The WBA Asia Telecom Summit is the first of three events open to both WBA Members and also wider wireless industry stakeholders.
Tuesday, 4 February is an open conference designed to inform and engage companies on the latest technology developments and opportunities and provide valuable networking opportunities with WBA Members and other attendees.
Wednesday and Thursday, 5- 6 February are the WBA Members-only Working Sessions where members come together for project meetings and identify the technologies that are resolving real business issues and enabling collaborative opportunities for operators, service providers, enterprises and cities.
The three-day event offers the chance to participate in key discussions and hear firsthand about the trends, industry opportunities and progress being made in WBA programs & projects.
Key Discussions
- Wi-Fi 6 Deployment Scenarios, Guidelines and End-to-End trials
- RAN Convergence: Wi-Fi and 5G Global Architecture & Policy
- Wi-Fi Industry Verticals Requirements & Guidelines: In-Home; In-Flight; Connected Vehicle; Enterprise
- Roaming Evolution with Federation, PKI and WBA ID
- Security and Privacy over Wireless Networks
- New schemes and monetization: Wi-Fi Sensing; QoS
- Wi-Fi Networks Interoperability: Master Test Case Library for roaming, offload, provisioning, onboarding, captivation
- IoT Access Network Deployment Synergies and Interoperability
View the 3 day agenda below by selecting the relevant dates:
9:15am
Welcome: WBA vision for 2020+
Tiago Rodrigues – CEO, Wireless Broadband Alliance
9:45am
Delivering Next Generation of Wi-Fi Services: Wi-Fi 6 in the 5G Era
Wee-Sain Koh – Director, IMDA Singapore
10:15am
Next Generation Hotspot: Carrier Grade Roaming & Offload
Simon Vaughan – Chief Commercial Officer, GlobalReach Technology
Sukhdev Singh – Principal Consultant, Dune Global
11:30am
Future of Convergence
Kishore Raja – VP, Engineering R&D, Boingo Wireless
11:45pm
Panel Discussion: RAN Convergence – Wi-Fi 6 and 5G
Moderated by Tiago Rodrigues
Kishore Raja – Boingo, Chris Spencer – CTO GlobalReach, Mark Grayson – Distinguished Engineer, Cisco
14:00pm
IoT – Optimizing the Wi-Fi Opportunities
Jonas Björklund – CTO, Aptilo Networks
14:20pm
WBA 2020 Industry Roadmap Release & Updates
Bruno Tomas, WBA
14:40pm
Roaming WG Update
Chair Erinn Hall, AT&T
Co-Chair: Betty Cockrell, BSG Wireless
15:00pm
5G WG Update
Chair, Nigel Bird, Orange
Co-Chairs: Mark Grayson, Cisco and Florin Baboescu, Broadcom
16:00pm
Testing & Interoperability WG Update
Co-Chairs: Erinn Hall, AT&T, and Luther Smith, CableLabs
16:20pm
IoT WG Update
Rémi Lorrain, Semtech
16:40pm
NextGen WG Update
Chair, Kishore Raja, Boingo
Co-Chairs: Necati Canpolat, Intel and Steve Dyett, BT
17:00pm
WBA CTO Group Updates / Q&A
Co-Chair: Necati Canpolat – Intel
9:00-10:30am
Testing & Interoperability Workgroup (NGH Trial +)
11:00am-12:30pm
Next-Gen Workgroup Wi-Fi 6 Guidelines & Trials
13:30-14:30pm
Internet of Things (IoT) Workgroup – (Overview, LoRa & Wi-Fi, Connected Car)
14:30-15:30pm
In-Home Wi-Fi / Multi-AP Guidelines & Trials
16:00-17:20pm
Captive Network Portal Standards for Wi-Fi
17:20-18:00pm
Wi-Fi & Cellular Identity (IMSI) Privacy Protection
19:00pm
Informal Dinner
9.00-10.00am
In-Flight Connectivity Guidelines
10.00:-10.30am
NGH Provisioning Standardization & Trial
11.00am-12:30pm
5G Work Group – RAN Convergence
13.30-14.30pm
Roaming Evolution (WRIX, PKI, Federations)
14:30-15:30pm
Roaming Workgroup & Tiger Teams
16:00-16:40pm
Wi-Fi Sensing Performance Metrics
16.40-17.20pm
Policy Workgroup – 2020 and 6 GHz
17:20-18:00pm
WBA & Wi-Fi Alliance Collaboration
Evening Time
Closing of WBA Q1’20 Working Sessions
