5G and Extended Reality(XR) Showcase

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5G and XR: Removing Distance

As 5G networks begin to be rolled out across the world, this is a timely event which will examine the unprecedented opportunities and transformation of industries and businesses due to advancements in 5G and Extended Reality (XR). Codex will bring together leaders from industry who are uniquely positioned to showcase the latest advances in 5G and XR and how they might interface with one another, whilst also providing commercial applications and actionable insights for these disruptive technologies.

The format will be a series of Codex Talks. A Codex Talk is a concise presentation, lasting 15 minutes (or less), in which the speaker addresses a challenging question faced by their technology or industry today and ends with a bold prediction for the future.

Codex Talks are engaging, entertaining and elucidating. They give the audience something they can walk away with: valuable insights, actionable information, fresh perspectives, and renewed optimism.

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This event is exclusively sponsored by Wiggin, a leading law firm for media, technology and Intellectual Property.

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The Soho Hotel, 4 Richmond Mews, London W1D 3DH, United Kingdom

12 June 2019

2:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Schedule

2:00 pm 2:30 pm Registration & Refreshments

2:30 pm 4:00 pm 5G: Codex Talks and Q&A

Derek McManus, Chief Operating Officer, Telefonica O2
Are we over-hyping 5G?

Amol Phadke, Global Network Services Lead, Accenture
Is the move from 4G to 5G an evolution or a revolution?

George Tsirtsis, Senior Director Technology, Qualcomm
What does 5G bring to XR?

4:00 pm 4:30 pm Afternoon Tea

4:30 pm 6:00 pm Extended Reality: Codex Talks and Q&A

Sarah Ellis, Director of Digital Development, Royal Shakespeare Company
How will 5G transform the future of live performance and entertainment?

Graham Thomas, Immersive & Interactive Content Lead, BBC
Can 5G really help to enable better location-based XR experiences?

Isabel Van De Keere, CEO, Immersive Rehab
Will virtual reality become a standard of care intervention in the healthcare services of the future?

6:00 pm 7:30 pm DRINKS RECEPTION

Speakers

Derek McManus
COO, Telefonica 02

Derek is the Chief Operating Officer for Telefonica UK and has responsibility for the Digital Transformation of the business as well for all aspects of Network, IT, Customer Service, Fraud & Security, Smart Metering programme as well as sponsoring 5G for the company.

He has enjoyed over 30 years in the mobile industry in various technical and business roles becoming CTO and joining the UK board in April 2007 and COO 4 years later. Derek has led a number significant transformation at O2 at a technology and business level, ranging from developing O2’s online capability and creating the O2 Labs, changing how we build infrastructure through our ground breaking network sharing, building our industry leading customer service capability as well pioneering our customer centric approach to how we build and manage our network.

Derek holds an MSc in Telecommunications Business from UCL. He sits on a number of network and industry boards, including Shop Direct’s Digital Advisory Board.
Sarah Ellis
Director of Digital Development, Royal Shakespeare Company

Sarah Ellis is an award winning producer currently working as Director of Digital Development for the Royal Shakespeare Company to explore new artistic initiatives and partnerships. The latest partnership she is leading for the RSC is the Audience of the Future Live Performance Demonstrator which is a consortium consisting of arts organisations, research partners and technology companies to explore the future of performances and real-time immersive experiences.

In 2017, she became a fellow of the University of Worcester for her work in the arts and technology. In 2016 she was awarded The Hospital Club and Creatives Industries award for cross industry collaboration for her work on The Tempest in collaboration with Intel and in association with The Imaginarium Studios. In 2013 she was listed in the top 100 most influential people working in Gaming and Technology by The Hospital Club and Guardian Culture Professionals. In partnership with Google’s Creative Lab, she recently produced Midsummer Night’s Dreaming which won two Lovie Awards for Innovation and Experimentation.

