Autor: Firma WEKA Media Publishing

Networks and Networking

The Latest Trends in Mobile, Fixed and Charging

Topics 2025

European Digital Sovereignty

What do current geopolitical developments mean for European network operators and tech companies?

6G

Outlook to the next standard in mobile communications, which will probably arrive by the end of the decade.

5G Advanced

Or 5.5G – evolutionary steps between 5G today and 6G tomorrow.

5GSA

5G Stand Alone – real 5G network cores with no ties to legacy architectures.

Sustainability

How to operate mobile networks with less energy consumption, despite growing transfer volumes.

Non-Terrestrial Networks

How satellites can augment terrestrial radio cells and thus bring mobile communications truly everywhere.

Network Slicing

Fuelling an important feature of 5G with life: Separate sub-networks for separate applications and customers.

Edge Computing

Bringing powerful cloud computing power closer to the end user devices and their applications.

New Spectrum

Growing above 6 GHz – millimeter waves and beyond.

Repurposing

Re-using legacy spectrum for new mobile communications standards.

Dynamic Infrastructures

Network architectures which “breathe” with their current workloads.

Fixed Wireless Access

Substituting fixed-line access with mobile communications.

GenAI

Generative AI – how ChatGPT and other AI models can contribute to solve current and future problems of the mobile communications industry.

Machine Learning

The basis of Artificial Intelligence – and related methods for more intelligent functions and services.

Cognitive Architectures

Intelligent agents and network brokers facilitating a new generation of network services.

Network as a Sensor

Scanning objects and people with the millimeter waves of future mobile technologies.

Post-Quantum

How to prepare encryption standards and security protocols to a world where quantum computing radically changes prerequisites assumed to be valid forever.

Post-Shannon

New encoding mechanisms substitute a paradigm shift to what generations of researchers and engineers thought to be the capacity limit of a transmission channel.

Robotics

From vacuum cleaners to fully autonomous robotic household helpers.

Healthcare Brokerage

Balancing customer needs with economic necessities – and still realizing the best possible healthcare.

Operational Transformation

New challenges and opportunities for network operators: from managing partner ecosystems to adopting new business models.

Plug and Charge

Convenient and secure payment processes for charging electric cars.

Quishing

The new method of ripping off customers using QR codes – and how you can defend yourself against it.

Frequency Allocation

The next round in the everlasting struggle for more spectrum – and the demanding discussions with other competitors for this scarce resource.

Eventdatum: Donnerstag, 16. Oktober 2025 09:00 – 23:59

Eventort: Mannheim