5G New Horizons Wireless Symposium: 5th Global 5G Event

5G Americas is organising the 5th Global 5G Event also known as 5G New Horizons Wireless Symposium.  Registration is open. Thre Symposium will be focusing on worldwide progress of the 5th Generation of wireless technologies. The event is co-located with both 5G North America and BCE at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, Texas from May 16-17, 2018 and have limited capacity.

The symposium will host about 50 expert panelists and speakers including business leaders, inventors, engineers, professors, technical experts and policymakers from around the world representing the leading 5G organizations. The sessions are mindfully curated to stimulate the continued progress on 5G technology worldwide and focus on government policies, promotions, services, trial projects and other industrial convergence opportunities.

The Global 5G Event series was developed in the interest of efficiency and building global consensus on 5G, and was announced in October 2015 by the following parties of a Memorandum of Understanding: 5G Americas, (Americas), the Fifth Generation Mobile Communications Promotion Forum (5GMF) (Japan), 5G Forum (Republic of Korea), IMT-2020 (5G) Promotion Group (China) and the 5G Infrastructure Association (5G IA) (Europe). In May 2017, Brazil (Telebrasil/Projecto ‘5G Brasil’) joined the partners on the Global 5G Event to support multi-lateral collaboration on 5G systems across continents and countries.

Registration offers an early-bird discount or package pricing with the co-located events. Media and operators will have free access with pre-registration. Confirmed speakers and panelists will be announced in February.

About the Gobal 5G Event: the Global 5G Event is an event where the world’s leading 5G organisations discuss the latest research and development achievements and views on 5G technologies, spectrum, standardisation, field trials, applications, the future roadmap and global collaboration. The series of evengts is based on a Multi-lateral MoU to cooperatate on building global consensus on 5G with the worls’s 5G promotion origanisations. The Fifth Generation Mobile Communications Forum (5GMF, Japan), 5G Forum ( Republic of Korea), 5G Americas (Americas), IMT-2020 (5G) Promotion Group (China), 5G Infrastructure Association (5G-IA, Europe) and Telebrasil – Projecto 5G Brasil (Brasil). The event is held twice a year in rotation.