Lunch, networking and demonstrations will be available from ~1pm.

Invited Guests are encouraged to take the opportunity to introduce themselves to Mobile VCE's industrial members and to learn how existing members participate and gain value from their membership.

Some of the research programmes will have technology demonstrations available over lunch and during the afternoon coffee break.

Some of the Industrial Steering Group Chairmen used videos as part of their presentations. These are now included on this website as separate 'video clips' linked below where applicable. A CD-ROM version containing these can be made available on request from the Mobile VCE office.

Welcome to Members & Invited Guests
Purpose of the Annual Research Review

The Objectives & Remit of Mobile VCE
Industrial Steering, World Class Academic Research
Brief Overview of the Past Year's Activity

2009 has seen the successful conclusion of the Delivery Efficiency programme, concluding with a workshop held in Paris in May 2009 hosted by France Telecom. Mike Fitch of BT will briefly summarise the key achievements of the programme for members & guests who were unable to attend that event.

The profile of this VCE programme has escalated significantly this year, with Lord Carter's Digital Britain report and an analyst report for Ofcom both highlighting its potential significance. With increased profile comes greater expectations on delivery of innovative ideas to achieve its ambitious targets of 100 times energy reduction, whilst maintaining QoS primarily and within the constraints of emerging communications platforms.

This talk will provide an overview of the programme and its key findings to date, highlighting the importance of using the 'right' metrics to understand the true green benefits and of the end-to-end systems approach to uncover innovative ideas. Industrial outreach activities will be described, including events during 2009 and 2010 in Europe, America and China, and the encouragment of pullthrough via member companies to nurture the emergence of green technologies to the benefit of the global wireless networks business.

Including demos

Beyond the Mundane: Advanced user interaction – with devices, contextual information, personal environment – that have the potential to stimulate and enable completely new markets for personal lifestyle support services.

'User Interactions for Breakthrough Services' is defining a future where services will adapt and configure themselves according to the unique needs of individual users. Such services will be able to be accessed by users in new, intuitive ways using multiple personal and environment-based devices. All this will take place within a rapidly evolving social backdrop which the project will follow closely in order to ensure that the solutions are best placed to harness the immense new market opportunities of 2019.

The project has made excellent progress so far and has adopted a user-centred approach to ensure the user benefits of solutions can be clearly understood. The scenarios and personas which form the basis of the project will be described.

Initial solutions involving new modalities and contextual awareness will also be demonstrated which begin to show how these scenarios can be brought to reality.

This programme concluded its work mid-2009, tying up some loose ends after a major Demonstration Day event for members in London in December last year. This presentation will summarise the key achievements in the three focus areas of User Perspective, Content and Services Perspective, and the Network Perspective and describe their significance and potential for exploitation by our industrial members.

Designing IJI ('It Just Is') Networks in a Future of Unpredictable Service Requirements - Harnessing agile, dynamic and self-evolving networking technologies, to accommodate unforeseen and, at times, apparently conflicting demands of users and operators (tussle), multiple different business models and the right user experience at the right cost point.

"Secure Autonomous Business Networking" - a new information service capability for corporate / enterprise customers - is the goal of the Instant Knowledge programme, the harnessing of employees' tacit knowledge and the conversion of this into valuable information for the company.

Begun Jan 2008, this programme is now delivering tangible outputs and showing real promise, an exemplar of a new genre of services. With an orientation to service demonstration from the outset, a hardware/software demonstration approach is running through this programme, with demos available at the research review.

In recent months several member companies have raised with Mobile VCE the issue of possible collaboration on this topic, within the context of the 2012 Olympics. Interest and momentum has been clearly building to explore and deploy some experimental services for such settings; indeed, with BBC involvement it may be possible to overcome uncertainty about deployment for 2012. Such an elective would involve not simply University research, but would be complemented by experimental implementation by industrial members.

This presentation will outline some of the emerging ideas and the next steps for member companies who may wish to get involved.

Background, Programme Rationale, Content, Approach, Timescales/Deliverables, Participation & Costs, Next Steps

The next step for industry members wishing to explore involvement in and to shape this programme is to register to attend the exploratory meeting to be hosted by Turner in London on 12th November - please see the Mobile VCE Calendar Page.

2009 has seen significant international interest in VCE's new Core 5 programme, most notably its Green Radio programme, which attracted significant interest during visits of Directors of Mobile VCE to both China and North America. Plans are in hand to organise events in Shanghai and New Jersey in 2010, and an update on dates, venues and formats will be given.

The Industry Steering Groups in all areas have also been active in planning future research workshops for the coming year and, again, details of these events will be summarised.