NextGen 10 Agenda

22 and 23 November at the ICC Birmingham

Day 1 - Monday 22 November
 

• 09.00    Registration and refreshments
• 09.30    Official Opening and Welcome by Councillor Paul Tilsley MBE - Deputy Leader of Birmingham City Council and Chairman of Digital Birmingham Partnership  
• 10.00    Big Society Broadband - Lorne Mitchell - MD Objective Designers - Sets the Scene for the Conference
• 10.15    Keynote - Bill Murphy - Managing Director NGA BT Group
• 10.30    Global Approaches to Next Generation Broadband - What Works & Where - panel discussion
  Introduction by Nadia Babaali Communications Director FTTH Council Europe followed by a panel discussion chaired by Lorne Mitchell. Panelists: Prof Michael Fourman FRSE - Chair of the Digital Scotland Working Group and Dave Carter - Head Manchester Digital Development Agency
• 11.00    Refreshments, opportunity to visit the exhibition area, speakers corner and solutions tables  
• 11.45    Keynote - Peter Ludin - Vice President EMEA Draka Telecom Solutions - Delivering Innovation: Smart Solutions for your FTTx Network
• 12.15    Making a success of Open Access Networks and Infrastructure Sharing - panel discussion sponsored and led by Chris Smedley - Chief Executive Geo. Panelists include Gareth Davies - Competition Policy Director Ofcom and Matthew Hare
• 12.45    Ministerial Keynote: Ed Vaizey MP, Minister for Broadband, DCMS & BIS - laying out the Government’s vision and latest plans for superfast broadband - live teleconference link
• 13.30    Lunch, networking, solutions tables and opportunity to visit the exhibition area
• 14.30    Keynote: Malcolm Corbett - CEO INCA and Launch of INCA’s Next Generation Guide: ‘Beyond Broadband - How our communities can get the digital networks they need’
• 15.00    Presentation by Adrian Wooster on the JON Exchange
• 15.15    Keynote: Involving Communities - Matthew Taylor, Chief Executive, RSA
• 15.45    Refreshments, opportunity to visit the exhibition area and solutions tables
• 16.15    Breakout into 2 workshops:
  • The Critical Role of Local Authorities in enabling superfast Broadband
  • Community Action & Local Demand - Chaired by Charles Trotman - Head of Rural Business Development CLA. Speakers include Peter Couchman - Chief Executive Plunkett Foundation and Guy Jarvis - Managing Director and co-founder of NextGenUs UK CIC
• 17.00    Big Technology issues in the Big Society - panel discussion with Richard Wilson
  Director izwe, Louis Mosley and Brian Condon.
• 17.30    Official Conference Drinks Reception
• 18.15    Close of day 1
• 19.30    Official INCA conference dinner at the City Inn (conveniently located near the ICC)

Day 2 - Tuesday 23 November
 

• 08.30    Registration and refreshments
• 09.00    Opening and welcome
• 09.15    Keynote: Next Generation TV - Kip Meek, Chairman, Youview
• 09.45    Breakout into 3 workshop sessions:
• Practical NextGen Infrastructure - A practical demonstration for those who are keen to learn more about the nitty gritty of ducts and fibre - Sponsored by Maxcell and led by Mark Dudley
• Mobile and Wireless NGA
  Superfast Mobile Broadband powered by 4G - presentation by Nicholas James - CEO UK Broadband
  The Costs and Capabilities of Wireless and Satellite Technologies - 2016 Snapshot - Antony Walker - CEO Broadband Stakeholder Group
• NGA Network Roll-Out - now is the time - Sponsored by Keymile and led by Peter Kemp - Business Development Director 
• 10.45   Refreshments, opportunity to visit the exhibition area, speakers corner and solutions tables
• 11.00    Keynote - National Broadband Pilots - Dr Robert Sullivan - Deputy Director Broadband Delivery UK
• 11.20    Panel discussion with the pilots - chaired by Malcolm Corbett. David Cullen - CEO NYnet for North Yorkshire, Andrea Rutherford - Senior Development Manager Highlands and Islands Enterprise, Phil Wells - Head of IT and NGA Strategy and Alan Cook - Senior Manager - Corporate Information Cumbria County Council
• 11.45    Breakout into 3 workshops
• Creating a Level Playing Field - Regulation and State Aid
• Broadband in the Rural Economy chaired by Graham Russell - Executive Director, Commission for Rural Communities
• Digital Inclusion chaired by Roger Darlington - Communications Consumer Panel. Speakers include Natasha Innocent - Public Sector Partnerships Manager Race Online, Ian Clifford - Head of Business Development UK online centres and Taylor Nuttall - Chief Executive Folly
• 12.30    Lunch, networking, opportunity to visit the exhibition area and solutions tables
• 13.40    Keynote: Growing our network - embracing innovation - Dale Barnes, Director of Advanced Technologies and Innovation (Acting), Virgin Media
• 14.00    Keynote: Defining the Best: National Broadband Policy - Simon Towler, Head of Broadband Policy & Programmes, BIS
• 14.30    Breakout into 2 workshops
• Fibre to the Community - Different approaches to extending coverage chaired by Callum Knowles
  - Director Regional Network Solutions. Speakers include Jim Leask - senior enterprise officer at Colchester Council and Mark Melluish from Rutland Telecom
• Funding Models - Private, Public and Community Schemes. Speakers include Daniel Heery - CEO Cybermoor, Annette Murphy - Geo and David Brunnen - Groupe Intellex
• 15.15    Refreshments, opportunity to visit the exhibition area, speakers corner and solutions tables
• 15.45    Changing the economics of Superfast Broadband - panel discussion introduced by David Harrington - regulatory spokesman CMA. Panelists include Edgar Aker, Raj Mack and Malcolm Corbett
• 16.45    Wrap-up and close

Timings are approximate - INCA reserves the right to make changes to the scheduled programme

Workshop streams and event topics:

• Making sense of the cuts - in the light of recent announcements on the economy and public spending - what will this mean for NGA? How does the new agency Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) plan to make an impact?

• Big Society Broadband - what do we need to do to in our communities to encourage faster roll out of better broadband services? Learn from some of the leading practitioners about how their projects evolved and discuss what needs to happen to scale up these efforts to tackle broadband notspots and the 'Final Third' that commercial providers find too challenging to invest in. How can these approaches encourage future-proofed investment in 'fibre to the premises' in our towns, cities and more rural areas?

• The Changing Regional Economic Development Picture - with the emergence of Local Enterprise Partnerships (and the potential demise of the RDAs); we discuss the changing nature of regional/local economic development and regeneration and how this might impact NGA investments. What sort of public/private/community partnerships are likely to offer the best results for local areas?

• Infrastructure sharing for effective NGA/overcoming barriers to investment - how can sharing infrastructure - ducts, poles, electricity pylons - reduce the cost of deployment, and what needs to happen to make it a reality? Can we do something about the business rates 'tax on fibre' that acts as a disincentive to investment?

• Digital inclusion - is IT really happening for all? What are community broadband projects doing to encourage the 'Race Online'?

• Digital Birmingham - find out what’s happening in this vibrant city

• Leaping State Aid Fences - from project leaders who have experience of dealing with State Aid issues, we draw together the strands that make up a successful strategy to tackle this complex area.

• Getting the most out of public sector networks - how can public networks in your area help you to deliver Next Generation Broadband and save you money?

• Where national policy meets localism - how to ensure that your NGA project on the ground gets the best deal from BDUK

• Mobile and wireless developments in NGA - we will discuss the rapid pace of developments in the mobile and wireless sphere

INCA reserves the right to make changes to the scheduled programme and workshop topics