In 2012, she produced myShakespeare an online artistic commissioning platform for the World Shakespeare Festival. In 2011, she was the producer of the RSC’s new work Adelaide Road, which mixed live performance with an app and website map. As a theatre and spoken word producer, she has worked with the Old Vic Tunnels, Battersea Arts Centre, Birmingham REP, Contact, Freeword, Improbable, Southbank Centre, Soho Theatre, and Shunt. She has been Head of Creative Programmes at the Albany Theatre and Programme Manager for Apples & Snakes, England’s leading performance poetry organisation. She is a regular speaker and commentator on digital arts practice – http://www.theguardian.com/culture-professionals-network/2015/jan/20/rsc-digital-development-tech-shakespeare
Amol Phadke
Global Network Services Lead, Accenture

Amol Phadke is a senior telecommunications executive providing technology and business leadership in all areas of networked IT, Internet and Telecoms industry specialising in strategy definition, driving large scale engineering development/delivery units and leading global multi-discipline teams.

Based in London, Amol is currently Accenture’s Global Network Services Lead, responsible for driving Accenture’s global Network Services portfolio, and helping CXO clients in all areas of digital network transformation, network economics and strategy, 5G, SDN/NFV, cloud, all IP, analytics, new OSS systems and next generation operations, as well as connected home solutions. Amol also sits on the Governing Board of Linux Foundation Networking (LFN).

Prior to joining Accenture, Amol was with Alcatel-Lucent as Senior Director responsible for Asia-Pacific professional services delivery including SDN/NFV. Amol has also worked with British Telecom (BT) as Chief Architect for their global 21CN IP and Data network platforms. In addition to the UK, Amol also had the opportunity to work in US, India and Singapore and brings vast international industry experience to Accenture.

Amol holds a master’s degree in Telecommunications Engineering from USC, California and a double degree executive MBA from UCLA, California-NUS, Singapore. He was also awarded the C H Wee Gold Medal for outstanding academic achievement in the executive MBA program.
Graham Thomas
Immersive & Interactive Content Lead, BBC

Prof. Graham Thomas leads Immersive & Interactive Content Section at BBC R&D, developing technology for new forms of content.

His work has led to many commercial products, including a broadcast standards converter, and technology for sports graphics and virtual studios.

Current work areas of his team include VR/AR delivered over 5G networks, light field capture for creating immersive experiences, and aspects of video standards beyond HD (higher frame rate and high dynamic range).

His team also covers audio work, including 3D and object-based audio.

He is a Visiting Professor at the University of Surrey and a Fellow of the IET.

Isabel Van De Keere
Founder & CEO Immersive Rehab

Dr Isabel Van De Keere is the Founder & CEO of Immersive Rehab, a digital health startup that focuses on the creation and development of physical & neuro-rehabilitation programmes in Virtual Reality with the aim to improve patient recovery. The goal is to increase the effectiveness of physical & neuro-rehabilitation, to reduce referral times, to make rehab fun and engaging, and to have a better patient outcome. Following a long physical rehab period Isabel went through herself due to a work accident, she decided to start Immersive Rehab in August 2016.

With a background in Electro-Mechanical Engineering (MSc) and as a Doctor in Biomedical Engineering (PhD), Isabel is passionate about healthcare technologies, digital health, immersive technologies (VR/AR) and its applications in healthcare, using tech for good, social entrepreneurship, and promoting women in tech.
George Tsirtsis
Senior Director Technology, Qualcomm

George Tsirtsis is a technologist, evangelist, and innovator with more than 20yrs professional experience in technology leading startups and large organizations. George currently works for EMEA Product and Technology group in Qualcomm Europe where, over the past couple of years, he has been leading 5G activities of Qualcomm in the EMEA region culminating into the 5G launches we now see across the region.

Before that, George spent 10yrs in Qualcomm’s R&D organisation working on and leading a number of diverse projects including the development of device to device and vehicular communications systems, including the development and 3GPP standardisation of LTE-Direct and Cellular-V2X. Prior to Qualcomm, George was an early employ and lead mobility management architect of Flarion Communications, a NJ start-up which from 2000 developed a lot of the fundamental technologies of 4G LTE, and which was acquired by Qualcomm in 2007.

Before that George worked for BT Labs in the UK as a researcher in the areas of IPv4 and IPv6 internet technologies, which he joined after getting an Electronics degree from TEI Piraeus in Greece followed by a MSc in Telecoms and information systems from University of Essex in the UK. Throughout his carrier George has developed over 150 Patents has written multiple IETF RFCs and has contributed to 3GPP specs with active participation in both of these standards bodies.

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