Emerging 5G Business Models: Opportunities for SMEs and large companies - lessons from 5G PPP

Workshop Overview 
 

The imminent arrival of 5G will bring disruption in business models for incumbent operators and verticals alike. While opportunities will surely arise for large, well-positioned market participants, the real winners may well be those SMEs who have mastered the key technologies and services enabling the new business models emerging from the inevitable disruption not only in the telecommunications ecosystem but also in the vertical sectors making use of 5G including automotive, manufacturing, health, energy, and others.

This interactive workshop will explore the new playing field that is emerging with the advent of 5G, and the opportunities for SMEs to be at the leading edge. Key practical outcomes include ensuring exploitation potential for 5G PPP phase 2 and Phase 3 projects and concrete innovation opportunities for SMEs.
 

Supporting projects include: 5G City, 5G-CORAL, 5G-EVE, 5GENESIS, 5G-MiEDGE, 5G-TRANSFORMER, CARMEN, SAT5G, 5G TANGO.

EC Common Dissemination Booster: The workshop is also co- organised with the EC’s CDB programme, which supports joint dissemination actions between research and innovation actions. The workshop brings on board 5G-TRANSFORMER, 5G PPP phase 2, and 5G-CORAL, a collaborative project between EU and Taiwan

AGENDA

14:00-14:10 
Welcome Address with Tour de Table by Organisation Type
Nicola Ciulli, Head of Research and Development and Co-Chair of the NetWorld SME Working Group

14:10-14:40 
5G industry perspective: new applications, services and business models – what’s in the pipeline?
Darko Ratkaj, Senior Project Manager, European Broadcasting Union (EBU): 5G for the media industry
Josep Matrat, Atos: Business Opportunites from open source
Chair: John Favaro, Trust-IT

14:40-15:45
SMEs in the Spotlight – Lightning talks with Q&A on taking 5G innovations to market
Nicola Ciulli, Nextworks: 5G new opportunities for verticals and technology providers: an SME viewpoint
Aitor Zabala, Telcaria: Enabling new SME business models by leveraging novel federation and zero-touch technologies, through network softwarization in 5G CORAL
Maurizio Cecchi, Innovazione PIIIU: Prizes for SMEs: Call of Ideas on how to exploit 5GPPP trials facilities in 5G-Eve
Riccardo Ferrari, Azcom: Converged RAN to the Edge and Fog: Azcom path to the future
Panagiotis Demestichas, WINGS ICT: Creating businesses on top of advanced wireless infrastructures: an opportunity and challenge for SMEs
Nicola Ciulli, Nextworks: ENCQOR and 5G

Chair: Nicola Ciulli, Head of Research and Development and Co-Chair of the NetWorld SME Working Group

15:45-16:00
Networking Coffee Break

16:00-16:30
Panel Discussion: “Large meets Small”
Panellists: Representatives from SMEs and industry with Mikael Fallgren, Ericsson
Chair: Nicola Ciulli, Head of Research and Development and Co-Chair of the NetWorld SME Working Group

16:30:17:25
Business Models across Verticals
Asma Chiha Ep Harbi, UGENT: Cutting across Verticals - New business models for non- terrestrial networks
Theodoros Rokkas, inCITES: Business Models for Neutral Hosts
Valerio Frascolla, Intel: Merging MEC and mmWave in 5G & beyond use cases
Simon Fletcher, Real Wireless: Techno- economics for 5G solutions

Panel discussion: Pragmatic Steps Moving forward
Chair: John Favaro, Trust-IT

17:25-17:30
Wrap-up and Next Steps