NICC OPEN FORUM 2004

“Communications - The Network Reloaded”

 

Agenda

 

 

Date:         Tuesday 16th November 2004.

Venue:     Simmons & Simmons, City Point, 1 Ropemaker Street, London, EC2Y 9SS.

 

 

10:00

Registration and Coffee/Tea

10:30 

Welcome and Introduction

Professor John O’Reilly, Chairman NICC

10:40 

Keynote Address – “The Interoperability Challenges of Seamless Mobility”

Speaker: Sir David Brown (Chairman, Motorola UK)

11:10 

Choice of Radio Access Technologies – a Review

Speaker 1: Dr. Walter Tuttlebee (CEO, Mobile VCE and member Ofcom Spectrum Advisory Board)

 

Speaker 2: Trevor Gill (Head of Radio, Vodafone Group R&D)

12:10

Location, Location – A User’s Perspective

Speaker: Quentin Armitage (Deputy Director of Technology, London Ambulance Service)

12:40

NICC Review 2004 & New Structure

Speaker: Bill Hawkins (NICC Programme Manager, Ofcom)

13:00

Lunch

14:00

Keynote Address – Integrated Networks

Speaker: Matt Beal (Director of 21CN Implementation and Strategy, BT)

14:30

NGN Interconnect Standards Direction

Speaker: Ian Spiers (Standards & Regulatory Affairs, Marconi)

15:00

VoIP Mobility – the Problems & Implications

Speaker: David Heath (Technical Adviser, Ofcom)

15:30

Optical Networks and Fibre Access

Speaker: Prof. Steve Ferguson (Network Strategist – Optical Transport, Marconi)

16:00

Open Session

Observations, Review and Discussion with the audience

16:15

Closing Remarks & Free Discussion over Tea and Coffee

           

 

 

 

NICC Open Forum 2004 is sponsored by:

BT Group, Cable & Wireless, Kingston Communications,

 Marconi, NTL, Nortel Networks,

Spitfire Network Services and Vodafone