5G-Conference of VDE ITG committee with over 200 participants

The timing could not have been better: just one hour before the national auction of 5G frequency bands was started on March 19, 2019, in Mainz, the participants of the 5G-technology-related conference „Future of Networking / Zukunft der Netze 2019 “ were welcomed by the chairs of the VDE-ITG commitee on communication networks and systems, Joachim Sachs, Ericsson, and Prof. Christian Wietfeld, TU Dortmund. The 16th conference of the series was jointly organized with the NetSys conference at TU Munich. The well attended conference featured invited talks primarily from industry representatives: from public and potential private 5G network operators (Dt. Telekom, Vodafone and Bosch), 5G international academia and manufacturers (IMDEA Madrid, Ericsson, Nokia) as well as further 5G stakeholders (such as automation manufacturer Siemens) and representatives from 5G related projects. Many participants also used the opportunity to attend sessions and workshops of the NetSys conference discussing primarily recent results from academic research. Within the VDE-ITG committee KT2, industry and academia representatives jointly organize workshops on „hot topics“ and regular conferences related to communication networks, such as the „Future of Networking“ conference series. Prof. Christian Wietfeld, head of the CNI at TU Dortmund, has been a co-chair of the KT 2 committee for over 10 years.