple voices to get the conversation we need to have about the good, the bad, and the beauty of testing and certification.

For this we have planned a lively round of discussions with changing participants, shedding light on different aspects of certification - think fishbowl, but on stage. We will look at the insights gained through the certification campaigns and discuss key takeaways with:

Vendors - on meeting and reaching expectations:  

Nitin Jain | VVDN  

Reiner Hogen | Fujitsu 

Lab and Test / Measurement - on successes and obstacles 

tbd

Operators - on their certification requirements  

Thomas Lips | Deutsche Telekom 

Aysenur Senyer | Telefonica 

tba - Vodafone 

i14y Lab - a demonstration

Jan Klare | BISDN
Carsten Rossenhövel | EANTC
Olaf Bonneß | Deutsche Telekom

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1:00-2:30pm 

Your chance to meet and discuss what piqued your interest, have a look around our exhibition, and of course enjoy our famous Berlin food. 

2.30-4.00pm

We kick off the afternoon with discussions on the openness issues in open RAN, looking at matters like pre-qualified vs. component-based combinations, the importance of energy efficiency and the role RIC will play there, and the underlying structure of O-Cloud: 

Quo Vadis open RAN - how to fit openness into a running system 

Keynote - speaker tba 

RIC and the need for energy efficiency  

Panel

Marcin Hofmann | Rimedo Labs

Sami Pohjonen | Nokia

Gerald Huber | Telefonica (Moderator)

Is O-Cloud truly open? 

Panel 

Red Hat - tba

Andreas Schieder | Deutsche Telekom

Followed by a short break.

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4.30-5.45pm

An ecosystem comes with complexities and opportunities as the players balance collaboration and competition as they are creating value. We will discuss how to deal with this and how to get the most out of it, especially in terms of innovation. 

The startup perspective 

Keynote followed by a discussion moderated by Stéphane Téral | TERAL RESEARCH

Pushing change - what makes for good innovation policies? 

BMDV - tba 

Wolfgang Kopf | Deutsche Telekom 

NTIA  - tba 

EU - tba 

Moderator - tba 

Labs around the globe in global collaboration - what’s been going on and what’s in the works. 

ITRI - tba 

NTIA - tba  

Katja Henke | i14y Lab 

Sonic Lab - tba 

SUTD - tbc 

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5:45-6:00pm 

Andreas Gladisch (i14y Lab lead) and Slawomir Stanczak (Fraunhofer HHI) will wrap up the day and bid you all farewell until next time.